Sub-Mission. That hyphen is important even more so here.Silent Majority wrote: ↑15 Dec 2020, 5:20pmA prequel to the Pistols' Submission.Flex wrote: ↑15 Dec 2020, 3:59pmit's also a compelling depiction of underwater life.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑15 Dec 2020, 3:49pmFlex (and I think Wolter) led me to re-listen to YS with a fresh mind some years ago, plus I reconsidered/recontextualized it within the context of the times (especially how hippies adopted it as an anthem). The childlike quality of its construction is something I'd previously dismissed as a goofy throwaway, but I appreciate it's joy and light weird fantasy quality. Aesthetically, it's not of a piece with most of the album, but spiritually(?) it fits in quite well with the most psychedelic songs.
Revolver - Side A - Round 3
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Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
"Without the common people you're nothing"
Nos Sumus Una Familia
Re: Revolver - Side A - Round 3
I can corroborate this.Flex wrote: ↑15 Dec 2020, 4:09pmNah, Octopus' Garden is misleading. Octopi are Lovecraftian monstrosities and boys and girls would CERTAINLY NOT be safe in their hellish gardens, particularly without any man-made apparatus to help them breathe and keep from being crushed under oceanic pressures. Like, I dunno, a submarine or something.
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