Granny Music
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It's hard to believe Paul did a TLC cover in 1980.
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HaileyMcComet:
It's hard to believe Paul did a TLC cover in 1980.
What? Oh, you just kidding. -
I just heard Lennon's Crippled Inside; you could call that one granny music... what would you think?
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The Eggman67:
I just heard Lennon's Crippled Inside; you could call that one granny music... what would you think?
Uh, no.
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RMartinez:
Apollo C. Vermouth:
RMartinez:
Do I think Paul rocks on Soily, The Mess, and Girls School? You bet. But John's legacy doesn't have to contend with a Mary Had A Little Lamb, With A Little Luck, Silly Love Songs, Ebony and Ivory, Say Say Say, or Listen to What The Man Said in his back catalogue.
You really think those "contend" songs are something Paul should be embarrassed about. Well anyway they were huge hits and excellently crafted pop songs. Sure Mary Had A Little Lamb is a bit twee but it was only really meant for kids. It still went top 10 in the UK and a minor hit in other places.
Where did I ever use the word embarrass? You did, I didn't. I am talking legacy and what they (Lennon, McCartney, Harrison) are known for. John never recorded songs like those, even Paul wrestles with that legacy to this day. BTW, I like all those songs!
I somehow never saw your reply until now. Again you say "Paul wrestles with that legacy to this day" which sounds like a negative criticism to me. Maybe it is just the way you phrase things. As for John and George if you go thru their body of work you can find a whole stack of pure pop songs.
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The Eggman67:
I just heard Lennon's Crippled Inside; you could call that one granny music... what would you think?
The subject matter alone disqualifies it.
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HaileyMcComet:
The Eggman67:
I just heard Lennon's Crippled Inside; you could call that one granny music... what would you think?
The subject matter alone disqualifies it.
I meant the music, not the lyrics; in that case a song like Maxwell's Silver Hammer wouldn't count as granny music as well
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I don't think either do.
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HaileyMcComet:
I don't think either do.
Well, John's granny comment referred to Maxwell's Silver Hammer, so who am I to disagree
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Didn't John or George ever like a granny music song? I guess Ringo did ("Sentimental Journey" album by him) and I think Ringo sang "Goodnight" on The White Album?
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SusyLuvsPaul:
Didn't John or George ever like a granny music song? I guess Ringo did ("Sentimental Journey" album by him) and I think Ringo sang "Goodnight" on The White Album?
George I know loves old music from earlier 20th Century he's covered several Hoagy Carmichael songs Baltimore Oriole and Hong Kong Blues both on Somewhere In England and he covered Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea on Brainwashed and also Cole Porter's True Love on 33 & 1/3 . Johns's Goodnight would have to be the most smaltzy song The Beatles put out by far. If that isn't what John terms granny shit music I don't know what is.
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Dawg I didn't know Lennon wrote "Goodnight"
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I love Paul's "granny music", it's one of my favorite styles of music that he does. When I'm Sixty Four, Honey Pie, Martha My Dear, You Gave Me the Answer, Baby's Request, I love all of them. Especially English Tea, that is one of my very favorite songs, period. I really like the Kisses on the Bottom album as well, especially Paul's two songs (though I wish he had titled that album "My Valentine" or "Only Our Hearts", or really anything other than "Kisses on the Bottom").
I do think that, unfortunately, these kind of songs contributed to criticism of Paul being too lightweight or too sappy or whatever, but oh well, I love them and that's what matters to me.
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@mccall said in Granny Music:
I love Paul's "granny music", it's one of my favorite styles of music that he does. When I'm Sixty Four, Honey Pie, Martha My Dear, You Gave Me the Answer, Baby's Request, I love all of them. Especially English Tea, that is one of my very favorite songs, period. I really like the Kisses on the Bottom album as well, especially Paul's two songs (though I wish he had titled that album "My Valentine" or "Only Our Hearts", or really anything other than "Kisses on the Bottom").
I do think that, unfortunately, these kind of songs contributed to criticism of Paul being too lightweight or too sappy or whatever, but oh well, I love them and that's what matters to me.
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@mccall
I just listened to English Tea for the first time. It's wonderful, wonderfully winsome and whimsical -- I guess I could coin a word: "whimsome".My ever critical ear detected nothing wrong with it except maybe one thing: it seems that the keyboard doesn't sound authentically old fashioned, it sounds like a synthesizer being made to sound like an old-fashioned spinnet or harpsichord or whatever. If that's so, that was a mistake. I just learned he used a Bösendorfer grand piano! It certainly doesn't sound like a concert piano... Anyway, it's a gem!
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@fast-city-line said in Granny Music:
@mccall
I just listened to English Tea for the first time. It's wonderful, wonderfully winsome and whimsical -- I guess I could coin a word: "whimsome".My ever critical ear detected nothing wrong with it except maybe one thing: it seems that the keyboard doesn't sound authentically old fashioned, it sounds like a synthesizer being made to sound like an old-fashioned spinnet or harpsichord or whatever. If that's so, that was a mistake. I just learned he used a Bösendorfer grand piano! It certainly doesn't sound like a concert piano... Anyway, it's a gem!
Well you know what they say? You wimsome, lose some. Right?
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@wandy
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I think what makes all the Beatles so fascinating is their contrasting views on things. And with somebody like John, he'd disagree with himself half the time.
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@moggy said in Granny Music:
I think what makes all the Beatles so fascinating is their contrasting views on things. And with somebody like John, he'd disagree with himself half the time.
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@moggy said in Granny Music:
I think what makes all the Beatles so fascinating is their contrasting views on things. And with somebody like John, he'd disagree with himself half the time.
I seriously believe John was bi polar. I don't think that term was either, known at all back then, or, it was known, but not much, or by many. He could be the most loving guy ever. Or, just not be. Just turn on a sixpence ( or a dime) Look what he did to his loving Auntie Mimi. He gave her his MBE medal. She proudly displayed it on top of her TV. Some time later he phoned her to ask to borrow it for a photo shoot. But he lied to her. He actually wanted it to return it to the Queen, as a protest to Britain getting involved in the Vietnam War. Mimi was heart broken. Who does that!! And add to the mix, the Queen don't give a shit if John hand's his medal back or not. She just hand's them out. The government decides who gets them. Very strange. Most peculiar mama!!
