― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 12 August 2006 02:47 (seventeen years ago) link
Don't listen to much music, do you?
McCartney is pretty close to the bottom of the barrel. The only band I can think of right now with halfway-defensible tunes and worse lyrics is Interpol.
― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Saturday, 12 August 2006 03:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 12 August 2006 04:42 (seventeen years ago) link
polls split 50/50. each side claims victory
― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Saturday, 12 August 2006 05:48 (seventeen years ago) link
"Happiness Is A Warm Gun" is a terrible song. Like, really terrible.
I like the Beatles, though.
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 12 August 2006 06:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 12 August 2006 07:46 (seventeen years ago) link
To criticise McCartney for his lyrics totally misses the point...like focusing on the melody of a Dylan song. McCartney's a guy with a good sense of humor who's never taken lyrics very seriously. And because of this, he's a great lyricist. Some people just wanna fill the world with silly love songs.
― starke (starke), Saturday, 12 August 2006 09:10 (seventeen years ago) link
Of course, the main point about McCartney is melody and harmony.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 12 August 2006 10:09 (seventeen years ago) link
You're right. It's just that most pop/rock musicians don't get the omgwtfcreativegeniuses status given to the Beatles.
― xavier (xave), Saturday, 12 August 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link
mccartney's 'sappiness' is also considerably overstated, at least during his good years - i suspect it has more to do with his public persona than anything he actually wrote. his 'love' songs (when not obvious showbiz pastiches) are almost always meaner and callower than people remember: "another girl," "i'm looking through you," "you won't see me."
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 12 August 2006 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Saturday, 12 August 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Saturday, 12 August 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Saturday, 12 August 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link
Well, they couldn't've been worse.
― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Saturday, 12 August 2006 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Saturday, 12 August 2006 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Saturday, 12 August 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 12 August 2006 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link
P.S. I Love Them
― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Saturday, 12 August 2006 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― astronautagogo (astronautagogo), Saturday, 12 August 2006 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Chim chimaree chim chimI am a chimbley, a chimbley sweep
― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Saturday, 12 August 2006 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 12 August 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Saturday, 12 August 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Saturday, 12 August 2006 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Saturday, 12 August 2006 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― slick dickens (slickdickens), Sunday, 13 August 2006 04:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 13 August 2006 05:05 (seventeen years ago) link