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Long John Silver said
TBH, I don't really see why Michele gets so much air play, there are a lot better McCartney/Beatles songs out there which deserve more air play.

Well, when I play live in front of a cafe and do Michelle, most of the people of any age begin to smile and start humming and nodding their head…

Is "I am the walrus" are more innovative song? Yes of course!

But I imagine I might get a little frowned upon when playing THAT…

It's just a nice, beautiful song with a certain atmosphere.

Paul McCartney himself said he was astounded by the success, since it was so easily arranged and recorded…

Check out the rest of the list:

Mostly love songs, touching stuff, acoustic, natural stuff.

Von Bontee said
I don't understand why something as nebulous as "most played" means a damn thing to anybody anyways. What does the number of plays matter if the number of listeners is unknown? How do ensure that those who listened, LIKED what they listened to? Meaningless, unverifiable data.

As I said:

I play a LOT of these songs from the list.

Why?

Because ALL THE PEOPLE love them, although, surely, the older ones love them more.

A song like "Wonderful world" (both of them!) is just timeless.

These are songs most people like to listen to when they want to feel good.

Trust me, I experience this VERY often!

There are more interesting songs out there, sure.

But I get EVERY crowd with "Stand by me" and will continue to do so many more years, hopefully.

mr. Sun king coming together said
You made a specific claim – Yesterday and Michelle are the two most played songs. Walrus used a metric which completely dismantled your statement. You explained your claim, and reiterated it. You were again wrong, and I pointed it out with evidence.

Walrus called that claim "obviously wrong" and said it was something like 43rd. He was referring to a very selective group of people.

I proved my point by showing a list of UNIVERSAL radio plays, so my position was totally understandable and correct. I was very obviously NOT "obviously wrong".

You came up with a list of unknown identity that "proves" Michelle is not the 2nd, but the (close) 3rd most often played Beatles song. So – IF this list is more accurate – I was a LITTLE wrong – guilty because of lack of information – but not THAT "obviously wrong".

Would you care to get that, please?!

That's what has happened since this has been revived (not counting your helping Kedame).
My point about popularity: You (being the big Paul fan you are) have stated many times Paul's solo career is better then it is publicly viewed to be. Correct? Indeed it is. You are saying popularity doesnt equal quality. And yet here, you try to create a correlation between popularity and quality. Hypocritical? Yes.

Didn't I say I don't want to know about what you are trying to say here? I still don't get it and I still don't want to know! You claim and blame quite freely here and I'm not going to join in.

Also, you ignored the part about George playing the guitar solo on Michelle. He does.
Edit: I see you did talk about Michelle after I started typing. Ignore my last point.

A little apology (not about the overlooking but about the rating of the guitar playing in Michelle) would have been nice, but I can live without it…

Von Bontee said

Uh, no I am not. Choose whatever current hit song you hate the most – or your most hated hit song from any given year, for that matter – and tell me what makes it great.

This is totally OT and belongs into a thread "what makes a song great" – I think we already have one of those!

Let's meet there and talk this over another day, ok?

Fascinating topic.