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Beatles under a microscope - With The Beatles
nimrod:
--- Quote ---2. All I’ve Got To Do - This song doesn’t do much for me. Johns voice is nice enough. I like Pauls higher voice in the backgrounds also. Actually the background vocals as a whole are nice. Not thrilled with the guitar sound, but it is what it is. Again, not a lot to say about this throwaway.
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We disagree MASSIVELY on this one tkitna ;D..........I absolutely love this song, IMO it is the best song written so far (if were talking serious songwriting and not teeny boppergetahitatallcostsdom) in the Beatles canon, I actually think this is a magnificent song which is performed beautifully by the band, the opening line sung by John is sublime and sets up the song wonderfully, its like someone talking to you in a conversation, telling you something....'whenever I--------- want you around yeah.....' very personal and it just sucks you in, then comes the brilliant next line... 'all I gotta do (melisma)' sung with Paul harmonizing, the vocal counterpoint sung by them starts off as parallel thirds (normal harmony) , but then changes over to parallel fourth when Paul holds the same note E (when they sing Do-o-o-o-oooooo) as John starts to descend, I love that they do that.
We then move on to the ........is call you on the phone etc......section resolves the query John laid out in the first line beautifully, he tells us all he has to do to get his girl around (maybe about Cynthia, always at his beck & call?), so by the end of the 1st verse we have 3 completely different sections ! = masterful songwriting.
I could ramble on about it much more but IMO a monumentaly great song showing enormous talent......and I LOVE the hummed outro, like saying....thats the end of this conversation, Im bored ;D
nimrod:
Just to add to my last post on All I Gotta Do, to be fair to John he does state to Cynthia ? in the last section (before he hums the final verse) that he will always be there for her and all she has to do is 'you just gotta call on me'
That line is interesting in itself BTW, English people never say 'you just gotta call on me' as its gramatically incorrect, they would say 'you just have to call on me' the way John says it is more American English form so maybe all his listening to American music was having an effect on his lyrics at this point, I wouldve liked to have asked him if he was aware of that ;D
Anyway, the song lasts a mere 2 minutes and 3 seconds, nowhere near enough !
tkitna:
--- Quote from: nimrod on March 26, 2011, 09:41:53 PM ---
We disagree MASSIVELY on this one tkitna ;D..........I absolutely love this song,
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Yeah, we disagree massively. First thing I need to say is that lyrics mean absolutly nothing to me. Seriously, I could care less. I'm a drummer and when I listen to music, the lyrics are the last thing I hear or care about. Thats probably why i'm not a huge John solo fan. I could care less what he has to say. Secondly, Nimord, you seem to have a higher understanding than I do with the actual technical. music aspect of songs. I cant relate with key changes and chord stuff. The notes mean nothing to me. I'm only a drummer. I think this is why we see differntly on a lot of the songs. Theres nothing wrong with that though. I think it makes for good conversation. I might not like a song but you do, but now I understand why. Its kind of like my friend that loves 'There's A Place'. He's a guitar player and singer. The song does nothing for me. Anyways, when I hear this song, it sounds to me like the lads were under the fire and came up with a song in 10 minutes and there you have it. Its probably me.
All this being said, I like your input as it takes me to a different level of how people listen to songs and music. Thats what i'm looking for.
tkitna:
--- Quote from: nimrod on March 26, 2011, 09:08:19 PM ---PS Im going to finish this post in another post as when I type more than the actual size of the post window my screen gets annoyingly very jumpy, dont know if this is a problem with the site or just me ?
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Yeah, its horrible and I dont know why it happens. I do my reviews on WORD and copy and paste because of it. It sucks.
nyfan(41):
tkitna's take on all ive got to do was what i most disagreed with in his post as well
going as as far to call it a throwaway
for me, it's too masterfully executed and musically clever to be in that catagory - vocally, melodically instrumentally .. and lyrically clever as the narrator morphs from abusive user into valliant knight over the backdrop of a swooping chord change
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the opening guitar that sounds like it has a bit too much echo and is a bit to high in the mix is what makes AIGTD sound like the classic soul record it's mimicing
the harmony shift on doooooo melisma where one note stays the same and the other decends -> interestingly changing the interval ->
isn't that move almost directly from a smokey robinson song ? and didn't george even say this song was john 'doing' smokey robinson
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that's what fails about the song to me and ultimately leaves me empty after i hear it-> too derivative of smokey robinson and the miricles in the slow part of the song (almost to the point of parodying american soul) . . and to the point of making the song's plaintive theme seem ingenuous
when john belts the 'up' rock part of the song......... the contrast between the soul verses and rock middle break is too strong -> drawing attention to the mimicry even more (in my opinion)
on a whole though... the song is a skillful display of singing, playing and songwriting and it does not offend
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(would the beatles delve that deep into soul again until... got to get you into my life?? ha2ha)
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