The the first thing he sings is “if you’re listening to this song, you may think the chords are going wrong.” After that ringing endorsement, I can’t go any further with it. Victor Aaron: George’s song bears out warning label built into the title. Pepper,’ and probably wouldn’t have been released at all had they not needed extra material for the ‘Yellow Submarine’ soundtrack two years later. “ONLY A NORTHERN SONG” ( YELLOW SUBMARINE, 1969):Īs misanthropic as it is untuneful, the listless “Only a Northern Song” didn’t make the grade when the Beatles were sorting through tracks for ‘Sgt. JC Mosquito: One final example of pointless cultural appropriation: Didn’t Paul sound just like Kurt Cobain when he fronted Nirvana a couple of weeks ago on TV? Oh bra’, mon. Lennon got the hammer squarely on the head when he called it “Paul’s granny shit.” What’s that, you say? He put that in there too? Say it ain’t so. Victor Aaron: The only thing in the boilerplate missing is the “and they live happily ever after” part. Nick DeRiso: I can’t talk to Paul when he’s like this. Fine – grow musically however you want, but at least have some good sense like Peter Gabriel, who always did a very good job of working with polyrhythmic culturally based music without sounding like he just came back wide eyed from a vacation in Cape Town. It’s also a bit like Led Zeppelin when they appropriated old blues songs for which they credited themselves, not the original writers. At least he could have given all those South African musicians co-billing on the cover.
This is much like Paul Simon going all South African for his Graceland album. So Paul invents a “reggae” song on which to try out his new hipness, which turns out not very reggae and not very hip at all. As well, he capped his sentences with “bra'” - Jamaican slang for “brother,” I guess. Supposedly, Paul McCartney had a Jamaican friend who used to say this. JC Mosquito: OK, here’s my chance to get two birds with one stone. But then he over-cutes it with a Yoruba expression that only sounds cool the first couple of times you hear it and amps up the crap level further with trite, unimaginative romance story that ends with rugrats and Molly still a singer in the band. Victor Aaron: Paul makes a genre excursion into ska, which in itself wasn’t such a bad idea. As with the equally un-releasable “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer,” which featured equally interminable sessions over two album projects, McCartney was certain this throwaway ska-lite dud could be a hit. Victor Aaron, Nick DeRiso, JC Mosquito and Kit O’Toole delve into a list that features a single tune apiece from both John Lennon and George Harrison, and three from Paul McCartney …īrutal, 42-hour sessions like the one that produced “Ob La Di” did immeasurable damage to the Beatles musical partnership. Pepper and The White Album - in fact, there are two tracks from that overstuffed 1968 double album. What we found was music we couldn’t stand from several of the Beatles most celebrated albums, including 1965’s Rubber Soul, 1967’s Sgt. The focus here is on mainstream releases. 9” or “You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)”. As before, we are avoiding Ringo Starr songs, pre-1965 tracks when the group was still emerging as songwriters, and the Beatles’ legendarily weird experimental items like “Revolution No.
When did george harrison rejoin the beatles series#
Now, we’re back for more.Īctually, we could hardly wait to rejoin the fray.Īfter all, the original Beatles entry from our hotly debated Sucks Series remains the best-read item in our site’s history.
We called “All You Need Is Love” a pasted-together goof, “The Long and Winding Road” a devastatingly maudlin bore.
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