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Post by devogue » Wed Jun 12, 2013 8:27 am

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Pappa wrote:They're ok, but I much prefer Paul McCartney's solo work. :tea:
Yeah, I really do believe you. Nothing can beat Mull of Kintyre, Silly Love Songs and suchlike, right?


Jaw-droppingly awful/brilliant (I like Lambic sour beer as well).

If nothing else, it's brave! :{D

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Re: The beatles were fucking fantastic!

Post by Rum » Wed Jun 12, 2013 8:45 am

He did write a good few stinkers as a solo act didn't he?

I've sometimes felt sorry for McCartney. Despite his millions it must be depressing to know deep down your best work was all done by the time you were 30.

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Rum wrote:Despite his millions it must be depressing to know deep down your best work was all done by the time you were 30.
Why must it?
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Rum wrote:He did write a good few stinkers as a solo act didn't he?

I've sometimes felt sorry for McCartney. Despite his millions it must be depressing to know deep down your best work was all done by the time you were 30.
Well Lennon's stuff after The Beatles is really mostly just as shit but has the extra problems of Yoko and over-egotistical earnestness. It is my contention that both were bitter rivals who needed each other to be more than the sum of their parts. I guess though, Rum, that most people in sports and music and even maths tend to have their best work done by their early 30's.

There are exceptions.
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Re: The beatles were fucking fantastic!

Post by tattuchu » Wed Jun 12, 2013 11:03 am

devogue wrote:
Hermit wrote:
Pappa wrote:They're ok, but I much prefer Paul McCartney's solo work. :tea:
Yeah, I really do believe you. Nothing can beat Mull of Kintyre, Silly Love Songs and suchlike, right?


Jaw-droppingly awful/brilliant (I like Lambic sour beer as well).

If nothing else, it's brave! :{D
The first McCartney album was brilliant, and Ram is probably my favorite record of all time. So imagine my excitement, after Wings petered out, when McCartney II was released. And then I listened to it, stunned. This song in particular. WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT? I thought at the time. And unfortunately I still think that.
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Rum wrote:Despite his millions it must be depressing to know deep down your best work was all done by the time you were 30.
Why must it?
Perhaps it isn't. I see you are picking nits as you so often do.

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Re: The beatles were fucking fantastic!

Post by tattuchu » Wed Jun 12, 2013 11:27 am

I love both Mull of Kintyre and Silly Love Songs. Mull of Kintyre is not very well known here. I got it as the B-side of the single Girl's School. No idea what the Brits or anyone else generally think of it, but at the time I thought it was the most breathtakingly beautiful song I'd ever heard. Still do.

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Post by Rum » Wed Jun 12, 2013 12:07 pm

I agree with you that The Mull of Kintyre is a beautiful song in its own way, however when it was a hit here it was a huge hit and you heard it everywhere. I just got sick of hearing it!

Been to the Mull by the way. It is quite stunning in an austere sort of way.

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Post by orpheus » Thu Jun 13, 2013 1:55 pm

Rum wrote:I agree with you that The Mull of Kintyre is a beautiful song in its own way, however when it was a hit here it was a huge hit and you heard it everywhere. I just got sick of hearing it!

Been to the Mull by the way. It is quite stunning in an austere sort of way.
Close as I got was the Isle of Aran. I climbed Goat Fell, too. Stunning. Is the Mull similar
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Post by JacksSmirkingRevenge » Thu Jun 13, 2013 1:59 pm

Never could stand the Beatles. I guess I'm a Stones man deep down.
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Post by orpheus » Thu Jun 13, 2013 2:00 pm

Audley Strange wrote:
Rum wrote:He did write a good few stinkers as a solo act didn't he?

I've sometimes felt sorry for McCartney. Despite his millions it must be depressing to know deep down your best work was all done by the time you were 30.
Well Lennon's stuff after The Beatles is really mostly just as shit but has the extra problems of Yoko and over-egotistical earnestness. It is my contention that both were bitter rivals who needed each other to be more than the sum of their parts. I guess though, Rum, that most people in sports and music and even maths tend to have their best work done by their early 30's.

There are exceptions.

Conductors are definitely among the exceptions. For the first few decades you really feel like you don't know what the hell you're doing - because you really don't. I was so frustrated at one point, and thought of giving up, but a very great and well-known conductor said to me, "look - all great conductors are over sixty. You're no exception."

Composers, too, often age well.
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Post by Audley Strange » Mon Jun 17, 2013 12:01 am

You know perhaps we are being hard on Justin Bieber. I've just found this in which he he creates some kind of majestic prog rock epic which sounds like a cross between Godspeed You Black Emperor and Sigur Ros and I am not shitting you.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... idHnEekXpE[/youtube]
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Re: The beatles were fucking fantastic!

Post by Audley Strange » Mon Jun 17, 2013 9:37 am

orpheus wrote:
Audley Strange wrote:
Rum wrote:He did write a good few stinkers as a solo act didn't he?

I've sometimes felt sorry for McCartney. Despite his millions it must be depressing to know deep down your best work was all done by the time you were 30.
Well Lennon's stuff after The Beatles is really mostly just as shit but has the extra problems of Yoko and over-egotistical earnestness. It is my contention that both were bitter rivals who needed each other to be more than the sum of their parts. I guess though, Rum, that most people in sports and music and even maths tend to have their best work done by their early 30's.

There are exceptions.

Conductors are definitely among the exceptions. For the first few decades you really feel like you don't know what the hell you're doing - because you really don't. I was so frustrated at one point, and thought of giving up, but a very great and well-known conductor said to me, "look - all great conductors are over sixty. You're no exception."

Composers, too, often age well.
Yes, I'll give you Conductors composers and cabalists.
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Post by rachelbean » Mon Jun 17, 2013 10:28 am

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