Rubber Soul - Side B - Round 1

WestwayKid · Post by **WestwayKid** » 02 Dec 2020, 1:02pm

This side of the LP is not as strong...but it still contains some real gems.

Silent Majority · Post by **Silent Majority** » 02 Dec 2020, 1:05pm

I don't need if I Needed Someone.

Wolter · Post by **Wolter** » 02 Dec 2020, 1:07pm

I hate the underlying abusive misogyny of “Run For Your Life” more than I like the generally good music and delivery.

JennyB · Post by **JennyB** » 02 Dec 2020, 1:09pm

It has to be RFYL.

Silent Majority · Post by **Silent Majority** » 02 Dec 2020, 1:10pm

Wolter wrote: ↑
02 Dec 2020, 1:07pm
I hate the underlying abusive misogyny of “Run For Your Life” more than I like the generally good music and delivery.

Seperating the fact that Lennon was a fucking wife beating arsehole, I can go with Run For Your Life as a first person literary piece on a sociopathic murderer and enjoy it on that level. Bit of a mental leap, but I enjoy the song and that's a rationalisation that lets me do so guiltlessly.

Dr. Medulla · Post by **Dr. Medulla** » 02 Dec 2020, 1:27pm

Silent Majority wrote: ↑
02 Dec 2020, 1:10pm

Wolter wrote: ↑
02 Dec 2020, 1:07pm
I hate the underlying abusive misogyny of “Run For Your Life” more than I like the generally good music and delivery.
Seperating the fact that Lennon was a fucking wife beating arsehole, I can go with Run For Your Life as a first person literary piece on a sociopathic murderer and enjoy it on that level. Bit of a mental leap, but I enjoy the song and that's a rationalisation that lets me do so guiltlessly.

Eichmann was able to rationalize what he did, too.

(RFYL is gonna go out quickly regardless and I have no attachment to it, so I'm fine with bandwagon jumping.)

Heston · Post by **Heston** » 02 Dec 2020, 1:29pm

As usual I will start with the Country and Western number.

Dr. Medulla · Post by **Dr. Medulla** » 02 Dec 2020, 1:31pm

Heston wrote: ↑
02 Dec 2020, 1:29pm
As usual I will start with the Country and Western number.

Did Ringo kick you when you were a kid or something?

Heston · Post by **Heston** » 02 Dec 2020, 1:34pm

Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑
02 Dec 2020, 1:31pm

Heston wrote: ↑
02 Dec 2020, 1:29pm
As usual I will start with the Country and Western number.
Did Ringo kick you when you were a kid or something?

It's just a genre I don't care for, and I don't particularly like Ringo's voice when it's working with weak material. Not a good combo.

WestwayKid · Post by **WestwayKid** » 02 Dec 2020, 1:45pm

"I'm Looking Through You" needs to win this side. An amazing track, one of Macca's best. Great chord changes and a biting lyric.

Heston · Post by **Heston** » 02 Dec 2020, 1:50pm

WestwayKid wrote: ↑
02 Dec 2020, 1:45pm
"I'm Looking Through You" needs to win this side. An amazing track, one of Macca's best. Great chord changes and a biting lyric.

"In My Life" is too strong and will win this side easily.

Dr. Medulla · Post by **Dr. Medulla** » 02 Dec 2020, 1:51pm

Heston wrote: ↑
02 Dec 2020, 1:50pm

WestwayKid wrote: ↑
02 Dec 2020, 1:45pm
"I'm Looking Through You" needs to win this side. An amazing track, one of Macca's best. Great chord changes and a biting lyric.
"In My Life" is too strong and will win this side easily.

Yeah, it's flat-out beautiful, even tho ILTY is pure Paul goodness.

Dr. Medulla · Post by **Dr. Medulla** » 02 Dec 2020, 1:52pm

Heston wrote: ↑
02 Dec 2020, 1:34pm

Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑
02 Dec 2020, 1:31pm

Heston wrote: ↑
02 Dec 2020, 1:29pm
As usual I will start with the Country and Western number.
Did Ringo kick you when you were a kid or something?
It's just a genre I don't care for, and I don't particularly like Ringo's voice when it's working with weak material. Not a good combo.

Doctor's notes: Abused by Ringo.

Flex · Post by **Flex** » 02 Dec 2020, 2:04pm

Wolter wrote: ↑
02 Dec 2020, 1:07pm
I hate the underlying abusive misogyny of “Run For Your Life” more than I like the generally good music and delivery.

same. I could probably separate art from artist a bit more if it didn't read like an autobiography of how John Lennon spent a bunch of his Thursday nights.

Inder · Post by **Inder** » 02 Dec 2020, 2:22pm

If Music Could Talk