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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2021 10:51:53 GMT
I fucking love this song, for the most part (i'll get to that later).
It has a nice gentle flowing pace to it, but comes across with a powerful calling for and reflective narrative. I can't imagine it being better (through covers) with anyone else's singing voice, it just suits it perfectly. The only part i don't like, and i think i'll be alone in this, is the piano solo. it just sounds out of place for me personally. Like it's there to appease him. It could be the exact opposite, since he didn't write the song. Anyway, fucking love this tune.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2021 11:34:10 GMT
It's a great track. I've written quite a lot on it in the past (I once composed an epic post on it on BCB, long since gone sadly), as has GB, so quite burned out talking about it. The piano solo is incongruous, but works brilliantly in my view. If nothing else, it allows the return to the main song to be even more triumphant.
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Post by cousinlou on Feb 10, 2021 18:31:50 GMT
Tis okay
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Post by Charlie O. on Feb 10, 2021 18:34:42 GMT
I could do without the call for arms and ammo, but otherwise it's practically perfect.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2021 18:47:19 GMT
I could do without the call for arms and ammo, but otherwise it's practically perfect. You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs Charlie!
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Post by fonz on Feb 12, 2021 8:49:24 GMT
Contrarian that I am, I’ve never liked it. That voice is horrible and weedy. Yuk.
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Post by wobblie on Feb 12, 2021 11:41:38 GMT
Omelettes are good. This song not so much. Completely uninspiring.
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Post by Crunchy Col on Feb 12, 2021 12:06:27 GMT
I'm surprised some are indifferent to it.
I'm not as head over heels over the song as G is, but it's QUITE a song! Stirring, powerful, while retaining a real class (the vocal doesn't tip over into dramatic screaming, for example, and the backing is relatively restrained).
I seem to remember the song being used for a BA ad maybe 20 years ago and the whole thing was VERY effective. This was of course in the days before deep fakes so seeing a John Lennon doppelganger walking through an airport in his white suit with a whole load of other famous dudes to this number was a real thrill.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2021 12:27:13 GMT
I'm surprised some are indifferent to it. I'm not as head over heels over the song as G is, but it's QUITE a song! Stirring, powerful, while retaining a real class (the vocal doesn't tip over into dramatic screaming, for example, and the backing is relatively restrained). I seem to remember the song being used for a BA ad maybe 20 years ago and the whole thing was VERY effective. This was of course in the days before deep fakes so seeing a John Lennon doppelganger walking through an airport in his white suit with a whole load of other famous dudes to this number was a real thrill. The arrangement is a thing of genius. The crescendo when the strings and trumpets come back in, it's such a life affirming moment. I sometimes wonder what people hear, or rather don't hear in music.
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Post by Crunchy Col on Feb 12, 2021 12:33:47 GMT
That's something I often wonder about, G. Some of these cup choices, for example - mystifying
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Post by wobblie on Feb 12, 2021 12:54:05 GMT
This inspires you to fight the good fight?
I'd put this on the same level as John Cougar in terms of authenticity.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2021 13:02:57 GMT
This inspires you to fight the good fight? I'd put this on the same level as John Cougar in terms of authenticity. I don't care about authenticity. I judge things, more or less, on their musical qualities.
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Post by wobblie on Feb 12, 2021 13:09:02 GMT
Not enough musical quality there to get me across the line either.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2021 13:27:03 GMT
It's about the majesty of those rising chords, the counterpart of the strings, the triumphant bursts of trumpet, the way the record has been constructed around rise and falls which gives it a really emotional impact, the vulnerability of the vocal which creates a real poignancy.
...Ah it's great!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2021 13:32:52 GMT
I'm surprised some are indifferent to it. I'm not as head over heels over the song as G is, but it's QUITE a song! Stirring, powerful, while retaining a real class (the vocal doesn't tip over into dramatic screaming, for example, and the backing is relatively restrained). I seem to remember the song being used for a BA ad maybe 20 years ago and the whole thing was VERY effective. This was of course in the days before deep fakes so seeing a John Lennon doppelganger walking through an airport in his white suit with a whole load of other famous dudes to this number was a real thrill. The arrangement is a thing of genius. The crescendo when the strings and trumpets come back in, it's such a life affirming moment. I sometimes wonder what people hear, or rather don't hear in music.
That's a good point G. Clawth ears as someone used to say. I have worked with a surprising amount of speed/thrash/death metal freaks. It doesn't work for me. To a man however they all said it calms them down. Surely the last thing you would think it could do.
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