Song: "Helter Skelter"
Artist: The Beatles
Album: The Beatles / The White Album (1968)

Tomorrow finally arrived.

Art and music are things where you can draw a line and cross it repeatedly but still believe in the line, and it's still okay. For example, Matt Pike's vocals suck and WTF to the new album... but High On Fire is good.

Relatively speaking.

I remember one of my parents did not like The Beatles, I suspect having to do more with their country of origin or how they looked than music. I'd heard them through the radio and TV and saw various clips of them, and I think I decided that I didn't care... They fell right into the same pile as Elvis and a myriad of other so-called "classic" AKA "boring" artists.

Around the same time I was learning that I was musically ignorant and needed to fix that, I had a boyfriend recommend The Beatles to me. It was all kinds of fail - I was not in the mindset for "classic" rock, and The Beatles to me were associated with stupid screaming girls and people who acted like they knew something about music but were really just good at memorizing trivia about popular bands and eating up other people's "achievements" and/or power over other people's minds. The fact that my boyfriend was listening to them was a little irritating in itself - he was a fan of Tool and therefore needed to musically "progress", not go backwards over popular shit. Yep. Not listening to The Beatles, fuck you.

For some reason, about a year later, I checked The Beatles out even though I'd decided I hated them. Maybe it was that cover of "Come Together" getting stuck in my head. Whatever it was, I downloaded some compilation and sat on that for a few years.

I've come to the conclusion that The Beatles are never really going to interest or "wow" me, and I don't trust their so-called impact on musical history (at least not regarding the road I traveled), and I fucking hate how they become an end-all-be-all when people talk about music history just like those assholes Black Sabbath and Nirvana... but they do have a few of good moments in their discography.

...And this song's intro is stuck in my head.

Song: "My Eyes Have Seen You"
Artist: The Doors
Album: Strange Days (1967)

Kind of obvious for this blog's nature, overdue but not really since I think we all know who The Doors are, right? At least, in a vague, aware but not kind of way. Lately I have to be coerced into this band even though I consciously recognize their decency. Earlier I was thinking I could[n't] see someone's face in my mind, and there you have it - ten Doors songs instantly stuck in my head. Now I'm posting. Don't cry, you liked it.

Song: "Five Years Ahead of My Time"
Artist: Third Bardo
Album: Five Years Ahead single (1967)

I was reminded of this song after hearing a Monster Magnet cover of it. I knew of the The Cramps version, too, which is probably the best one that I know of.

This video begs a lot of questions. More like 45 years late... Apparently the authorities did something about such riff-raff. Or not.

Song: "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You"
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Album: Led Zeppelin (1969)

This song makes me feel the warm fuzzies inside.... in the sense that I find it silly and amusing. After all, WE GONNA GO WALKING THROUGH THE PARK EVERY DAY! Well, what if it rains? Are we still going to walk through the park then? And why is there so much enthusiasm about this situation? Is it really that exciting? What kind of park is this? Is this like a park in a bad side of town? And wait a sec, weren't you just talking about leaving "baby"? How can you leave a person and still walk through a park with them? Are you staying or going? I don't get it. but still, there seems to be a lot of enthusiasm over this park walkin' business... It's hard not to be curious.

It may be refreshing to note that Led Zeppelin did not originally write this song, despite it being an exceptional listen if you chose not to analyze it.