Saturday, September 25, 2004

Those obscure, underrated Beatle songs


Only a Northern Song?

Writers at The Village Broadsheet are reviewing some of the more "obscure" songs by a certain underrated, forgotten band from the 60s. "What this all boils down to," they say, "is this: we'd really love to turn you on to some new perspectives on the songs you've been hearing since you first learned what the radio is for. Try to expel from your mind the negative nostalgia-baiting of revisionist hipster thinking that forces you to believe that you were humming Clash songs at seven and not grinning ear-to-ear to 'Yellow Submarine.' Try hard to remember a time when pop was just about pop, not trying to see whose record collection is hipper. Try and remember that without the Beatles, we'd all still be listening to that watered-down, post-military-haircut Elvis late-50s crap."

First up this week: "She's Leaving Home."

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