I thought Ted Barlow- he posts far too rarely on CT.
Hear hear. This house is also in favor of breaking up the Beatles.
So you didn't think my comment to Healy's latest post was intelligent, is that it?
w-lfs-n, you're supposed to give up in despair after your first year of graduate school.
Huh. And you said this was tendentious.
What are you looking for, Timbot, justice and fairness?
As good Dems, I thought justice was fairness.
Although technically, I suppose CT is more like CSNY than the Beatles.
Slol- Assuming it's accepted that Neil Young is better than any of the others individualy (I'm unfamiliar with Crosby and Nash's solo work, but the above strikes me as correct), who are you positing as Neil? Note that actually answering this question might lead me to repeat comment 3 from SCMT's link in 7.
though I don't disagree with 11, really.
Crosby was with the Byrds, Nash with the Hollies. (You're a young 'un, w/d, aren't you?) So technically, although J&B joined from "another group," this parallel doesn't quite work either. (I chose CSNY because I was going for a supergroup with some dignity, as opposed to e.g. the Traveling Wilburys or Cream.)
Which is all by way of not answering your question. So who's Young? Let's stipulate that Neil Young is not, or not primarily, "the best one", but rather the one with the most distinctive individual point of view, expressed with a defining nasal component.
In which case it's dsquared.
Y'all know about this, right? I say we get him to open comments and turn it into the Sunbelt Mineshaft (or are they in Australia again)?
I do know about that. I figured he wouldn't want to follow comments on the same post in two places. But I would settle for open comments at his home site.
Well, then you should also note this. Which has comments.
I mean, there's no way Kieran could refuse to open comments if he knew we were going to take them over. (At least we repel trolls good.)
I didn't say they didn't rock, I said they lacked dignity.
I know about that too, but he doesn't do the same posts there.
Re 20: we would be our respectful selves, since we already have this site for being our other selves.
Shall we assemble a petition? I'll sign. With my pseudonym, anyway.
I would like to become my quantum self.
What's undignified about one of the best rock bassists evar, Ginger Baker, and that other guy rocking out for twenty minutes at a time?
rocking out for twenty minutes at a time
Well, you may say I am a stick-in-the-mud, but I think jamming at this length is less justifiable than, e.g., Cream think. Also, I'm a little prudish about the wanton display of underaged flesh, in which Cream were traffickers.
I believe Dawkins used quantum psychology as an example of "The Infected Mind" in Devil's Chaplain.
I don't think that Ginger Baker was much of a bassist.
I'm not unfamiliar with the Hollies or the Byrds, though if I had been asked an hour ago I wouldn't have remembered that they're Crosby's and Nash's respective original groups. I'm fairly sure I'm a sizable fraction of a year older than b-dub, unless he has had a birthday since the last time his age was mentioned in comments and didn't mention that birthday.
Last night, I was told that in Pittsburghese "downtown" is pronounced as if it was spelled "daun-ton." As in "Yinz wanna go daun-ton and get some burz? The Stillers are playing."
John, I think you're parsing w-lfs-n incorrectly (not that his phrasing helped):
one of the best rock bassists evar [ i.e., Jack Bruce], Ginger Baker, and that other guy[i.e., Eric Clapton]
I realized that mistake (deliberate or otherwise) was possible after posting the comment.
Oh heck, running down Cream's personnel I just realized I was blaming Cream for Blind Faith's bad taste. Sorry.
See, that's what the absence of Jack Bruce gets you.
Quite. Can you blame Clapton's support for Enoch Powell on absence of Jack Bruce?
(it just has to be said) this blog & assorted commenters are awesome.
John & Belle = Grace Slick & Paul Kantner?
RE 28
Googling for "infected mind" I found this:
I am pretty sure that hasn't happened to me.
John = Sebastian. Belle = Belle.
From a comment by Dsquared on (I think) Dead Men Left, it appears he's just changed his position in the Great British Labour Market from a Master of the Universe to an indigent supplicant. So, depending whether any prospective new employers Google for him or not, he'll either be spraying his stuff everydamnwhere or looking for some software that will retrospectively change his posts so they seem to come from Oliver Kamm.
Actually the latter seems like a really worthwhile project.
Belle & Sebastian are named after a series of French kids books; no one with either of those names is in the band. So it kind of breaks the parallel.
And later it was an animated serial.
John=Jon Langford; Belle=Sally Timms.
OK, then. John = Captain. Belle = Tennile.
"Can you blame Clapton's support for Enoch Powell on absence of Jack Bruce?"
Probably. Bruce was pretty left wing in those days and he has a wicked temper.
w-lfs-n: There did use to be a Belle in the band (Isobel Campbell)...
Belle = Kim Gordon
John = Thurston Moore
