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9 August 2011
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Some songs are flat-out great, and would be great regardless of who performed them (While My Guitar ..., Let It Be , ...). There's a reason why "Yesterday " has been covered by 2200 performers.
Other songs in and of themselves, are OK - but made great through production (vocals, instrumentation, into/outro,...)
I think "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" would be a good example.
Even some classics like "I Want To Hold Your Hand ." "Wait " is not a great song - but I really enjoy it thanks to the little harmonium (?) that pops up here in there ("wait ... zwing ... 'till I come back to your door...")
Any others?
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5.54pm
6 August 2013
Offline Into the Sky with Diamonds said
Some songs are flat-out great, and would be great regardless of who performed them (While My Guitar ..., Let It Be , ...). There's a reason why "Yesterday " has been covered by 2200 performers.Other songs in and of themselves, are OK - but made great through production (vocals, instrumentation, into/outro,...)
I think "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" would be a good example.
Even some classics like "I Want To Hold Your Hand ." "Wait " is not a great song - but I really enjoy it thanks to the little harmonium (?) that pops up here in there ("wait ... zwing ... 'till I come back to your door...")
Any others?
John's "What Ya Got"from Walls And Bridges . Lyrics are nothing special, but the track is amazing to listen to, like John hijacked Stevie Wonder's band from that time period. Just a great sounding track.
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7.30pm
9 August 2011
Offline WETSRoosa said, "like John hijacked Stevie Wonder's band from that time period"
I see what you mean. Somehow sounds like a cross between Stevie Wonder and "Nobody Loves you (when you're down and out)"
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I think much of the MMT album is like this, title cut and "Blue Jay Way " and even those two big #1 hits. And "Only A Northern Song ", with its who-cares? improvised chaos, and which was around the same time period. Part of that weird immediate post-Pepper malaise - it seems they had more production/recording approaches (crazy and beautiful in combinations) than great songs. (And occasionally both, like in "Walrus".)
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7 February 2014
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Von Bontee said
I think much of the MMT album is like this, title cut and "Blue Jay Way " and even those two big #1 hits. And "Only A Northern Song ", with its who-cares? improvised chaos, and which was around the same time period. Part of that weird immediate post-Pepper malaise - it seems they had more production/recording approaches (crazy and beautiful in combinations) than great songs. (And occasionally both, like in "Walrus".)
from MMT, i would add Hello Goodbye (the lyrics to which, although somewhat inane, doesn't keep it from being one of my favorites). Also Baby You're A Rich Man , which is even worse. But I think this topic is pretty subjective. As discussed in the spooky songs topic MMT is rather moody too.
10.53pm
28 March 2014
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song from side 2 of Yellow Submarine ......
Sorry but my album side 2 is pristine! 
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11.02pm
1 December 2009
Offline Matt Busby said
Von Bontee said
I think much of the MMT album is like this, title cut and "Blue Jay Way " and even those two big #1 hits. And "Only A Northern Song ", with its who-cares? improvised chaos, and which was around the same time period. Part of that weird immediate post-Pepper malaise - it seems they had more production/recording approaches (crazy and beautiful in combinations) than great songs. (And occasionally both, like in "Walrus".)from MMT, i would add Hello Goodbye (the lyrics to which, although somewhat inane, doesn't keep it from being one of my favorites). Also Baby You're A Rich Man , which is even worse. But I think this topic is pretty subjective. As discussed in the spooky songs topic MMT is rather moody too.
Yeah, "Hello Goodbye " and "All You Need Is Love " are the two #1s I had in mind there. (And yeah, many of these songs I hold in esteem too - you don't necessarily need a great song to make a great record!)
@Bongo , what a coincidence you mentioning YS, because I just bought myself a brand new copy of the CD less than an hour ago! First time in 20 years I've owned a copy of that album (I've made do with the '99 songtrack for awhile). And strictly speaking there are NO songs on Side Two! (songs are sung) But I still feel I owe it to myself to give that stuff a few listenings.
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions, Marvin Gaye. PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
11.05pm
28 March 2014
Offline Songs are sung, how true! 
I bet you you'll play it once and the 2nd half of your CD will be pristine too.
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11.39pm
1 December 2009
Offline Nonsense! I'll force myself to play it twice. (At least.) Same as I did the vinyl so many years ago! (Plus I've got more of patience for orchestral instrumental music these days than I did way back then.)
Another average song produced to greatness: "Eight Days A Week " (that sublime expanding intro)
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11.51pm
8 January 2015
Offline 90% of everything since Sgt Pepper if you believe Ian MacDonald.
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12.31am
11 March 2015
Offline Good Night . Ringo's vocals are strong when isolated, but the lush accompaniment (those strings!) fits the call to innocence of the song fabulously. After enduring the difficult yet vaguely hopeful Revolution #9 this is exactly the song we needed and a transcendent album closer.
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1.37am
8 January 2015
Offline Well I don't think Good Night is that so-so. It's terribly underrated and beautiful *sniff*
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1.08pm
28 March 2014
Offline ewe2 said
Well I don't think Good Night is that so-so. It's terribly underrated and beautiful *sniff*
Sniff, sniff, ha-ha
They should have listened to and made the White Album a single E-LP (Extended Long Play) record without Revolution 9 & Good Night !.
I know, I know, no such thing, until I was able to fit most of the songs on 1 burnable CD for the car 
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3.42pm
11 March 2015
Offline Bongo said
ewe2 said
Well I don't think Good Night is that so-so. It's terribly underrated and beautiful *sniff*Sniff, sniff, ha-ha
They should have listened to
I know, I know, no such thing, until I was able to fit most of the songs on 1 burnable CD for the car
Respectfully disagree with you Bongo. For me, Revolution #9 is the soul of the album.
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1 May 2011
Offline As said before by people the White Album wouldnt be anywhere near as good if a) Revolution 9 was omitted and b) if it was a single disc. It works brilliantly because of its sprawling nature. That doesnt mean everything is great however.
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5.27pm
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15 February 2015
Offline I would like to add Magical Mystery Tour to the list. I mean, I wouldn't call it a "so-so song", but it would be hard to pull off successfully. And they did pull it off. They're fab.
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29 August 2013
Offline ewe2 said
Well I don't think Good Night is that so-so. It's terribly underrated and beautiful *sniff*
I like it too and it fits perfectly where it is.
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