yeah like i could never make the case that "beware my love" or "loup" is better than "for no one" or "hey jude" or whatever but finding yourself in the zone for speed of sound or red rose speedway is a pleasant experience and the journey should be savored imo. precisely because it's quirky and odd and not always "finished" or polished (in songcraft, performance, and/or production). sorta like how i feel about the white album tbh. or 70s dylan. there are lots of artist where it's fun to just spend time rummaging in their back catalogs and back pages.
― gimme the beet poison, free my soul (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 26 November 2017 00:48 (six years ago) link
"Cookin' (in the Kitchen of Love)" on Ringo's Rotogravure is from early in the John Lennon retirement period.
― timellison, Sunday, 26 November 2017 02:42 (six years ago) link
en I first dug into solo McCartney in the late 90s, I actually tried to make the case to a fellow musician friend of mine that Paul’s post-Beatles work was as good as his Beatles stuff and in some cases better (this isn’t something you can really try to do with Lennon). I played him songs like “Arrow Through Me,” “Back Seat of My Car,” “However Absurd,” “I’m Carrying,” and “Letting Go.” He looked at me like I had three heads.
To be fair, I also probably would have looked at you like you had three heads if you tried to prove this with 'Arrow Through Me' and particularly 'However Absurd' - bad choices.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Sunday, 26 November 2017 08:59 (six years ago) link
But there are no solo tracks these guys did as deathless as “Yesterday”...
'Live and Let Die'
as deeply weird as “Happiness Is a Warm Gun” or “Helter Skelter,”
'Secret Friend'
or as perfect as “Martha My Dear”
'No More Lonely Nights' ('Martha My Dear' is a really bad example)
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Sunday, 26 November 2017 09:04 (six years ago) link
My rankings.
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 October 2018 05:34 (five years ago) link
excellent post alfred, though i would (predictably perhaps) put #2 as #1
― montoya (Ross), Sunday, 7 October 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
My rankings🕸.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 22:37 (five years ago) link