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Thread started 05/17/14 3:33pm

Shawy89

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Paul McCartney - Silly Love Songs (Song + Discussion)



Well, one of the main reasons McCartney and Lennon shared a fair ammount of musical differences that led to the split up is that Lennon was the "deep guy" while Paul was the "mellow, silly guy".

This song says "Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs.
And what's wrong with that?"

He's right, you know, Paul is goddamn right. I'm here to discuss a topic that is long overshadowed in all music forums: Why music snobs tend to hate THESE songs,, cheesy sweet lame corny love songs? Why hate that? Aren't they the reason there's a smile on peoples faces everyday?

[Edited 5/17/14 15:34pm]

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Reply #1 posted 05/17/14 4:34pm

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Silly Love Songs was actually a reply song to John Lennon's How Do You Sleep, which was about Paul's solo songs. John said they were "muzak". George Harrison played slide guitar on How Do You Sleep.

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #2 posted 05/18/14 1:46pm

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MickyDolenz said:

Silly Love Songs was actually a reply song to John Lennon's How Do You Sleep, which was about Paul's solo songs. John said they were "muzak". George Harrison played slide guitar on How Do You Sleep.

I think the Paul song you're thinking of that 'replies' to John's How Do You Sleep is Dear Friend, from the Wings Wildlife album. 'Silly Love Songs' was in part Paul's general response to critics (including Lennon) saying that McCartney had 'gone soft' since leaving the Beatles. Of course, it was a huge hit, and if you listen to the intro, it has an interesting 'avante-garde' tapeloop of what appears to be factory sounds, as if Paul is 'churning out' those 'Silly Love Songs' by the dozen smile .

And what's wrong with that? wink

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Reply #3 posted 05/18/14 7:37pm

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One of the reasons critics don't like ballads and adult contemporary because a large part of the audience is female, so it's not macho. They're going to go for guitar rock, not Air Supply. Back in the 1970s, the audiences for music like prog and hard rock was primarily male. But in the 1980s, hair metal groups had more women in the audience as they did power ballads, which the regular metal bands didn't really do. Music popular with women generally is not considered cool, like teen idol pop, disco, dance music, bubblegum, Lillith Fair style folky singers, Whitney Houston/Celine Dion/Michael Bolton style balladeers, etc. It's why Peter Gabriel is considered cool and Phil Collins/Mike + The Mechanics are not. They make jokes about light rock and call it "yacht rock". They don't talk about easy listening acts like Percy Faith & Lawrence Welk either.

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #4 posted 05/19/14 10:21am

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Richard Clayderman interview (excerpt from the documentary The Joy Of Easy Listening)


You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #5 posted 05/19/14 12:06pm

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Oh, when I heard the chorus I finally remembered this one. Coudn't recall it by the title.

The intro threw me off a bit, because it's like early industrial music from the same time period.

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Reply #6 posted 05/19/14 4:30pm

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Love this song. Paul is king.

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Reply #7 posted 05/27/14 11:24am

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Air Supply interview, February 2014


You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #8 posted 06/12/14 6:12pm

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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #9 posted 06/14/14 9:33am

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Wings Over America! woot!

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #10 posted 06/14/14 9:38am

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Reply #11 posted 06/14/14 9:39am

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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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