Yeah, they did, and considering all that goes on, thanks for sharing that perfect bit of sunshine with us, Major!

I like the original and -- even though it happens to be on Sailoranna's playlist -- I never ever cared for that one cover from which The Wonder Years used excerpts. I can appreciate wanting to do something different, and understand that I might be missing context and/or finer points of what the other musician was going for... yet it always sounded to me as though the male vocalist was fuckin' bored with the song, wanting to move on to something different 'n' more talky, but dealing with the reality of the the lady backup singers prodding him back into the actual Beatles song, or at least trying to do so with varying success.

Well, Joe Cocker, 'nuff said.

Maybe this version? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbHefZq04cI

Well, thank you for not taking me for a Philistine XD I'll go out on a potentially riskier limb and say that American Pie, from roughly that same time, is one long-assed pet peeve of mine; the fawning it gets, even more so. I love the music of the actual Buddy Holly (and, incidentally, of an actor who played him on the West End a while back), but I thought Don McLean self-indulgently made stuff about him, and the fella just got lucky that so many other people read themselves into his 'hi hi I'm such a poet guy' schtick.

As for the link: Many times over, yes! ("X times over" on account of it being a medley ) The instrumental intro makes me think "The Yellow Submarine Meets Watership Down". The Nowhere Man sampling brings back fond memories I have of playfully arguing with an older family member about whether that was a good song (I always liked it).

I do like American Pie's melody. The rest, as you say, is self-indulgent at best. :)

I feel Don McLean...
There, fixed myself! I wasn't thur at the time.

I was around, however, when Michael Jackson's 'Bad' came out... trouble being that I was still too little for it to be much a part of my world yet. However, the song and music video for 'Fat' soon crossed my radar... and made me ROFL in the literal sense the first time I ever heard/watched it. Then, the first time I saw 'Bad' on MTV, I indignantly exclaimed something along the lines of "He shouldn't be stealing from Weird Al!" An older family member of mine (the same, BTW, who'd later go on to call 'Nowhere Man' "the most pathetic excuse for a song ever written") explained the reality of the situation to me... rather gently, in retrospect.

A pair of decades later, I looked forward to the prospect of kids, upon hearing Mr. McLean's opus, themselves yelling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEcjgJSqSRU
"Hey! He's stealing from Weird Al!!"

Heh. Like Muddy Waters stealing from Led Zeppelin?

Ha ha! Well, there is chronology, and there is personal exposure. Narnia taught us that... one way or another... depending on the publisher, maybe ;P

Reminds me of when RunDMC rapped "There's three of us but we're not the Beatles"

And couldn't agree with you more about "American Pie". Extremely overrated sentimental crap, and I've thought that since it came out. -But we've actually discussed that here pretty recently.

With me being out of town a few times, and the major's sheer (and intentional) volume of uploads...
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/45285035/
(^ not the MMM upload I was trying to remember, but demonstrative enough)
... I must've missed that exchange, but I can believe what you say

Given some of my other tastes in media, I'd be a hypocrite to say that the sentiment(ality, whatnot) is what gets to me about A.P.; it's more that I can practically hear the percussion of Don McLean patting himself on his back for all the wordplay. Journalists then fed his ego about it in perpetuity, including by JAQing off (just asking questions). To this day, hell, the Wikipedia page on it takes the song's level of profundity for granted... although whether that came about organically, or as the result of a one-sided victory in edit warring, I cannot say.

I'm not even against sentimentality per se, but the kind of mawkish sentimentality and LCD pop sensibility of this song, -much of it gained in the decades since its release- have always just rubbed me the wrong way. It all just strikes me as really pedestrian, so I suppose I agree with you about the poetry. If I never heard it again for the rest of my life I'd be happy, but fat chance.

That being said, I'd be the first to admit that my musical tastes definitely lean away from most pop and towards the more extreme or creative.

Methinks we've all had those days...
https://youtu.be/GKdl-GCsNJ0

Most apt. :)

and the next day they drove to work: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/46669219/

Beatles by World's Greatest Band: https://youtu.be/ClGsG7E3ADg

they were incredible artists and composers... I remember buying this album back in the 60's at the grocery store because I liked the cover...

V.

Interestingly enough, I didn't get into Sgt Pepper until I heard Elton John's cover of "Lucy In The Sky"...

Elton John... *shivers...

V.

Billy Crystal's daughter asked him about "some band" Paul McCartney was in before Wings...

Q: What do you call a pig with wings?
A: Linda McCartney.

https://youtu.be/orH44dDJ7Cg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb25jQ06J_4

I'm so sorry.

I'll see your Linda and raise you Yoko...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZYC4OB3ECc



Marginally better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yViPoAAYLeo

While I totally understand why so many people hate a lot of Yoko's vocals -Atonal? Yes. Grating? Yes. Easy to make fun of? Sure- But those people mostly have no idea of twentieth century avant garde art, where being purposely random, ugly or confrontational became accepted or even necessary parts of it.

I actually love Yoko. She's a brilliant and extremely creative artist, particularly if you look at her work over the scope of her whole career. She still gets way too much hate. It's still common for people to mistakenly blame her for "Breaking up the Beatles", ferchrissakes.

And to be fair to Linda, she did fine on the recorded work, where she could take her time and as many takes as needed. It's MUCH harder to hear yourself well and perform perfectly on stage in the chaos of a live show with a huge sound system and probably less than optimal monitoring. But the engineer made that recording for a reason. It was driving him nuts listening to her mangle the background vocals night after night. She certainly wasn't the seasoned musician and natural that Paul is.

I would also staunchly defend amateurs and non-musicians that make music. I think that everybody should. It's a particularly joyous way of expressing yourself, communicating, and interacting with people. I've been doing it since I was ten years old, and I'm still a rank amateur and a hack, but I love it, and have even gotten to work with some pretty great people and do some pretty cool stuff over the years.

Used to play bass, myself, until my buddy Arthur Itis came to stay...

One thing I've learned over the years is that when you're a "musician's musician," only musicians will be interested in hearing you play.

Otherwise, you're just a squiggle... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_QhIVYlcmE

TBH, I kinda vibe with the squiggle. Dot is a fickle ho, and line is just a pretentious square. :p

That vid reminds me of Flatland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland

Thanks to radio and tv waves spreading across space, , The Beatles will be heard by someone or something.. They "will be remembered when men are fairy tales and books written by rabbits."

https://nationalcynical.bandcamp.co.....-auto-tune-ecc

As a side note, I know the guy who did this piece, and he said it was a particularly difficult project. It was hard to find a program that would actually do what he wanted, and difficult to get even that program to achieve the desired result, because auto tune is designed to get things into tune as opposed to out of tune.

OughtaTune?