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Song fragments that really grab you
12 December 2023
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Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da is probably the Beatles song I’ve listened to the most number of times, mainly because it’s the only Beatles song I like to play along to with my acoustic guitar.  Anyway, as far as the topic of song fragments that really grab me — this song is a veritable cornucopia of fragments that really grab me.  There are so many, it’s almost like the entire song is just a jam-packed grab-bag of cool fragments.  Some day maybe I’ll sit down and list them all.  For now, I will cite the “ha ha ha!” parts (almost a Santa-Clausian “ho ho ho!”).

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Any time the Beatles use piano in songs, especially if it’s only for a brief moment. Take, for example, Baby It’s You or In My Life . The amount of times I’ve replayed those couple seconds of those songs is insane.

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The little trumpet piece near the end of It’s All Too Much .

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I love that part! a-hard-days-night-george-9

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Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup
They slither wildly as they slip away Across The Universe
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind
Possessing and caressing me

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Queen says “No” to pot-smoking FBI members.

 

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I like the signing towards the end of While My Guitar Gently Weeps . The “Oh oh oh” part.

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I think the bridge parts of Anna and This Boy really get me. I also love the part where John sings “that I, I, I, I, should never, never, never be blue!” in Ask Me Why : it’s so beautiful! 

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Dr. Robert said
I think the bridge parts of Anna and This Boy really get me. I also love the part where John sings “that I, I, I, I, should never, never, never be blue!” in Ask Me Why : it’s so beautiful! 

  

Love that part too. There’s an innocence and energy about those early songs especially. 

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Love Come Tumbling Down – “I saw the look she gave, they must think I don’t get around”a-hard-days-night-paul-10 unbelievable two part harmony over that. Feels so good to listen to that part. Hard to put it into words, go listen to the song if you don’t know what I’m taking about. 

 

Sgt Peppers – “sit back and let the evening go” into that horn line. Its so smooth, and shows just how deep their bag of tricks goes. The guitar part, and especially the vocals rule on this song, but the horns really decorate it in an unbelievable way that serves the song really well. 

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18 September 2024
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Dr. Robert said
I think the bridge parts of Anna and This Boy really get me. 

  

Add Yes It Is and you’ve got the holy trinity of Lennon bridges/middle eights. 

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sir walter raleigh said

Dr. Robert said

I think the bridge parts of Anna and This Boy really get me. 

  

Add Yes It Is and you’ve got the holy trinity of Lennon bridges/middle eights. 

  

The best of the best right here. I never get sick of these moments. Ever. 

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I like the way the piano notes in the intro to Sexy Sadie sound reduplicated & echoey.

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19 September 2024
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The snare fill in Rain , at the beginning, right before the voice comes in

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Sea Belt said
I like the way the piano notes in the intro to Sexy Sadie sound reduplicated & echoey.

  

It sounds like summer to me. A perfect, warm nostalgic blanket. What a song. 

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sir walter raleigh said
Love Come Tumbling Down – “I saw the look she gave, they must think I don’t get around”a-hard-days-night-paul-10 unbelievable two part harmony over that. Feels so good to listen to that part. Hard to put it into words, go listen to the song if you don’t know what I’m taking about. 

 

Sgt Peppers – “sit back and let the evening go” into that horn line. Its so smooth, and shows just how deep their bag of tricks goes. The guitar part, and especially the vocals rule on this song, but the horns really decorate it in an unbelievable way that serves the song really well. 

  

You can also feel the pain as Paul sings “as she looks into his eyes I feel”. 

One of the too many Paul tracks that deserved to be more than a forgotten track buried on a CD single. 

 

I wonder if one day we will see the rejected ‘Return to Pepperland‘ album as Paul goes thru the vaults.

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meanmistermustard said

sir walter raleigh said

Love Come Tumbling Down – “I saw the look she gave, they must think I don’t get around”a-hard-days-night-paul-10 unbelievable two part harmony over that. Feels so good to listen to that part. Hard to put it into words, go listen to the song if you don’t know what I’m taking about. 

You can also feel the pain as Paul sings “as she looks into his eyes I feel”.

One of the too many Paul tracks that deserved to be more than a forgotten track buried on a CD single.

  

I think even an inclusion on Flowers In The Dirt would put this song firmly into the category of underrated deep tracks. Instead it is released 10 years after it was recorded as a B side. It wasn’t even available in digital stores/streaming until the Flaming Pie deluxe in 2020, and then the 7″ singles in 2022. To have a song this good buried so deep in your catalog is incredible. 

They are two very different songwriters, but Dylan is the only other artist I can think of to have that amount of quality depth in their catalogue. Not only have they consistently produced great songs into their 80s, which is incredibly rare in its own right, they have managed to have genuine creative resurgences decades after their “prime.” Songs like LCTD or Dreamin’ of You exemplify this as well as anything. 

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Forgot it was on the deluxe ‘Flaming Pie ‘ and have no idea what’s on the ‘Singles Collection’ but makes sense.

I’d add ‘Same Love’ to the same pile; a great performance and vocal on a track that was left in the vaults for a decade and then only issued as a b-side.

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i want you (she’s so heavy): about six minute into the song when the white noise starts to become audible

the bass on think for your self

One After 909 (let it be version) after john sang “pick up my bags, run right home”, paul also sings “run right home~~”

the sound of the string noise of the cello on Eleanor Rigby

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i want you (she’s so heavy): about six minute into the song when the white noise starts to become audible

the bass on think for your self

One After 909 (let it be version) after john sang “pick up my bags, run right home”, paul also sings “run right home~~”

the sound of the string noise of the cello on Eleanor Rigby  

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