Hmmm things I hate about obsessions...
I can't stand the sight of Paul McCartney. His face is so annoying and irritating. His eyes are all big and bugged out looking.
His ego is also very big and he always thought he was better than Ringo and the other Beatles.
Back Off Boogaloo!
So get over it, already, and realize that Ringo would be an unknown entity, in this age, without the MclLen Duo.
Macca and Ringo BOTH have the infortunate jobs of still living on after nearly a full two generations since the craze.
Don't load either one too heavily.
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Agreed. And Sir Paul still knows how to write a good song.
what?!! are you mad or deaf or both? "ebony and ivory", "the frog song", "pipes of peace"... i could go on, but i think that's enough examples of the horrors he's perpetrated in recent years.
Give me a break, many a good songwriter has more than a cesspool of shit in their repertoire. I'm sure Gordon Lightfoot has cringed at some stuff he composed. For every gem that surfaces from any composer, there's probably a ton of shit that is best kept hidden!
Sorry, but, I had to rant about that. I just finished reading "The Mayor of MacDougal Street, A Memoir" Dave Van Ronkl with Elijah Wald. A lot of what he said about "purists" was spot on. And to further make the point, Dave Barry in his "Book of Bad Songs", made an excellent point by stating that, "All music is subjective". aka "One mans trash is another mans treasure."
And once again, as Duke Ellington so beautifully put it; "If it sounds good IT IS good."
end rant!