Albums other people love are taken down. Glad to see that there's someone who agrees with me about The Stone Roses album The Stone Roses:
And all their fans are so smug: "Oh, you don't understand it." I do understand it! It's ridiculous that it regularly gets voted in at the top of those "greatest British album ever" polls.On the other hand, though I've lately revised my view of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, I think the treatment it gets is a bit harsh:
This is middle-of-the-road rock music for plumbers. Or people who drive round in Citroens - the sort of corporate hippies who ruined rock music. I bought it the day it came out: it was ideal for a seven-year-old.While I'm in this general area, I never did get why some people think Nick Drake's Bryter Layter was unjustly neglected. After reading that it was, I bought it and listened to it a few times, ever since when I've been neglecting it.