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Post by sloopjohnc on Aug 19, 2020 14:24:23 GMT
With the usual 'might change my mind in the next 5 minutes' caveat. Also, I separated the two themes. Always liked the reprise more - it rocks! The beginning's more setup to me. Also, in case I needed to prove that I do indeed prefer Revolver... A Day in the Life She Said She Said And Your Bird Can Sing Eleanor Rigby Tomorrow Never Knows I'm Only Sleeping For No One Here There and Everywhere Taxman Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds With A Little Help From My Friends Fixing A Hole Good Morning Good Morning Sgt Pepper reprise I Want To Tell You Getting Better Love You To Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite Doctor Robert Got to Get You Into My Life Sgt Pepper Within You Without You When I'm Sixty Four Good Day Sunshine Lovely Rita Yellow Submarine She's Leaving Home This would be pretty close to my list, but I'd have Good Day Sunshine much higher. But whatever. |
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Post by bungo the mungo on Aug 19, 2020 15:05:55 GMT
Tomorrow Never Knows
Getting Better
Within You Without You
A Day in the Life
She Said She Said
Taxman
And Your Bird Can Sing
Doctor Robert
Lucy in the Sky
Got to Get You Into My Life
I'm Only Sleeping
I Want to Tell You
Love You Too
With a Little Help From My Friends
Sgt Pepper/Sgt Pepper reprise)
Eleanor Rigby
For No One
Fixing a Hole
Lovely Rita
She's Leaving Home
Here There and Everywhere
Yellow Submarine
Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite
Good Day Sunshine
Good Morning Good Morning
When I'm Sixty Four
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2020 16:28:59 GMT
The real shocker to me is how people rate She's Leaving Home which I think is one of the most moving songs they ever did There's things I like about it - the novelistic detail of the lyric really draws you in, the way the lead and backing vocals interact - but the pathos is laid on just a bit too thickly, mainly due to the queasy arrangement. |
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Post by bungo the mungo on Aug 19, 2020 16:52:44 GMT
The real shocker to me is how people rate She's Leaving Home which I think is one of the most moving songs they ever did There's things I like about it - the novelistic detail of the lyric really draws you in, the way the lead and backing vocals interact - but the pathos is laid on just a bit too thickly, mainly due to the queasy arrangement. i agree, G. you've summed it up perfectly and i feel pretty much the same way about 'for no one' and 'here there and everywhere'. macca just lays it on with too much syrup, trying to recapture the 'yesterday' zeitgeist. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2020 17:13:03 GMT
Here, There and Everywhere is a pretty transparent attempt to write his version of God Only Knows I think.
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Post by osgood on Aug 19, 2020 17:38:45 GMT
Here, There and Everywhere is a pretty transparent attempt to write his version of God Only Knows I think. Hmm, you may have a point there. Anyways, its only flaw IMO is the intro, but then the main chord sequence and the way it changes from major to minor and back in the "I want her everywhere" part still get me after so many times I've listened and played the tune. For No One is simply perfect, Macca at the top of his game. |
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Post by toomanyhatz on Aug 19, 2020 23:30:20 GMT
The real shocker to me is how people rate She's Leaving Home which I think is one of the most moving songs they ever did There's things I like about it - the novelistic detail of the lyric really draws you in, the way the lead and backing vocals interact - but the pathos is laid on just a bit too thickly, mainly due to the queasy arrangement. Rare agreement here, though the arrangement bothers me less (not to say I'm not curious what George Martin would've done differently). For me it's more about Paul's singing performance, which is unusually limp by his standards (at least then). John's counterpoint is so much stronger - voice of an angel. By comparison Paul has always sounded a bit mopey. |
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Post by tory on Aug 20, 2020 17:46:53 GMT
Tomorrow never Knows is overrated. Its power is the sheer invention it offers, but as an actual song in terms of composition and arrangement studio trickery and experimentation are seen as more important than the former.
I still admire it a great deal, but compared to 30 years ago I'm much more likely to warm to "I'm only sleeping" or similar.
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Post by tory on Aug 20, 2020 17:49:20 GMT
I've been playing Revolver a bit recently because my son is going through a Beatles phase, and YS, along with other perceived "horrors" such as OG have really grown on me.
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Post by "BING E BONG" on Aug 20, 2020 18:05:43 GMT
other perceived "horrors" such as OG have really grown on me. Oh God? On Grass? |
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Post by "BING E BONG" on Aug 20, 2020 18:06:06 GMT
Oh G?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2020 18:11:59 GMT
Tomorrow never Knows is overrated. Its power is the sheer invention it offers, but as an actual song in terms of composition and arrangement studio trickery and experimentation are seen as more important than the former. So? That doesn't make it overrated. It's extraordinary sound still sounds like an exciting portent of the future. You wouldn't use 'songcraft' as a way of judging Detroit Techno so why make that the all important criteria for TNK? |
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Post by tory on Aug 20, 2020 18:29:09 GMT
Detroit techno is framed in a dance floor context - it is primarily functional music with a specific aim.
TNK is a marvel- don't get me wrong - but as a song it is a bit of a dirge once you strip away the studio veneer. In comparison to other compositions by them, it suffers.
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Post by tory on Aug 20, 2020 18:29:45 GMT
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Post by "BING E BONG" on Aug 20, 2020 18:33:54 GMT
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