The Beatles Bible - Topic: Obscure songs

meanmistermustard on Obscure songs

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:27:50 +0100

Some fabulous tracks released around Flaming Pie but not on that album: I Love This House, Broomstick, Atlantic Ocean, Love Come Tumbling Down, Squid & Same Love.

GeorgeTSimpson on Obscure songs

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 21:01:28 +0100

I love simple as that. Wonderful Christmas Time is my favourite christmas song (next to happy xmas (war is over)) and I love christmas songs in general. A main reason why I love the christmas time so much. Still I think those two christmas songs are the greatest.

Yeah a anti-drug song by paul is a bit funny, even more funny is that jimmy mcculloch (the second lead guitarist of the wings, and imo the best guitarist of all time) wrote two songs for the wings, both anti-drug songs. He later died because of a heroin overdose. And geoff britton even ...

Von Bontee on Obscure songs

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:59:24 +0100

Hm. Well, I'm not paying for more than a 2CD set.

meanmistermustard on Obscure songs

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:27:12 +0100

More than likely RRS would be the same pattern as McCartney II with original line-up and then the extra tracks from the rejected double lp on a third cd of the super deluxe edition.

Von Bontee on Obscure songs

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:48:59 +0100

Not to mention the fact that it's lousy!

Be interesting to see if RRS is indeed expanded to it's double LP length. (Hey, I'd give it the benefit of doubt and buy it!) Really though, I suspect that the best of RRS and WWL together would make a single fairly solid single LP. (Just IMO.)

(Curious how the man could release two of his weakest albums of the decade in between his two best...)

Ben Ramon on Obscure songs

Sat, 08 Sep 2012 11:43:28 +0100

The majority of stuff I've heard which was feted for the double-LP Speedway is pretty good, a lot of errs on the side of hard rock and prog rock ("Jazz Street", "Night Out") but there are of course some beautiful ballads too ("Tragedy", "Mama's Little Girl"). I think Speedway would have been better received in its original double incarnation- I like the medley but it did seem a bit of an easy cop out to round off the record.

Duke_of_Kirkaldy on Obscure songs

Sat, 08 Sep 2012 01:41:07 +0100

I'm probably most curious to hear the Red Rose Speedway outtakes from when it was planned to be a double album... which is why I wish they'd pick up the pace with these reissues!

meanmistermustard on Obscure songs

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 22:47:29 +0100

Into the Sky with Diamonds said
meanmistermustard said,"The Lovers That Never Were is one of my favourite Paul songs ever."

I think meanmistermustard and I disagree on just about every Beatle song, so I find it interesting that he and I should agree on this song. (It doesn't hurt that the lyrics are probably mostly Elvis Costello's)

LOL. Surely not!!

Ah at least we are able to co-exist.

Into the Sky with Diamonds on Obscure songs

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 22:38:18 +0100

meanmistermustard said,"The Lovers That Never Were is one of my favourite Paul songs ever."

I think meanmistermustard and I disagree on just about every Beatle song, so I find it interesting that he and I should agree on this song. (It doesn't hurt that the lyrics are probably mostly Elvis Costello's)

meanmistermustard on Obscure songs

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 22:25:17 +0100

Peace In The Neighbourhood from Off The Ground is a really good track, completely forgotten about that. Maybe could have been faded out a bit earlier but still a fine song. The Lovers That Never Were is one of my favourite Paul songs ever.

Holsety on Obscure songs

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 22:11:46 +0100

I really like "3 Legs" off of Ram for some reason. It apparently tends to be the most hated song on the record; I can see why considering its competition.

Ben Ramon on Obscure songs

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:26:33 +0100

There are tons of little obscure Macca gems that I love and wish had been on albums. A Love For You, from the Ram sessions, is amazing and should have been on the record, contains one of his best vocal performances too. I'm also a big fan of Cage, which would have been very welcome as a replacement for the poorer songs on Back to the Egg. Then there's the beautiful sitar-laden Tragedy, and 1882, which started off as a nice little melancholic piano waltz but was turned into a rock song for Wings '72 tour, didn't really work.

I'm also ...

meanmistermustard on Obscure songs

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:27:35 +0100

The lyrics to Simple As That are appalling and the tune is ghastly, cannot stand it. The backing response "simply as that" vocals sends shudders down my spine. Horrid.

Same Time Next Year has been lost, i think its only been offically released on the Put It There cd single, gorgeous song. I think it was in a movie but it may have been ditched, i dont know.

vonbontee on Obscure songs

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 06:59:14 +0100

I expect that a lot of the "Wonderful Christmastime" hate comes from folks who can't stand Xmas music in general, can't stand hearing the same songs 1000 times each December - a sentiment I can totally sympathize with - for 30+ years. I've always thought it was really cool, the way it bounces and burbles along. Not quite as good as Stevie Wonder's similar synthesized funk (like "Higher Gound" or "Boogie On Reggae Woman"), but that's what it reminds me of, all the same. I guess it is a bit repetitive, as far as that goes.

paulsbass on Obscure songs

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 06:31:35 +0100

vonbontee said

Not totally on topic, but I was surprised to just recently learn that "Wonderful Christmas Time" never charted in the USA. Which is a surprise because I remember it being a big hit here in Canada. Usually it's only songs by Canadian performers that chart here but not south of the border.

Also, does "Girls' School" (b-side of "Mull of Kintyre") show up anywhere?

"Wonderful christmas time" must be the "guilty pleasure" of a lot of people!

And I don't really see why to feel guilty about it - how many deep personal meanings can you put into a Xmas song?! ...