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Dark Overlord said
What year did you first hear this song, Love Songs came out in 1977 but you were born in the early 1980’s, so it wasn’t when the album first came out yet if you didn’t hear the album until you were 8, that must mean your parents didn’t buy it until the late 1980’s.
Or my parents bought it earlier and I discovered it in their collection when I was 8. Tho coming to think of it we played the cassette when in the car so I’d have heard from very young, well before aged 8.
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2 November 2016
Offline This is actually one of my favourite songs. Both by the Beatles and just in general. I’m not fond the overproduced version and I never listen to it, though I suppose it’s not as bad as some of the others because having an orchestra almost fits this song; I just wish it were done less extravagantly.
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Offline I quite like The Long And Winding Road . It’s never been a favourite, but it did stick out to me a little when I listened to the 1967-1970 compilation for the first time. I give it listen every once and awhile.
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If you didn’t know all the drama and sub-plots surrounding this album and you just heard it for the first time you would think of it as a perfectly excellent album.
I knew all the drama and sub-plots surrounding this album, and I still think of it as a perfectly excellent album.
Not a fan of this song though, so I will show myself out…
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Offline All live concert performances of this suck due to Paul trying to force emotion into the song when in truth he’s probably seething inside at having to perform the track along with the Spector overdubs. His performances of ‘Let It Be ‘ also suck.
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I dig it up until the wailing women’s chorus, I can handle the strings and parts but the women on it blah!
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“All live concert performances of this suck due to Paul trying to force emotion into the song when in truth he’s probably seething inside at having to perform the track”
What is it that makes you think McCartney feels any obligation to play that song?
There are indeed a handful of songs he plays at every concert, songs he presumably feels obligated to play for those hearing him live for the first time.
“LaWR” is not one of those.
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Offline I wasn’t meaning just nowadays, I was referring to whenever he pulls it out – tho it does appear that for the last few years he’s opted to play other material.
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15 March 2017
Offline I used to dislike this song when I was first introduced to it on the Blue Album but I had a new appreciation for it when I heard the Naked version. I rarely listen to the song voluntarily though.
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9 March 2017
Offline One thing I don’t like about this song is that George’s Tele is hard to hear, especially with Phil’s orchestra in the way which oddly enough contains 2 guitars that I can’t even hear over the strings and all of that stuff.
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14 June 2016
Offline Y’know what what would make this song better. Some 80’sification with a bit of saxophone.
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16 June 2017
Offline This song blew me away when I first heard it, but I will admit it got a little boring fast with Spector’s orchestration. The Naked version I love…I think that a mixture of the two would really make it a great arrangement.
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19 January 2017
Offline Never liked the song and I don’t think I ever well. It’s the most middle-of-the-road and overly dramatic/cheesy song in the Beatles catalogue, whether that be the album or Naked version. They are both the same song at the end of the day.
It’d make sense if it were a Wings or solo Paul track, but Beatles no. It’s perhaps the best example of why I favour John over Paul
I personally don’t think ‘You Still Believe In Me’ is comparable to TLAWR at all. It’s far superior though that’s for sure.
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Never liked the song and I don’t think I ever well. It’s the most middle-of-the-road and overly dramatic/cheesy song in the Beatles catalogue, whether that be the album or Naked version. They are both the same song at the end of the day.It’d make sense if it were a Wings or solo Paul track, but Beatles no. It’s perhaps the best example of why I favour John over Paul
I personally don’t think ‘You Still Believe In Me’ is comparable to TLAWR at all. It’s far superior though that’s for sure.
Who compared it to You Still Belive In Me? Not even close! The Long And Winding Road I do like, and will defend, but that comparison is just absurd. Those songs are so different. For one, the instrumentation on YSBIM is creative, bold, and revolutionary, where TL&WR seems mundane and dry.
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Who compared it to You Still Belive In Me? Not even close! The Long And Winding Road I do like, and will defend, but that comparison is just absurd. Those songs are so different. For one, the instrumentation on YSBIM is creative, bold, and revolutionary, where TL&WR seems mundane and dry.
The OP did.
Don’t understand the comparison AT ALL.
Anyway, I love The Long And Winding Road . Yes, I prefer the overproduced Spector version. The instrumental break with all the strings is absolutely beautiful and much better than the organ/guitar solo on the naked version. Also, I may have cried a bit when I saw Paul perform it.
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Offline As I said in my previous incarnation (as “Funny Paper”) in some thread I may never relocate, I like the song but don’t listen to it much; and found quite amusing the rehearsal of it in the Let It Be movie, where Paul is going along with an accelerated version of it (like twice or four times as fast as the original, giving it a preposterously bouncy tempo), but then tires of parodying himself — even though Ringo and George seem to want to keep on poking fun at it…
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As I said in my previous incarnation (as “Funny Paper”) in some thread I may never relocate, I like the song but don’t listen to it much; and found quite amusing the rehearsal of it in the Let It Be movie, where Paul is going along with an accelerated version of it (like twice or four times as fast as the original, giving it a preposterously bouncy tempo), but then tires of parodying himself — even though Ringo and George seem to want to keep on poking fun at it…
That’s the version I was talking about earlier in this thread.
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14 November 2017
Offline Here’s an interview with the guy who helped with the orchestration on this track (he also worked on I Me Mine ). He talks about how Paul wasn’t happy with he and Phil Spector, and also how George Martin was annoyed,and wouldn’t talk to him for a year:
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Offline Always loved this song over the decades, but unfortunately every Beatles Tribute Band ends their concert with this & Let It Be . It gets a little tiring!
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