What sucks about this artist: Paul McCartney edition
 

Silly Love Songs

And what's wrong with that?

I'd like to know... :D

You'd think that people would have had enough

So many wonderful songs, I think what sucks is that no-one, not even P McC, could spot when one of his compositions was both substandard and irritating. If we are including the Beatle years, may I present exhibits A to D : Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Oobla-Di, Rocky Racoon, and later:-

Three quarters of McCartney's songs are up there with the other greats to be sure, but there are those songs where you wonder where his brain was. Worst of McCartney besides the aforementioned Silly Love Songs and Mary Had a Little Lamb, include Ob La Di Ob La Da, parts of Wildlife and Red Rose Speedway, Ebony and Ivory, and some other assorted pap from the eighties and nineties before he made a comeback with Flaming Pie.

Oh, yeah, and Spies Like Us. Don't know what was worse, the song or the movie.

Definitely the goofy/sappy songs he's written.

Other than those, he's easily one of the all-time greats.

I never thought that was a particularly bad song.

I think too many people take his less-than-serious songs as being "bad" songs.

They're not really "bad," they're just supposed to be goofy.

^ That's true enough, DriveYourCar. I didn't consider "goofy" as a category - but that's just because my personal opinion is that "goofy" songs aren't usually very good.

You know how reading a biography gives you more insight and interest in an artist? Me and a friend of mine shared this 2017 biography and read it at about the same time, learning about his projects like "Give My Regards To Broad Street":

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...WkJ8o&usqp=CAU

When we'd both finished, our conversation went something like this:

A: I didn't realize that he did so much after The Beatles
B: Are you going to check out any of his later stuff?
A+B simultaneously: Naah!

His hair is terrible. Why tf were any teenage girls swooning over this dork?

All those poor unpaid frogs! :yikes:
Pay your people, Paul you bastard!

Weird eyes.

He didn't have Vince Neil's hairstylist. :D

I thought he was one of the more attractive of the bunch, definitely compared to Starr's nose

I love McCartney III (the lockdown album) - i think it's great. Listened to it right through a couple of times and keep going back to it.

This is my only experience of McCartney other than The Beatles (my heavy rotation atm is from about '66 (I guess) through to them splitting, so revolver through Sgt.Peppers, Magical Mystery Tour, The White Album, Abbey Road & Let It Be) & a live CD my dad had (I think from around 2002?)

Incidentally, Octopus's Garden is going to be one of the songs at my wedding in two weeks time. Not a McCartney song I know, but it is from one of the albums I've listed above.

Octopus' Garden, Ringo's contribution to Abbey Road.

Extra points for correct use of parenthesis. LISP programmer potential right there.

Welcome and congrats.

:laughing:

I was totally serious. I can't tell you how many times I've read sentences where someone haphazardly used parenthesis without closing them out. Nesting them can be considered expert level in comparison.

Oh I know you were serious. I just found the reference to be humorous. I've rarely had the chance to mess with functional languages in my day job, but there's definitely a logical beauty to a well structured LISP program. There's a part of me that likes that, and another part that likes the complete senseless chaos you can find in some PHP programs.

It's sort of like music. You can appreciate classical and at the same time appreciate ambient.

Ah. Yes, I see.

(defun c:Jib ()
(if (/= cut nil)
(setq cut like)))

Nerd! :p:

An idiom contained in idiomatic code? I do like the cut of your jib...

Who are you calling an idiom? :mad: