Spike ,'Sleeper'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
I could even forgive the overexposure if the same stations didn't limit, say, the Four Tops to "I Can't Help Myself" and "Reach Out, I'll Be There."
This is a fair point, Fred. And I've experienced it as well. I'm all for lots of different Beatles tunes, but to play those at the expense of the vast oceans of other great music being made at the time is downright criminal.
::clutches White Album to chest. and selects it on iPod::
Also, I think I've mentioned how much I love "Temporary Secretary"....
Take a look at buffistarawk2, Sean.
BWAH! Thanks, Scola. What a hilarious mashup.
I LOVES me them Beatles. I get the overexposure thing, though. I do need to take breaks from their music for months or even years to regain the mad love again, but it never goes away. I need to do that with most music I love. I find most of the Post-Beat's solo work doesn't hold up well for me. Maybe Ram.
I find most of the Post-Beat's solo work doesn't hold up well for me. Maybe Ram.
I do listen to Band on the Run still. I've always thought "Let Me Roll It" was a lovely concilatory gesture from Paul to John. (It was in response to John's rather mean "How Do You Sleep At Night" and Paul recorded "Let Me Roll It" [not a drug reference] in the same production style as John's work of the time with big, echoey bathroom reverb.)
Also "Jet" is great, so is "Helen Wheels." No duff tracks really, though "Mamumia" can be irritatingly ear wormy.
There's a lot of solo Paul I love. C'mon, "Magneto and Titanium Man"!
I would love to hear David and Scrappy's opinions on Dance Tonight after a couple of listens. It's really wormed its way into my brain.
And while I can see the KFOG listeners criticisms, that's what Paul has always written, so I don't know what they were expecting.
There's a lot of solo Paul I love. C'mon, "Magneto and Titanium Man"!
I have a real soft spot for "Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey", though I suspect that's one of the specific songs Hec was thinking of earlier with his "pot addled lyrics" comment.
ETA: As for Dance Tonight, I described it to someone as a big audio hug from Paul. The sound of Paul (and really, any of the Beatles) is a very comforting sound to me.
Band on the Run came out at the perfect time for me. I bought "Jet" and the title track as singles when I was 11.
It's so wrapped up in my discovery of popular music that I can't see it objectively.
I finally bought the album when I was in college.
It was in response to John's rather mean "How Do You Sleep At Night"
But it is awesomely mean. I'm partial to John's solo work. Some of it was pretentious twaddle (as opposed to pot-addled twaddle), but Plastic Ono Band and Imagine are pretty good to great beginning to end, and the best songs off the rest would make a decent double album. Plus I respect that when he realized he had nothing to say muscially, he shut up for several years. Bonus points for doing "Fame" with Bowie, as well.
Band on the Run is a good album though. I like selected tracks off of others, but a little solo Paul (or Wing's Paul) goes a LOOOOOOOONG way.
As for The Beatles, I used to love the later albums, but in recent years I've gotten much fonder of the early stuff (they are less familiar to me for one thing). But they were such a constant part of my childhood (due to older siblings), I kinda can't judge them anymore.
My favorite post-Beatles John Lennon song wasn't actually recorded by John Lennon. (The song is NSFW).