theyre at their best in melancholy
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Replying to @eigenrobot @NLRG_
i have an ongoing theory that a lot of the later work of the Beatles consists of arguments against the Hippie worldview
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'Eleanor Rigby' is a counter to youthful boomer triumphalism the entirety of 'Sgt. Peppers' is about how all the joy and color of the psychedelic is integrated into the fabric of bourgeois normal life
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'Dear Prudence' is a rebuke of someone who meditates so much she cant see the world around her etc
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Replying to @OldDreyfusard @NLRG_
they did literally write a song complaining about taxes few discuss this
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beatles songs political compass go
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Top Left: Piggies Bottom Right: Taxman Bottom Left: All You Need Is Love Center: Revolution Top Right is the tricky one
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maybe Maxwell's silver hammer
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Replying to @eigenrobot @NLRG_ and
ehhhhh sort of a stretch Rocky Raccoon?
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Happiness Is A Warm Gun?
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oh oh oh Penny Lane
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this is what they took from you?
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tbh i think it fits more into my read of Sgt. Peppers as about the wonderous nature of everyday life, but there definitely is a tinge of forlorn nostalgia in there
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