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Flex wrote:
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What, is he dying? I just heard a buncha other shit he said.
An insanely good interview with him was just published: http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/quincy-j ... ation.html
This is one of the best interviews I've ever read from a musician. Brutally honest and very, very funny. Thank you for sharing!
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tepista wrote:
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What, is he dying? I just heard a buncha other shit he said.

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Inder wrote:
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What, is he dying? I just heard a buncha other shit he said.
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FYI, SiriusXM's Beatles channel is doing the Top 50 Beatles love songs for Valentine's Day. Kinda fun.
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FYI, SiriusXM's Beatles channel is doing the Top 50 Beatles love songs for Valentine's Day. Kinda fun.
Where does "Run For Your Life" slot? :twitch:
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Where does "Run For Your Life" slot? :twitch:
Well we're only in the 20s so I'm assuming it's in the top 10 somewhere. :shifty:

Addendum: Til There Was You is like #22. What a lovely song, one of my faves.
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I'm guessing "Something" will be #1—I've never quite understood its classic status, but that's not the first time—but off-hand I'd go with "And I Love Her."
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I'm guessing "Something" will be #1—I've never quite understood its classic status, but that's not the first time—but off-hand I'd go with "And I Love Her."
Something used to annoy me because I thought it was so colossally overrated. I still think that, but I try not to let that sort of thing bug me so much now.

I'd maybe pick Don't Let Me Down. Alternatively: Here Comes the Sun.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 Feb 2018, 1:11pm
Flex wrote:
14 Feb 2018, 1:08pm
FYI, SiriusXM's Beatles channel is doing the Top 50 Beatles love songs for Valentine's Day. Kinda fun.
Where does "Run For Your Life" slot? :twitch:
The Internet discovered Run For Your Life five years ago and won't shut up about it. Every fucking moron online will flock to a Beatles post on Reddit or something and it's all "DID YOU KNOW HE SAID HE'D KILL A WOMAN? V PROBLEMATIC." Nevermind that Lennon lifted the offending line from an Elvis song, anyway.

It's like, Joe Strummer's dad robbed banks, y'know?

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The Internet discovered Run For Your Life five years ago and won't shut up about it. Every fucking moron online will flock to a Beatles post on Reddit or something and it's all "DID YOU KNOW HE SAID HE'D KILL A WOMAN? V PROBLEMATIC."

It's like, Joe Strummer's dad robbed banks, y'know?
I don't really disagree that songs shouldn't necessarily be read as autobiographical or condoning whatever their subject matter is or whatever by default, but I'd also say songs about fucking over bankers have aged better than songs about fucking up women, imho
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Inder wrote:
14 Feb 2018, 2:13pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 Feb 2018, 1:11pm
Flex wrote:
14 Feb 2018, 1:08pm
FYI, SiriusXM's Beatles channel is doing the Top 50 Beatles love songs for Valentine's Day. Kinda fun.
Where does "Run For Your Life" slot? :twitch:
The Internet discovered Run For Your Life five years ago and won't shut up about it. Every fucking moron online will flock to a Beatles post on Reddit or something and it's all "DID YOU KNOW HE SAID HE'D KILL A WOMAN? V PROBLEMATIC." Nevermind that Lennon lifted the offending line from an Elvis song, anyway.

It's like, Joe Strummer's dad robbed banks, y'know?
He also later expressed regret about the song (I think he called it his least favourite Beatles song), but, hey, the text exists, it's ugly, and it's fair game for use in conversation, serious or otherwise. The song is revelatory for its hints of his darker nature and troubled/troubling relationship he had with women in his life. The dude wrestled with demons that poked out in his art. He expressed wonderful ideals and dreams and was plagued by ugly anxieties about women.
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Flex wrote:
14 Feb 2018, 2:17pm
Inder wrote:
14 Feb 2018, 2:13pm
The Internet discovered Run For Your Life five years ago and won't shut up about it. Every fucking moron online will flock to a Beatles post on Reddit or something and it's all "DID YOU KNOW HE SAID HE'D KILL A WOMAN? V PROBLEMATIC."

It's like, Joe Strummer's dad robbed banks, y'know?
I don't really disagree that songs shouldn't necessarily be read as autobiographical or condoning whatever their subject matter is or whatever by default, but I'd also say songs about fucking over bankers have aged better than songs about fucking up women, imho
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14 Feb 2018, 2:32pm
Inder wrote:
14 Feb 2018, 2:13pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 Feb 2018, 1:11pm
Flex wrote:
14 Feb 2018, 1:08pm
FYI, SiriusXM's Beatles channel is doing the Top 50 Beatles love songs for Valentine's Day. Kinda fun.
Where does "Run For Your Life" slot? :twitch:
The Internet discovered Run For Your Life five years ago and won't shut up about it. Every fucking moron online will flock to a Beatles post on Reddit or something and it's all "DID YOU KNOW HE SAID HE'D KILL A WOMAN? V PROBLEMATIC." Nevermind that Lennon lifted the offending line from an Elvis song, anyway.

It's like, Joe Strummer's dad robbed banks, y'know?
He also later expressed regret about the song (I think he called it his least favourite Beatles song), but, hey, the text exists, it's ugly, and it's fair game for use in conversation, serious or otherwise. The song is revelatory for its hints of his darker nature and troubled/troubling relationship he had with women in his life. The dude wrestled with demons that poked out in his art. He expressed wonderful ideals and dreams and was plagued by ugly anxieties about women.
He said he didn't like it because it was a nothing/"work song" that he didn't think on for too long. He used "I'd rather see you dead little girl / than to be with another man" from Elvis's Baby Let's Play House as a motif and built the song around the thing of an unhinged jealous man.
From the same period, same time, I never liked "Run For Your Life," because it was a song I just knocked off. It was inspired from – this is a very vague connection – from "Baby Let's Play House." There was a line on it – I used to like specific lines from songs – "I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man" – so I wrote it around that but I didn't think it was that important.
I'd suggest the idea that the song is "ugly" because of its subject is a matter of individual taste and sensibility. It's a teatime drama, not a manifesto.

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Inder wrote:
14 Feb 2018, 2:45pm
He said he didn't like it because it was a nothing/"work song" that he didn't think on for too long. He used "I'd rather see you dead little girl / than to be with another man" from Elvis's Baby Let's Play House as a motif and built the song around the thing of an unhinged jealous man.
From the same period, same time, I never liked "Run For Your Life," because it was a song I just knocked off. It was inspired from – this is a very vague connection – from "Baby Let's Play House." There was a line on it – I used to like specific lines from songs – "I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man" – so I wrote it around that but I didn't think it was that important.
I'd suggest the idea that the song is "ugly" because of its subject is a matter of individual taste and sensibility. It's a teatime drama, not a manifesto.
Huh. I assumed that his dislike was related to his heavy sessions of analysis that he was engaged in in the early 70s. I guess a person could play armchair psychiatrist about it all, but I find it disappointing that his self-criticism was limited to just being lazy. Oh well.
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You could probably formulate a worthwhile critique of the song while grounding it within its artistic/musical context, but I've yet to encounter anything approaching thoughtful on the Internet.

Anyways, this is the danger of taking art too literally:

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I've always quite liked Run For Your Life. I think my days standing in the Woke trenches are behind me.
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