Showing posts with label NATIONAL LAMPOON. Show all posts
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Friday, January 12, 2024

the ghastliness of rock

 


This clip of a rock festival from a Soviet cartoon must surely be anti-Western-decadence propaganda....  It couldn't possibly be meant to be attractive and exciting? Could it? 

It's from Sergey Yutkevich and Anatoliy Karanovich's "Mayakovsky Laughs," which also has a scene involving drugs and hallucinations 


The rock festival bit reminded me of Lemmings by National Lampoon - a 1973 stage show as well as a record, mocking the mindless squalor of the mass gatherings of the era 






























Also reminded tangentially of this Whistle Test spoof from Rutland Weekend Television 



Then there's this, which actually rocks, despite the parodic intent 






Any more for any more? 

Yes there's Neil the Hippy, and there's Rock Follies - particularly interested in Old Wave excess recoiled from with a crypto-conservative squeamishness

The Toppermost of the Poppermost

How much do I love these Top of the Pops opening sequences from the late Sixties and early Seventies?  Quite often they are the high point ...