Re: [bomp] Imagine no "Imagine"...

[Michael Snider <lasciviumdei@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- The Clickems <the_clickems@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
>     Imagine no "Imagine"... 
>        Over the last week, the broadcast media gave
> alot of coverage to the 25th anniversary of John
> Lennons' death(apparently the guy was such a genius,
> that getting plugged was an acomplishment).
>    What song of Lennon's did they play to mark the
> occasion? "Cry for a Shadow"? "Run for your Life"?
> of course not...it was "Imagine", the limpest,
> foulest, most mind-numbingly ersatz piece of dreck
> to ever cheapen the airwaves;

Some of the "Double Fantasy' tracks deserve that label
more
than "Imagine" does. But there are better songs than
the 
title track off the "Imagine" album. 


 the fact that its
> triteness is still taken seriously by people other
> then 5 year olds and drug addicts is a sign of a
> culture in its last stages.

The worst has to be the Tories using "Imagine" as 
part of Thatcher's '83 re-election campaigns 
(sung by Errol Brown and minus the "no religion" 
verse). Somehow, I don't think Lennon would 
have approved.....

>    If "Imagine" were just a piece of garbage,
> though, I could let it slide. What makes it
> especially revolting is its current standing as the
> "Duetchland Uber Alles" of the post-60s
> Anti-American Left; not surprising, as the lyrics
> are basically Herbert Marcuse strained through a
> Hallmark card.

The spirit of Don Williams lives on. 

We talk and talk until my head explodes

I turn on the news and my body froze

The braying sheep on my tv screen

Make this boy shout, make this boy scream!

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