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The Incredible String Band - WAY BACK IN THE 1960S

this is a time travel tune. i cannot think of another song that does this retro-active thing. back then we would listen and imagine it was now and we were listening to it decades later and..

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Blogger wabisabi said...

joely111 (2 months ago)

visionary lyrics, exept maybe the bit about paraguay, real food must have been delicious, like the song

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seagullpie (7 seconds ago)

real food WAS tasty! (in the home women were still proud of their home-making skills for example).

'paraguay' is intended as a personal satire, to defuse any notions of the singers la-di-da theme (somewhat stretching the zeitgeist as it was, in the now, back then) - a simulated pompous hyperbole type thing (and a dig at bobby d. which they all regularly enjoyed doing - bob once said that robin's october song 'was good', somewhat of an understatement:)


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