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Inder wrote:
06 Nov 2017, 1:19pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
06 Nov 2017, 1:18pm
Inder wrote:
06 Nov 2017, 1:05pm
Flex wrote:
06 Nov 2017, 12:55pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
06 Nov 2017, 12:38pm
All she had to do was listen to John's albums after Imagine to know that he probably needed a musical partner not rhyming with Poco Bono.
I think Some Time in New York City is probably Lennon's most underrated album, fwiw.
It's really good.

Even the Yoko track swings — genuine Spector magic.

In a word, blech. All the Beatles' best solo stuff came out in that first burst after Abbey Road. Then the long and winding mediocre road awaits.
Ahem.

Scattered songs here and there, but largely yuck after around '71. I do very much dig this, tho.
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The Wiki article on Ringo's Sentimental Journey has a section titled "Release and aftermath."

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Dr. Medulla wrote:
06 Nov 2017, 1:42pm
Inder wrote:
06 Nov 2017, 1:19pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
06 Nov 2017, 1:18pm
Inder wrote:
06 Nov 2017, 1:05pm
Flex wrote:
06 Nov 2017, 12:55pm


I think Some Time in New York City is probably Lennon's most underrated album, fwiw.
It's really good.

Even the Yoko track swings — genuine Spector magic.

In a word, blech. All the Beatles' best solo stuff came out in that first burst after Abbey Road. Then the long and winding mediocre road awaits.
Ahem.

Scattered songs here and there, but largely yuck after around '71. I do very much dig this, tho.


I have trouble with Woman is the Nigxxer of the World, it's a fantastic song, up there with John's best post Beatles but I can't get with the N word, it totally disgusts me.

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I have trouble with Woman is the Nigxxer of the World, it's a fantastic song, up there with John's best post Beatles but I can't get with the N word, it totally disgusts me.
Easily the most misguided song in the Beatles-affiliated catalog, right?
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Flex wrote:
09 Nov 2017, 4:28pm
coffeepotman wrote:
09 Nov 2017, 4:24pm
I have trouble with Woman is the Nigxxer of the World, it's a fantastic song, up there with John's best post Beatles but I can't get with the N word, it totally disgusts me.
Easily the most misguided song in the Beatles-affiliated catalog, right?
I'm going to vote for McCartney's "Freedom." Not a defence of "WitNotW," just that "Freedom" is fucking insipid.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
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I'm going to vote for McCartney's "Freedom." Not a defence of "WitNotW," just that "Freedom" is fucking insipid.
It's weird, because I see this sentence citing a Macca song, but my brain short-circuits whenever my eyes look at the name. The only way that could happen is if McCartney released something so mind-bendingly stupid that I reject it from my own sense of reality. And what Beatle would do that?
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For my money the actual Beatles song that is he hardest to listen to is "Run For Your Life," since it's a perfectly catchy song about threatening domestic abuse sung by an accused domestic abuser.
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Flex wrote:
09 Nov 2017, 5:16pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
09 Nov 2017, 5:14pm
I'm going to vote for McCartney's "Freedom." Not a defence of "WitNotW," just that "Freedom" is fucking insipid.
It's weird, because I see this sentence citing a Macca song, but my brain short-circuits whenever my eyes look at the name. The only way that could happen is if McCartney released something so mind-bendingly stupid that I reject it from my own sense of reality. And what Beatle would do that?
Worse, what kind of person would get a tramp stamp of the lyrics? Right, Inder?
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Wolter wrote:
09 Nov 2017, 5:19pm
For my money the actual Beatles song that is he hardest to listen to is "Run For Your Life," since it's a perfectly catchy song about threatening domestic abuse sung by an accused domestic abuser.
I can't for the life of me understand how anyone, even at the time, in the Beatles camp thought that that was appropriate for a pop song. Worse, as far as I know, it didn't cause a ripple of criticism. Say that kids find you more appealing than Christ and people go apeshit; record a wifebeater jingle and it's business as usual.
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Wolter wrote:
09 Nov 2017, 5:19pm
For my money the actual Beatles song that is he hardest to listen to is "Run For Your Life," since it's a perfectly catchy song about threatening domestic abuse sung by an accused domestic abuser.
That song is somewhere beyond "misguided". Yeah, that one went into the bin of unlistenable misogyny some years ago for me.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
06 Nov 2017, 1:42pm
Inder wrote:
06 Nov 2017, 1:19pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
06 Nov 2017, 1:18pm
Inder wrote:
06 Nov 2017, 1:05pm
Flex wrote:
06 Nov 2017, 12:55pm


I think Some Time in New York City is probably Lennon's most underrated album, fwiw.
It's really good.

Even the Yoko track swings — genuine Spector magic.

In a word, blech. All the Beatles' best solo stuff came out in that first burst after Abbey Road. Then the long and winding mediocre road awaits.
Ahem.

Scattered songs here and there, but largely yuck after around '71. I do very much dig this, tho.
That's one of my fave Lennon songs. Love the vibe in that one.
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Report: Album As Good As ‘Sgt. Pepper’ Comes Out About Once Every Month: https://entertainment.theonion.com/repo ... 1820302213
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Report: Album As Good As ‘Sgt. Pepper’ Comes Out About Once Every Month: https://entertainment.theonion.com/repo ... 1820302213
Even tho there was no byline, congrats to Hoy on getting published. :shifty:
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Even tho there was no byline, congrats to Hoy on getting published. :shifty:
Actually, we were co-authors:
Dirks went on to say, however, that there still hasn’t been anything made that is nearly as pioneering or essential as 1996’s Turn the Radio Off by ska band Reel Big Fish.
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Kind of a free-for-all final class today, in which the opinion was proffered that the Beatles weren't very good technically and that we love them only because it's heretical to say otherwise. More so, it was said that Ringo wasn't a good drummer. Which made me think of Wolter's great line years ago about how if you hadn't drummed for the Beatles, just shut the fuck up. I thought about throwing that out as a counter, but figured it was over the line and just arched my eyebrow.
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