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Ebrey
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 Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:23 am |
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| Mr. Mechanical wrote: |
All the good Beatles are dead. :(
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George's one or two songs per album were always great, but that doesn't change the fact that at least 2/3 of the great Beatles songs were by Paul. |
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Ebrey
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 10:37 am |
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John Lennon isn't cool and interesting, he was your typical asshole artist. Paul was (by rockstar standards) a pretty normal, nice guy. I find Paul far more inspiring because it's so rare for a relatively normal person to produce great art.
And yeah, George got shafted the most by John & Paul. But how can you really blame them? The formula of 45% Paul songs, 45% John songs, and 10% George was so popular, I can see why they wouldn't want to mix it up. They were all way more talented than most band's sole songwriters, so of course they wanted to write more songs. And yet their solo stuff sucks. Go figure. |
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Ebrey
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 6:48 pm |
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| Eric-Jon Rössel Waugh wrote: |
| John is iconoclastic; Paul is maudlin. For better or for worse, one of them questioned and rewrote conventions; the other is an expert at working within them. |
But for rock stars, "iconoclastic" is boring and predictable. A musician has to be off the charts crazy (ie Keith Richards) or normal to be unusual: John Lennon sits squarely in the middle.
Also I think Paul did most of their good songs. Even your typical hippie John Lennon fan seems to play "Let it Be" more than anything else they did. The Paul-dominated second half of Abbey Road is the best thing the Beatles ever did (and more experimental than John's half - the traditional/experimenter difference between the two is often exaggerated). |
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Ebrey
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| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 5:35 am |
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| The only problem with All Things Must Pass is the Phil Spector overproduction. The best part is the jam at the end with Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, and Billy Preston. |
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Ebrey
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 5:12 am |
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| Eric-Jon Rössel Waugh wrote: |
Their "late period" -- White Album and Abbey Road -- is what's usually considered their artistic peak. Also, Let It Be... Naked fits in here pretty well. Speaking of Phil Spector barf, you might want to avoid the original Let It Be except for scientific curiosity.
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I dunno about the late period being the best. Those two are pretty darn great, but they show just how disconnected the Beatles had become. The best songs on Sgt. Pepper's, on the other hand, are the John/Paul collaborations Getting Better and A Day in the Life. And every Beatle contributed to Eleanor Rigby from Revolver, which is the greatest song from their most balanced album. |
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