I've never heard a good version of "It's Only Love," not even Bryan Ferry's.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 March 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), lundi 23 mars 2020 17:37 (fifty-eight seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
IIRC Lennon said he thought it was trash. I love it. His voice is so great on it.
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 23 March 2020 16:42 (four years ago) link
hard not to vote for the revolver tracks. in a housefire i'd reach for "i'm only sleeping", but "and your bird can sing" blows me away every time - it's just a perfect composition
― Karl Malone, Monday, 23 March 2020 16:54 (four years ago) link
the revolver tracks and i've just seen a face tower over the rest.
likely going with 'i'm only sleeping.'
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Monday, 23 March 2020 17:00 (four years ago) link
I'm only sleeping.I neither understand the overwhelming enthusiasm for And your bird can sing nor the derision for dr. Robert in the other thread, but I've just seen a face as the perennial runner-up sounds about right.
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 23 March 2020 18:12 (four years ago) link
overwhelming enthusiasm for "and your bird can sing" = follow that guitar
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 23 March 2020 18:23 (four years ago) link
^
― Karl Malone, Monday, 23 March 2020 18:30 (four years ago) link
it is like an exuberant host showing you around a wonderland (only not annoying)
Sometimes I think it's Harrison's best solo.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 March 2020 18:35 (four years ago) link
yeah, it could me, and he has so many perfect guitar parts
― Karl Malone, Monday, 23 March 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
-be-
going with "and your bird" again
"i'll be back" might be my runner-up, AHDN is so perfect
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 23 March 2020 18:41 (four years ago) link
Lennon was a great artist, but his aesthetic judgment was fallible.
Though it is also possible in his public statements he said bonkers things just to make people scratch their heads - would be very much in character
― love will keep us apart (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 23 March 2020 18:57 (four years ago) link
I always regarded Bird and Dr Robert as among the lesser Lennon songs on Revolver, which is to say I like them, and both have elements that I love more than the song as a whole. In and your bird can sing, it's obviously the dual guitar lead, but I never listened to it *that* way. I'm always down to anthropomorphize a guitar line. Could be what i'm missing.
I hear a lot of the Byrds in both songs, and I'm only sleeping as maybe more quintessentially Lennon.
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 23 March 2020 18:59 (four years ago) link
Lennon also said "Cry Baby Cry" was "rubbish."
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 March 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
definitely. i actually didn't realize Bird was a lennon song, even though obv he sings on it. it doesn't sound like a typical lennon song at all.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 23 March 2020 19:12 (four years ago) link
Actually, "I've Just Seen a Face" wasn't scrap-heaped to a comp album -- it led off the U.S. version of Rubber Soul!
This sequence is bananas.
https://i.imgur.com/B1WpT76.jpg
― pplains, Monday, 23 March 2020 19:16 (four years ago) link
(and "It's Only Love", fwiw.)
― pplains, Monday, 23 March 2020 19:17 (four years ago) link
Paul & George's dual harmonic lead guitar on Bird is pretty nice, esp. the little tricky part in the bridge...
i've always had a soft spot for the intro/outro on the revelatory version that appeared on Anthology:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf22VR71ags
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 23 March 2020 19:38 (four years ago) link
it doesn't sound like a typical lennon song at all.
Yeah, I didn't realize it myself initially, if anything I sort of subconsiously assumed George wrote it.
There could easily be a seperate thread/poll for classic Lennon songs that he unfairly disavowed if there isn't one already.
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 23 March 2020 19:41 (four years ago) link
Wow @ the anthology version. I guess the title is no accident. And your byrd can sing.
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 23 March 2020 19:44 (four years ago) link
Beatles goofing around in a studio a welcome sound.
― clemenza, Monday, 23 March 2020 19:51 (four years ago) link
Re: the guitar parts, iirc it was one of the illustrations of their desire to make some Bach-type harmonies.
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 23 March 2020 19:56 (four years ago) link
Johann Sebastian Shankar
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 23 March 2020 20:02 (four years ago) link
I thought it was George Martin’s job to come up with the Bach melodies
― Karl Malone, Monday, 23 March 2020 20:02 (four years ago) link
I'd rank them like this:
I'm Only Sleeping, (Revolver)If I Needed Someone, (Rubber Soul)And Your Bird Can Sing, (Revolver)What You're Doing, (Beatles for Sale)I've Just Seen a Face, (Help!)Every Little Thing, (Beatles for Sale)I'll Be Back, (A Hard Day's Night)Drive My Car, (Rubber Soul)I Don't Want to Spoil the Party, (Beatles for Sale)Dr. Robert, (Revolver)What Goes On, (Rubber Soul)It's Only Love, (Help!)Tell Me What You See, (Help!)You Like Me Too Much, (Help!)
― Darin, Monday, 23 March 2020 22:49 (four years ago) link
I've never heard a good version of "It's Only Love," not even Bryan Ferry's.― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), lundi 23 mars 2020 17:37 (fifty-eight seconds ago) bookmarkflaglinkIIRC Lennon said he thought it was trash. I love it. His voice is so great on it.― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 23 March 2020 16:42 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 23 March 2020 16:42 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
I believe John was OK with the music, it was the lyrics he disdained.
"Cry Baby Cry" could be a case of John knocking a lyric out quickly because he could.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 12:13 (four years ago) link
btw ,I do like Gary US Bonds' version.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 12:14 (four years ago) link
If I Needed Someone, one of my all time faves.
― Valentijn, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 12:54 (four years ago) link
Lennon later spoke of his embarrassment at the triteness of the lyrics. He told Hit Parader magazine: “That’s the one song I really hate of mine. Terrible lyric.” In another interview he named It’s Only Love and Rubber Soul’s Run For Your Life as his least favourite Beatles songs.
It’s Only Love is mine. I always thought it was a lousy song. The lyrics were abysmal. I always hated that song.John LennonAll We Are Saying, David Sheff
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 13:01 (four years ago) link
eheh, and again : Lennon was later dismissive of And Your Bird Can Sing, describing it as “a horror” and “throwaway”.
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 13:04 (four years ago) link
still voted for "I'm Only Sleeping" in fact i woke up singing this song just the other day.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 22:56 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 26 March 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
Surprised by the apparent lack of love for "Drive My Car"!
― stop torturing me ethel (broom air), Thursday, 26 March 2020 15:24 (four years ago) link
I voted for it because I think it is groovy
― love will keep us apart (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 26 March 2020 15:46 (four years ago) link
fun Beatles > introspective Beatles
― love will keep us apart (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 26 March 2020 15:47 (four years ago) link
another for _and your bird..._
― blather rinse repeat 2020 (Hunt3r), Thursday, 26 March 2020 16:15 (four years ago) link
"And Your Bird Can Sing," but disagree that Revolver tracks tower over others here and would probably go "Every Little Thing" and "I'll Be Back" after it.
I don't think the lyrics to "It's Only Love" are worse than lots of other early Beatles tracks, but that was maybe at a point where Lennon was pushing himself to go farther.
― timellison, Thursday, 26 March 2020 22:53 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 27 March 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
Foiled again.
― coco vide (pomenitul), Friday, 27 March 2020 00:03 (four years ago) link
ugh ILM is wrong twice
― octobeard, Friday, 27 March 2020 01:07 (four years ago) link
Right twice
― Οὖτις, Friday, 27 March 2020 01:20 (four years ago) link
George had to tell Joe Walsh ILX was right twice instead of once.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 27 March 2020 01:37 (four years ago) link