Everybody gonna feel alright
Everybody gonna dance around tonight
Everybody gonna dance around
Everybody gonna hit the ground
Everybody gonna dance around tonight
Posted on 06/10/2007 1:38:11 PM PDT by FractalMan
Earlier this week while channel surfing, I came across the end of an interview with Paul McCartney who turns 65 this year. He is promoting his new CD "Memory Almost Full". The last statement from the host was, "Is this going to be a revolution in music?" I'm thinking Rubber Soul, Sgt. Peppers and the White Album. Maybe Paul put it all together again?
Yesterday I was in a book store and saw a stand filled with the new CD, right next the coffee table photo books discounted 80%. That should have been my first clue. In fact, Paul's CD has only been out a week and it is already discounted 25%.
The trouble with being a rock-and-roll legend is that the people around you don't have the gonads to say, "Paul, these songs really suck, what are you thinking?" With teenybopper lyrics, trite rhyming, grating ukulele riffs, and a tempo that is so slow that when I hear a beat, I have trouble remembering when the last one occurred; Paul has managed to put together the worst album ever by a rock-and-roll legend.
Check out these riveting lyrics from “Dance Tonight”.
Everybody gonna dance tonight
Everybody gonna feel alright
Everybody gonna dance around tonight
Everybody gonna dance around
Everybody gonna hit the ground
Everybody gonna dance around tonight
The worst part of the song, like most of the album, was the total lack of energy. The only kind of dancing I could image was a Mime climbing out his window to escape the drudgery. Paul, whatever happened to the talent and brilliance that gave us “Hey Jude” and “Yesterday”? My advice to him? Get off the Prozac and go find some LSD.
Paul McCartney? Wasn’t he in a band once?
Yeah, Wings.
Never EVER put the words "Yoko Ono", "juices", and "flowing" together in the same sentence again. Ever.
Sgt. Peppers was the album that Paul wanted to do so he wouldn’t have to write “Beatle songs” anymore.
In the end, we liked Beatle songs better than what came afterwards (solo or as a group).
Many now hold up Revolver (and in some cases Rubber Soul) as stronger albums.
The Best on is still around...
Green Day are the Frankie Avalon or Poison of today. Hardly worth mentioning, except for album sales.
The industry has shunned the talented rock acts for decades. Ever since Woodstock showed the industry just how much money could really be made.
Look at the Grammy winners/nominees and then look at music history. What the industry champions and what historians recognize are two different things. Wasn’t always so.
Ed Sullivan, Merv Griffen, and the Tonight Show actually gave exposure to different types of bands. The industry is more in control of the media than ever before.
Ouch!
I am not a big supporter of the Beatles, I ripped Sgt. Pepper's in another thread and on this one I stated early on that Paul Mccartney has not been doing much musically for years. But that does seem a tad harsh, even to me.
It does take some talent to write that many silly songs that appeal to the 11-14 year old crowd.
The man has way to much time on his hands.
It does suck. Paul could do much, much better than that.
It was a mandolin, not a ukelele. Big difference.
Did you listen to the whole album or just read the lyrics somewhere? Looks like you just started a thread to bash PM.
LMAO!
Ouch!
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