Worst line from a McCartney song
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Great post BJ!
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Nancy R:
Great post BJ!
That was very nice. Paul has some beautiful melodies, chord progressions and inventive bridges.
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JoeySmith:
I agree with most that The End of the End has great lyrics & evokes emotion without being overly cloying. The Average Person is pure garbage - if one looks up the definition of 'banal' in the dictionary, they should reference this song. 'Bip Bop' is not really a song, but a jam, so I'm o.k. with it just like I am with 'Mumbo'. But, to open your band's first album with 2 spontaneous jams & a cover is probably not the best decision-making.
I'll second the motion that Average Person is just awful. It comes across like a celeb trying really hard to show he's down with regular folks and utterly failing. It just doesn't work at all.
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I think Average Person is a fun song. I enjoy singing along to it, but the lyrics are clearly 'loose' to say the least - but convince me about The End of the End. What am I missing?
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Wyrdskein:
I think Average Person is a fun song. I enjoy singing along to it, but the lyrics are clearly 'loose' to say the least - but convince me about The End of the End. What am I missing?
It's poetry. Lines are callbacks from other lines from time to time. While I nodded, nearly napping Suddenly there came a tapping As of some one gently rapping Rapping at my chamber door "Tis some visitor," I muttered "Tapping at my chamber door Only this and nothing more" The repetition isn't lazy. It's a literary device.
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Yes I get the poetry thing - not always successful in song though, but due to this discussion its starting to grow on me. MAF is one of my favourite McCartney albums so I'm pleased about that.
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Wyrdskein:
I think Average Person is a fun song. I enjoy singing along to it, but the lyrics are clearly 'loose' to say the least - but convince me about The End of the End. What am I missing?
I don't think I can help you. You're literally the first person I've encountered who doesn't think those lyrics are at least good. If they don't reach you, I don't see how I can change that. But it's the most beautiful, heartfelt expression of an optimistic attitude toward death I've ever seen or heard. I'd have it played at my funeral, but I've already given instructions that they're to play "It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want To."
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"From A Lover to a Friend" has some of the most horrible lyrics he's ever penned...If I was his producer, I would have said, keep this... From a lover to a friend Take your own advice Let me love again Now that you turned out to be Someone I can trust Someone I believe ...but go and finish the rest of the lyrics with something that makes sense. How this became the lead single from "Driving Rain" is insane. I remember Paul debuting it on WPLJ 95.5 here in NYC and afterwards, the DJ's were dumbfounded as to what they had just heard. I can't believe it ever got any air-play beyond that debut on PLJ. Dave Kahane should be ashamed of himself for allowing Paul to get away with this one.
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I love that song "From a Lover to a Friend"--it's interesting how opinions can differ...art is subjective (including songs, too?).
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"Cos when we kiss Nothing feels so good even when I get a medal from a local neighbourhood"
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SusyLuvsPaul:
I love that song "From a Lover to a Friend"--it's interesting how opinions can differ...art is subjective (including songs, too?).
That song, for me, has one minute of brilliance about it. What potential. Ended up meandering into a wasted effort, unfortunately.
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panposs:
"Cos when we kiss Nothing feels so good even when I get a medal from a local neighbourhood"
The actual lyrics are much better. You and me together Nothing feels so good Even if I get a medal From my local neighborhood I won't need a castle They've got castles in Versailles And I'm still stranded Wondering why
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HaileyMcComet:
panposs:
"Cos when we kiss Nothing feels so good even when I get a medal from a local neighbourhood"
The actual lyrics are much better. You and me together Nothing feels so good Even if I get a medal From my local neighborhood I won't need a castle They've got castles in Versailles And I'm still stranded Wondering why
Sorry, but they're pretty ordinary forced lyrics. Not in my chosen few.
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toris:
HaileyMcComet:
panposs:
"Cos when we kiss Nothing feels so good even when I get a medal from a local neighbourhood"
The actual lyrics are much better. You and me together Nothing feels so good Even if I get a medal From my local neighborhood I won't need a castle They've got castles in Versailles And I'm still stranded Wondering why
Sorry, but they're pretty ordinary forced lyrics. Not in my chosen few.
But one of my favorite post-Beatle Paul songs, I should add.... so lyrics are one thing.....
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Those lines are from "Beautiful Night" which lots of peeps rave over, they just love that song. I like it a lot. Regarding "From a Lover to a Friend" it's the overall sound, the melody, how he sings it, the sweetness of the sentiment expressed, these elements all really get to me and make me love that song. I didn't focus on the lyrics so much as on the melody and vocals.
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SusyLuvsPaul:
I love that song "From a Lover to a Friend"--it's interesting how opinions can differ...art is subjective (including songs, too?).
I love it too, but I've always thought the lyrics felt half-finished. I rate it as an honorable near-miss: Exquisite in many ways, but not quite what it could have been.
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Lightning hits the house of wax Women scream and run around To dance upon the battleground Like wild demented horses Exquisite!
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OR: This is my right, a right given by God To live a free life, to live in freedom ...I remember some critic dubbing this awful song "Give war a chance"
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Frank:
OR: This is my right, a right given by God To live a free life, to live in freedom ...I remember some critic dubbing this awful song "Give war a chance"
I can honestly say, that is the only McCartney song I actually dislike. All his other songs have something or everything to like (for me).