"Eleanor Rigby"- Your thoughts please...

FUCK THE BEATLES!?!?

Can someone please tell me why Paul McCartney's post-Beatles output gets quite so much shit? I mean, I'm not about to dive to Partridgean "the band the Beatles could've been" depths, but I do like a fair whack of Wings's stuff...am I hearing different racords to the hataz or what?

Because he has never been the archetypical rock rebel. McCartney is a very boring and straight person, not an outsider in any way, just a typical English middle-class-citizen with a musical talent. The only "rebellious" thing about him is his marijuana smoking, but most rock stars do stronger drugs than that.

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The thing about "Eleanor Rigby" isn't the number of chords (two), it is the number of tempi (two). Starting off in a rather square 4/4, it achieves a very strong 2/4 feel by the time the "jar at the door" line comes around. Then again, that is a trademark of most Puff Daddy productions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMXdJhac6LQ

Kind of reminds me of 60s Bee Gees.

hahahaha this is awesome

I can't stop listening to it tbh.

eleanor stravinsky

Makes me think of Cicieraga's Love Shack/Theme from Psycho mashup. Which is a good thing

OK, so this seems to be a thing people are doing on YouTube, but it's usually all on one note.

"Eye of the Tiger" (the vocals are all E) is quite funny:

https://www.youtu.be.com/watch?v=qdTPdig3A9U

"Take on Me" is horrible though, it sounds like me singing.

Bohemian Rhapsody is a completely different, quite interesting, song.

https://www.youtu.be.com/watch?v=fjQD5nIrK7c

I'm a big fan of people switching songs from minor keys to major keys, like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVehv_LDWaE

Or this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6KmiIq2-m8

Kind of reminds me of 60s Bee Gees.
otm

OMG, "Africa"!

https://www.youtu.be.com/watch?v=DBy0woewyAU

Thanks, I am now down the rabbit hole. Africa but every word is in alphabetical order! YMCA but every other beat is missing!

That link doesn’t seem to work, at least here in the US.

Not sure where Tom.D is copying them from but just remove the dot between youtu and be.

Or right. sometimes it works with that but seem to be in some kind of mixed format there.

That contorted Toto version sounds like The Residents or The Thinking Fellers.

The thing is, as I've quickly found out, there's dozens of these out there.

.. dozens? Hundreds probably.

If I'd never heard the original "Smells Like Teen Spirit" then the one up there would sound not exactly good but perfectly acceptable.

God help me now I'm trapped in the major to minor and vice versa wormhole

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfTjz6emd7c

Somebody should do Scelsi but put lots of notes in.

The Nirvana one definitely seems not to be the original recorded material shifted, there's some funny re-recordings to my ears, esp on the solos.

The REM one is great tho, sounds like a Reckoning track.

Yes to both of those.

REM track just sounds like an even more boring than usual REM track to me.

i appreciate the sheer computing power turned to these ends

Ahah. Yeah the R.E.M and Nirvana would be perfectly acceptable songs, if not hits.
The Beatles one is AMAZING. Love it !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szFwVzg5BzE

i like this one

"Love Me Do" in alphabetical order:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy2jLaooyiU

In that vein, "of Oz the Wizard":

https://vimeo.com/150423718

The 4 1/2 minutes segment of breaths and gasps that is "hhh" makes for a hyperventilated condensing of the film all by itself.

Did they ever do "Happy" but in major chords?

Bcause it seems to me to be mostly minor. Unless its major 7 or some such..

No, Geir, it is actually only two chords (Em and C). Passing tones in individual string voices don't constitute new chords.
― dleone (dleone), Friday, November 21, 2003 4:16 PM bookmarkflaglink

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Ray Charles version, which is, of course, delicious.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, November 21, 2003 4:30 PM bookmarkflaglink

Geir's favourite two-chord song, then?
― man, Friday, November 21, 2003 4:44 PM bookmarkflaglink

The bass isn't important, a chord consists of more notes than just one. I'll definitely say it has more than 2 chords.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, November 21, 2003 6:19 PM bookmarkflaglink

twice
― dleone (dleone), Friday, November 21, 2003 7:16 PM bookmarkflaglink

it's easy to make a good song sound horrible, not so easy to make a horrible song sound good

Chop Suey!/Crocodile Rock mashup or gtfo

But the years went by, and the rock just died
Suzy didn't trust my self-righteous suicide
Long nights crying by the record machine
Father, why have you forsaken me

very nice, but the thing I mentioned exists on YouTube and is glorious

WHAT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR0gOEyK6Tg

wow, it fits better than I expected.

Good Day Sunshine, shifted into minor key & lyrics changed to suit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TNPUZP9nrY