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Post by Chicken in Black on Feb 26, 2020 19:53:53 GMT
Sir Macca scribbled down “lions” and “lambs” on a napkin, then an assistant picked a dozen tracks more or less in line with that concept, which completes Paul’s obligations with Spotify for March.
Next question?
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Post by System Tweak on Feb 26, 2020 19:57:53 GMT
Didn't McCartney actually release a version of "Mary Had a Little Lamb," or did I just imagine that as exactly the kind of thing he would do?
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Feb 26, 2020 20:27:36 GMT
Didn't McCartney actually release a version of "Mary Had a Little Lamb," or did I just imagine that as exactly the kind of thing he would do? Yeah, and he’s the same dipshit who released this:
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Post by System Tweak on Feb 27, 2020 1:45:42 GMT
I see where Arnold Grove got his great sense of humor!
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Post by audiopro on Feb 28, 2020 17:57:37 GMT
If we're tearing apart the work of The Greatest Men Who Ever Lived, I'd like to nominate that fucking awful, music hall cymbal crash after every line of the chorus of Instant Karma. It's not a bad song until the point the drummer suddenly thinks every line needs punctuating like a Les Dawson monologue.
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Feb 28, 2020 19:20:52 GMT
Didn't McCartney actually release a version of "Mary Had a Little Lamb," or did I just imagine that as exactly the kind of thing he would do?
I'd still rather listen to that than "Power to the People." At least the Wings tune doesn't have that shitty proto-Saturday Night Live sax-o-mo-phone on it.
Have you forgotten about the fey “laaa la...laaa la” chorus of “Mary Had a Little Lamb”? It’s embarrassing. I do agree that “Power to the People” sucks. As a kid I had a copy of Shaved Fish and if there ever was a song designed to get my lazy ass of the sofa to move the needle ahead, it’s that one.
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Feb 28, 2020 20:10:04 GMT
If you thought Power To The People couldn’t get any worse, brace yourselves...
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Post by bradman on Feb 28, 2020 20:38:03 GMT
Those of us with Shaved Fish on cassette had even worse problems.
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Feb 28, 2020 22:41:17 GMT
Have you forgotten about the fey “laaa la...laaa la” chorus of “Mary Had a Little Lamb”? It’s embarrassing. I do agree that “Power to the People” sucks. As a kid I had a copy of Shaved Fish and if there ever was a song designed to get my lazy ass of the sofa to move the needle ahead, it’s that one.
Of course it is embarrassing crap, but at least it is pointed crap. It is difficult to hear that fey chorus as anything but sarcastic. Mind you, that doesn't make it any more listenable. The problem is the typical McCartney one: he thinks he can make a snide statement but at the same time is fervently convinced that, because he is Paul McCartney, his genius transcends the mere gesture, so anything he touches is an unassailable masterpiece no matter what. Well, it isn't, Paul. It sucks, but it still doesn't suck as much as "Power to the People" does.
If there is anything John Lennon proved is that he was absolutely clueless as an arranger and completely incompetent as a producer. I've always been struck by the obvious difference between Lennon's 70s albums and Yoko's. Her arrangements and production are glaringly superior to his. It's not even close.
For Johnny O'Lennon, producing meant adding more echo.
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Post by daved on Feb 29, 2020 0:14:59 GMT
Approximately Infinite Universe is better than any solo Lennon save POB. He should have let Yoko produce his solo albums.
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