July 29, 2023:
The heat on those records. Drive, aggression, commitment. Anger. Sarcasm. There'd been rebellion in blues and jazz, but it was oblique — subversive — predominantly underground. This was in your face.
"Get off my Cloud": alienation, isolation, and I like it like that.
"19th Nervous Breakdown": sardonism, reverse elitism: the nobility are trivial.
"Satisfaction": confrontational: middle finger to an entire culture.
Three minute manifestos. These records said: This freedom of which you speak. We'll have it now, thank you.
We'll take it if we have to.