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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]

Oh good lord. Never heard of the Bee Gees musical, but it sounds, well, like "a mother lode of undiluted insanity".

The song you linked isn't visible in my region.