Any Beatle song or album special to you for some reason?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

49. The obnoxious version of Revolver on 45 with distortion.

Because John screams at the beginning.

Mom heard that and yelled, "WHAT IN THE HELL IS THAT??"

"That's John."

"WELL WHATEVER IT IS, TURN IT OFF!!!!!!"

Dad would say "Turn it off, I can still hear it!"

He liked jazz, real jazz, not sanitized for white people jazz, and realized that some of the people playing rock and roll were good musicians, while my mother the square and the grand-units sat there and bitched and whined about that "noise" and those "men with facial hair and long hair that look like girls." He would shut down their fallacious arguments about men with facial hair and long hair.


The other one that was great for pissing off the parental units was conveniently the first track on the White Album, "Back in the U.S.S.R." starting with a jet landing for maximum obnoxitude.

The parents never played any records. We got a combo stereo/color TV/ AM/FM radio by Zenith in 1964, but only my sister and I used it.
My mom refused to listen to jazz because that was "nigra music". She went to dances in college with, I kid you not, "Paul Whiteman and his orchestra" playing. Jazz sanitized for Southern white virgins.

My grandma walked through the den at her house one Saturday morning when we were trying to get American Bandstand on her black and white TV (with a 30 foot antenna outside) and she said "Y'all shouldn't be watchin' that nigra music." We all died laughing behind her back. She thought we should be watching Lawrence Welk which I could not stand because the people acted like zombies.

I should have said "Yeah that Dick Clark is really black" but she wouldn't have known who he was anyway. She would have had a heart attack if she'd known about Soul Train.