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  • Re: What Would You Remove From the Abbey Road Medley?

    From Geoff@21:1/5 to Geoff on Thu May 15 15:44:58 2025
    On 15/05/2025 3:38 pm, Geoff wrote:
    On 15/05/2025 3:39 am, Norbert wrote:
    This is an easy one for me.  I]d remove "Polythene Pam" and "Mean Mr.
    Mustard."  They are not on par with McCartney's sections, all of which
    are outstanding.

    They aren't part of 'the medley' !


    Well, I guess they are part of 'a' medley MMM/PP/SCITTBR, but not the generally-recognised medley starting with Golden Slumbers.

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  • From Geoff@21:1/5 to Geoff on Thu May 15 15:53:20 2025
    On 15/05/2025 3:44 pm, Geoff wrote:
    On 15/05/2025 3:38 pm, Geoff wrote:
    On 15/05/2025 3:39 am, Norbert wrote:
    This is an easy one for me.  I]d remove "Polythene Pam" and "Mean Mr.
    Mustard."  They are not on par with McCartney's sections, all of which
    are outstanding.

    They aren't part of 'the medley' !


    Well, I guess they are part of 'a' medley MMM/PP/SCITTBR, but not the generally-recognised medley starting with Golden Slumbers.


    And for any who haven't already seen this version ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxds-5YSWw8&list=PLAD0A805F5392754C&index=17

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    geoff

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  • From Geoff@21:1/5 to Norbert on Thu May 15 15:38:57 2025
    On 15/05/2025 3:39 am, Norbert wrote:
    This is an easy one for me.  I]d remove "Polythene Pam" and "Mean Mr. Mustard."  They are not on par with McCartney's sections, all of which
    are outstanding.

    They aren't part of 'the medley' !

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    geoff

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  • From Geoff@21:1/5 to Norbert on Fri May 16 09:30:39 2025
    On 15/05/2025 11:55 pm, Norbert wrote:
    It seems to be accurate to the last detail, and I respect the discipline involved.

    However, I prefer covers in which the artist adds his individuality to
    the project, such as Fats Domino's "e and My Monkey," the ho's
    "Summertime Blues and Shaking All Over," and Rush's "Mr. Soul" and
    "Heart Full of Soul."

    The point of this one was a bit more than 'just a cover version'.

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    geoff

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  • From Geoff@21:1/5 to Norbert on Sun May 18 14:11:55 2025
    On 16/05/2025 10:47 pm, Norbert wrote:
    Who said anything about "just a cover"?

    Wat this guy did seems like a note-for-note recreation of the piece.

    The alternate versions of songs I mentioned approach the songs
    differently.



    Yeah - that was my point.

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  • From super70s@21:1/5 to Nil on Mon May 19 05:11:28 2025
    On 2025-05-19 01:38:09 +0000, Nil said:

    It's the bloody Beatles Abbey Road album. Shut up.

    Didn't Paulie say that about the White Album (recent reissue)
    originally, that came off as kind of arrogant to some.

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  • From Nil@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon May 19 13:30:23 2025
    On 19 May 2025, super70s <[email protected]d> wrote in rec.music.beatles:

    On 2025-05-19 01:38:09 +0000, Nil said:

    It's the bloody Beatles Abbey Road album. Shut up.

    Didn't Paulie say that about the White Album (recent reissue)
    originally, that came off as kind of arrogant to some.

    That was my little reference to Paul's quote.

    I think it's funny, not arrogant, though if anyone has good reason to
    be arrogant it would be Paul. But he seems to be pretty level-headed, considering what he's been through.

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