On Aug 21, 5:18 pm, Andre Jute wrote:
So as not to disturb my family, sleeping on the floors below me, I
took the disc box from the top. It turned out to be my rock'n'roll
collection, which is pretty modest at about 250 discs or sets. Putting
in my hand with closed eyes, taking potluck, grabbing a handful of
discs, I came out with six discs:

British Beat before the Beatles, organized by years, 1956 to 1962
inclusive, EMI compilation issued 1993. My God, there was some raw
talent back then! Alma Cogan, Frankie Vaughan, The Southlanders,
Lonnie Donegan, Humphry Lyttleton, all just off the 1956 disc. The
Beatles, by comparison, are homogenized, sanitized; in retrospect they
remind me of nothing so much as Euro-vegetables: universal, bland, pre-
pureed, the perfect chinese taste (right after you finish listening
you want real music).

Andre Jute

One of the worst things about the Beatles was their total lack of a
sense of humour. They had no conception of their won absurdity; they
took themselves totally seriously.

By contrast listen to Ray Ellington singing Left Hand Boogie, sending
up every single section of British society with perfect mimicry, or
Lyttleton's Bad Penny Blues, in which you hear his tongue in his cheek
as sends up his parody even as he perpetrates it.

And that smoke-roughened voice of Don Lang, give it to me any day over
the calculated crudities and fake working-class accents of the
Beatles.


Andre Jute
"The noted vacuum tube hi-fi designer, cyclist, music collector and
critic, author, economist, psychologist, soldier and advisor to
statesmen worldwide has made his home in the vicinity for many
years."
-- from his hometown's wiki, contributed by wreck.audio admirers