Bye Bye, Love | Fab Forum | The Beatles Bible

I know I’ve heard the ‘Dark Horse ‘ album as I played it on cassette decades ago but it wasn’t any good and so I never went back to it (the only half decent track on the album being ‘Dark Horse ‘ and that was on a CD compilation elsewhere so why bother). I therefore had no recollection of ever hearing ‘Bye Bye Love’ and, having read of how bad and pointless the cover was, never had any desire to hear it until it appeared thru random shuffle on my phone and why the heck not.

It wasn’t as bad as has been made out. There is definitely a decent song somewhere, has some interest – mainly due to the change of lyrics by George, and you can hear George’s pain and almost want to somehow get thru the entire process by singing this song whilst hiding away in his unhappiness for a good period of time (he kind of sounds like he’s completely drunk when recording it and maybe he was). However, as time rolls by the song begins to exhaust, not helped by just how sloppily recorded everything sounds. I’m not sure if the instruments are meant to be deliberately kind of hanging very loosely together throughout yet not really attached to each other (George himself was not in a good place at this time) whilst the lyrics seem to come in whenever George is sober enough to remember he’s meant to be singing, and even then it doesn’t appear he can remember what they actually are meant to be. Which might be why they are different to what was originally composed.

Cut it to three minutes and it would have been a lot easier to get thru – as that’s roughly where I got to before moving on. You can only take so much before you need anything else just to lift a mood.