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Old 06-26-2011, 02:09 PM   #41 (permalink)
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What did you guys think of his album "Memory Almost Full"?
I think I liked 2 or 3 songs off it. So he has still been doing some interesting songs.
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Old 06-27-2011, 09:00 AM   #42 (permalink)
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Old 06-28-2011, 09:01 PM   #43 (permalink)
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Paul McCartney is one of the kings of pop (if so inclined) but John Lennon is an Icon. Lennon could claim status as The King of Rock & Roll in my opinion. He was the main lead vocal, front man and songwriter of the Beatles, and all of his solo material is a must own, especially by a music enthusiast. As well as McCartney's, George Harrison, and Ringo Star's solo work. Harrison is considered one of the best/influential guitarist of all-time and some of his (Harrison) solo work is outstanding . But I think John Lennon is on a level above them all as an artist, activist, personal life, whatever? His single Imagine resonates so loud while the song musically is simple and easy to play.
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Old 06-29-2011, 03:22 PM   #44 (permalink)
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He was the main lead vocal, front man and songwriter of the Beatles
Early on more so, later on McCartney played really quite a big role. He took charge of later albums like Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road. The later Beatles would not have been the same without McCartney.
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Old 06-29-2011, 05:02 PM   #45 (permalink)
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Yeah I agree The Beatles were a product of the song writing merits of both Lennon and McCartney. To try and attribute more or less of the praise on either kind of misses the point as I think it was the dynamic between them that let them create what they did. Although I do consider McCartney the poppier and Lennon somehow more substantial but as a team they were probably the greatest song writing team ever.
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I`ve always been a Beatles fan-saw McCartney live last summer.
He has really embraced his legacy-I would estimate that about 70% of his material was Beatles songs.He sang "Something" as a tribute to George and "A day in the life" for John.
If you include material like "All my loving", "Hey Jude", "Get Back", "And I love her" and "Here, There and Everywhere", then who can top him?
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Yeah I agree The Beatles were a product of the song writing merits of both Lennon and McCartney. To try and attribute more or less of the praise on either kind of misses the point as I think it was the dynamic between them that let them create what they did. Although I do consider McCartney the poppier and Lennon somehow more substantial but as a team they were probably the greatest song writing team ever.
Lennon-McCartney is better than either solo but if i had to choose, i'd pick Macca over John
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For a so called King Of Pop I would expect to like at least a couple of songs he's done in his 50 plus year career but I don't.
I can't stand anything this man has ever put out, even the small handful of Beatles tunes I do like seem to be predominately perfomed by Lennon.

And yet I have nothing against the man whatsoever. This isn't like a Bono thing or a Matt Bellemy thing where I want to kill them on sight. I have nothing against the guy.

I just don't like anything he's performed.
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For a so called King Of Pop I would expect to like at least a couple of songs he's done in his 50 plus year career but I don't.
I can't stand anything this man has ever put out
That's ok, you can listen to whatever you want. Millions would disagree with you though.
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Old 07-03-2011, 12:40 PM   #50 (permalink)
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For a so called King Of Pop I would expect to like at least a couple of songs he's done in his 50 plus year career but I don't.
I can't stand anything this man has ever put out, even the small handful of Beatles tunes I do like seem to be predominately perfomed by Lennon.

And yet I have nothing against the man whatsoever. This isn't like a Bono thing or a Matt Bellemy thing where I want to kill them on sight. I have nothing against the guy.

I just don't like anything he's performed.
You also want to kill Matt Bellamy on sight? I like you!
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