BrunoBass Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 13 hours ago, scrumpymike said: Macca should have stopped a while back, it's getting embarrassing. It's not like he needs the money! I thought his last album was the best work he’d done in quite a while. It had a couple of duds on it, but he’s never been the best at self editing. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulWarning Posted March 28, 2020 Author Share Posted March 28, 2020 7 hours ago, BrunoBass said: I thought his last album was the best work he’d done in quite a while. It had a couple of duds on it, but he’s never been the best at self editing. Quite, when in the Beatles he'd got Lennon and George Martin to do that job, but, and I'm only surmising here, he surrounds himself with yes men who are on the payroll, well they're not going to turn round and say "That's rubbish Paul" are they? I remember an interview with him after the 'Give my regards to Broad St' calamity, where he said "I can see it's not very good now, but why didn't somebody tell me at the time?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 My solution to this problem would be to have 2 phones. Then you can fit all the Beatles songs on and some of their better solo songs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulWarning Posted March 28, 2020 Author Share Posted March 28, 2020 15 minutes ago, chris_b said: My solution to this problem would be to have 2 phones. Then you can fit all the Beatles songs on and some of their better solo songs. I've now got a 64gb card in my phone, loads of room, there's not much solo Beatle stuff I'd want on there tbh, imo the sum of the parts is far exceeded by the greater whole, which is true of a lot of bands 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrunoBass Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 2 hours ago, PaulWarning said: ...he surrounds himself with yes men who are on the payroll, well they're not going to turn round and say "That's rubbish Paul" are they? I believe Nigel Godrich did, when producing ‘Chaos and Creation in the Backyard’, and hasn’t worked with McCartney since. That’s a strong album though, Godrich was clearly a positive and productive influence. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grandad Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 (edited) https://ultimateclassicrock.com/paul-mccartney-bass-beatles/?fbclid=IwAR1koAQ3HEYNPr460d8y2_fahKoCrzfrofZzENJTLwRtqLJOEj-Zk8M7W6Q Edited July 23, 2020 by grandad insert image Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassfinger Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 (edited) I'd have just deleted anything not written by George Harrison. Job done. Edited July 23, 2020 by Bassfinger Awtuv typpig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inthedoghouse Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 If it was mine I'd keep Eleanor Rigby and Yesterday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjones Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 (edited) Julia is a beautiful song. I do agree that The White Album would have made a classic single album, there's too much filler for a double album. I would choose 13 songs from the original double album. Three would be Macca tunes, one would be a Harrison, one would be a Ringo tune and all the rest would be from Lennon. Paul Mccartney couldn't half come out with some saccharine rubbish sometimes. Edited July 23, 2020 by gjones 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike257 Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 On 23/03/2020 at 12:49, Paul S said: Late last year he played me 'I Want You' from Abbey Road which, to my knowledge, I had never heard before. I actually like that a lot That's a truly wonderful bit of bass playing, that song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drax Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 (edited) Surprised to hear BCers still downloading music files to their phones. Assumed the opportunity to have so much at your fingertips on Spotify / streamed would be where most were at .. Edited July 23, 2020 by Drax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BreadBin Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 7 hours ago, Drax said: Surprised to hear BCers still downloading music files to their phones. Assumed the opportunity to have so much at your fingertips on Spotify / streamed would be where most were at .. I download Spotify tunes to my phone so I don't use up all my data, also helps when out in the wilds with no service. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drax Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 (edited) Absolutely. Used that a lot BC when work meant commuting by tube.. Edited July 24, 2020 by Drax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 10 hours ago, Drax said: Surprised to hear BCers still downloading music files to their phones. Assumed the opportunity to have so much at your fingertips on Spotify / streamed would be where most were at .. Spotify has at best two-thirds of the music I want to listen to available. If I want to hear my favourite tunes they need to be downloaded from my record/CD collection to my device. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drax Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 Yeah that is true, I get that. There's a whole mountain of great undiscovered stuff though. And re OP - everything the Beatles recorded Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoulderpet Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 On 22/03/2020 at 17:12, PaulWarning said: I've just been loading the entire Beatles catalogue onto my phone, trouble is I was running out of space so I deleted the songs I don't like, got me thinking, seeing as we're stuck at home maybe fellow basschaters would like to say whether they agree or not. These are the ones I deleted. Till There Was You Yesterday Eleanor Rigby Yellow Submarine Within You Without You When I'm 64 Wild Honey Pie Martha My Dear Piggies Rocky Raccoon Why Don't We Do It In The Road I Will Julie Mother Nature's Son Honey Pie Revolution 9 Maxwell's Silver Hammer The Fool On The Hill Flying Blue Jay Way Your Mother Should know All You Need Is Love You may have noticed a lot off the White Album, I'm with George Martin on this one, it would have made a great single album, not a fan of Macca's tweeness either, I also cut Hey Jude down to 3.45, that ending is way too long This is tough since