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My controversial Prince opinion I guess is that "7" in my top 10 Prince tracks, idk why I love that song so much

― what's fgti up to these days? nothing. she's fake (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, June 4, 2021 12:25 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

me too fgti, me too

some of the songs even have dulcimer tabs!

xp to me

For a second I thought... dulcimer tabs for Prince? That would slap.

BRB, I will be spending my summer creating dulcimer tabs for the entire Prince catalog.

"lady cab driver" would sound sick on a dulcimer

Before you ask, I would start with mountain dulcimer and then work my way up to hammer dulcimer

It's peculiar that disliking Joni Mitchell's music would not be controversial, whereas liking some songs or records more than others is seen that way.

self-contained confessional artistic statement.

Thanks for your response, Lavator. Reading this sentence got me thinking about "...Richard", and I only just now realized that Joni had clarified that the song was not about her ex-husband Chuck Mitchell but was more a fantasy inspired by a comment from Patrick Sky? https://jonimitchell.com/music/song.cfm?id=48 I love this song even more, now

It is truly stunning, maybe the best on the album. Blue is one of those albums where I can tell how special it is to me because every or almost every song is my favorite at some point or another. Hard to beat "Last Time I Saw Richard"

Also to keep the parallel conversations going, I too love "7" :-)

"7" is wonderful. I was around when it, inexplicably and awesomely, became a top ten.

I always feel like that song is the blueprint for a concept SF rock musical Prince never made, his "Mr. Roboto" if you will

that song taught me "savoir faire" as a kid

A controversial opinion I invented just now is that “Welcome to the Black Parade” is better than any Beatles song except “Eleanor Rigby”

tbh the crazy part of that to me is "Eleanor Rigby" being anyone's favorite Beatles song

look at all the ornery people

I can’t really explain it, I like that one, songs were Ringo sings, and the Abbey Road medley/Her Majesty. xp

*where

I have a controversial opinion on the worst beatles song (guessing most people do)

it's "Do You Want To Know A Secret"

I find the beatles nearly unlistenable. I don’t know exactly why.

who can explain it
who can tell you why?

i can. it is because the beatles is crap. crap, i say!

Hi cat

I've kept the Beatles at arm's length most of my life, and am pleasantly surprised when I hear an unfamiliar tune that they've recorded.

Years ago I was in band's van and asked the driver whether we were listening to Guided By Voices (it was loud in the van, lots of chatting).

"Are you kidding? It's the White Album," he replied, shaking his head in disgust.

hi treeship!

I work with someone whose beatles challop is that they are underrated which is a bit of a doozy

I think the aura that surrounds them is just off-putting for me. This is especially true for songs like Blackbird and Here Comes the Sun, the ones everyone loves.

I respect A Day in the Life. I will say that.

The thing I never got with them is why they recorded so many nursery rhyme type songs that are actively annoying, especially ob la di, ob la da and yellow submarine. They’re just strange songs to me, and their contemporaries didn’t seem to follow them in this path of making kids songs for adults.

Paul McCartney was in them, that's why.

Actually, yeah—for all the talk of their influence, they are actually really singular in many ways, and not really ways I like.

Beatles are tbh underrated, because (see above) lots of ppl rate music on nonsense criteria

nb i think ppl should be allowed to do this, its fine, but theyre obv wrong

Also there was a lot of that kind of thing going on in the UK music scene at the time.

Now that said ive been rattled by somehow getting into pink floyd this last week, anything can happen

xpost Yeah, that's been a put-off for me... a good percentage of their studio catalog is basically children's music: octopuses, raccoons, piggies, etc.

But I've found some older live footage on youtube where they do some pretty rippin' rock'n'roll

Early pink floyd was like that, and some early bowie, but by the late-60s wasn’t that nursery rhyme stuff fading out? And what was it about, just stray bits of musical memory that came to the surface while taking acid?

Xp tom

There was a lot more of that stuff around than early Pink Floyd and Bowie. It's like a whole subgenre of UK psychedelia! I agree that it was odd that they were still doing it in 1969 though.

the only good beatles song is my sweet lord and that's because it's not a beatles song, george harrison just ripped off the chiffons

I'm sure Lennon and Harrison were delighted to find themselves recording "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" in 1969. If they're actually on the track.

the only good beatles song is the end tbh

is it kids songs or remnants of the dreaded british music hall tradition

A muddled distinction in my mind.

Yes, bit of crossover going on.

"Yellow Submarine" isn't music hall... though I could imagine George Formby singing it I suppose.

when I was a kid I somehow mixed up the 59th Street Bridge song and Yellow Submarine, so I would keep singing the former to the tune o the latter. i like it better this way.

the only good beatles song is my sweet lord and that's because it's not a beatles song, george harrison just ripped off the chiffons

― cat, Tuesday, June 29, 2021 7:05 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Woah, we got a live one here!

after reading this thread, I'm starting to come around to The Beatles are underrated POV as well, at least on ILM, but yes, we have been successful at listing out some of their sillier songs. OTOH, they put out a ton of original music in a short span of time and much of it is really good.

xpost Not only is it not a Beatles song, it's not even a Beatles song

As the world turns away from guitar-based rock/pop (maybe permanently?), their position seems to be pretty secure

overrated by boomers and underrated by gen x, y, and z?

properly rated by the Greatest Generation