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Post by ph0neyprophet on Feb 12, 2009 23:55:51 GMT -5
First off, I'm not trying to insult Paul. I think his music is amazing, not matter how "silly" it looks.
What I mean by this.. for example..
Ebony and Ivory, and Coming Up come to mind. Now, somebody like Lil Wayne might find Paul to be amazing, but I think even he would admit, those two can be easily used as a "Rick Roll" of sorts.
I suppose, if you think about it, it could have been alot better if Paul took more time on the songs, where he would have made magical changes to make them perfect.
But if you were in a sarcastic mood, and you wanted to make your friends, who aren't McCartney fans, laugh to in a humor sorts of ways?
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Post by mommybird on Feb 13, 2009 0:06:42 GMT -5
Song written off the cuff, who knows maybe he had a deadline ?
"Someone's Knocking at the Door "... ;D
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Post by Jude on Feb 14, 2009 18:24:47 GMT -5
You know what confuses me? In the Playboy interview, John said he thought "Coming Up" was a good song. But I've always thought it was one of Sir Paul's most annoying songs....really out of place on the otherwise outstanding McCartney II.
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Post by FP on Feb 14, 2009 23:00:32 GMT -5
You know what confuses me? In the Playboy interview, John said he thought "Coming Up" was a good song. But I've always thought it was one of Sir Paul's most annoying songs....really out of place on the otherwise outstanding McCartney II. I have a hunch that John just liked it because of the lyrics about being free and having a better future. Paul rarely writes about that kinda stuff. |
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Post by B on Feb 15, 2009 1:20:06 GMT -5
"Paul rarely writes about that kinda stuff."
mmmm.... I don't know that I would agree with that.
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Post by FP on Feb 15, 2009 2:26:38 GMT -5
"Paul rarely writes about that kinda stuff." mmmm.... I don't know that I would agree with that. Well I mean songs aimed at the world about general peace - and we're talking 1980, no "Pipes of Peace", "Freedom", or Live Aid appearances yet. So I should have said "wrote". |
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Post by Jude on Feb 15, 2009 2:28:26 GMT -5
"Paul rarely writes about that kinda stuff." mmmm.... I don't know that I would agree with that. Yeah....Paul is pretty happy-go-lucky if you ask me.  |
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Post by MikeNL on Feb 28, 2009 19:40:14 GMT -5
i like Coming Up. it's where he does something different with the vocal track  very nice stuff. |
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Post by mumrikusstarr on May 22, 2009 13:51:09 GMT -5
Coming up is fun - but i like the live versions better  |
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Post by jestertor on Oct 28, 2009 12:43:45 GMT -5
This from freakytrigger.co.uk - admittedly a blatant musophobe - but one sentence did make me laugh, I suspect there's no need to highlight it...
THE ADVENT CALENDAR OF FILTH 4:
WINGS – Wonderful Christmastime
The Beatles never made a Christmas single. Unless you include those fanclub flexi’s where John Lennon does his amusing John Lennon voice and tells jokes you would only allow a pop star to get away with. ie Rubbish ones. John Lennon was the self styled wit of the band, and like many office pranksters had a sense of humour as developed as Sierra Leone (that joke is for all you geographical economists out there – I know you like Paul McCartney). Odd then that as soon as the band split the songwriting powerhouses of the Moptopped Maladjusts went hell for leather into the Christmas market. I’ll get to Lennon’s – though rest assured it is as much hippy claptrap as you would expect.
But to Macca and his Wings (I can only assume he named his band after those handy pantyliner appendages). He states in this jolly sleigh-bell-along that he is simply having a wonderful Christmastime - as if Christmastime is a real word. Plenty of other lyricists make this linguistic error, it may be because the word Christmas really does not rhyme with anything. Wheras time rhymes with so many words that it even rhymes with rhyme - which is about a rhymey as you can get.
Anyway, back to the McCartney's Christmastime, of which they are having a wonderful one of. Well of course he is having a wonderful fucking Christmastime. He had just bought much of Berkshire, had a happy family, was not married to some mad Japanese performance artist and in Mull Of Kintyre he had managed to pull the wool over the eyes of the entire single buying public. He was on an unnatural high, which is possibly why he wrote a song bereft of any good points whatsoever. You would have to be the happiest man in the world, or extremely high on drugs, to possibly enjoy Wonderful Christmastime. It's disingenuity is ingenious in scope.
Still, it's not as stupid as Merry Christmas (War Is Over).
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very nice stuff.
