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5.01am
10 August 2011
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You’re a DJ, and you’ve been asked to put together a 4 song set illustrating the various styles that McCartney’s written in.
To also show how he’s been able to do this over a five+ decade span, each song should be from a different decade.
Ideally, you’ll indicate what genre or some particular McCartney talent that the song reflects
Something like,
I Saw Her Standing There (Straight Rock n’Roll) ’60s
Live And Let Die (piano rock / the McCartney “voice” [“You got to give the other fellow HELLLLL!”] 70s
Put It There (guitar ballad) 80s
English Tea (corny / from another era) ’00s
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12.24pm
26 March 2012
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Excellent idea for a thread. I find myself doing this very thing all the time when trying to convince friends how excellent some of his post-Beatles work is! Often I find the best reactions come if I juxtapose his more recognizable pop stuff with his most unexpected and experimental tunes, so I’d nominate:
Penny Lane (highly melodic, immaculately produced baroque-pop, 60s)
Junk (wistful, nostalgic acoustic ballad, 70s)
Check My Machine (trippy, funky, hypnotic electronic dub experiment, 80s)
Nothing Too Much, Just Out Of Sight (heavy, off-the-chain, Beefheartian blues rock, 00s)
EDIT: I keep coming back to this and longing to change it up a bit: alternatively could substitute Blackbird for 60s, Monkberry Moon Delight for 70s and How Kind of You for 00s. The man’s just done too much to sum up in four songs!
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1.58pm
8 November 2012
Offline ^^ I like your choices for the first 3, I’ll have to check out the last one. I might put in House of Wax. Or Mr. Bellamy (although the beginning of that one always makes me think of “Chocolate Rain ,” and I can’t stop giggling).
parlance
8.29pm
26 March 2012
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^^ I like your choices for the first 3, I’ll have to check out the last one.
Do. It’s one of the best things about Electric Arguments, the heaviest McCartney since Helter Skelter and really brooding and intense.
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12.27am
8 November 2012
Offline Just went to find it at YouTube and realized I’d heard it before. I like it, but if I had to choose, I’d go with Cut Me Some Slack.
parlance
2.57am
10 August 2011
Offline I’m thinking this is hard.
How about broadening it to 4 songs with the same theme.
LONELINESS
Eleanor Rigby 1966
Man We Was Lonely 1970
Footprints 1986
Lonely Road 2001
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11.00am
27 December 2012
Offline Interesting to see that Paul has a certain “affection” towards loneliness whilst John has this recurring “Jealousy” theme.
No Hofner Bass’s were harmed in the last video =o
6.35pm
10 August 2011
Offline Horses and Hoffner bass guitars are totally protected in the U.S.
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7.27pm
10 August 2011
Offline Gerell said, “Interesting to see that Paul has a certain “affection” towards loneliness whilst John has this recurring “Jealousy” theme.”
I can see it as a topic for a paper: “Discuss the themes of loneliness and jealousy in the songs of Lennon and McCartney.”
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11.42pm
26 March 2012
Offline Into the Sky with Diamonds said
Gerell said, “Interesting to see that Paul has a certain “affection” towards loneliness whilst John has this recurring “Jealousy” theme.”I can see it as a topic for a paper: “Discuss the themes of loneliness and jealousy in the songs of Lennon and McCartney.”
I’m writing a 4000-worder on Keats as we speak; wish I could have done this question!
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7.14pm
10 August 2011
Offline McCartney doesn’t need any help in writing a great song. That hasn’t stopped him from doing great collaborative stuff:
Here’s a 4-song set of McCARTNEY COLLABORATIONS:
McCartney and LENNON “We Can Work It Out ” 1960s
McCartney and D LAINE “Deliver Your Children” 1970s
McCartney and Michael JACKSON “Say Say Say” 1980s
McCartney and Elvis COSTELLO “The Lovers That Never Were” 1990s
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4.28pm
10 August 2011
Offline WOMEN DOWN ON THEIR LUCK
She’s Leaving Home (1967)
ANOTHER DAY (1971)
DAYTIME NIGHTTIME SUFFERING (1979)
JENNY WREN (2005)
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7.04pm
26 March 2012
Offline Particularly like the above list. Lady Madonna could also be a contender in that category.
EDIT: also, I’d never seen that video of him playing Another Day live, and he nails the complex bass progression in the chorus while singing. I’d have to work at it for days before I could do that.
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3.11pm
10 August 2011
Offline Ben Ramon said, “I’d never seen that video of him playing Another Day live, and he nails the complex bass progression in the chorus while singing.”
I agree. I had no idea even that he’d ever done the song live! I landed on it while simply looking for the song on Youtube.
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1.42pm
Reviewers
14 April 2010
Offline The Thinking Man’s Macca…
- Like Dreamers Do
- We Can Work It Out
- Country Dreamer
- Mull Of Kintyre
To the fountain of perpetual mirth, let it roll for all its worth. And all the children boogie.
8.50pm
6 December 2012
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Clever. 
Also known as Egg-Rock, Egg-Roll, E-George, Eggy, Ravioli, Eggroll Eggrolli...
~witty quote~
6.26pm
10 August 2011
Offline The Thinking Man’s Macca… Yes, clever indeed.
Some of Macca’s songs have great fade-outs (“outros”). Sometimes the entire song appears to be but an excuse for the fade-out.
Here are four, from four different decades:
Hey Jude 1968
Back seat of my car 1971
(“We believe that we can’t be wrong” – there are hints of this fade-out during the song; unusual construct)
Good Times Coming /Feel the Sun 1986
(“Feel the sun shine in, shining in on you”)
Beautiful night 1997
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11.10am
26 March 2012
Offline McCartney the Traveller
Back In The USSR (1968)
Cafe on the Left Bank (1978)
Frozen Jap (1980)
Only Mama Knows (2007)
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11.49pm
10 August 2011
Offline McCartney the traveller… great.
Had to look up the lyrics to “Only Mama Knows”
Sure enough, “Well, I was found in the transit lounge of a dirty airport town …”
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