Looks like it's time for a Lennon / McCartney comparison based on the songs chosen here so far:
Primarily written by John Help! Don't Let Me Down I Want You (She's So Heavy) I Am The Walrus (2) Norwegian Wood Come Together (2) Happiness is a Warm Gun If I Fell The Ballad of John and Yoko All You Need is Love Revolution Across the Universe Strawberry Fields
Primarily written by Paul Hey Jude (3) Let it Be (4) We Can Work It Out With a Little Help from my Friends Things We Said Today Tell Me What You See For No One (2) You Never Give Me Your Money Maxwell's Silver Hammer Eleanor Rigby (3) Rocky Raccoon Penny Lane (2) Lady Madonna Get Back Yellow Submarine Here Comes The Sun Helter Skelter
Equal or near-equal collaboration A Day in the Life (4) I've Got a Feeling Baby You're a Rich Man I Wanna Hold Your Hand Day Tripper
A little love for George While My Guitar Gently Weeps (w/ Clapton) If I Needed Someone
I want to pick up this game, but only if my Guitar Hero controller works with it. Does anyone know the answer? Back to the topic "Hey Jude" and "Yellow Submarine" are 2 and 3, but my #1 is "Here comes the sun". Every time it pops up on my satellite radio, I click over.
I like the music they made while under the influence of LSD. I like too many songs to pick one,i JUST started listening to them,I'm glad too because I've been missing out on a great band. "revolution" might be my favorite.
*is currently listening to "While my Guitar Gently Weeps" *
"I look at the world and I notice it's turning While my guitar gently weeps With every mistake we must surely be learning Still my guitar gently weeps"
It's weird, I seem to like more of the songs Paul wrote, yet much preferred John's solo career over his.
It's a complicated matter, as Paul was a musical genius of a level few even realize, capable of composing melodies and complex arrangements like it was the easiest thing in the world. Paul also played all instruments better than his bandmates -- he's technically a very capable drummer, a fantastic bassist, a lead guitarist with more technical skill than George (on those rare occasions where he shows off, like Good Morning Good Morning), and quite skilled at the piano as well. This is not, however, to diminish John's musical contribution, for, if you examine their songs across the Beatles' history from a music theory perspective, you'll see just how significant John's ideas were to many key harmonic and rhythmic techniques the Beatles used. John had a natural ability to use odd rhythms (mis-placed measures, extra beats at unexpected places, etc) effortlessly, and he also had an intuitive grasp of very unusual harmonic progressions, which Paul clearly took notice of and used in his own songs. John also, on a more surface level, kept Paul from receding into merely well-structured and musically complex but tame pop music.
That's the problem with much of Paul's solo career; he continues to display his mastery of musical composition, but often without the boldness of the experimentation John brought to the Beatles. I would, however, highly recommend that you buy Paul's first solo album, McCartney, if you haven't yet heard it. Paul recorded everything, all instruments from the drums to guitars, by himself in the studio, and the results are remarkable. You've likely at least hear Maybe I'm Amazed from this album (that YouTube video erroneously labels it as McCartney + Wings, but this was before Wings).
Compare John's first solo effort, Plastic Ono Band, to Paul's, and you get a sharp look at just how different their approaches to music were. Note, however, that A Day in the Life is currently tied on my list above for the most beloved song in this thread, and that was one of the cases of a perfect collaboration between John and Paul, with John providing the main parts and Paul writing the middle and transition sections. They were quite a team.
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I'm still laughing at what John said when asked if Ringo Starr was the best drummer in the world. He jokingly said, "Ringo's not even the best drummer in the Beatles!" That cracks me up. Of course what do you expect from a left-handed drummer playing on a right-handed kit.
I'm not exactly a Beatles fan, but if I had to chose one I'd go with Strawberry Fields, actually one of the only songs of theirs I like (but I like a few.)
Haha, yes, that was kind of a cruel joke for Lennon to throw out, but at least somewhat true. I do enjoy Ringo's drumming style in general, as un-flashy as it is, just as I appreciate what George's guitar work brought to the band, even though Paul could best them from a "technical" perspective.
For anyone wanting to compare their guitar styles, listen to The End -- once the soloing starts, the three of them (ie. everyone but Ringo of course) alternate playing two bars, in the order: Paul, George, John. You can listen closely and learn a whole lot about how each of them approached the instrument (Paul's bouncy and melodic bits, George's bluesy lines, and John's surprisingly modern blend of rhythm and noise with heavy distortion).
That's the problem with much of Paul's solo career; he continues to display his mastery of musical composition, but often without the boldness of the experimentation John brought to the Beatles .
I think that sums it up for me more or less. Paul (a great musician in his own right) just never seemed to be as varied and interesting to me. That's just a case of personal taste, of course.
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