do do do do do
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 6 December 2021 23:05 (two years ago) link
my parents only owned the red and blue comps
correction they only owned the red comp. diehard early beatlesers
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 6 December 2021 23:07 (two years ago) link
maxwell's silver hammer is a fun song to play on the piano. lots of paul's granniest of granny songs are, to be honest (honey pie, when i'm 64, good day sunshine)
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Monday, 6 December 2021 23:15 (two years ago) link
abbey road is def one of my top albumsi like it’s warmth, soundwise, love every track and the final collage/medley is unfuckwithable … and the finality is like a garnish of bittersweet sadness
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 December 2021 23:20 (two years ago) link
The strangest thing this show has brought to my attention is the fact that there are people out there who don't like "Dig A Pony", which is inconceivable to me as it's one of my favourite Beatles tracks and always has been. Admittedly the rooftop performance, which is the one included on Let it Be (with the beginning and end chopped off) is what sells it best, its just terrific. But no reason to separate the song from its performance. I just love it, and cant understand how anyone can't. I almost think they're lying (which is a bonkers thought obviously, but its so alien to me, how can you not like that fantastic performance??).
― glumdalclitch, Monday, 6 December 2021 23:20 (two years ago) link
dig a pony rules, ppl are stupid
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 December 2021 23:21 (two years ago) link
"dig a pony" is so dope
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 6 December 2021 23:23 (two years ago) link
i decided to try out the '69 glyn johns mix from the let it be box and boy this sucks
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 6 December 2021 23:25 (two years ago) link
Dig a Pony was a very very slow grower for me --- when i first got LiB as a teen I found it kinda boring, didn't like the texture, verse wasn't melodically hooky or headsticky (for me), etc. but it's been one of the biggest earworms for me this past week, so i guess that's a good index of how much my listening tastes have evolved!
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Monday, 6 December 2021 23:25 (two years ago) link
We had the blue album on vinyl. I listened mostly to the first LP, it seemed "kid-friendly" while the second LP had a gritty "adult" feel that intimidated me a little (at 6 or 7).
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 6 December 2021 23:29 (two years ago) link
Love “Dig A Pony,” always have. And watching Get Back, I’m reminded that editing out the “all I want is you” after the riff/before the verse was a very smart move (on the part of Lennon or Spector, not sure who made that decision). “Dig A Pony” is probably my favorite song on the Let It Be record, for that matter…or maybe neck-and-neck with “I’ve Got A Feeling.”
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 6 December 2021 23:46 (two years ago) link
pro-Pony here and also surprised that people could not (ahem) dig it
i read one of the worst beatle songs threads on here recently, and got a sense that maybe people didn't like the "just another stodgy 70s rock band" feel of get back/don't let me down/pony/i got a feeling
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 00:04 (two years ago) link
"just another stodgy 70s rock band" could never have made "i've got a feeling"
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 00:09 (two years ago) link
yes sorry not endorsing that POV at all - i like all those songs - but trying to understand the objections
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 00:11 (two years ago) link
I also didn't know people didn't dig Dig a Pony, which I like a lot
Will never buy into Maxwell's Silver Hammer apologia, goofy peepee poopoo baby crap
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 00:11 (two years ago) link
It just occurred to me: the difference between "Maxwell" and "Octopus" is the difference between Paul and George as producers.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 00:26 (two years ago) link
Harrison is the only one who selflessly produced other acts. He lived to jam! He wanted to make new acts comfortable! And "Octopus" sounds like a quietly painstaking production.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 00:28 (two years ago) link
otm
Octopus is a much better song. Simple, memorable melody that's not trying too hard, nice little guitar figure. (though it would be hard to try harder then Maxwell's Silver Hammer the most try-hard song in history)
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 00:29 (two years ago) link
wouldve been great to hear Buck Owens cover Octopus Garden, just as a fun reversal since Ringo did act naturally— i can totally picture buck singing octopus
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 00:53 (two years ago) link
One of my earliest musical memories, if not my earliest, is going on a field trip in 2nd grade to a state park and seeing a puppet show which included "Here Comes the Sun". I remember being very affected by the song and telling my parents about it when I got home and my parents explaining who The Beatles were. "The Talk", if you were.
― hocus pocus, alakazam (PBKR), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 01:00 (two years ago) link
xpost can totally hear Buck Owens doing OG
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 01:02 (two years ago) link
right!? its such a happy Buck-y kinda tune
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 01:07 (two years ago) link
Dig a Pony would be all-time for the Beeee-cause alone.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 01:08 (two years ago) link
Re: Rocky Racoon...I can't get past Paul's faux cowboy accent. Mick Jagger seems a lot better at it.
