Posted on 10/04/2023 2:54:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway
(Every musician Paul McCartney parodies in the ‘Coming Up’ video)
I guess people may have had enough of silly 😜 love 🏩🥰❣️💘 songs......
I want my 3:54 back.
I’ll send you the paperwork. Just fill it out in triplicate, submit it, and you will get the time back in 3 to 5 weeks.
Okay, seems fair.
I kept waiting for the video to do something interesting. Alas, it was like a repeating 6-second-long GIF animation that just loops forever with the same thing. It said everything in the first two iterations.
Like the famous GIF of a buxom woman sneezing and her blouse popping open almost enough to see something, it's impossible to look away because the mind wants to think "surely the next time she'll spill out of that blouse". I kept thinking, surely in the next iteration of the "Coming Up" riff there will be something interesting. But no.
George Harrison was famously quoted as saying that "Paul kept coming to the rest of us (Beatles) with these fruity songs he wanted us to do."
George was too kind.
I patiently await my refund.
There were a few good ones, yes.
I have been a lifelong huge fan of Beatles music, I play guitar in a band that covers many Beatles songs, my life was forever changed on Feb 9, 1964, etc. And of course many of those songs were McCartney compositions. So I grant Paul that he was a hell of a great songwriter back in the day, and his bass playing has been an inspiration to me and countless others.
But after about 1968 his writing just got, in George's words, "fruity", and the stuff after that, while mostly technically competent, is just not interesting. sigh, sic transit.
I would have liked to see what John Lennon did in later life, after 1980. Minus the politics, of course. Musically he was really the better writer by far.
(Musically he was really the better writer by far.)
But his last choice of women.....
Instant Karma was amazing
Then it was “Days Like These” 😲🥺😮
Not a fan of pop music, eh?
Depends on the era. I grew up listening to 60's pop and loved it, and still do. I still buy CD re-releases of the LPs I can no longer play. Beatles, Byrds, Yardbirds, Kinks, Stones, all of that stuff.
But as a grew older I listened to a lot more styles, and unfortunately the "pop" of those succeeding years became formulaic dreck.
Coming Up is a uniquely annoying song. Wings had a couple of songs that could remade into something worthwhile, but they have also created an amazing portion of the worst pop songs ever. Which is odd because McCartney is SO good.
Not Paul’s best era, but I still love the Ram album.
I've heard it said that Lennon liked Reagan, the two had met a few years earlier by chance during a Monday Night Football game, and Reagan spent a few minutes discussion the rules of football with John.
No kidding. If he'd lived, I think he would have ditched Yoko eventually, put together a really great R&B/Blues band, and we'd have a whole library of great stuff to listen to. He still had a lot yet to do, and it would have been awesome.
And Yoko, instead of cashing in on John's memory, would have faded into the obscurity she so deserves.
But that's not what happened. As to his women, well, the less said the better, he wasn't as principled or smart in that area as he could have been. Then again, that can be said for many of us....
No kidding. If he’d lived, I think he would have ditched Yoko eventually, put together a really great R&B/Blues band
He could have resurrected The Dirty Mac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeFwaWFTGYU
I've read that too. I suppose John's leftist stuff was more the influence of Yoko than internal conviction. I've read that he was very malleable in the hands of a woman, and Yoko was a controlling bitch, so John would have been pure putty for her aspirations.
I rather think John might have made a good (small-l) libertarian.
“I want my 3:54 back.”
Agree.
Abbey Road was the last of McCartney,Lennon and Starkey that interests me. Harrison...another story.
I’m a fan.
Saw Paul and Linda on a ferry between Port Angeles Washington and Victoria B.C. when I was 13.
Learned on a jr.high school band class Hofner bass ( right handed)
Had a 4001 by 9th grade.
Silly Love Song came out durring my first puppy love crush girlfreind and was our song.
Saw the first kingdome concert Wings over America tour.
Never heard a wings song I didn’t like.
Still a fan.
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