Open Thread

Song for Rob and Denton:

Two of Us

http://www.youtube.com/watch#!videos=YOgCx3XNzLA&v=d1Y3PlmwnRM

“i can honestly say i dont think ive ever heard a beatles song. what do they actually sound like?

Oh, for g*d’s sake, of course you have!! Rob, why is it that sometimes I just want to SHAKE YOU!?

“sometimes Denton jumps in and gives Rob a dose of tough (no homo) love.”

Agree with DH (as I always do). Denton really likes *rob*. And *rob* really likes Denton. Just sayin’.

Carry on.

“the lennon songs are very different than the mccartney.”

That’s why A Day in the Life is perhaps my favourite out of them all (with a nod to Strawberry Fields Forever): a perfect melding of their own separate songs.

Blackbird is incredible, Jessi.

“Paul McCartney wrote this about the civil rights struggle for blacks after reading about race riots in the US. He penned it in his kitchen in Scotland not long after Little Rock, when the federal courts forced the racial desegregation of the Arkansas capital’s school system. McCartney told Mojo magazine October 2008: “We were totally immersed in the whole saga which was unfolding. So I got the idea of using a blackbird as a symbol for a black person. It wasn’t necessarily a black ‘bird’, but it works that way, as much as then you called girls ‘birds’; the Everlys had had Bird Dog, so the word ‘bird’ was around. ‘Take these broken wings’ was very much in my mind, but it wasn’t exactly an ornithological ditty; it was purposely symbolic.”

Only 3 things were recorded: Paul’s voice, his acoustic guitar, and a tapping. According to the video The Complete Beatles, the tap was not a foot or metronome – the Master was intentionally scratched. If you listen closely you will notice that is sounds like a scratch on a record. Birds were dubbed in later.”