And if he sang Get Back in a more rock voice, a la Back in the USSR I'd like that tune a lot better instead of that kermit-sounding shit
― pj, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 01:09 (two years ago) link
id like to beunder the seawith goofy peepee poopoobaby crap
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 01:09 (two years ago) link
And our friends are all aboardgoofy peepeebaby crap
― Ennui de Toulouse-Lautrec (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 01:10 (two years ago) link
i'll cop to being a 'dig a pony' skeptic', didnt hate it but it always sounded like forgettable filler to me. after hearing it 275 times in the doc, i'm sold, it rocks.
is there a thread for country covers of beatles tunes? gene clark did a killer version of dount let me down
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 01:12 (two years ago) link
Harrison is the only one who selflessly produced other acts.Yep. When Paul produced Badfinger’s “Come And Get It,” they said, “Um…can we play the song the way we play it?” Paul shut that down: “That won’t be a hit. Do it my way.”
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 01:39 (two years ago) link
And then Mal Evan's produced their next single which pissed all over Come and Get It. And it continued with Harrison producing the one after that. Everyone at Apple had a go.
― everything, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 02:01 (two years ago) link
So much unnecessary Rocky and Maxwell slander! I live for Paul’s silly songs
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 02:01 (two years ago) link
same!! i like the simplicity, remind me of nursery rhymes… plus i think most of his sillier songs were in my childhood singing books at school so i was indoctrinated v early to love them :D
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 02:04 (two years ago) link
Next these people are coming for Honey Pie, aren’t they?!I previously had only mild love for Let It Be but man, this documentary leaves you no choice but to love it in the end
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 02:06 (two years ago) link
"Maxwell's Silver Hammer" lyrics are a bit of a shaggy dog story, in that you keep waiting for something interesting to happen, but no, Max just keeps beaning people with his hammer. The (oft repeated) punch line is deliberately groan inducing. The song peaks early; the funniest line is in the opening verse: "Late nights all alone with a test tube/Oh, Oh, oh, oh." The music is one of Paul's baroque whimsical numbers, meticulously arranged, as usual. The marriage of low-brow nastiness and high-brow musical construction makes me think of Zappa. Within the Beatles oeuvre it's in that lineage of "Rocky Raccoon" and "Bungalow Bill". I guess zany black comedy was very much in the zeitgeist in the late '60s, though it works best when the comedy seems a thin veneer over something truly depressing. Its very hard to imagine Paul ever being truly depressed for longer than a few minutes, so the effect is undermined a bit in his hands.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 02:15 (two years ago) link
That bit at the end of Part 1 where they work up Let it Be is pretty magical.
― hocus pocus, alakazam (PBKR), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 02:25 (two years ago) link
I’ve legitimately never understood the widespread hate for Rocky Raccoon, I’ve always heard a vein of legitimate melancholy in it, but it gets tons of hate for being another of Paul’s silly frivolities
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 03:02 (two years ago) link
Doesn’t belong in the same convo as Maxwell imo
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 03:08 (two years ago) link
"Rocky Racoon" is more like "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest" than "Maxwell's".
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 03:15 (two years ago) link
I always wondered the origin of Paul's late 60's kermit rock voice and Get Back seems to indicate that it might have come from Canned Heat's "Going Up the County" which they discuss in the 2nd episode. You can imitate anyone you know!
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 03:29 (two years ago) link
Watching The Beatles cover Canned Heat was really something.
― pplains, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 03:51 (two years ago) link
^^^^ yep, pretty sure Paul was trying his own Canned Heat vocal there.
Loved seeing Yoko holding "Beggars Banquet" there
― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 03:55 (two years ago) link
btw I’m kinda named after Paul McCartneyTo be fair it’s really just the preamble part of Schlocky Schlockoon that I dislike. The rest is nice.
― pj, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 04:03 (two years ago) link
Maxwell's isn't simple enough! it's not half the song that Octopus's Garden is, OG is easy to learn, easy to sing for anyone, it's a pure song. Maxwell's is 10 lbs. of shit in a 5 lb. sack.Zappa is actually a great comparison, it's a song that only exists to illustrate how clever the songwriter is, the lowest form of music and art.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 04:12 (two years ago) link
i don't think it's too clever or anything, it's just a dreadful tune
paul could make his whimsy nonsense compelling on occasion but absolutely failed there
― ufo, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 04:16 (two years ago) link
The Beatles did lots of children's songs, which is a pretty great way of getting people to like your band also.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 07:46 (two years ago) link
I was just about old enough when "Yellow Submarine" first came out
― Mark G, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 08:06 (two years ago) link
I think I may be the only person to have been unenthusiastic about Dig a Pony on this thread. It’s not filler like Dig It or Maggie Mae, but I’m not generally a fan or the Beatles going bluesy and the lyrics leave me pretty cold. Actually, in simple terms, I quite like Dig a Pony but All I Want Is You hurts my head.
― Alba, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 09:49 (two years ago) link
loved john raving about seeing fleetwood mac on tv
― flopson, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 09:55 (two years ago) link
Oh yeah, that was good. Their reports of what they watched on TV last night are generally a highlight. I hope there are more of them on a 16hr DVD.
― Alba, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 10:02 (two years ago) link
is it a huge challop to think 'let it be' is better than 'abbey road'?
― flopson, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 10:33 (two years ago) link
Good morning!
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 10:42 (two years ago) link