tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24372649.post9122133749742660804..comments2023-07-04T11:48:15.633-04:00Comments on Positively Catherine Street: Stipe EndWilliam S. Repsherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00133278490771240664noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24372649.post-1838607903271526382015-09-17T22:00:12.696-04:002015-09-17T22:00:12.696-04:00You know, I actually went through a sort of "...You know, I actually went through a sort of "conservative" period in college. I let all the liberal-bashing-you-over-head aspect drive me in the opposite direction. As much as anything, the "be open minded-but only toward what I'm preaching" bit got to be too much for me, and I guess I, being a contrarian of sorts by nature, felt at least partially compelled to head in the opposite direction. While I now recognize that it was my own sort of knee-jerk reaction and therefore a somewhat superficial stance to take, narrow minded in its own way, it at least had an inkling of seeing through dogma and hypocrisy to some small degree. The eventual result was that I started on a path to not taking politics too seriously.<br /><br />On a sidenote to the REM post from earlier, I'd actually put in a word for Goats Head Soup. There are a few mediocre songs, but "Hide Your Love" is the only real outright dud, and about 3/4 of the album is as good as the 68-72 period; plus you have strangely overlooked gem in "Winter". And if we grade on a curve, the Stones never could quite put out those *almost* flawless albums that The Beatles, The Who, and The Kinks could muster. Even Sticky Fingers had that cover of "You Gotta Move" which comes off odd as them goofing on a favorite blues track on what might otherwise would have been an airtight LP musically and thematically. <br /><br />Now if that sound like a digression-consider this as an attempt at tieing some of this in: you note that by the 90s a lot of groups were saying "fuck it". I like to think that the Stones made Some Girls in '78 to deliberately show that they could do a consistently solid album one last time before they more or less permanently became less of a going creative concern and more of The Rolling Stones as an "institution". And that's more than a lot of acts can say that they did. Beatles Comment Guynoreply@blogger.com