Emotional responses to Paul's music (not lyrics)
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Do you have any songs that bring out an emotional response in you while completely disregarding the lyrics. I always feel a deep melancholy feeling when listening to little lamb dragonfly even though the lyrics have no meaning for me. The song itself is haunting.
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Tug Of War. In a big way!
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Yes, tug of war gets to me too though I think it's a combo of music and lyrics on that one for me.
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"Let It Be" and "Yesterday" spring to mind first. Such exquisite emotional melodies. Very beautiful
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This one affected me the first time I listened, and still does. Interlude (Lament) - from Ecce Cor Meum
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Little Willow is one of those songs that always makes me stop whatever I'm doing and listen.
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Here's a non-Paul song that always chokes me up, even though most of it is in a language I don't understand, sung by the late, great Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
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"Come Together" did. At first, it sounded so ominous...almost scary. I couldn't get my head around why. I only had a cheap record player then so never fully understood his backing vocal either, until I saw the lyrics printed in a book. To this day it still sounds a bit ominous to me, and I still believe John was getting something off his chest with that tune. A close listen to "Rock 'n' Roll" reveals that he lifted the song from a Chuck Berry tune entitled "You Can't Catch Me." In similar fashion to "Day Tripper," it seems. The Beatles' music was very much classical, not pop, in the sense that it could move you, change you, do something to you. It took me many years to understand the context of the times they were living in. And still I never will fully appreciate it, because I simply wasn't there. As for the rest of their catalog...well, that would take a lifetime to type...
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John lifted the one lyric from the Chuck Berry song ("Here come a flat-top," which he changed to "old" flat-top) just like George took the line "Something in the way she moves" from the James Taylor song. Neither ripped off the rest of the lyrics or the tune for their songs! And what's this about Day Tripper?
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James Taylor is a good choice for this topic.
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prudence1964:
Do you have any songs that bring out an emotional response in you while completely disregarding the lyrics.
2000 songs from different artists or so. That's why I listen to music!. Is that so weird?
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I meant Paul songs, since this is a Paul forum
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"The Long and Winding Road"
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prudence1964:
I meant Paul songs, since this is a Paul forum
ok, 150-200 out of the 2000 songs are songs from Paul or so...
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The "Thrillington" album is absolutely stunning, and thrilling. It's a huge surprise, being instrumental versions of all the songs on "Ram." Totally showcases the brilliance and beauty of all the melodies
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"Day Tripper" was written under intense deadline pressure. Hence, it might have been John's idea to lift the progression from "What'd I Say," as they needed one more song to have "Rubber Soul" in the shops by Christmas. "ERIC CLAPTON...has graciously consented to speak to you in several critical areas,"* @ 3:30 being the relevant one here:
...I guess George must've told him? As for "Come Together," @ 1:00 here: ...Lennon sings "here comes old flat top..." which sort of clued me in. I can hear Paul's bassline over the progression to this tune. Of course, this is all speculation. Part of the fun, you see--nobody told me. Strange days indeed. Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey has a nice sad/happy melodic juxtaposition to it. Even without the lyrics. And of course, "Another Day" is insanely catchy, and "Daytime Nighttime Suffering" is all right that one... [size=7]* with apologies to Frank Zappa.