Willow ,'Showtime'
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.
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).
Did John write "Working Class Hero"? I think I just have one version of that song by someone else....
Did John write "Working Class Hero"?
Yes, it's on his (as opposed to Yoko's) Plastic Ono Band LP.
I will also go on record and say that Yoko's POB has one awsome song, "Why", which sounds like she and John invented skronk almost ten years earlier than anyone else. She's doing her horrific tuneless caterwauling thing, but, in the context of John's gnarly guitar abuse and the thud/bash/throb of Ringo and Klaus Voorman, for once it works.
"Why" Rocks! I've played it on my radio show several times. First time I heard it I thought, "That's where the Butthole Surfers got their sound!"
"Why" Rocks! I've played it on my radio show several times. First time I heard it I thought, "That's where the Butthole Surfers got their sound!"
Heh. I wouldn't be surprised if I heard "Why" on your show. I KNOW I heard it on MBR (that's the station, right?) when I heard it the first time, and it grabbed me by the throat and slammed me around my cubicle (back when I could listen to music at my desk - one of the few things I miss about that job). I wouldn't say it's worth price of the whole album for anyone else necessarily, but it was worth it for me.
I KNOW I heard it on MBR (that's the station, right?)
Yep. It was probably me. I don't know anyone else who's played it. Neat!
Hey Jon - did you ever find the Freezepop song "Melonball Bounce" at MBR?