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Re: Am I the only one who LIKES Don't Pass Me By?
« Reply #40 on: September 30, 2005, 02:45:22 PM »

http://www.folkofthewood.com/page4779.htm

Had to butt in and found this little quote from the link. Sorry Mairi. ;)

A violin is a fiddle; a fiddle is a violin. There are no differentiating features period. The only true reason you'd call one instrument a violin and the other a fiddle is the approach...someone who plays fiddle tunes, a fiddler, will address their violin as a fiddle.
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Re: Am I the only one who LIKES Don't Pass Me By?
« Reply #41 on: September 30, 2005, 02:56:04 PM »

Oh yeah, I knew that. It's just that in this context it's a fiddle. In Eleanor Rigbym, they're violins.

I grew up with fiddle music. ;)
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Re: Am I the only one who LIKES Don't Pass Me By?
« Reply #42 on: September 30, 2005, 02:59:56 PM »

I like the melody and Ringo singing is okay but......




The lyrics!

"You were in a car crash, And you lost your hair!"

I mean, what gives? Paul, John or George didn't say to him, "change that!?"
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Re: Am I the only one who LIKES Don't Pass Me By?
« Reply #43 on: September 30, 2005, 03:04:44 PM »

That lyric always makes me laugh. It's so bad that it's good.
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Re: Am I the only one who LIKES Don't Pass Me By?
« Reply #44 on: September 30, 2005, 03:19:56 PM »

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Oh yeah, I knew that. It's just that in this context it's a fiddle. In Eleanor Rigbym, they're violins.

I grew up with fiddle music. ;)

It's a debate I have had a few times in the past with friends so I thought I'd highlight it. I know a few fiddlers who would hate to be called a violinist. lol
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Re: Am I the only one who LIKES Don't Pass Me By?
« Reply #45 on: October 02, 2005, 09:28:57 PM »

I like it. It fits in with most of Ringo's Beatle material--non-threatening, not deep, just Ringo. George paid him a compliment by saying that Ringo writes 'cosmically' without knowing it. He was referring to Octopus' Garden and the line 'we would be warm, below the storm.
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Re: Am I the only one who LIKES Don't Pass Me By?
« Reply #46 on: October 07, 2005, 04:00:22 PM »

Tho I prefer underrated material more than mainstream in general, I dont like Dont Pass Me By. It sounds childish (and it only works a little cos is Ringo who is singing).

Ringo could write better lines than the famous (at least in this thread) "You were in a car crash and you lost your hair" and better titles too
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Re: Am I the only one who LIKES Don't Pass Me By?
« Reply #47 on: October 10, 2005, 05:39:02 PM »

The "You were in a car crash and you lost your hair" is just Ringo's humour coming out. If, on Anthology III, you program your CD for A Beginning and then follow it with DPMB, you get a nice experience. A Beginning was supposed to introduce DPMB anyway. I still think backing vocals from John, Paul and George would have made it a lot better. Their harmonies on Octopus's Garden work fantastically well.
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Re: Am I the only one who LIKES Don't Pass Me By?
« Reply #48 on: October 10, 2005, 05:46:59 PM »

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I wouldn't have said suffer. lol.... Ringo and George could have always left the group and formed their own if it was that much of a problem. Obviously Lennon and McCartney are going to put a lot of time into their own compositions. Why not?

Surprising view on the Beatles splitting! If some of Lennon-McCartney's lesser compositions could have been dropped in favour of some of Harrison's better compositions that would have been nice. All Things Must Pass instead of Dig A Pony, or Maxwell's Silver Hammer, perhaps. I'm still a Ringoite, and still think his own songwriting could have been fostered more.

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Re: Am I the only one who LIKES Don't Pass Me By?
« Reply #49 on: June 23, 2012, 04:55:10 AM »

Everyone I talk to says it's one of the worst Beatles songs, but I quite like it! What's the deal?


You were just a kid at the time, Mairi, but you sure had good taste!

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The Beatles - Don't Pass Me By (2009 Stereo Remaster)



Ringo Starr - Don't Pass Me By (live 2005) HQ
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Re: Am I the only one who LIKES Don't Pass Me By?
« Reply #50 on: June 23, 2012, 03:27:07 PM »

Ther's a couple of funny lines but... Sorry.
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Re: Am I the only one who LIKES Don't Pass Me By?
« Reply #51 on: June 24, 2012, 12:07:09 AM »

Those were clues.    ;D
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Re: Am I the only one who LIKES Don't Pass Me By?
« Reply #52 on: June 24, 2012, 11:31:09 AM »

Agreed. "You were in a car crash, and you lost your hair"!
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« Reply #53 on: July 14, 2012, 01:20:24 PM »

In addition... I can't stand the Inner Light! No matter how hard I've tried to adapt to the style and the production it's just too obnoxious. George should have named it "Chalk on a Blackboard"!
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« Reply #54 on: July 15, 2012, 08:00:42 AM »

In addition... I can't stand the Inner Light! No matter how hard I've tried to adapt to the style and the production it's just too obnoxious. George should have named it "Chalk on a Blackboard"!

I like the way you think Dcazz. I agree with you.

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Re: Am I the only one who LIKES Don't Pass Me By?
« Reply #55 on: July 15, 2012, 09:19:00 AM »

I like the way you think Dcazz. I agree with you.

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Re: Am I the only one who LIKES Don't Pass Me By?
« Reply #56 on: July 15, 2012, 10:38:18 AM »

What about you?  :laugh:

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Re: Am I the only one who LIKES Don't Pass Me By?
« Reply #57 on: July 15, 2012, 11:58:05 AM »

 ;yes
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Re: Am I the only one who LIKES Don't Pass Me By?
« Reply #58 on: July 16, 2012, 01:33:32 AM »

The Inner Light is the only Beatles song I never listened to in its entirety.
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Re: Am I the only one who LIKES Don't Pass Me By?
« Reply #59 on: July 16, 2012, 01:35:51 AM »

What about you?  :laugh:

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