As powerful - and as political - as Spacemen 3's "Revolution"
(Don't be too quick to understand that sentence)
The Monkees perplex - when the results are as a pleasing and potent as the "real thing", does intent / content / context matter?
And how "real" is the real thing anyway?
"Street Fighting Man" had completely different words up until almost the last minute, you know.
When I was an adolescent, I spake as an adolescent, I understood as an adolescent, I thought as an adolescent: but when I became a man, I put away adolescent things.
ReplyDeleteI suppose the "real thing" is people who really mean it, no matter how misguided or redundant. Spacemen 3 really meant "Revolution", there was no irony there whatsoever. The most ludicrous example of this is dear old Bobby Gillespie, who is still fighting with every fibre of his being against long-dead 1950's social conservatism. Wearing his hair long and sticking it to The Man for all our collective benefit.
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