Worst Beatles Songs

Subject: Re: Worst Beatles Songs Tue Sep 09, 2008 2:59 pm

pinhedz wrote:

I don't think Rocky Raccoon is very good.

Yeah, but it works placed where it is on the White Album. And it's at least as good as "Lily, Rosemary & The Jack of Hearts."

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Subject: Re: Worst Beatles Songs Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:01 pm

pinhedz wrote:

I don't think Rocky Raccoon is very good.

I

Rocky Racoon.

Subject: Re: Worst Beatles Songs Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:52 pm

twood50785 wrote:

pinhedz wrote:

I don't think Rocky Raccoon is very good.

I

Rocky Racoon.

Does that mean you consider it good? Sometimes it doesn't matter.

I've been wondering how a person from across the pond perceives the locale of the events in this song. Do you think it takes place in the Wild West, or could it be somewhere in England?

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Subject: Re: Worst Beatles Songs Tue Sep 09, 2008 4:00 pm

pinhedz wrote:

twood50785 wrote:

pinhedz wrote:

I don't think Rocky Raccoon is very good.

I

Rocky Racoon.

Where are the events of the song supposed to be taking place? In the Wild West, or somewhere in England?

Ummmm where ever you fancy Pinhedz! I would presume it's set in the Wild West...

Subject: Re: Worst Beatles Songs Tue Sep 09, 2008 4:02 pm

The vocal sounds kind of cowboy-like.

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Subject: Re: Worst Beatles Songs Tue Sep 09, 2008 4:04 pm

pinhedz wrote:

The vocal sounds kind of cowboy-like.

Well yes, sorry, I thought you were joking about his bad accent or something... scratch

The opening line is: "Now somewhere in the black mining hills of Dakota". And we certainly don't have "local saloons" in England. Wink

Subject: Re: Worst Beatles Songs Tue Sep 09, 2008 4:09 pm

I reckon that accent ain't too bad...considering.

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Subject: Re: Worst Beatles Songs Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:50 am

I think it takes place in the silver screen of the Sat aft movie matinees of the Beatles' collective boyhoods. The black hills of Dakota is straight from the Doris Day movie, "Annie Get Your Gun."

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Bullfrog wrote:

I've held out posting on this thread for the simple reason that I cannot think of any real dogs in The Beatles catalog. Even Maxwell's Silver Hammer is listenable - yes! I'm not at all saying that everything they realeased was of an exceptional standard - but there's nothing in the stuff that was realeased in their lifespan as a group that I go "That's reallt fucking horrible" to. Maybe a mild "Bleuggh" now and again but not much more.

And for the record: Ob-la-di Ob-la-da is afucking great tune!

What a trip. As I was listening to Abbey Road today I remembered that I had read somewhere how someone couldn't stand Maxwell's Silver Hammer. I thought, hey, I dig this song, it ain't that bad. And now here I am reading old posts in the Beatle forum and come across another who digs the song too. Coo. So Bullfrog, you don't dig Monty Python, but you dig The Far Side and The Beatles, well, two out of three ain't bad as the saying goes.

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Subject: Re: Worst Beatles Songs Fri Oct 30, 2009 6:11 pm

"Maxwell" is a fine song, from which we can also glean valuable insights into the British educational and criminal justices systems.

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pinhedz wrote:

"Maxwell" is a fine song, from which we can also glean valuable insights into the British educational and criminal justices systems.

Please enlighten me/us.

I always think of Steve Martin when I hear the song. What a terrible movie that is.

Subject: Re: Worst Beatles Songs Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:27 pm

pinhedz wrote:

I reckon that accent ain't too bad...considering.

Considering it's kind of taking the piss, I agree.

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I don't know why so many people hate "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", I love it! Such a dark grim song about a murderer who beats people (his girlfriend, his teacher, then a judge) to death with a hammer, yet it's sung in such a bouncy, lighthearted, upbeat way--very clever, imo.

Subject: Re: Worst Beatles Songs Sat Oct 31, 2009 8:29 pm

Uh-oh.

I'm not convinced that the motherless victims of the Yorkshire Ripper would agree with that assessment; Peter Sutcliffe's MO involved a ball pein hammer.

I could well be over-reacting here because I was living in the north of England during the late 1970's and remember well the climate of fear.

Anyway...

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