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If you had to pick one (1) song with the Beatles as your all time favourite, which one would you pick?? Motivate your answer!!
For a long time A Day In The Life was my favourite but now I'll have to say:
In My Life, Lennon/McCartney's masterpiece from Rubber Soul (1965).
The song itself is of course great but I like it a lot because it's a Beatles track where they showed their strength as a band, before their songs became more and more sort of solo performances. It's also one of those songs that Lennon and McCartney actually did write together.
McCartney's backup vocal is superb as always just like his bass playing. Harrison's little guitar figure is so simple but at the same time so beautiful and haunting, accompaning the melancholic lyrics wonderfully. Starr is showing as so many times before and after this recording why he is such an underrated drummer with his skillful, sharp and effective playing. So often playing interesting rythms. And George Martin, the fifth beatle, is doing the coolest thing. He played the tape on a low speed, doing a piano solo on it, and when played on normal speed it sounds like a cembalo. Awesome stuff!
The things that make this song stand out from other great ones from the group are Lennon's lyrics and his singing. I think everybody can relate to the lyrics about one's past with all the places and faces, everywhere you've been and everyone you've met. And the way he sang it. So sincere and true. Whenever I hear this song I stop doing whatever I'm doing and just stand still and listen. It feels me with so many emotions; sadness, nostalgia, and warmth. And the last time Lennon sings the line In my life... in falcetto. So expressive... And then the finish with the guitar figure one last time. It's art.
Here's the lyrics:
In My Life
There are places I'll remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I've loved them all
But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more
In my life I love you more
-Lennon/McCartney
If you had to pick one (1) song with the Beatles as your all time favourite, which one would you pick?? Motivate your answer!!
For a long time A Day In The Life was my favourite but now I'll have to say:
In My Life, Lennon/McCartney's masterpiece from Rubber Soul (1965).
The song itself is of course great but I like it a lot because it's a Beatles track where they showed their strength as a band, before their songs became more and more sort of solo performances. It's also one of those songs that Lennon and McCartney actually did write together.
McCartney's backup vocal is superb as always just like his bass playing. Harrison's little guitar figure is so simple but at the same time so beautiful and haunting, accompaning the melancholic lyrics wonderfully. Starr is showing as so many times before and after this recording why he is such an underrated drummer with his skillful, sharp and effective playing. So often playing interesting rythms. And George Martin, the fifth beatle, is doing the coolest thing. He played the tape on a low speed, doing a piano solo on it, and when played on normal speed it sounds like a cembalo. Awesome stuff!
The things that make this song stand out from other great ones from the group are Lennon's lyrics and his singing. I think everybody can relate to the lyrics about one's past with all the places and faces, everywhere you've been and everyone you've met. And the way he sang it. So sincere and true. Whenever I hear this song I stop doing whatever I'm doing and just stand still and listen. It feels me with so many emotions; sadness, nostalgia, and warmth. And the last time Lennon sings the line In my life... in falcetto. So expressive... And then the finish with the guitar figure one last time. It's art.
Here's the lyrics:
In My Life
There are places I'll remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I've loved them all
But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more
In my life I love you more
-Lennon/McCartney
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".
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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.
The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".
--------
They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.
