I love that you guys aren't afraid of challenging the common wisdom---that The damn Beatles are IT, nobody can touch them. I've never felt that way, and continually marvel at how their hardcore fans (I know a few) can be so blindly uncritical of them. Beatlemania lives! Sgt. Pepper the best album ever? I can't stand it!
Speaking of great lyrics about loss, and especially the emotion of melancholy (which I believe is the essence of the human condition), I have heard no one better at expressing it than Iris Dement, particularly in a song entitled "No Time To Cry". I learned of Iris while reading an interview with Merle Haggard years ago, who was quite impressed with her, both as a songwriter and singer. He himself has recorded NTTC, but his version doesn't come close to the heartbreak hers will invoke in you. Very, very special.
Speaking of great lyrics about loss, and especially the emotion of melancholy (which I believe is the essence of the human condition), I have heard no one better at expressing it than Iris Dement, particularly in a song entitled "No Time To Cry". I learned of Iris while reading an interview with Merle Haggard years ago, who was quite impressed with her, both as a songwriter and singer. He himself has recorded NTTC, but his version doesn't come close to the heartbreak hers will invoke in you. Very, very special.