A hilarious censor negotiation letter for 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' (1975) discussing cuts for the movie.

You must divorce the New England State Religion (sports) in your soul to be truly free!

As one gigantic asshole once said, it takes strength to be gentle and kind.

Been on a big Revolver kick lately, myself. I also take it we can cut straight to geeking out about the Dream Factory project spread out over the SOTT deluxe edition from 2020?

Idk, seems like how things should be to me?

I still think Bobby Brown stands as a high water mark of free speech, because the PMRC never went after him for that at least. And by Twitter/X standards, it's basically a Disney Channel boy band jam.

Also can we just let the AI in our brains in our heads (our "imaginations", I guess) just imagine the Prince album/videos where he went back to the 1800s as an abolitionist. That's such a treat of a thought in these fucked times.

Okay okay but like Prince as FD - it's allowed!

So.... Prince?

Or the Synclavier period. A big reason I said "Almost"! But you get an overdose of him at his most cancellable (ofc, by today's standards), per the title.

So there are things about it that are clearly improved, but there's a betrayal of the source material I can't quite call "wholly superior". I thought I'd appreciate a version with a lot less reverb, but now I miss it? Just like the Mats... Good lord.

... In that he de-80s'd the mix, and included bits that were always in the original musical but were cut from the original CD release for time. The garbage fades in the original are fixed, but now it's compressed like a pop punk record.

One of the ultra rare single LP releases that has (almost) “everything he’s good at”

Hell yeah Shiek Yerbouti

Who let all of this riff raff into the room?

lol Hold Steady songs pretend they’re this explicitly political…

jfc, man