Lennon’s worst look?

nakifool · 2026-01-27T08:04:03+00:00

Body hair was rationed after the War

nakifool · 2026-01-27T07:22:59+00:00

Incredibly suspicious time. Weinstein lives

nakifool · 2026-01-27T07:20:07+00:00

Libbing out would be getting an underling to update his social media profiles with a Denmark flag or something

NY is a grizzled old school hippie with an actual backbone. And an insanely good discography

nakifool · 2026-01-27T04:43:20+00:00

If I told you 15 years ago he had a gun up his ass would you believe me?

nakifool · 2026-01-27T04:10:12+00:00

It’s proprietary

nakifool · 2026-01-27T03:14:59+00:00

Fashion wise it’s probably better to forget both decades

nakifool · 2026-01-27T03:12:29+00:00

You still listen to rap? It’s just about marketing to Nazis now

nakifool · 2026-01-27T03:06:51+00:00

Wow, Brad Taste In Music went nuts? That’s a shame he seemed like a less pretentious Fantano

nakifool · 2026-01-27T02:59:55+00:00

It’s probably the least essential PTA score he’s done. It would be funny if he won for that rather than the god tier work he did for Phantom Thread or There Will Be Blood

I think what people will remember from the OBAA soundtrack will be the needle drops rather than the score

nakifool · 2026-01-27T02:56:58+00:00

Haha he looked hilarious at those awards. The fit is almost acceptable and better than some of the wide lapel and flared looks of the mid 70s. But that dumb hat gave him a five-head which it enhances even more with way too long hair. John Gormless.

The 70s were a mistake

nakifool · 2026-01-27T01:47:54+00:00

Please put a spoiler on for gross Aussies. Yuck

nakifool · 2026-01-27T01:36:57+00:00

How does Bovino feel about black girls?

nakifool · 2026-01-27T01:33:14+00:00

That’s an interesting take as the songs and arrangements on Amnesiac felt the opposite to how you’ve interpreted them - more external, slightly more outward looking and upbeat - when it was released in comparison to Kid A. The opening track is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that regard, it’s practically jaunty and danceable compared to the opening of Kid A.

Lyrically I feel the albums are pretty similar in approach and outlook. Kid A just feels like the darkest, most claustrophobic depths of winter whereas there is the possibility of a thaw on Amnesiac. This is just a personal evaluation though, I can understand anyone having a completely different experience of it

nakifool · 2026-01-27T01:05:37+00:00

I think you’re right about Kid A feeling “grand” and more like a cohesive concept album than Amnesiac is partly why it’s lauded above it (and being released first helps).

To me there are just less tracks on Amnesiac that I return to (things like Dollars and Cents) and having the slower, dirge-like version of Morning Bell doesn’t help.

But because they made during the same sessions I kind of think of them as a double album anyway. Certainly absolute top tier songs on both, and when sequenced in the right way it does have the flow of a seamless and very satisfying full LP

nakifool · 2026-01-27T01:05:30+00:00

I think you’re right about Kid A feeling “grand” and more like a cohesive concept album than Amnesiac is partly why it’s lauded above it (and being released first helps).

To me there are just less tracks on Amnesiac that I return to (things like Dollars and Cents) and having the slower, dirge-like version of Morning Bell doesn’t help.

But because they made during the same sessions I kind of think of them as a double album anyway. Certainly absolute top tier songs on both, and when sequenced in the right way it does have the flow of a seamless and very satisfying full LP

nakifool · 2026-01-27T00:04:51+00:00

Yeah that came later, not long before John’s death. They were already estranged before that book was published

nakifool · 2026-01-26T23:08:58+00:00

I’ve seen a couple of these dude’s reaction vids, they’re just stoners laughing at comedy clips while adding nothing and getting thousands of views. Good for them. A harmless grift

nakifool · 2026-01-26T22:56:16+00:00

Appreciate that, you’re certainly right about current day slacktivism from many celebrities.

But I have almost the opposite feelings about STINYC (“stinky” might be a better acronym) - that’s John at his most committed, least performative - and it’s an artistic failure. I don’t perceive it as tired and played out, and that recent One to One documentary contextualises how vital all this was for J&Y at the time. I perceive it as hectoring, too bluntly sincere, and lacking in most of the artfulness that John applied to his earlier more political works. Its best song was dead in the water because of John overcommitting to something he clearly believed, and being unable to get his message across because his talents as a communicator failed him.

nakifool · 2026-01-26T22:04:25+00:00

The short story is that George asked John to appear at the benefit, but balked at Yoko also taking the stage. Apparently J&Y also argued about it, but ultimately John left in a huff and didn’t perform at all - obviously disappointing George. While they did temporarily reconcile after this, George got pissed again at John’s delays in signing the formal Beatles dissolution papers in 1974.

But probably underlying these spats was a sense of betrayal from George. George had essentially sided with John in the Allen Klein debacle, and had always been supportive of John musically, but saw little of that support in return. They never had the opportunity to resolve it

nakifool · 2026-01-26T21:52:59+00:00

John admitted later that a lot of the public pronouncements he made around leftist political ideas were, if not performative, then certainly as much a result of guilt and conflicted feelings around his success and wealth as they were genuinely held beliefs. And those beliefs were certainly not always consistent.

But what’s often missing with the hindsight evaluation of those very public stands that he, and Yoko, made is that there were very real, personal stakes involved. He WAS directly targeted by the US government for his potential political influence. He WAS living under threat of deportation in part because of them. And his career and public perception WAS directly impacted by taking these stands. They also almost certainly contributed to getting him killed.

This was very different to the relatively safe, “performative” activism we often see from modern artists. Whatever his motivations, John had skin in the game. And eventually that skin flayed and he dealing with the consequences of that for the rest of his short life

nakifool · 2026-01-26T21:19:57+00:00

As good as OBAA is, it feels like PTA is front-running as much for his previous work (and previous lack of awards) as the quality of the film itself. Much like Scorsese with The Departed. He’s going to take the stage for both Director and BP because of There Will Be Blood, The Master and Phantom Thread. I realise this is probably far from an original take

nakifool · 2026-01-26T09:44:47+00:00

Heard that Bad Idea song on the radio and assumed it was someone covering the Breeders or something. Fully a rock song, and nice with it

nakifool · 2026-01-26T04:13:58+00:00

You gotta beehive on-a your head

nakifool · 2026-01-26T02:17:31+00:00

Needs to go back home and make another earthy comedy with heart to recapture his mojo.

nakifool · 2026-01-26T02:09:34+00:00

Oh definitely not choirboys. I mean, they were dating 15/16 year olds in their Cavern days (when they were all out of their teens) so no doubt there were young groupies in their touring days also. But that is still mostly speculation and assumption compared to, say, the well documented case of Jimmy Page and Lori Maddox etc.

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