Helter Skelter

I mean, I remember being a boy, and that's not relevant to what we're talking about right now.

At some particular age, I went to a secondhand bookstore where I saw the, you know, gooning face of Charles Manson coming out of the cover of the book Helter Skelter, which, as it turns out, if the adults in your life have sort of whispered this name, because Marilyn Manson had just come out, and whoever this Charles Manson was, right? Of course, you know, as with all great pieces of empathetic investigative journalism, there's a whole lurid photo spread in the middle.

And yeah, I remember seeing the cutout bits where people had clearly run, you know, or climbed over this or found outside or all of this shit.

And yeah, now that clearly took fucking hours.

And if they had real rhetoric, they would easily win because the only thing worse than Trump is them.

So it's like they're it's kind of like Helter Skelter song.

I'm coming down fast, but I'm miles above you.

See what I'm saying? Right, yeah.

And if they had real rhetoric, they would easily win because the only thing worse than Trump is them.

So it's like they're it's kind of like Helter Skelter song.

I'm coming down fast, but I'm miles above you.

See what I'm saying? Right.

Yes.

Yeah, the whole record, I, I mean, even when I joined, the first night I was there I was, like, singing and I'm go- I, like, I was kind of, you know, like, we, we'd do stuff like Live Wire or we would do, um, uh, Helter Skelter, Jailhouse Rock, whatever.

That my audition.

And, uh, I was kinda overshooting the runway because I'm like, in my head I'm going, "Okay, I sing it here," but it was, it was, like, a, a bit lower.

But it's interesting here also that you have McCartney doing some more of the rockers like Back in the USSR And Lennon-McCartney, it's always credited to both of them, but it's usually known which of the two was the main writer.

So you have McCartney doing a rocker like Back in the USSR or a more avant-garde thing like Why Don't We Do It in the Road or Helter Skelter.

You also have Lennon doing some of these more gentle songs like Dear Prudence or Julia.

And so that's kind of an interesting thing.

And then Piggies is just a terrible song.

So three out of four for Harrison, I would give him.

Here's what MacDonald says about Helter Skelter.

"Few have seen fit to describe this track as anything other than a literally drunken mess." I kind of agreed with that one as well.