Reply #89: Here's a fun game to play with over-zealous Beatles fans. [View All]

[Scatterheart]

Whenever I hear one of these obnoxious twerps whose musical appreciation never got past "Love Me Do", I go out of my way to play something like, say, this:
http://youtu.be/hZe8_03E1mY

Then when they say they thought it was pretty, you tell them its Yoko Ono and watch their heads explode.

No, she's not for everyone. Yes, a lot of her early work is extremely confrontational, abrasive and experimental. A lot of her work is also beautifully written (unlike John Lennon, Yoko actually could *write* musical notation) and moving. Her album Season of Glass, recorded after John's murder, is a one-of-a-kind tour de force of rage and heartbreak, unlike anything else recorded by a female singer-songwriter at the time (aside from maybe Marianne Faithfull).

But really, few things get me more riled than listening to people make fashionably nasty and misogynistic cracks about things they don't appreciate.