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Song: Sing A Simple Song
Grief: The voice saying "Sing a simple song"

iembalm wrote:There's a song by The Police, and damned if I can remember which one, where Andy Summers' solo was submitted to piss Sting off, and he succeeded. It sucks.

Its on Zenyatta Mondatta, i think. Maybe "Driven to Tears"

Arson Smith wrote:Song: Here, There, and Everywhere (Beatles)
Grievance: that weird chromatic bit right after the line "I know I need never care" makes my teeth hurt.

Man the Beatles had some bad bridges in general when I think about it. "Do You Want To Know A Secret?" COULD of been a semi-okay piece of fluff but that bridge is horrible!

But the same sorta chromatic bridge makes "Things We Said Today" one of the best songs in their canon, so it's a good thing they kept at it.

Now that we're on the Beatles.....

My "minor grievance?" There is no way some twentysomething Liverpudlian's wrote the lyrics to "My Life." No. Way.

iembalm wrote:Now that we're on the Beatles.....

My "minor grievance?" There is no way some twentysomething Liverpudlian's wrote the lyrics to "My Life." No. Way.

Why? They're not fantastic words, in my opinion. They're good - John always wrote good words, unlike McCartney who took awhile - but not superfantastic. Lines and phrases like "Some have gone and some remain", "have their moments", "There is no one compares with you"...all fairly sentimental cliches, waiting to be plucked and arranged. There's some good, tasty word choices, but it doesn't seem impossible for John Lennon - not you or I, but John Lennon - to come up with them. Nor does it seem outstanding even for Lennon's output on the rest of Rubber Soul - "Girl", "Norwegian Wood", and "Nowhere Man". Eh.

There is a moment in Bowie's "Sound and Vision" where one of the vocals distort in one channel. I can't help hearing it now that I noticed it.

Antero wrote:There is a moment in Bowie's "Sound and Vision" where one of the vocals distort in one channel. I can't help hearing it now that I noticed it.

Oog. Speaking of which, once, when I was much younger, my cousin pointed this out to me, and it forever ruined the song (well it's been overplayed to death over the years anyhow, but...)

The Doors "Hello, I Love You"....

Every damn time the drums come around just near "tell me your name" or "jump in your game" and it goes "ba-Doomp, ba-Doomp, ba-Doompa...."

I had probably heard that song a zillion times without that part standing out, but once it was specifically pointed out to me, I could never not hear it going forward. Agh.

Edith Frost's "Telescopic" has a tape edit error or something in one of the vocals, and it bugs the shit out of me. It's such an incredible song too, but all I hear is that glitch. I wait for it, even.

Both cd's I have owned of Sgt. Pepper have had the same "revelation of the source tape limitations" at the same place: a hideous clicking noise over "Biiiiiiiillllyyyyyyy Shears!"

And if any of you would like to correct my assessment of the problem, by all means.

Rudimentary Peni - Kappa Alpha Tau

It needs to be longer.