Songs You Would Like Paul to Cover
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WingsOfMacca:
I will name just two songs. -Hallelujah -Evil Woman from ELO
If "Hallelujah" is the Leonard Cohen song, as it certainly is, I join it. Cohen and McCartney, quite interesting in my head. Cohen has a subdued nerve.
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Anything by Nat King Cole.
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They both did I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter.
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Any song by Jeff Lynne
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"Two Minutes Silence" by John & Yoko.
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Hendrix Ibsen:
WingsOfMacca:
I will name just two songs. -Hallelujah -Evil Woman from ELO
If "Hallelujah" is the Leonard Cohen song, as it certainly is, I join it. Cohen and McCartney, quite interesting in my head. Cohen has a subdued nerve.
Well, I really don't know which version. Im trying to imagine a simpler version, even simpler than Buckley's version. Imagine Paul doing that song in the White Album time, just him and his guitar. That would be lovely. In the present, I guess his version would be more similar to the original.
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WingsOfMacca:
Hendrix Ibsen:
WingsOfMacca:
I will name just two songs. -Hallelujah -Evil Woman from ELO
If "Hallelujah" is the Leonard Cohen song, as it certainly is, I join it. Cohen and McCartney, quite interesting in my head. Cohen has a subdued nerve.
Well, I really don't know which version. Im trying to imagine a simpler version, even simpler than Buckley's version. Imagine Paul doing that song in the White Album time, just him and his guitar. That would be lovely. In the present, I guess his version would be more similar to the original.
It's strange with that song. It's mesmerizing, with its lilting melody and its waltz time flow, but it's a pretty caustic song about deeply troubled romantic relationships, people outmaneuvering each other to get the upper hand. I think it's a great song?I first heard John Cale's live version from 1992, followed by Jeff Buckley's version which follows Cale's basic arrangement?but I think a lot of people have an idea that it's some kind of reverential, religious song of comfort just because it says "hallelujah" in the lyrics. But really, in the song, the word is meant kind of ironically. (Although there is a version out there by a Christian band who completely re-wrote the lyrics to mean what everybody thinks they mean.) But anyway, besides the emotional complexity of the song, I think Paul would skip it because it's become kind of a cliché to cover it. There are at least four definitive versions of it already (Leonard Cohen, John Cale, Jeff Buckley, and Rufus Wainwright). I'm sorry, I just don't see the point in Paul doing it too.
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Ain't No Sunshine ~ Bill Withers RRHF
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Well, he did "Ain't No Sunshine" live on MTV unplugged, with Hamish Stuart on lead vocals I think and McCartney on harmony vocals? It's actually a very nice number when I come to think of it, almost like a duet between McCartney and Stuart. Today, "Unplugged (The officical Bootleg)" is on top of my playlist.
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Hendrix Ibsen:
Well, he did "Ain't No Sunshine" live on MTV unplugged, with Hamish Stuart on lead vocals I think and McCartney on harmony vocals? It's actually a very nice number when I come to think of it, almost like a duet between McCartney and Stuart. Today, "Unplugged (The officical Bootleg)" is on top of my playlist.
I really enjoy that show as well! He did a lot of great covers in the 1991 shows... Oh Solo Mio, The World Is Waiting For a The Sunrise, a couple I'm not familiar with...Song In Space, Singing the Blues, I Like That Stuff, Maybe May Time, Good Rocking Tonight, Hot Pursuit. I need to get this tour on DVD if it's available.
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I dont know if it was already mentioned but 'C'mon Eileen" sounds so much like Sir Paul I would love to hear him do a cover.
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Yes, it might have some sort of McCartney freshness. I think the whole album with "Come on Eileen" is good, "To-Rye-Ay" by The Dexys Midnight Runners. I played it a lot in the 80s. It's still worth a listen! Maybe not the most typical 80s album with horns and fiddle and a more classic type of instrumentation. Hm, long time since I played it ... I have the LP.
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Hendrix Ibsen:
"Two Minutes Silence" by John & Yoko.
That's the only song he plays whenever he tours Asia (not counting Japan).
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none. unless it is the pub and he is buying.
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Hendrix Ibsen:
"Two Minutes Silence" by John & Yoko.
He should cover that between each song...so we don't have to hear him drink it in, talk about Hendrix, George's uke, civil rights...etc, etc, etc.
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What a Little Moonlight Can Do A fun rocking swinging track by Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra from 1935. One my favorites. Y not?
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favoritething:
WingsOfMacca:
Hendrix Ibsen:
WingsOfMacca:
I will name just two songs. -Hallelujah -Evil Woman from ELO
If "Hallelujah" is the Leonard Cohen song, as it certainly is, I join it. Cohen and McCartney, quite interesting in my head. Cohen has a subdued nerve.
Well, I really don't know which version. Im trying to imagine a simpler version, even simpler than Buckley's version. Imagine Paul doing that song in the White Album time, just him and his guitar. That would be lovely. In the present, I guess his version would be more similar to the original.
It's strange with that song. It's mesmerizing, with its lilting melody and its waltz time flow, but it's a pretty caustic song about deeply troubled romantic relationships, people outmaneuvering each other to get the upper hand. I think it's a great song?I first heard John Cale's live version from 1992, followed by Jeff Buckley's version which follows Cale's basic arrangement?but I think a lot of people have an idea that it's some kind of reverential, religious song of comfort just because it says "hallelujah" in the lyrics. But really, in the song, the word is meant kind of ironically. (Although there is a version out there by a Christian band who completely re-wrote the lyrics to mean what everybody thinks they mean.) But anyway, besides the emotional complexity of the song, I think Paul would skip it because it's become kind of a cliché to cover it. There are at least four definitive versions of it already (Leonard Cohen, John Cale, Jeff Buckley, and Rufus Wainwright). I'm sorry, I just don't see the point in Paul doing it too.
Jeff Buckley's version of this song is the ultimate. Cannot be replicated. No point anyone trying to better it, Paul included. Jeff reintroduced this song. A beautiful voice. Beautiful soul. Will never be bettered. Ever!
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Sponge Awareness Foundations slow version of Cannibal House Guest. Paul would just kill with that song on a piano
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moptops:
Songs I would like Paul to cover? Anything from his OWN catalogue from 1978 onwards!!!
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Kathryn O:
Sponge Awareness Foundations slow version of Cannibal House Guest. Paul would just kill with that song on a piano
Is Sponge Awareness Foundation a band or contraceptive endowment?