It has become immeasurably more difficult for me to listen to this song after the death of my own mother (indeed, 'mother Mary'), last year around this day. Which is why I will never, ever, ever let it go out of my rotation. Let it be.
And when the night is cloudy there is still a light that shines on me
Shine, until tomorrow...let it be.
I wake up to the sound of music - mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom: let it be.
(massive LOL at the "paul mccartney wasn't a good lyricist" takes right now)
also, thanks for everything, mom. still. and forever.
I am that odd duck that doesn't actually mind being reminded of the massive pain of the sudden/weird loss of my mother, precisely because the pain keeps the memory of her love, and all she ever did for all of us, fresh for me.
1-2-3-4-5-6-7, all good children go to heaven.
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The Bopper just fell asleep, clutching my index finger in his tiny little hand, as I sang through every verse and every "na na na" of this song, which is yet more proof that it is the greatest non-album single ever released:
"Hey Jude" is the ultimate example of "sometimes the 'basic' opinion is the philosophically correct one." A flawless song, and even its daring (the coda) feels like a scientific revelation that was in front of our faces all along but McCartney had to figure out first.
From 1990. Still sounds like a song from a better future. Maybe 2050 or so, that's when we'll be ready.
Let me quote the Rolling Stones, in reference to LOVELESS:
30 years on after hearing it, I still think of this song as an actual miracle. It's my personal version of "face of Jesus found in a piece of burnt toast" as far as music goes. I can't quite figure out how it was fashioned by human hands:
sometimes i wonder what it would be like to wear the 'warren gunnels' shoes in our modern social media era and i am pretty sure would not like it.
realize: it is just as toxifying to a human being's psychological internal balance to be reflexively, mindlessly defended by a horde of anonymous myrmidons for something completely indefensible as it is to be piled onto by the other side's anonymous myrmidons for the same.
it's the no-win situation: almost nobody except a stoicist survives that unchanged...for the worse.
If it didn't say "Fleetwood Mac" right there on the tin, you'd never have guessed this was Fleetwood Mac. Until Christine McVie starts singing, that is. If it weren't for "You Make Loving Fun" this would easily be her greatest achievement.
I will keep banging this drum until they retire me to the funny farm: as great as Buckingham/Nicks-era Fleetwood Mac was (disliking it is pretty clear evidence of philistinism), don't sleep on Welch/McVie-era or Green/Spencer/Kirwan-era Fleetwood Mac. So many gems in there.
Bob Welch's complete and utter hatred for New York City is so, so very relatable. This thing oozes paranoia (the guitar!) and all for the worthy goal of pointing out that NYC is horrible and their tastemakers are horrible too.
I had such high hopes and they were disappointed so much.
POLL: pick your preferable world-historical disaster to befall California
California is such a large state that it has at least ONE franchise in EVERY major league sport that ABSOLUTELY NOBODY gives even the slightest shit about.
Now that's a claim only Florida can similarly boast.
It also collects all the data from your phone, including contact information, phone logs, geospatial location, oh and also logging all your keystrokes even when you’re not using it. Not that big of a deal, really.
Installing TikTok on your phone and clicking “accept” on the Terms of Service feels pretty much like handing your most intimate personal digital data straight over to China. For the privilege of watching teenage girls fake having Tourette’s Syndrome.
If you are using TikTok, I *guarantee* the CCP has a data file keyed to your name with every single bit of digital info it has gleaned from your phone.
And someday you may *become* someone important. Which is when that info will be very useful indeed.