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26 January 2017
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Does anybody on the forum like TLAWR? Most people seem to hate it. I’m somewhere in between: I can see why people hate it, but I like its Christmas song/ Frank Sinatra vibe. The production is obviously the catalyst for hatred. It also reminds me of You Still Believe In Me by the Beach Boys which is a track I love.
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10.09am
9 March 2017
Offline It’s a nice song, I like it, although I wouldn’t compare it to Christmas songs, those songs suck and are overplayed 2 months of the year.
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10.10am
26 January 2017
Offline I love playing and singing it on piano. I think it is a great song, but the naked version is better.
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11.05am
20 July 2014
Offline I love, love, LOVE this song! I’ve heard a few of the different versions of it and I just can’t pick which one is THE top one. Paul’s vocals are just perfect, wonderful, ahh! I just can’t stop at one word to describe him. 
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14 June 2016
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I love this song! I can see how some people might think the song is boring, but I find it nice to listen to. I agree that it is better without the orchestra, since that is how it was meant to be.
I also love the “cha cha” version from the Let it Be movie. (Will find and post a video later when I get home.)
*Edit: Sadly I cannot find a video on YouTube of that version. If you’ve seen the LiB movie you might know what I’m talking about. If I come across it, I will post it up here.
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1 May 2011
Offline It’s a nice song overproduced but has good moments.
I do adore the naked ‘Anthology’ take whilst the ‘Naked’ naked version is lame with a horrendously naff solo by Billy.
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1 December 2009
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I was thinking about this song recently – it’s maybe my least favorite – and musing that I’d like it maybe 40% more if it had Beatles harmonies in the arrangement. As it is, it’s never really felt like a Beatle song; and the fact that it was their final single (not in the UK) makes it extra depressing for me.
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6.15pm
7 May 2017
Offline Put me in the “love this song” club. When Paul combines his voice, melody, and framework with this particular sentiment – yearning – I find the results can be devastatingly beautiful, with strings or without. I think he hit the same sweet spot with I Will .
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1 January 2017
Offline I reckon some might disagree with me on this – but I think Spector made the song absolutely brilliant and a wonderful piece of emotion fuel by adding the orchestra and so called ‘mystery guitarists’. Even if The Beatles (specifically Paul) was annoyed about what they had done to the song, I very much like it!
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7.34pm
9 March 2017
Offline Actually, Paul has grown to like it over the years and has even used it when playing live.
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8.00pm
14 June 2016
Offline @Dark Overlord, it has been brought up on this site before that Paul uses orchestras when he play TLAWR live despite disliking the addition of the orchestra in the recording. The spectulation is that he does that because that is how the official version of the song is and it is how most know the song.
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8.14pm
9 March 2017
Offline It’s weird he did that, you’d think that if he didn’t like the orchestras, he’d just play it the way he wants people to hear it, I know that there’s several songs he plays live that he alters or has altered in the past, such as how he uses an accordion when he played Michelle live at The White House or how on Give My Regards To Broad Street , there are trumpets in Here, There, And Everywhere.
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8.43pm
14 June 2016
Offline @Dark Overlord said
It’s weird he did that, you’d think that if he didn’t like the orchestras, he’d just play it the way he wants people to hear it, I know that there’s several songs he plays live that he alters or has altered in the past, such as how he uses an accordion when he played Michelle live at The White House or how on Give My Regards To Broad Street , there are trumpets in Here, There, And Everywhere.
But TLAWR is more popular than Michelle , and on GMRTBS a lot of instrumentation is changed, because they are rerecordings. TLAWR has a bloody saxophone in it for crying out loud.
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9.22pm
10 August 2011
Offline A perfectly wistful song. Never had a problem with any of the arrangements.
If you didn’t know all the drama and sub-plots surrounding this album and you just heard it for the first time you would think of it as a perfectly excellent album.
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1 May 2011
Offline Into the Sky with Diamonds said
A perfectly wistful song. Never had a problem with any of the arrangements.If you didn’t know all the drama and sub-plots surrounding this album and you just heard it for the first time you would think of it as a perfectly excellent album.
I first heard it on ‘Love Songs’ and thought it was overproduced; I would have been about 8 at the time. This and ‘She’s Leaving Home ‘ were the two weakest tracks on the album at the time.
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8.38am
9 March 2017
Offline What year did you first hear this song, Love Songs came out in 1977 but you were born in the early 1980’s, so it wasn’t when the album first came out yet if you didn’t hear the album until you were 8, that must mean your parents didn’t buy it until the late 1980’s.
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1.48pm
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1 May 2011
Offline Dark Overlord said
What year did you first hear this song, Love Songs came out in 1977 but you were born in the early 1980’s, so it wasn’t when the album first came out yet if you didn’t hear the album until you were 8, that must mean your parents didn’t buy it until the late 1980’s.
Or my parents bought it earlier and I discovered it in their collection when I was 8. Tho coming to think of it we played the cassette when in the car so I’d have heard from very young, well before aged 8.
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2.31am
2 November 2016
Offline This is actually one of my favourite songs. Both by the Beatles and just in general. I’m not fond the overproduced version and I never listen to it, though I suppose it’s not as bad as some of the others because having an orchestra almost fits this song; I just wish it were done less extravagantly.
8.50pm
11 April 2016
Offline I quite like The Long And Winding Road . It’s never been a favourite, but it did stick out to me a little when I listened to the 1967-1970 compilation for the first time. I give it listen every once and awhile.
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15 February 2015
Offline @Into the Sky with Diamonds said
If you didn’t know all the drama and sub-plots surrounding this album and you just heard it for the first time you would think of it as a perfectly excellent album.
I knew all the drama and sub-plots surrounding this album, and I still think of it as a perfectly excellent album.
Not a fan of this song though, so I will show myself out…
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