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2022 FBG, 172 to 1 Beatles Countdown 1-25 lists... And 173 to 1 Countdown from 1-64 lists! (2 Viewers)

simey said:
Me too. I'm going to see a longtime college friend that I haven't seen in almost three years, and that has been by choice, and the pandemic some too. I have been in contact with her some during that time. She turned into a political fanatic a few years ago. The last time I saw her, she was drunk and called me a snowflake, and told me that being an Independent was worst than anything, because that means I'm nothing but a fence sitter that can't make a decision. That was just a part of her many rants that weekend. What can go wrong this weekend? :lol:    She and one of our friends from college (who is was her best friend) have not spoken in over a year 1/2 due to political junk.  :(   I'm hoping for the best this weekend.  I want to shake the egg and have fun!
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What could go wrong ?   
 

you may need a good exit strategy.

 
My favorites Appearing

3.    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)  (119)
12.  You Won't See Me  (71)
16.  For No One  (53)
20.  I'm So Tired  (72)

 
Getzlaf15 said:
Blackbird
2022 Ranking: 52
2022 Lists: 16
2022 Points: 150
Ranked Highest by: @Oliver Humanzee(dad)(4) @wikkidpissah (9) @Wrighteous Ray (10) @Eephus (12) @Gr00vus (16) @fatguyinalittlecoat (17) @zamboni (18) @lardonastick (20) @prosopis (21) @ManOfSteelhead (22) @BobbyLayne (22) @Pip's Invitation (23) @Ted Lange as your Bartender (23)
2019 Ranking/Lists/Pts: 17/19/178

Getz: Dropped 35 slots!! To get three less votes and 28 less points with 36 more voters in 2022, to me, is quite stunning. And only five of the 16 votes this time ranked it lower than #16. What the hell happened here? During the entire vote counting process, it was only under #50 after the first vote cast and then dropped all the way to #82 at one point. 6-7 of the voters in 2022 didn't vote in 2019.

After digging a little further, I think a good portion of the fall is due to the Get back influence on the list.

Krista4
My 2019 ranking:  39

2019 write-up:

Blackbird (White Album, 1968)

I always intended to rank these two together [EDITOR’S NOTE – I grouped this with “Mother Nature’s Son” in 2019]  and do the write-ups together, because I think they're the same song.  Ok, one has tweety-bird sounds and the other doesn't, but otherwise they're similar.  They're both Paul songs on which no other Beatles perform. They're both acoustic guitar driven with Paul's finger-picking style.  They both feature pure, peaceful Paul vocals.  They were both composed just after the India trip and included on the White Album.  They both have simple but stunningly beautiful melodies and redolent lyrics.  They both have "nature" overtones, though Paul years later asserted that "Blackbird" was about the US civil rights movement.  In both you can hear Paul's feet tapping.  The chord progressions even sound the same to me, though I'm too lazy to look it up right now.  Some differences exist, though, such as the small tempo changes in "Blackbird" that aren't in the comparatively simple "Mother Nature's Son," and the absence of stupid bird noises in "Mother Nature's Son." Also, not every human with a guitar plays "Mother Nature's Son."

I love both of these songs as gorgeous, near-perfect creations, the only downside of them being that they seem like Paul solo works instead of Beatles songs, primarily because they were. Actually I enjoy "Mother Nature's Son" even more than "Blackbird," finding its melody and lyrics slightly more enchanting, and that four-note guitar run at the end of the second line of the second and third verses does it for me.  I prefer it, that is, until we get to the end.  That last line, where Paul sings, "Mother Nature's soooon" as if he were ending a Broadway show, jazz hands and all, drives me batty and makes me rank it just behind "Blackbird."

Fun fact:  the recording engineer accidentally used the sound of a thrush instead of a blackbird in the initial mix of "Blackbird."  Luckily someone else caught it and corrected the error.  How embarrassing would it have been to have a thrush when everyone knows that's not a blackbird?  Whew!

Mr. krista (Blackbird):  "The chords are so pleasing; no wonder everyone with an acoustic guitar learns this song.  It’s perfect the way it is.  That line - into the light of the dark black night - is so evocative.  Those are some of Paul McCartney’s best lyrics and writing and it bothers me that Paul McCartney, who is clearly a fantastic writer, feels that Western trap that everything has to be symbolic, that everything has to represent some larger concept. That a thing can’t just be what it is and beautiful on its own account.  But this is some of his best songwriting.  The Tweety Bird noises don’t help it, though."

