Lucy In The Sky has an awesome bassline throughout, and Lennon's vocals come close to defining classic .. also the three drum hits before the chorus are ass kicking every time. So yeah, sure, fucking shit.. You got it.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 27 September 2009 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link
"lucy in the sky" is not actually a "paean to LSD," as lennon said about a million times.
i always thought the rather thumping, obvious chorus of that song was a real letdown after the dreamy, evocative verses.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, 27 September 2009 19:43 (fifteen years ago) link
me too. sounds like they had an stray annoying mccartney chorus lying about and decided to plaster it on.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 27 September 2009 20:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, cos Lennon would never write an annoying lyric.
― I saw your posse, but now it's me who's bossy (DavidM), Sunday, 27 September 2009 20:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah George Martin always said the chorus was a letdown after hearing the verses too.
― Adam Bruneau, Sunday, 27 September 2009 21:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
wau, title track hate! I don't ever listen to it independently of the rest of the album, but it + the reprise are what I look forward to when I do.
― "apostrophe" is not Latin for "watch out for the S" (reddening), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:19 (fifteen years ago) link
confused as to how getting better managed pretty much the same number as day in the life o_O
― should probably be practising shorthand (country matters), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:22 (fifteen years ago) link
disgusted by how many people voted for She's Leaving Home which is the best song on the record.
― Jamie_ATP, Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:24 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, something smells fishy...is it me or are the results not seeming to reflect the comments that precede them? hmmm......
― iago g., Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Moodles post upthread about "64" deserves an OTM.
― dog latin, Monday, 28 September 2009 00:10 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^^^^^
― iatee, Monday, 28 September 2009 01:21 (fifteen years ago) link
listening tip: listen to "Getting Better" on headphones
― Paul, Monday, 28 September 2009 04:42 (fifteen years ago) link
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― young depardieu looming out of void in hour of profound triumph (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 28 September 2009 06:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Happy that "Within You Without You" didn't come first/last. (And happy about the several folks upthread who like that song now but didn't before.) Nick's right, that instrumental middle section is awes.
― I Love Beatles Polls New Answers (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 28 September 2009 07:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Still, 20 votes is too high!
― Mark G, Monday, 28 September 2009 08:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I can understand people voting for "When I'm 64", which is really nothing special. But those voting for "She's Leaving Home" haven't really understood anything at all.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Monday, 28 September 2009 09:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Haven't understood anything at all of what? You're perpetually insane melody-fascism?
― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 28 September 2009 09:58 (fifteen years ago) link
in other pepper news, lucy in the sky, r.i.p.
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Monday, 28 September 2009 21:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I feel bad now.
― Alba, Monday, 28 September 2009 21:14 (fifteen years ago) link
and in further news, i possibly should have listened to 'getting better' again before voting
― should probably be practising shorthand (country matters), Monday, 28 September 2009 21:18 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll say!
― young depardieu looming out of void in hour of profound triumph (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 28 September 2009 21:37 (fifteen years ago) link
well tbh thinking about it, it's between 'getting better', 'fixing a hole', 'she's leaving home', and 'when i'm 64' sheerly by dint of being *slightly* less brilliant than the other tracks...fucked if i know which one i'd choose out of those 4
lucy in the sky with diamonds is a fucking superb piece of music, and the chorus is GREAT, especially in the OH MY GOD AMAZING FADEOUT which is one of the best things the beatles ever did, the way those sitar chimes ring out over the infinitely repeated refrain is just godlike
it chills my marrow to see 9 individual music-loving people vote for 'lovely rita'
― should probably be practising shorthand (country matters), Monday, 28 September 2009 21:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Today I've been loving 'Good Morning Good Morning' and the reprise. It's odd that such a record should have a forgotten corner, but that's what they feel like.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 28 September 2009 21:44 (fifteen years ago) link
au contraire, the record's post-64 speed to the finish is and always has been joyous
― should probably be practising shorthand (country matters), Monday, 28 September 2009 21:45 (fifteen years ago) link
t chills my marrow to see 9 individual music-loving people vote for 'lovely rita'
― should probably be practising shorthand (country matters)
But tell us, how do you really feel?
