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15 February 2015
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Can Paul McCartney just rename this song ‘The Innuendo Song’ and get it over with 
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11.07pm
30 April 2019
Offline Beatlebug said
Can Paul McCartney just rename this song ‘The Innuendo Song’ and get it over with
I think it’s a bit too up front to be the innuendo song.
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Ahhh Girl said
Why don’t we duet in the road?
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3.02pm
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15 February 2015
Offline Kaniffee said
I think it’s a bit too up front to be the innuendo song.
Fair point, but remember, ‘do it’ is technically innuendo, even though it’s the most obvious innuendo ever. But when I was a kid and I (obviously) didn’t know what connotations ‘do it’ had, ‘it’ could have meant anything to me.
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10.01pm
15 November 2018
Offline Hell, when you’re a kid, you don’t understand anything. I remember being about seven, mishearing some random people’s conversation, and informing my mom that those swim flipper thingies were used for ‘underwater sex.’ She nearly crashed the car. 
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9.04am
11 September 2018
Offline When somebody says ‘no one will be watching us’, it almost certainly means that somebody will. Especially if your ‘dancing partner is one of the world’s most famous men in 1968. I’d suggest McCartney sing a re-written version from now on:
Why don’t we do it in a bed?
We can keep the curtains closed,
why don’t we do it in a bed?
Why don’t we do it in a bed?
We can lock the bedroom door,
why don’t we do it in a bed?
Why don’t we do it in a bed?
We can turn the lights off too,
why don’t we do it in a bed?
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7 May 2017
Offline Not too few people dislike this one, don’t they? I never really understood why exactly. It rocks hard, the vocal performance by McCartney is great and it is Pretty much the predecessor to Oh! Darling .
Mean comment incoming: If this short track was on Abbey Road and loosely connected to some similar tunes, people would love it. Looking at you, Polythene Pam and company. But on the White Album it’s filler, sure…
But I also think it could have been a bit longer, even if it were only 30 more seconds.
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It wouldn’t survive my “White Album as single disc” culling, but I do enjoy Paul’s R&B vocalizing, always did.
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15 November 2018
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Ooo, I have to remember to redo that one of these days… I think this song would stay, though. It’s got excellent percussion and a seriously amazing vocal, even if the lyrics are… lacking.
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12.38pm
14 December 2009
Offline Haha back in 1986, during my first year of uni, and some months after first buying the White Album , I was listening in bed late at night, headphones on, and couldn’t help singing along.
Next morning, my roommate asks me if he was dreaming, or did he hear me repeatedly singing “We can do it in the road!” or something during the night. 
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1.14pm
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15 February 2015
Offline Lesson learned: don’t sing along with your late-night headphones listening 
I have to restrain myself sometimes, I don’t want to wake my familoids up 
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3.14pm
26 January 2017
Offline Haha I did the same thing last year when I was sleeping in our campervan outside my grandmother’s house because there wasn’t enough room.. I was singing along to Lou Reed’s ‘Perfect Day’ under my breath (or so I thought) but as it turned out my whole family heard me
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1 May 2011
Offline It’s a great rocker with a great vocal and flies past without overstaying its welcome. Yes the lyrics are not in-depth but it’s far better saying little than writing drivel like “I was accosted by a barker playing a simple tune upon his flute. Toot toot toot toot.”
I’m more puzzled by how take 5 sounds very different from the final version which came from take 5 (and might as well include take 4).
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5.05pm
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15 February 2015
Offline Awww I liiiiike London Town
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5.10pm
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1 May 2011
Offline Beatlebug said
Awww I liiiiike London Town
It has a few moments of being interesting but some of the lyrics would have been improved if Paul had eaten a tin of alphabetti spaghetti, vomited after digestion and went with what he first saw/read.
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5.51pm
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15 February 2015
Offline ^That sounds like an awesome way to write a song, akin to Bowie’s cut-up lyrics.
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2.35am
8 September 2024
Offline I wanted to run an idea I have about the true meaning of a Beatles’ throw away and believed to be vulgar by some, song. Which, when put in the context of when it was written, is absolutely brilliant! “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road” was written 2 years after their last tour concert. Through the albums Rubber Soul and Revolver , the group had taken their already incredible creativity up to even much higher levels!
Their true art and gift to the world was their creativity! Not standing around in concert, going through the motions rehashing songs that everyone was already familiar with, in front of a screaming audience that made it so they could hardly hear themselves, never mind if the audience could hear them either.
Yet. 2 years after their last live performance they were still getting tons of fan mail repeatedly begging them to please come to Cleveland or please come to Pittsburg. Which seemed to imply that their new and unparallelled contributions in the studio were not as important as the nonsense (to them at this point) of a live performance. Ridiculous! Listen to the song again with these thoughts in mind.
Dear Beatles,
Why won’t you go on tour (again) so we can come and watch you?
Answer: “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road” Equating the sacred and private act of their magnificent creativity, with the (hopefully) sacred and private act of sex. It’s definitely something we don’t want or need you to watch!
Could there be a more perfectly brilliant response?
I think Paul copped out to an alternate explanation of the lyrics. Not wishing to denigrate any of his rabid (but relatively clueless) fans.
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7 November 2022
Offline Interesting theory; I never thought about that timeline. Imagine a parody —
“Why don’t we go out on the road…
No one will be hearing us… WHY don’t we go out on the road!”
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8.29am
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1 May 2011
Offline They kind of did do a show on the road, the only difference being they were up on a rooftop above the streets. Maybe it’s all linked.
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9.40pm
7 November 2022
Offline Why don’t we do it on the ROOF
Why don’t we do it on the ROOF
Why don’t we do it on the ROOF
The whole world will be watching us —
Why don’t we do it on the ROOF!
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