Suggested cover (Blackbird):  Well, duh......It's FatGuy!!.

2022 Supplement:  I think my 2019 incorrectly implied that Paul’s assertion that this song was about the Civil Rights Movement was a later-added retelling of the impetus for it.  I believe Paul, especially given how assertive the Beatles were in insisting that their shows be open to all in places like Florida where they were going to be segregated.  The band was extremely cognizant of what was going on in the US at the time.  They were also well aware of the history of their own town of Liverpool, which had been a slave port and later had the first Caribbean community in England, which meant that they, according to Paul, “met a lot of Black guys, particularly in the music world.”  And of course they also admired, covered, and patterned original songs after much of what they heard from Black musicians in the US.  This song was written not only for the little girls in Little Rock who were integrating schools there, but it came about shortly after the assassination of Martin Luther King. Jr.  Paul has tied the imagery of “sunken eyes” and “broken wings” specifically to that event.

I probably should have made room for this in my top 25, in 2019 and now. 

I recently came across this rehearsal footage for the first time!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1LletEaBD0

Guido Merkins

1968 was a rough year in the United States.  Forced integration in Little Rock reached the ears of Paul McCartney and he decided to write a song giving encouragement to those little girls walking into school in Little Rock.  So he wrote a song called Blackbird, which was a message for the civil rights struggle.

Paul claimed that he modeled Blackbird from a piece by Bach called Bouree in E minor that he and George had learned on guitar years before.  I’ve listened to the piece, but it doesn’t sound that much like Blackbird.  I think it’s more likely he was influenced by the method of playing the guitar than the melody itself.  The Donovan picking style is in full display for this song. This is a solo performance by Paul McCartney with only his acoustic guitar and his foot tapping being heard on the final recording.  EMI engineers found the sound of birds chirping and put them on the final mix which, apparently, are actual blackbirds.  Not sure how true this is, but I read it from Mark Lewison in The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions.

Love the song.  My favorite part is the descending “blackbird cry….” part.  Just sends chills up my spine. This is one of the songs that Paul played even into his Wings years as it’s part of the acoustic set on Wings Over America, which is funny since Bluebird from Band on the Run, I’ve always thought was an inferior(but still excellent) Blackbird, but he features both on that tour. 
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It’s a great song.  Just doesn’t feel like a Beatles song to me.   I probably wouldn’t have ranked it top-50.  And the background bird noises are just annoying.

 
Getzlaf15 said:
Blackbird
2022 Ranking: 52
2022 Lists: 16
2022 Points: 150
Ranked Highest by: @Oliver Humanzee(dad)(4) @wikkidpissah (9) @Wrighteous Ray (10) @Eephus (12) @Gr00vus (16) @fatguyinalittlecoat (17) @zamboni (18) @lardonastick (20) @prosopis (21) @ManOfSteelhead (22) @BobbyLayne (22) @Pip's Invitation (23) @Ted Lange as your Bartender (23)
2019 Ranking/Lists/Pts: 17/19/178

Getz: Dropped 35 slots!! To get three less votes and 28 less points with 36 more voters in 2022, to me, is quite stunning. And only five of the 16 votes this time ranked it lower than #16. What the hell happened here? During the entire vote counting process, it was only under #50 after the first vote cast and then dropped all the way to #82 at one point. 6-7 of the voters in 2022 didn't vote in 2019.

After digging a little further, I think a good portion of the fall is due to the Get back influence on the list.

Krista4
My 2019 ranking:  39

2019 write-up:

Blackbird (White Album, 1968)

I always intended to rank these two together [EDITOR’S NOTE – I grouped this with “Mother Nature’s Son” in 2019]  and do the write-ups together, because I think they're the same song.  Ok, one has tweety-bird sounds and the other doesn't, but otherwise they're similar.  They're both Paul songs on which no other Beatles perform. They're both acoustic guitar driven with Paul's finger-picking style.  They both feature pure, peaceful Paul vocals.  They were both composed just after the India trip and included on the White Album.  They both have simple but stunningly beautiful melodies and redolent lyrics.  They both have "nature" overtones, though Paul years later asserted that "Blackbird" was about the US civil rights movement.  In both you can hear Paul's feet tapping.  The chord progressions even sound the same to me, though I'm too lazy to look it up right now.  Some differences exist, though, such as the small tempo changes in "Blackbird" that aren't in the comparatively simple "Mother Nature's Son," and the absence of stupid bird noises in "Mother Nature's Son." Also, not every human with a guitar plays "Mother Nature's Son."

