On 2023-12-18, Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
Favorite song: You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
"In my Life"
Definitely a strong contender on this end.
I'm also wondering whether others here bother with
alt.music.beatles. I wasn't sure whether to crosspost
my first post here there as well.
It's complicated, because the pre- and post-LSD John Lennons
were two very different people -- as far as personality,
songwriting, etc.
The pre-LSD Lennon might have been my favorite Beatle, but it
really is a tough call. Plus, a lot of the best songs were
true Lennon-McCartney collaboations, with the duo "writing eyeball-to-eyeball," as Lennon put it.
Hello, I'm new to this newsgroup, but not new to the Beatles.
Tiny bits of context:
Favorite Beatle: John
Favorite song: You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
Nah, the alt. group gets very little traffic... and of that very little,
most of it is spam!!!
Favorite song: You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
"In my Life"
Hello, I'm new to this newsgroup, but *not* new to the Beatles.
Tiny bits of context:
Favorite Beatle: John
Favorite song: You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
Hope this place still sees some (inter)action!
oldernow wrote:
Hope this place still sees some (inter)action!
Great to see posts are still being made here in spite of the flood
of spam on the Google Groups version of the newsgroup.
Blueshirt wrote:
W.Dockery wrote:
Great to see posts are still being made here in spite of the
flood of spam on the Google Groups version of the newsgroup.
Looks like that isn't going to be the case very soon... ;-)
Try Nova BBS, nearly spam free:
https://www.novabbs.com/arts/thread.php?group=rec.music.beatles
However, as his best friend Pete Shotton phrased it, John
Lennon turned his life into a "continuous acid trip" --
only to end up surrounding himself with predatory nuts.
Can you imagine the John Lennon who once labored alongside
Paul McCartney at the piano in search of *just that right
chord* dribbling a two-chord piece of drivel like "Give Peace
a Chance"?
On 2023-12-20, Norbert K <norbertkosky69@gmail.com> wrote:
However, as his best friend Pete Shotton phrased it, John
Lennon turned his life into a "continuous acid trip" --
only to end up surrounding himself with predatory nuts.
It can happen to the best of us here on Planet Predatory Nuts.
Can you imagine the John Lennon who once labored alongside
Paul McCartney at the piano in search of *just that right
chord* dribbling a two-chord piece of drivel like "Give Peace
a Chance"?
Clearly not his finest work. And yet even in his alongside
McCartney days did he manage to output "Run For Your Life",
which he openly despised. I think one of the things I loved
most about him was his willingness to take artistic chances.
Yeah, but you don't really think that "Run For Your Life" is
on par with "Give Peace a Chance," do you? There's much to like
about the former song. Even if you don't like RFYL, the bulk of
John's work from that time is among his best. By the time of GPAC,
he was a spent (or a drug- and Yoko-addled) force.
On 2024-01-13, Norbert K <norbertkosky69@gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah, but you don't really think that "Run For Your Life" is
on par with "Give Peace a Chance," do you? There's much to like
about the former song. Even if you don't like RFYL, the bulk of
John's work from that time is among his best. By the time of
GPAC, he was a spent (or a drug- and Yoko-addled) force.
I don't think they're equally good. But then I also don't expect
all of a music artist's work to be on equal footing, or improving
over time - especially with respect to my tastes. I don't think it
means anything in particular if/when one song doesn't seem as good
as another, e.g. that the artist lost or is losing their prowess.
With a band like The Beatles - that spanned so many years and
different styles - it would be impractical to expect every song to be
equal. Clearly they all wrote songs that were great and they all
wrote songs that were not so great... plus they all wrote songs that
sat somewhere in between. So nobody should expect every Beatles song
to be equally good.
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