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15 May 2015
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One I’ve noticed is that first part of “Happiness Is A Warm Gun ” —
“She’s not a girl who misses much, doo doo doo doo doo, oh yeah…”
Instead of branching off into the subsequent acid trip John is on (which is cool, don’t get me wrong), I wonder what kind of song could be developed from that first short part. I think I’ll play around with it.
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11.47am
26 January 2017
Offline John and Paul’s separate sections of A Day In The Life spring to mind. Though of course you can’t beat the final version.
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1.10pm
27 February 2017
Offline That’s an interesting topic!
I’ve always felt that the guitar intro to I’ve Just Seen A Face could have developed into a different song than it actually does. When I listen to this song for the first time, I thought that the introduction was written in a completely different time signature and also in a different tempo than the rest of the song and boy was I surprised when I clapped the beats and proved myself wrong! The melody sounds quite dreamy and free from every metre in comparison to the very rhythmic rest of the song – this has always fascinated me but also left me wondering whether these have originally been two ideas.
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2 January 2017
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Does the instrumental/solo break from I Call Your Name count?
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2.54pm
26 January 2017
Offline Perhaps the piano solo in While My Guitar Gently Weeps . Or the bridge in Something .
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1 December 2009
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One I’ve noticed is that first part of “Happiness Is A Warm Gun ” —“She’s not a girl who misses much, doo doo doo doo doo, oh yeah…”
Instead of branching off into the subsequent acid trip John is on (which is cool, don’t get me wrong), I wonder what kind of song could be developed from that first short part. I think I’ll play around with it.
1 thing I like least about Gun is that the music for the third part doesn’t measure up to the other two, imo. Something about those doo-wop chords used to close the song just doesn’t sit right…if the first or middle section had used ’em I would’ve minded less…fine song either way!
Ska section of I Call Yr Name woulda been the beginning of a great little rocker.
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1.40am
15 May 2015
Offline Well vonbontee, that song more than almost any other Beatles song involves sort of completely different segments just glued together to form some odd knicknack; but I guess I like each one so much I don’t care. I can see that the segue between last “Mother Superior jumped the gun” to the beginning C chord of that doo-wop part seems even less organic than the others. However, chord/key-wise it seems to flow.
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2.45am
26 January 2017
Offline The full outtakes of Can You Take Me Back kind of disapoint me, but that’s a great song, and had potential to be a top tier White Album song.
"The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handles!"
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10.08am
1 December 2009
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Well vonbontee, that song more than almost any other Beatles song involves sort of completely different segments just glued together to form some odd knicknack; but I guess I like each one so much I don’t care. I can see that the segue between last “Mother Superior jumped the gun” to the beginning C chord of that doo-wop part seems even less organic than the others. However, chord/key-wise it seems to flow.
Yeah, it ultimately works.
Part of the reason the doo-wop bit calls unnecessary attention to itself is a result of its placement on the album: the very next Lennon song is I’m So Tired , and THAT one is built on a practically the same four-chord sequence, only transposed a bit! (Not actually the very same, as I think Joe or someone equally knowledgeable pointed out here once.)
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10.37am
27 February 2017
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Yeah, it ultimately works.
Part of the reason the doo-wop bit calls unnecessary attention to itself is a result of its placement on the album: the very next Lennon song is I’m Sleeping, and THAT one is built on a practically the same four-chord sequence, only transposed a bit! (Not actually the very same, as I think Joe or someone equally knowledgeable pointed out here once.)
When one is so tired this doesn’t automatically mean one is sleeping, does it? 
But I agree, this has always bothered me too.
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10.58am
1 December 2009
Offline Haha what happened ?
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