I love both of these songs as gorgeous, near-perfect creations, the only downside of them being that they seem like Paul solo works instead of Beatles songs, primarily because they were. Actually I enjoy "Mother Nature's Son" even more than "Blackbird," finding its melody and lyrics slightly more enchanting, and that four-note guitar run at the end of the second line of the second and third verses does it for me.  I prefer it, that is, until we get to the end.  That last line, where Paul sings, "Mother Nature's soooon" as if he were ending a Broadway show, jazz hands and all, drives me batty and makes me rank it just behind "Blackbird."

Fun fact:  the recording engineer accidentally used the sound of a thrush instead of a blackbird in the initial mix of "Blackbird."  Luckily someone else caught it and corrected the error.  How embarrassing would it have been to have a thrush when everyone knows that's not a blackbird?  Whew!

Mr. krista (Blackbird):  "The chords are so pleasing; no wonder everyone with an acoustic guitar learns this song.  It’s perfect the way it is.  That line - into the light of the dark black night - is so evocative.  Those are some of Paul McCartney’s best lyrics and writing and it bothers me that Paul McCartney, who is clearly a fantastic writer, feels that Western trap that everything has to be symbolic, that everything has to represent some larger concept. That a thing can’t just be what it is and beautiful on its own account.  But this is some of his best songwriting.  The Tweety Bird noises don’t help it, though."

Suggested cover (Blackbird):  Well, duh......It's FatGuy!!.

2022 Supplement:  I think my 2019 incorrectly implied that Paul’s assertion that this song was about the Civil Rights Movement was a later-added retelling of the impetus for it.  I believe Paul, especially given how assertive the Beatles were in insisting that their shows be open to all in places like Florida where they were going to be segregated.  The band was extremely cognizant of what was going on in the US at the time.  They were also well aware of the history of their own town of Liverpool, which had been a slave port and later had the first Caribbean community in England, which meant that they, according to Paul, “met a lot of Black guys, particularly in the music world.”  And of course they also admired, covered, and patterned original songs after much of what they heard from Black musicians in the US.  This song was written not only for the little girls in Little Rock who were integrating schools there, but it came about shortly after the assassination of Martin Luther King. Jr.  Paul has tied the imagery of “sunken eyes” and “broken wings” specifically to that event.

I probably should have made room for this in my top 25, in 2019 and now. 

I recently came across this rehearsal footage for the first time!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1LletEaBD0

Guido Merkins

1968 was a rough year in the United States.  Forced integration in Little Rock reached the ears of Paul McCartney and he decided to write a song giving encouragement to those little girls walking into school in Little Rock.  So he wrote a song called Blackbird, which was a message for the civil rights struggle.

Paul claimed that he modeled Blackbird from a piece by Bach called Bouree in E minor that he and George had learned on guitar years before.  I’ve listened to the piece, but it doesn’t sound that much like Blackbird.  I think it’s more likely he was influenced by the method of playing the guitar than the melody itself.  The Donovan picking style is in full display for this song. This is a solo performance by Paul McCartney with only his acoustic guitar and his foot tapping being heard on the final recording.  EMI engineers found the sound of birds chirping and put them on the final mix which, apparently, are actual blackbirds.  Not sure how true this is, but I read it from Mark Lewison in The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions.

Love the song.  My favorite part is the descending “blackbird cry….” part.  Just sends chills up my spine. This is one of the songs that Paul played even into his Wings years as it’s part of the acoustic set on Wings Over America, which is funny since Bluebird from Band on the Run, I’ve always thought was an inferior(but still excellent) Blackbird, but he features both on that tour. 
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I have to admit I was always a little skeptical about Paul using revisionist history when talking about Blackbird and the civil rights movement. I'm glad both our resident experts believe him.  :thumbup:

 
24 hours left to get your Guess The Final Top 15 in Order (Not Random) Lists in.

