I still like Let It Be
― unclever bop (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 7 June 2015 18:57 (eight years ago) link
Songwriting aside, Ringo def. my favorite player of the 4
― a few syllables that say exactly nothing but announce my presence (WilliamC), Sunday, 7 June 2015 18:59 (eight years ago) link
Voted TLAWR by a nose from Let It Be.
It's between these two for me. TLAWR is devastating, it really sounds like the end of a relationship. how can people rep for "without you" on the nilsson poll and badmouth this??
― brimstead, Sunday, 7 June 2015 19:19 (eight years ago) link
'michelle' seems to have lost a bit of the cultural cachet it had when i was young (i.e. the '90s), feels like i heard it all the time then but it's somehow become a relic of that time for me
― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 7 June 2015 19:33 (eight years ago) link
girl > michelle
― brimstead, Sunday, 7 June 2015 19:34 (eight years ago) link
Bear with me, haters, but there's this part in the Billy Joel bio about his shows closing out Shea Stadium in its final year. This whole chapter about how they had to add a second show, controversies in ticket prices, how Joel rounded up all of these celebrity guests like Tony Bennett to sing "New York State of Mind" -- all leading up to trying to get Paul McCartney to show up as the cherry on top.
Negotiations went on for weeks, Paul jetting across the Atlantic, still in the air when the show started. Joel gets a note midway through proclaiming that his secret guest was "in New York airspace." Plane lands, McCartney and crew get rushed out by the airport by NYPD, bypassing Customs supposedly, with a motorcade all the way out to Queens.
McCartney comes on with Billy, crowd goes wild, they do some songs, and backstage before the final encore in Joel's hometown, McCartney says, "You know what you we have to close it out with, right?" Joel, deferring to his hero, says "What did you have in mind?" ... and Paul says, "We have to close it out with... LET IT BE."
You can just about hear the air leave the sails, deflating the whole chapter with those words. You get this idea that wherever Macca goes, he's doing something like telling Neil Young at the Bridge Benefit 'YOU KNOW WHAT WE HAVE TO CLOSE IT OUT WITH, RIGHT?"
― pplains, Sunday, 7 June 2015 19:36 (eight years ago) link
whereas Joel wanted him to close with "Daytime Nighttime Suffering."
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 June 2015 19:50 (eight years ago) link
'michelle' seems to have lost a bit of the cultural cachet it had when i was young
This had crossed my mind too--it's not quite as uber as when I first started obsessing over the Beatles (early/mid-'70s). Didn't know this till I looked it up: it won the Grammy for Song of the Year in '67. The competition--"Born Free", "The Impossible Dream", "Somewhere My Love," and "Strangers in the Night"--is perfect. I'm sure "Michelle" seemed like it was from a different universe at the time; today, the continuum there is much greyer.
― clemenza, Sunday, 7 June 2015 19:52 (eight years ago) link
(I would have voted for either "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" or the Mothers' "Trouble Every Day," but apparently neither was nominated.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 7 June 2015 19:55 (eight years ago) link
today, the continuum there is much greyer.
I dunno, so are the voters still.
― pplains, Sunday, 7 June 2015 20:02 (eight years ago) link
I would have voted for "I'm indifferent to all five" if that had been included in the choices. As is I voted for Yesterday.
― that's not my post, Monday, 8 June 2015 05:03 (eight years ago) link
Has to be TLAWR, just to annoy Beatles fans.
― Willibald Pirckheimers Briefwechsel (Tom D.), Monday, 8 June 2015 09:14 (eight years ago) link
what about "while my guitar gently weeps"?
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 8 June 2015 15:33 (eight years ago) link
"Yesterday" is great
― example (crüt), Monday, 8 June 2015 15:39 (eight years ago) link
(xpost) It seems like something very different to me. I wouldn't even call it a ballad, even though it's slow--seems more like trancey drug music.
― clemenza, Monday, 8 June 2015 16:17 (eight years ago) link
Am I supposed to vote for the song which most deserves to fuck off or which song can be spared whilst its brothers suffer a miserable, bloody death? I still like Michelle. Hey Jude on the other hand makes me want to walk around and slap strangers.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 8 June 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
"michelle" is definitely the one i enjoy most now, it seems a lot more jokey and droll than soppy. definitely feels more spontaneous and innocent than the other songs, you can just imagine 23-year-old paul beaming with pride at how sharp and sophisticated he sounds putting these french lines into his song.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 8 June 2015 18:19 (eight years ago) link
Vote for the one you like best, FFM, if there is one.
