{"id":2119,"date":"2009-04-13T11:24:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T15:24:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-06T15:09:54","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T15:09:54","slug":"turn-me-on-nobody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/turn-me-on-nobody\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn Me On, Nobody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8x6orjwYzxE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI may soon find that my premise was not worth bringing to the Halls of Rock for possible scintillating discussion, but that&#8217;s the way it goes around here. Driving in this morning I was listening to a collection of obscure &#8217;60s psych recordings that came with the recent edition of <em>Mojo<\/em> with a <em>Who Sell-Out<\/em> article and <strong>Nick Lowe<\/strong> interview. While enjoying the songs for what they were, I got to thinking about whether any <strong>&#8220;psychedelic&#8221; lyrics<\/strong> ever made an impression on me if they didn&#8217;t come from a band that had first established its lyrical cred through more traditional lyrics. <\/p>\n<p>For instance, as a teenager I had no beefs with <strong>George Harrison<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;The more one travels\/The less one really knows&#8221; from The Beatles&#8217; B-side &#8220;The Inner Light,&#8221; to show you how forgiving I could be. Same goes for a much better song, <strong>The Byrds<\/strong>&#8216; &#8220;Eight Miles High.&#8221; Cool music, cool enough sentiments. To this day I dig the lyrics of these songs. I&#8217;d already liked my share of songs and lyrics by these artists, so perhaps, based on some form of the Sincerity Fallacy, it sounded like <em>progress<\/em> when they moved into psychedelic territory.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand a song like &#8220;Journey to the Center of Your Mind,&#8221; cool as it is musically, never carried any weight with me musically. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s because I didn&#8217;t have any prior respect for the lyrical content of <strong>The Amboy Dukes<\/strong>, but I&#8217;m more than willing to consider that to be the case. If &#8220;Strawberry Fields Forever&#8221; was the first single by The Beatles would I have brushed off the lyrics as nonsense plucked from the Psych Pshoppe? I&#8217;m equally willing to admit that I may not know how it is that I assess psychedelic lyrics from any source.<\/p>\n<p>One band that trafficked in psychedelic lyrics from the starting gate, when they were &#8220;nobodies,&#8221; so to speak, and that hold up as well as any psych lyrics, in my mind, was <strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong>. Because I was not already a fan of later-day Floyd when I first heard the early stuff, I cannot say that they built up credibility after the fact. Those <strong>Syd Barrett<\/strong> lyrics actually sound original and inspired to me more often than not.<\/p>\n<p><em>What are your experiences with psychedelic lyrics from artists who did not previously establish credibility as more conventional lyricists?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I may soon find that my premise was not worth bringing to the Halls of Rock for possible scintillating discussion, but that&#8217;s the way it goes around here. Driving in this morning I was listening to a collection of obscure &#8217;60s psych recordings that came with the recent edition of Mojo with a Who Sell-Out <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/turn-me-on-nobody\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[204,108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}