"Only Mama Knows" the Only Rocker?
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Is "Only Mama Knows" the only all-out raving rocker on "Memory Almost Full"? I thought that upon the first few listenings at least. I recall being struck by copious noteworthy Beatlesque touches on MAF ("New" features that, too.) "Nod Your Head" could have sounded more like a blasted out rave on rocker had it replaced the weird jarring sounds which happened at intervals with real loud hard rock guitar, methinks. Hard rock guitar licks. I wouldn't mind if Paul and band trotted out "Only Mama Knows" again, in concert, and it would be alright w/ me if he did "Nod Your Head" in concert using my suggestions for musical instrument replacements (LOL). With electric guitar. Not bloody likely to occur, I guess. "Just a suggestion"
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I think Nod Your Head is one of only 3 unlistenable tracks that Paul has recorded in his career. It reminds me on Wild Honey Pie, recently listed as the worst Beatles song.
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TommyC909:
I think Nod Your Head is one of only 3 unlistenable tracks that Paul has recorded in his career. It reminds me on Wild Honey Pie, recently listed as the worst Beatles song.
Agreed! I can't stand Nod Your Head! I can just barely tolerate Wild Honey Pie. What is the 3rd song?
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Nancy R:
TommyC909:
I think Nod Your Head is one of only 3 unlistenable tracks that Paul has recorded in his career. It reminds me on Wild Honey Pie, recently listed as the worst Beatles song.
Agreed! I can't stand Nod Your Head! I can just barely tolerate Wild Honey Pie. What is the 3rd song?
Oh Nancy...cheer up!
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moptops:
Nancy R:
TommyC909:
I think Nod Your Head is one of only 3 unlistenable tracks that Paul has recorded in his career. It reminds me on Wild Honey Pie, recently listed as the worst Beatles song.
Agreed! I can't stand Nod Your Head! I can just barely tolerate Wild Honey Pie. What is the 3rd song?
Oh Nancy...cheer up!
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SusyLuvsPaul:
I wouldn't mind if Paul and band trotted out "Only Mama Knows" again, in concert...
It seems that he performes the song at least from time to time in soundcheck. After the song was dropped with the on the run tour it was a real pleasure to hear it again in amsterdam this year.
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mr.flamingpie:
SusyLuvsPaul:
I wouldn't mind if Paul and band trotted out "Only Mama Knows" again, in concert...
It seems that he performes the song at least from time to time in soundcheck. After the song was dropped with the on the run tour it was a real pleasure to hear it again in amsterdam this year.
Played in the concert???
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moptops:
mr.flamingpie:
SusyLuvsPaul:
I wouldn't mind if Paul and band trotted out "Only Mama Knows" again, in concert...
It seems that he performes the song at least from time to time in soundcheck. After the song was dropped with the on the run tour it was a real pleasure to hear it again in amsterdam this year.
Played in the concert???
as I already wrote it happend during soundcheck. To get it back on concert would be of course much better
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Nancy R:
TommyC909:
I think Nod Your Head is one of only 3 unlistenable tracks that Paul has recorded in his career. It reminds me on Wild Honey Pie, recently listed as the worst Beatles song.
Agreed! I can't stand Nod Your Head! I can just barely tolerate Wild Honey Pie. What is the 3rd song?
I LOVE Nod Your Head! It's a total hoot, and a great palate-cleanser after The End of the End.
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Nod Your Head is great for the workout playlist
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I have never liked this song. It is all about the lyrics. It seems as if the song is asking someone's Mama, "why did they make this decision?" And it sounds brash and condescending in tone. The reason it affects me on such guttural level, is that my Mom raised me alone after my Father dropped dead, and she did the best she could. She let me grow up in a "dirty airport town," where Maxwell AFB is located. She was a widow with no help and no options. I went from my Dad being alive and about to move to Saudi Arabia, and I was to be in a Swiss boarding school to being without a Father and no options but to survive. My Mom did the best she could with the cards she was dealt in life. So I doubt the person he wrote this song in his mind knew this answer either. Of course this isn't about my life, but I wonder sometimes if Sir Paul likes people's mothers? Does he resent not having a Mom? Everyone he marries doesn't have a Mom, etc... I love to see Father's with their children, so I cannot relate. Just a thought. And I hate this song!
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I had a lot of chutzpah to suggest changes in a Paul song
I did that again with "On My Way To Work" from "New" which I would like to hear a bit faster, more up-tempo as it sounds just a bit plodding to my ears, in certain moods, at least. Too slow. I sang it faster and liked how that sounded. I might be on Paul's shite list for saying that 
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Funny, I always thought the song was about a baby that was abandoned at an airport and adopted later. Just trying to muse though answers on why they were abandoned...Only mama knows...she was running too
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love2travel:
Funny, I always thought the song was about a baby that was abandoned at an airport and adopted later. Just trying to muse though answers on why they were abandoned...Only mama knows...she was running too
That was my take, too. One of Paul's "character" songs.
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And pretty dark lyrics too. Dark subject matter - dark lyrics. Damn fine rocker.
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DeniseLM227:
love2travel:
Funny, I always thought the song was about a baby that was abandoned at an airport and adopted later. Just trying to muse though answers on why they were abandoned...Only mama knows...she was running too
That was my take, too. One of Paul's "character" songs.
Indeed
Paul is quite the character, he's all over the place! Good for us, the listeners. -
love2travel:
Funny, I always thought the song was about a baby that was abandoned at an airport and adopted later. Just trying to muse though answers on why they were abandoned...Only mama knows...she was running too
Yeah I get that too. Remember how Paul muses about so many people have so many different takes and emotions, interpretations attributed to his songs and he is amused by it all? Well what I wrote is how that song hit me when I heard it, even though it has nothing to do with my life to Paul. I just remember my experience with a situation close to it. And it was dark and horrible. I guess you'd have to live it. Just like a lot of Beatles songs mean different things to different people.
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I think of "Only Mama Knows" as one of his character-driven "story" songs, a narrative, and more dryly as one of his "sociology" songs. This song hits a little too close to home (not that my situation is exactly like that one). But I like that ditty a lot. It really rocks. "She's Given Up Talking" (I don't like how that song is arranged and played, it gets on my nerves or irritates) is another of his sociology story songs to me. One I can also relate to personally, although it has universal application of course. Which album is "She's Given Up Talking" from? Would that he had done that one differently.
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SusyLuvsPaul:
I think of "Only Mama Knows" as one of his character-driven "story" songs, a narrative, and more dryly as one of his "sociology" songs. This song hits a little too close to home (not that my situation is exactly like that one). But I like that ditty a lot. It really rocks. "She's Given Up Talking" (I don't like how that song is arranged and played, it gets on my nerves or irritates) is another of his sociology story songs to me. One I can also relate to personally, although it has universal application of course. Which album is "She's Given Up Talking" from? Would that he had done that one differently.
Driving Rain
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I sort of consider "House of Wax" a rocker particularly with that guitar solo