even their weakest songs are usually pretty damn good Till There Was You Agree Yesterday One of their best songs imo and one of the finest songs ever written, I would have kept it Eleanor Rigby Also one of their best songs Yellow Submarine Agree Within You Without You Agree When I'm 64 Agree Wild Honey Pie Agree Martha My Dear Somewhat agree Piggies Somewhat agree Rocky Raccoon Agree 100% Why Don't We Do It In The Road Disagree, I quite like this one I Will Agree Julie Agree Mother Nature's Son Somewhat agree Honey Pie Agree Revolution 9 Agree, their weakest track imo Maxwell's Silver Hammer Agree The Fool On The Hill Somewhat agree Flying Agree Blue Jay Way Agree Your Mother Should knowDisagree All You Need Is Love Somewhat agree 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Valdemar Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 I'm alarmed at the dislike for Julia - it's one of the most beautiful and haunting things I've ever heard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpondonBassed Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 On 22/03/2020 at 17:12, PaulWarning said: not a fan of Macca's tweeness I should think so too. Oh wait. "Macca's tweeness". It's the hearing you know... With us old boys it's always the second thing to wither away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpondonBassed Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 On 22/03/2020 at 17:51, stewblack said: Eleanor Rigsby always been a favourite of mine though. On 22/03/2020 at 18:03, MrCrane said: Is that the one with Leonard Rossiter on vocals? 🙂 It's a little known fact that an obscure band by the name of Ultravox, I think they were called, had a slight hit with a song about Rigsby's cat. Compared to The* Beatles their back catalogue is a bit thin though. *We can go back to using the definite article with band names and not get condescending remarks from whippersnappers now can't we? Phew TFFT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grenadillabama Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 On 22/03/2020 at 12:47, PaulWarning said: yeah, I like the rocky stuff mainly and I don't think any of the others play on it, could be wrong, some I've just got fed up with hearing them, that's one of them Tell it ! Some tunes have a good bass part and some songs are a recording experiment that turned out nice . I like rock . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpondonBassed Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 (edited) On 22/03/2020 at 17:12, PaulWarning said: I've just been loading the entire Beatles catalogue onto my phone, trouble is I was running out of space so I deleted the songs I don't like It's a nice problem to have though isn't it? I don't carry my music with me nor do I stream. I had my fill of that with cassette tape and Walkman clones. I can see how some members might have a completist attitude in that they'd have to have all or nothing of the body of work that The Beatles did but where would you stop? With the Fan Club recordings? With the lost recordings of demos recovered? With foreign language versions of their hits? I've felt I should have their entire works in the past but despite having the means, as we do today, of compiling the whole collection with relative ease, I don't do anything about it. That said, I probably haven't listened to the non-hits so much. It's not quite the same as with an artist such as Bowie where you hear a song and although you can't relate to it until you've heard it through a couple more times, you know the time you invest in listening will be rewarded. I'd be more interested in having his entire works. This because I feel I can always "get" the essence of a Beatles tune relatively quickly but with Bowie I'd like to have his tunes on hand to really get under the skin of them. Weeding out Beatles tracks wouldn't be too hard for me. I would start with all of the top ten hits because I have heard them over and over. I will continue to hear them over and over too. That leaves the ones that I may not have given much of my time to in the past. Okay they're not perhaps as deep as Bowie's stuff but they were ten years before and I was still a young child. It's as if Pop Music was maturing alongside of me, becoming deeper and more sophisticated, a bit* like myself. *I use the term, "a bit", loosely. When I say "loosely"; I mean "not at all" Edited July 24, 2020 by SpondonBassed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassfinger Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 16 hours ago, Drax said: Surprised to hear BCers still downloading music files to their phones. Assumed the opportunity to have so much at your fingertips on Spotify / streamed would be where most were at .. Some of us don't have a smartphone to download music file to... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpondonBassed Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 17 hours ago, Drax said: Surprised to hear BCers still downloading music files to their phones. Assumed the opportunity to have so much at your fingertips on Spotify / streamed would be where most were at .. Some of us are anti-streaming remember. I don't do it as a rule. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drax Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 52 minutes ago, SpondonBassed said: Some of us are anti-streaming remember. I don't do it as a rule. Yeah we're on the same side here. Streaming royalties are crap - artists should get more. One of the many paradoxes we have in life today. I view that avoiding streaming doesn't help the artist, but buying their record does. Listen to the vinyl / CD at home - and feel relatively comfortable listening on Spotify when out. This is all the more important for emerging artists. Sorry for thread derail - conscious it's ground we've covered before. 🤘 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 On 22/03/2020 at 17:12, PaulWarning said: You may have noticed a lot off the White Album, I'm with George Martin on this one, it would have made a great single Fixed that for you (I'm sure others have done the same). I used to love the White Album, I don't know why but in the last five years over which I haven't listened to it at all, a look through the track listing makes me seriously question my former tastes. Re Hey Jude, love the Primal Scream-esque bass-line on the Love album Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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