― clemenza, Monday, 8 June 2015 19:56 (eight years ago) link
J.D. OTM, "Michelle"'s lightheartedness wins it for me. Second place probably "Yesterday," and then a three-way tie of indifference.
― Little Latin Lupe Feebfiasco (Dan Peterson), Monday, 8 June 2015 20:08 (eight years ago) link
all great songs hope all ilmers die
― thoughts you made second posts about (darraghmac), Monday, 8 June 2015 20:18 (eight years ago) link
Paul's poking fun at himself and his limited French, right?
― jmm, Monday, 8 June 2015 20:20 (eight years ago) link
lord please take me first for posting in the ira kaplan vs neil haggerty thread
― brimstead, Monday, 8 June 2015 20:20 (eight years ago) link
I'm voting "Let It Be" right now partly because of the version with the better solo (the snarly one that rises out of the organ break). Also because the I-vi-IV-V progression can be so agreeably mashed up with "No Woman No Cry," "Tomorrow Wendy," "You're Beautiful," "Torn," and so very many other songs.
― Ye Mad Puffin, Monday, 8 June 2015 20:42 (eight years ago) link
well too late, i voted for the most unbearable (HJ)
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 June 2015 21:23 (eight years ago) link
NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!(Judy Juude, a-juuuude, a-juuudey judey jude!)NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!(Jude Juuuude, a-juuuude, a-juuudey wooo-yeah!)NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!(Judy! Judy! a-juuuude looks like a juuude-ay!)NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!(a-Jude jude, wooo, a-yeah whoo-oa-yeah jude!)NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!(I said a-Judy Juude, a-juuuude, a-juuudey judey jude!)NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!(Whoa now Jude Juuuude, a-juuuude, a-juuudey wooo-yeah!)NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!(Judy! Judy! a-juuuude looks like a juuude-ay!)NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!(I said whoa a-Jude jude, wooo, a-yeah whoo-oa-yeah jude!)(repeat hundreds of times until audience is dead)
― Karl Malone, Monday, 8 June 2015 21:30 (eight years ago) link
a-juuuude looks like a juuude-ay!
irl lol
― Οὖτις, Monday, 8 June 2015 21:36 (eight years ago) link
oh, someone transcribed paul's adlibbing during the outro:
“Jude Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy… ow, wahow!""Ow ho, my my my""Jude Jude Jude Jude Joooo……""Na na na na na, yeh yeh yeh""Yeah you know you can make it, yeah Jude, you not gotta break it""Don’t make it bad Jude""Take a sad song and make it better""Oh Jude, Jude, hey Jude, woooooow""Oh, Jooooooode""Yeah""hey, hey, hey-yay""Hey, hey, hey""Now Jude Jude Jude Jude Jude Jude, yeah yeah yeah yeah""Woh yeah yeah""ah nanananananana cause I wanna""Nanananana…. nanalalal ow ow ow""oh God""The pain won’t come back Jude""Yeah, eh hehe heh""Make it through""Yeyeye Yeah… yeah y-yeah… yeah hahahaha…""Godeveningladiesandgentlemen mymymymy mahhhhh""ooooo""woooooh""Well then a na-nanan”
― Karl Malone, Monday, 8 June 2015 21:41 (eight years ago) link
I'm voting for the version of "Yesterday" that my college a capella group did that had an interpolation of Schuetz-style choral arrangements on the reprise of the first verse.
― DJP, Monday, 8 June 2015 21:43 (eight years ago) link
can we poll those options
xpost
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 June 2015 21:45 (eight years ago) link
Yeah
― Οὖτις, Monday, 8 June 2015 21:46 (eight years ago) link
imagining this as a Beavis and Butthead exchange:
"The pain won’t come back Jude""Yeah, eh hehe heh"
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 June 2015 21:49 (eight years ago) link
I like this story:
http://www.stereogum.com/4447/love_is_hey_jude_on_repeat/news/
predictably/gratifyingly someone has uploaded a 10 hour edit of the Hey Jude outro to youtube
― THREE WOMEN IN THE LIFE OF TUFFY CRAG (soref), Monday, 8 June 2015 21:54 (eight years ago) link
though listening to it, it seems like they have just looped the first couple of minutes of na na na nas and don't even get to the 'ju-deh ju-deh ju-dehwow oh-wow!' part? maybe they kick in around the six hour mark or something
― THREE WOMEN IN THE LIFE OF TUFFY CRAG (soref), Monday, 8 June 2015 21:58 (eight years ago) link
why the need to make a sad song better in the first place? what if it was a good sad song? what if jude, by mucking with it, makes it worse?
