Beatles Survivor Poll - Please Please Me Side A / Round 3
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Beatles Survivor Poll - Please Please Me Side A / Round 3
Chains (written by Gerry Goffin & Carole King) is eliminated (and rightfully so...in my opinion).
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Re: Beatles Survivor Poll - Please Please Me Side A / Round 3
Gonna start getting harder here. I find Misery a touch more forgettable than the others (I had to refresh my memory of it this morning while the others are all quite well seared into my brain at any time)
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Re: Beatles Survivor Poll - Please Please Me Side A / Round 3
Exact same position and experience.
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Re: Beatles Survivor Poll - Please Please Me Side A / Round 3
A much tougher round. I cast a vote for Anna. I think I Saw Her Standing There and Please Please Me are clearly better than the other 3 remaining tracks. I ultimately went with Anna because it's a cover and I don't think they better the original at all.
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It should be understood that we're just jiving about until we get to the actual tough choice in a couple days time.WestwayKid wrote: ↑13 Oct 2020, 12:04pmI think I Saw Her Standing There and Please Please Me are clearly better than the other 3 remaining tracks.
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Re: Beatles Survivor Poll - Please Please Me Side A / Round 3
I Saw Her Standing There for the creepy pedo vibes.
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Re: Beatles Survivor Poll - Please Please Me Side A / Round 3
Misery, not bad but the other 4 are great
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Re: Beatles Survivor Poll - Please Please Me Side A / Round 3
I thought they were a little younger than 20 with the first album, but Harrison had just turned it, so that's fair. But the song rocks, so I'm gonna be a jerk and support it.
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It was also a time when the age of marriage was a lot younger. In the American context, in the 1950s, one-third of women were married before age 19, with lots married in high school (well, they'd drop out). So the cultural perception of age and maturity was considerably different to our own.Silent Majority wrote: ↑13 Oct 2020, 2:10pmI thought they were a little younger than 20 with the first album, but Harrison had just turned it, so that's fair. But the song rocks, so I'm gonna be a jerk and support it.
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Re: Beatles Survivor Poll - Please Please Me Side A / Round 3
Misery has to go for that stupid jaunty piano run.
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Re: Beatles Survivor Poll - Please Please Me Side A / Round 3
How could I dance with her her mother, whooo....
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Re: Beatles Survivor Poll - Please Please Me Side A / Round 3
What kicking tune though, and to be fair Macca was 20 when he wrote it. I wouldn't be calling Yewtree for that.
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The three year gap between Macca and his muse probably wouldn't even be frowned upon now, never mind then. My Mam was 18 and my Dad 26 when they got together in 1962.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑13 Oct 2020, 2:33pmIt was also a time when the age of marriage was a lot younger. In the American context, in the 1950s, one-third of women were married before age 19, with lots married in high school (well, they'd drop out). So the cultural perception of age and maturity was considerably different to our own.Silent Majority wrote: ↑13 Oct 2020, 2:10pmI thought they were a little younger than 20 with the first album, but Harrison had just turned it, so that's fair. But the song rocks, so I'm gonna be a jerk and support it.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
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Re: Beatles Survivor Poll - Please Please Me Side A / Round 3
I always liked Lennon's vocal on Anna, so it survives until the obvious decider.
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Re: Beatles Survivor Poll - Please Please Me Side A / Round 3
And you could argue—and this applies to any sketchy song, whether, say, "Christine Sixteen" or "Sex + 17"—that the song's protagonist isn't the singer, but rather that the teenage audience is asked to place themselves in that role. I'm not entirely persuaded by that argument, but I do appreciate the notion of thinking of singers as less confessional than a kind of mouthpiece for the audience.Heston wrote: ↑13 Oct 2020, 6:32pmThe three year gap between Macca and his muse probably wouldn't even be frowned upon now, never mind then. My Mam was 18 and my Dad 26 when they got together in 1962.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑13 Oct 2020, 2:33pmIt was also a time when the age of marriage was a lot younger. In the American context, in the 1950s, one-third of women were married before age 19, with lots married in high school (well, they'd drop out). So the cultural perception of age and maturity was considerably different to our own.Silent Majority wrote: ↑13 Oct 2020, 2:10pmI thought they were a little younger than 20 with the first album, but Harrison had just turned it, so that's fair. But the song rocks, so I'm gonna be a jerk and support it.
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