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Sentimentalist: a new column by me, for Pitchfork Media. The first one talks about music hall, audiences and singers, and expands on a couple of ideas from the Beatles entries in Popular.

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CarsmileSteve

20 Feb 2007 11:21

i used to have a record player like that!

Tom

20 Feb 2007 11:23

So did I! Big shout to Simon from the work graphics dept for finding the photo.

Tom

20 Feb 2007 11:23

Also I like the fact that we’ve made the great news joke about 5 times in post titles…

mark sinker

20 Feb 2007 11:30

i thought it was called MUSIC BOT

Elisha Sessions

20 Feb 2007 12:05

Tom this is GREBT! This kind of thing pushes all my buttons! I’m very much looking forward to what’s ahead.

Marcello Carlin

20 Feb 2007 16:24

Ironic that the Beatles started getting into audience participation singalongs (even if they were about Nembutols, as “Yellow Submarine” was) at the precise moment that they stopped performing in front of audiences.

“Eleanor Rigby” is one of the few Beatles songs in terms of both music and subject matter which actually sounds as though it could have been taken straight from 1878.

Tom

20 Feb 2007 16:56

Yeah, I went and looked at the Beatles chronology in the fervent hope that the YS/ER single came out after Candlestick Park so I could make this point, but it was a couple of months before. :(

Andrew Farrell

20 Feb 2007 20:49

There’s also the point that the Beatles, or at least one of them, were the target of the most direct musical criticism of the 20th century!

Marcello Carlin

21 Feb 2007 08:19

I think you’ll find that was more to do with the “bigger than Jesus” business.

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