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 8 June 2015 22:05 (eight years ago) link
julian doesn't have to worry about having good songs
― Karl Malone, Monday, 8 June 2015 22:08 (eight years ago) link
Saw a possible vanity license plate today on a car that had a help! window sticker and some kind of beatles license plate holder. It doesn't make any sense, but doesn't fit any of my state's standard alphanumeric configurations either. Any chance it's beatles-related?
027M527
― how's life, Monday, 8 June 2015 23:27 (eight years ago) link
OATMEAL?
― jmm, Monday, 8 June 2015 23:28 (eight years ago) link
oh fuck, maybe that's it.
― how's life, Monday, 8 June 2015 23:30 (eight years ago) link
nvm, that's probably not it. They'd have used a 3 for the E.
― jmm, Monday, 8 June 2015 23:31 (eight years ago) link
"Julia"
― billstevejim, Monday, 8 June 2015 23:33 (eight years ago) link
Tempted to vote for Hey Jude just for
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNDs571E9k4
― JoeStork, Monday, 8 June 2015 23:38 (eight years ago) link
argh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNDs571E9k4
― JoeStork, Monday, 8 June 2015 23:39 (eight years ago) link
One thing "Hey Jude" has going for it is the audible "Aw fuckin' 'ell" at 2:59.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 14:47 (eight years ago) link
I'm voting for "Something".
― mike t-diva,
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 14:54 (eight years ago) link
As it stands, Yesterday. I quite dislike Jude, LAWR and LIB, Michelle is pretty but minor compared to Yesterday I think.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 14:55 (eight years ago) link
Although JoeStork makes a very fine point.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 14:56 (eight years ago) link
"Michelle" does have a cool early 60s Euro vibe to it. I imagine there were lots of suave French-language covers.
anyone know of any good ones?
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 17:56 (eight years ago) link
"Hey Jude""Let It Be""Yesterday""The Long and Winding Road""Michelle"
― timellison, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 20:16 (eight years ago) link
"The Long and Winding Road" would have worked better in a more diversified, eclectic album context, the same way that "Good Night" works on the White Album.
― timellison, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 20:18 (eight years ago) link
Tim's order is very close to my own--switch the bottom two. I still like "Hey Jude" fine; don't know why. "Let It Be," I don't mind. Like someone said earlier, I wish I could hear "Yesterday" for the first time again--I think there's genius in it, but I wore it out at a young age. (There's a George Martin interview clip somewhere where he talks about "Yesterday" and how it was done in the studio...it's fantastic--you can tell it's just about the proudest moment of his life.) I recognize "Michelle" for the good song it is, very unusual, but even going back to when I was a teenager, I was always indifferent to it. "The Long and Winding Road" is the only one of the five I flat-out dislike. Maybe a different arrangement would work for me--I find the orchestral original hopelessly saccharine.
Back in 1971, the big hit-radio station here did a Top 300 countdown. I was 10, and it was a very big deal. Three of these songs--"Let It Be" (#1, I'm pretty sure), "The Long and Winding Road," and "Hey Jude" were in the Top 10.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 20:57 (eight years ago) link
<<I'm a drummer myself, and wouldn't naturally expect praise or credit or extra payment for standard patterns that are off-the-shelf, so to speak.>>
not sure why you deserve any less (or more) credit than the guitarist who comes up with off-the-shelf I-IV-V chord changes.
<I think that financial aspects put aside, the jagger/richards, lennon/mccartney just thought it was cooler if all the tracks had this signature even when someone else had an input or when the song was solely by one of them.>>
i'm sure jagger, richards, lennon and mccartney all thought it was cool indeed. taylor, wyman, harrison, etc., might not feel the same way, obviously. songwriting credits in pop music are ENTIRELY a financial decision.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 19 June 2015 15:51 (eight years ago) link
fcc otm
― Bredda Dadaismus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 June 2015 17:00 (eight years ago) link
As I say,the credit on the song does not necessarily relate to who gets paid what.
― Mark G, Friday, 19 June 2015 20:37 (eight years ago) link
Jagger-Richards not crediting Taylor for "Sway" or "Moonlight Mile" is rank bullshit.― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, June 19, 2015 2:58 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, June 19, 2015 2:58 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
and 'Time Waits For No One', too.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Friday, 19 June 2015 22:18 (eight years ago) link
I learned a piano chord I didn't know before from TLAWR, so it gets pass marks from me.― The Manner of Crawly (Tom D.), Wednesday, June 17, 2015 7:50 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Give 'Em Enough Rope Mother (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 June 2015 19:16 (eight years ago) link