Already have as many as 2019. Keep them coming!  :thumbup:

 
Tom Hagen said:
It just struck me as funny that these are back to back on my list and my only 2 mentioned so far.  I'm sending some mixed signals. :lol:
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:lol:   I remember on my original countdown I had She Loves You followed by And I Love Her, and it struck me as kind of sad.

 
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6. I Want You (She's So Heavy) (60)

9. Any Time At All (90)

12. Dig A Pony (88)

14. Ballad of John and Yoko (61)

17. Good Morning Good Morning (113)

20. Wait (117)

21. Yer Blues (82T)

22. Old Brown Shoe (147)

24. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except For Me and My Monkey (96)

 
Murph said:
6. I Want You (She's So Heavy) (60)

9. Any Time At All (90)

12. Dig A Pony (88)

14. Ballad of John and Yoko (61)

17. Good Morning Good Morning (113)

20. Wait (117)

21. Yer Blues (82T)

22. Old Brown Shoe (147)

24. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except For Me and My Monkey (96)
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You and Mr krista must have a lot of musical taste in common.  He had your 12, 21, and 24 on his list plus a few more that were near his top 25.

 
Murph said:
6. I Want You (She's So Heavy) (60)

9. Any Time At All (90)

12. Dig A Pony (88)

14. Ballad of John and Yoko (61)

17. Good Morning Good Morning (113)

20. Wait (117)

21. Yer Blues (82T)

22. Old Brown Shoe (147)

24. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except For Me and My Monkey (96)
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someone that finally got the format correct.

 
Getzlaf15 said:
someone that finally got the format correct.
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So you want the consensus rank in parentheses? I missed that earlier.

14. Drive My Car (62)

18. Savoy Truffle (80)

24. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (55)

25. Wait (117)

Far too lazy to go see if any of those were ties.

 
heckmanm said:
So you want the consensus rank in parentheses? I missed that earlier.

14. Drive My Car (62)

18. Savoy Truffle (80)

24. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (55)

25. Wait (117)

Far too lazy to go see if any of those were ties.
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I don't really care. LOL.

 
Shaft41 said:
I have 

Another Girl

Because

She's Leaving Home

back to back to back on my list.  
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So I've never looked at my list this way before...

I have:
Let It Be
I Feel Fine
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She Loves You
Things We Said Today
I Should Have Known Better

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Hello Goodbye
We Can Work it Out

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krista4 said:
You and Mr krista must have a lot of musical taste in common.  He had your 12, 21, and 24 on his list plus a few more that were near his top 25.
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If you set the Beatles aside, probably about 95% of what I listen to is blues, or blues adjacent. And on that note your mom's Howlin Wolf post from yesterday was awesome!

 
5. I'll Be Back (87)

6.  For No One (####### 53)

11.  No Reply (70)

13.  Another Girl (145T)

14.  Because (107T)

15.  She's Leaving Home (63)

16. Any Time At Atll (90)

17.  If I Fell (67)

19. Lady Madonna (77)

20.  Drive My Car (62)

21.  Please Please Me (91)

22.  Savoy Truffle (80)

25.  Glass Onion (86)

 
otb_lifer said:
"I Feel Fine" puts me over the halfway point on my list, so - scorebored time: 

25. I Should Have Known Better

24. She's Leaving Home

23. Every Little Thing

22. Not A Second Time

21. Blue Jay Way

20. Happy Just To Dance With You

19. 

18. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite

17. It Won't Be Long

16. 

15. The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill

14. 

13. Hello, Goodbye

12. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

11. 

10. 

9. It's All Too Much

8. I Feel Fine 

7.

6.

5. 

4. 

3. 

2. 

1.
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- revised, as it was actually "Hello, Goodbye" that cracked the halfway point for me, as i missed "I'll Be Back" ❤ on my earlier post - 

25. I Should Have Known Better

24. She's Leaving Home

23. Every Little Thing

22. Not A Second Time

21. Blue Jay Way

20. Happy Just To Dance With You

19. 

18. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite

17. It Won't Be Long

16. 

15. The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill

14. 

13. Hello, Goodbye

12. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

11. I'll Be Back

10. 

9. It's All Too Much

8. I Feel Fine 

7.

6.

5. 

