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Maybe it was a year like any other, with its tensions, dangers, horrors, griefs and a hit or two of joy. But it was also a year more like any other than any other: everything was raw, in-your-face, extreme. The best—"I'm Black and I'm Proud," "Sympathy for the Devil," "I Heard it Through the Grapevine—were full of passionate intensity and the worst-the 1910 Fruitgum Company's "1-2-3 Red Light," and the Ohio Express's "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" ("I got love in my tummy")—didn't just lack all conviction: it smelled. "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive," as Wordsworth wrote of the French Revolution, "But to be young was very heaven." Or something. So many of the creators are gone now: James Brown and Marvin Gaye, John Lennon and George Harrison, Johnny Cash and Tammy Wynette, Philip K. Dick and Donald Barthelme, Andy Warhol and Fred Rogers. But we still have the artifacts, safely digitized for all time.
Or until the birds fly.

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  • Posted By: C.Jaxon @ 11/19/2007 4:51:18 PM

    There is a mistake in the title of "Revolution" on the White Album. The radio version was on the B-side of Hey Jude, but "slower, funkier alternate take" was actually titled "Revolution 1." I can see how you messed it up, no hard feelings. Plus if you want the entire line from that song it goes "But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow." And again, the Beatles "white album" actually is self titled, the "white album" moniker was given purely based on it's iconic minimalist cover. So, i'm just a Beatles purest, just wanting to bring that to your attention.

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  • Posted By: C.Jaxon @ 11/19/2007 4:50:37 PM

    There is a mistake in the title of "Revolution" on the White Album. The radio version was on the B-side of Hey Jude, but "slower, funkier alternate take" was actually titled "Revolution 1." I can see how you messed it up, no hard feelings. Plus if you want the entire line from that song it goes "But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow." And again, the Beatles "white album" actually is self titled, the "white album" moniker was given purely based on it's iconic minimalist cover. So, i'm just a Beatles purest, just wanting to bring that to your attention.

    Sincerely, Jackson C.
    age 12
    MI

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