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[selenak]

Daily annoyance for this long-suffering Beatles fan:

1) Coming across a fanboy who interprets the lyrics from Here Today as an attack on John. Quoth the fanboy: "Didn't understand a thing - Paul is saying John was daft". Head. Desk. (The verse in question goes - "What about the time we met? Well, I suppose that you could say that we were playing

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[airie_fairy]

2) What the fuck, dude. At both of those guys. How do you compare a songwriter to Nixon? How does that even work? And that other dude, who you spent the bulk of your rant ranting about...its amazing how resolutely bitter fans can suddenly say something kind about someone else they hate just so they can make the more immediate object of their hate sound worse in comparison (and even then, of course, be underhanded about their relative compliments to the other). Batshit fan behavior is as morbidly intriguing as it is predictable. Now, moving on: OMG George's every response to those marriage questions, both the various instances of PAUL WHY WON'T YOU LOVE MEEEE as well as the "answering service" snipe. XD

Yay, Jimi covering the Beatles! A number of years ago, when downloading music was new to me, I was doing some errant browsing and came across a Jimi Hendrix cover of Day Tripper. I wonder if I still have it burned to a back-up CD somewhere.

[airie_fairy]

Oh, and if the dude is going to imply that All Those Years Ago's sentiment is ruined by a jaunty beat, he clearly doesn't understand music and the sheer amount of effective songs with their power in the fact that they set something upsetting to something ironically upbeat to make it stand out more. And/or that the song was a celebration of times with a loved one. Pfft.

[selenak]

Clearly doesn't understand music is probably why even in the more or less balanced John bio he claims George's "Here Comes The Sun" is drenched in John influence and imitation. I mean. What?

And yes. All Those Years Ago is a case for both celebration and musical irony. Some with George's This Song, btw, and WHY DID THEY GIVE PHILIPP NORMAN GEORGE'S OBITUARY TO WRITE ANYWAY?

[airie_fairy]

Dude clearly what actually happened was that John ripped off Here Comes the Sun with Sun King.

(I don't know if this is true, but I feel justified in my impression. It's like he really wished he'd come up with the line and then threw together some randomness of his own around it so that he could use it too.)

[selenak]

Ha. I wish to suscribe to your theory. :) Actually there's merit to it because John came up with his contributions to the medley relatively late, and Here Comes The Sun was recorded far earlier than that.

[selenak]

Oh, Robert Christgau (the one who in his Village obituary made the Kennedy = John, Nixon = Paul comparison complete with kind wish Paul should have died instead) has a hate-on on all things McCartney anyway. This is the critic who said, in a tv documentary about John and Paul, re: Yesterday that he can just about bear the song now but only if someone else sings it, "not if he does it" and who trashed every post-Beatles album Paul ever produced. (The trashing of Band on the Run comes complete with suggestion that whatever merit the album has can only come from exploited Nigerian musicians on same. Never mind there were no exploited Nigerian musicians on BotR.)

And yes, Philipp Norman is exactly that type of bitter fan. He even writes bitter fan poetry. (About Paul, in the Sunday Times, before the George obit. "O deified Scouse, with unmusical spouse/For the clichés and cloy you unload,/To an anodyne tune may they bury you soon/In the middlemost midst of the road." And in the last edition of Shout! republished before he wrote his Life

[airie_fairy]

Wait, so that's both obituaries for his bandmates that include the writer wishing Paul dead? Jesus.

LMFAO PAUL/OTHER PEOPLE'S BRIDES.

[selenak]

Yes, and I hear you.

Paul/Other People's Brides never fails to amuse me. And they keep making him best man! (Geoff Emerick, the Beatles engineer, had him at best man at his wedding, too, but alas no photo to prove the theory that snapshots like these are inevitable.)

[airie_fairy]

It's especially the one where he full-on looks like he's about to make out with his sister-in-law that tickles.

[selenak]

:) And beaming Mike on the other side. That wedding must have been a fun one by all accounts and snapshots. Here's Paul giving the speech:

[airie_fairy]

JAAANE.

[selenak]

More Jane at Mike's wedding:

[airie_fairy]

As lovely as that is from an aesthetic point of view, I'm going to go ahead and counter with this:

[selenak]

Awwwww, and also LOL at the "Win!" expression. Here she is with brother Peter:

[airie_fairy]

SO MUCH GINGER.

[selenak]

That family looks like it had the patent on ginger, doesn't it? And on artistic gifts, between mother Margaret teaching music (she taught George Martin playing the oboe, in another case of small world), Dr. Asher being a groundbreaking pioneer, Peter's acting and singing and Jane's acting. When you read the biographies you rather get the impression Paul fell for the lot of them, and no surprise.