― iago g., Monday, 28 September 2009 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link
well there's not SUCH a big difference between any of the songs on this record (except LSD, WYWY, GMGM and Day In The Life being maybe a bit better than the others) so a bit of subjectivity is allowed for i guess
― should probably be practising shorthand (country matters), Monday, 28 September 2009 21:52 (fifteen years ago) link
'lovely rita' really wants to please you tho, it's not the best thing here but it really wants you to like it, more than any other song here, it just wants to be your friend, how can you vote for it :(
― should probably be practising shorthand (country matters), Monday, 28 September 2009 21:53 (fifteen years ago) link
She's Leaving Home is boring
― Poliopolice, Friday, 20 April 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
After 25 years, I feel like I finally 'get' this album. I always thought it had good songs on it but thought it was 'overrated'—man, was I wrong. It is really just 100% nuance and beauty in the production, thematically brilliant, great songwriting, everything!
― America's Mobile, Friday, 20 April 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
except "day in a life" - everything is boring here
― nostormo, Friday, 20 April 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
I finally "got" it too when I listened to the mono version.
I can't explain why, but instead of it being this overrated checkpoint from b/w to color, it just naturally sounded more like Revolver II.
― pplains, Friday, 20 April 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
It is really just 100% nuance and beauty in the production, thematically brilliant, great songwriting, everything!
OTM!
― The GeirBot (Geir Hongro), Friday, 20 April 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
I listened to it twice today. There are no worst songs.
― Träumerei, Friday, 20 April 2012 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
Good Morning, Good Morning is kinda weak too
― Poliopolice, Friday, 20 April 2012 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ Crazy talk
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Friday, 20 April 2012 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
I really consider myself lucky to have been introduced to this via my parents' battered vinyl copy - stereo, but still, the first time I heard the old 80s CD issue I seriously did a double take. It's a completely different album and not a third as good, seriously. Can't imagine liking it the way I do if that's the way I'd heard it most of the time.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 21 April 2012 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
What blocked me from liking it for a while was the sleepiness of the middle songs - the energy of the opening just seemed to fade to nothing. Now those songs seem like the key to its magic. They're what create a sense of depth.
It's also nice house painting music. "Fixing a Hole" made sprucing up my grandparents' basement this morning seem romantic.
― Träumerei, Saturday, 21 April 2012 00:54 (twelve years ago) link
Just the animals alone coming in natural order ending with a chicken that sounds like the first note of the reprise, get the hell out of here troll.
― pplains, Saturday, 21 April 2012 00:55 (twelve years ago) link
Unfortunately this is an album I played the HELL out of for a very specific window of time at around age 16, so basically when I hear it I involuntarily hear the dungeon rattles and smell the market streets of a lightweight and addictive MUD I was hooked on at the time.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 21 April 2012 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
Even John Lennon thought Good Morning, Good Morning sucked. Best song: Fixing a Hole.
― Poliopolice, Saturday, 21 April 2012 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
THIS version of Good Morning Good Morning does not suck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJmo3LiP3Zs
― piscesx, Saturday, 21 April 2012 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
just saying
GM, GM might be my favorite song on the album. I'm not even counter-trolling.
― aluminum rivets must not be proud of their plastic bosses (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 21 April 2012 01:36 (twelve years ago) link
Expressing an opinion that others disagree with = trolling
WTF
― Poliopolice, Saturday, 21 April 2012 01:43 (twelve years ago) link
Eh, just busting yr balls a bit.
I just fkin love the guitar, and the crazy abrasive sound of the horns, and yes the animal sounds.
― aluminum rivets must not be proud of their plastic bosses (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 21 April 2012 01:46 (twelve years ago) link
Don't get hating on GM,GM at all, the solo is searing, the drumming is spot-on, and Lennon's multitracked, queasy, weird, "I'VE GOT nothing to say but it's o.k" is so perfect.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 21 April 2012 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
Don't like: 64, Lovely Rita, GM, GM.
Not crazy about: Lucy, Within You Without You.
Everything else is various shades of fantastic
HIDDEN GEM: Fixing a Hole
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 21 April 2012 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
i've still never heard of Meet The Wife outside of the context of GM GM. i don't even know if it was a real TV show.
― piscesx, Saturday, 21 April 2012 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
Macca is so great on GM, GM. Sure, the bass, but as the Doctor points out: that guitar break! I love his stupid flashy leads sometimes.
― bentelec, Saturday, 21 April 2012 02:22 (twelve years ago) link