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‘Unconsciousness Rules’ – George Harrison
After The Beatles, it didn’t feel like George Harrison wanted to be a pop star anymore. He may have shattered everyone’s expectations once he released his groundbreaking album All Things Must Pass, but most of his personal philosophy was about moving away from the mindless power pop that he had built himself on at the beginning of his career. When his label decided that he needed that kind of hit single again for Somewhere in England, Harrison lashed out in anger on ‘Unconsciousness Rules’.
Since he already had an album ready to go, Harrison was told that he had to go back to the drawing board, thinking that the best way to write a hit was to make it about relationships between kids. Gradually entering his 30s, Harrison made this song specifically to criticise the kind of fans who bought into his mindless pop songs in the first place, thinking that all they want to do is go to discotheques and rot their brain.
That would only be a bad omen of what was to come, as other songs like ‘Teardrops’ ended up sounding like the kind of 1980s trash cobbled together by old men in tight suits in a business meeting. ‘Unconsciousness Rules’ may have been born out of anger, but no rock legend has ever looked like a curmudgeon quicker than Harrison did.