4. 

3. 

2. 

1.

 
1.  

2.

3.

4.

5.  Lady Madonna (77)

6.  If I Needed Someone (76)

7.  The Fool On The Hill (78)

8.  She Said She Said (75)

9.  I Me Mine (92)

10.

11.  Savoy Truffle (80)

12.  

13.  

14.  

15.  She's Leaving Home (63)

16.  I'm Only Sleeping (65)

17.  For No One (53)

18.  Don't Bother Me (157)

19.  The Night Before (81)

20.  Cry Baby Cry (129)

21.

22.

23. 

24.

25.  Long, Long, Long (137)

 
Since everyone else is posting the status of their list: 

1.
2. 
3. 
4. 
5. Rain (42)
6. 
7. I Want You (She's So Heavy) (60)
8. Dear Prudence (34)
9.
10. 
11. 
12. Helter Skelter (35)
13. With a Little Help from My Friends (44)
14. I've Got a Feeling (46)
15. 
16. 
17. I Feel Fine (51)
18. She's a Woman (107T)
19. If I Needed Someone (76)
20. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey (96)
21. Day Tripper (32)
22. And Your Bird Can Sing (31)
23. Blackbird (52)
24. I'm Only Sleeping (65)
25. It's All Too Much (118)

 
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There aren't any "WTF" songs for me in the remaining 50.  Some I like more than others, some I'm kind of "meh" on personally but totally understand others loving them.

I started my 25 with a little more than 50 songs that I grabbed just from skimming the full list as candidates.  There are 12 songs left that I didn't put in that initial group, so my "top 50-ish" overlaps the consensus by almost 80%.

 
Getzlaf15 said:
Hope you're out to have some fun!

I'm going to post two more songs today and then not post another until Sat 11am ET.  So that people have sometime to get their Contest lists in.
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Getzlaf15 said:
Ok..... Going to pause on posting any countdown songs until Saturday at 11am ET.

So that gives everyone tonight, Friday and Sat AM to get their picks on for the Guess The Final Top 15 In Order Contest,  Rules are on page 44.
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BobbyLayne said:
Are we in a weather delay?
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You think with my new found clarity people would no longer be confused.  :kicksrock:

 
1)

2)

3)
4)

5)

6)

7)

😎

9) All You Need is Love - It’s the truth

10)

11)

12)

13) Hello Goodbye - Love singing this, it is a fun song.

14)

15)

16)

17) Love me do - Who hasn’t felt like this? One of the best feelings in life. Professing your love and hoping it is returned.

18)

19) Drive my Car - Hell yeah !!!! The beep beeps are fantastic.

20)

21) Blackbird -Love everything about it. “into the light of the dark black night” is brilliant.

22)

23)

24) It Wont be Long - Love the interactions, rock and roll

25)

 
George became close friends with Eric Idle. When Life Of Brian was released, Idle was overwhelmed with the attention he received over "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life".

Everywhere he went, restaurants, the market, the theater--just standing on the sidewalk, people sang out the lyrics of the song at him. He wanted to tell George that George didn't understand what it was like, but then he realized that not only did George understand  but he understood at a level about exponentially ten times greater.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M

 
Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da
2022 Ranking: 50
2022 Lists: 13
2022 Points: 154
Ranked Highest by: @Anarchy99(4) Shaft41(Daughter)(9) Krista(TJ/Holly)(9) @Shaft41 (11) @ekbeats (11) Shaft41(Son2)(13) @Wrighteous Ray(hub)(13) Krista(Sharon) @MAC_32 (16) @ConstruxBoy(17) @John Maddens Lunchbox (19) @lardonastick (21) @FairWarning(25)
2019 Ranking/Lists/Pts: 118/1/10

Getz comments:  Last week, I gave “When I’m Sixty-Four” an “*” for being the song that moved up the most from 2019 to 2022. It moved up 71 slots. From zero votes in 2019, to 7 votes and 84 points in 2022.  Ob-La-Di moved up from one, 16th place vote worth ten points, to 13 votes and 154 points in 2022. So in my book, this is the song that rose the most in 2022, even though it was short of 71 and moved up 68 slots. Loved the Bing cover.

From the "What is Wrong with you Dept.": Shaft41 family had three of the votes here.

Krista4
My 2019 ranking:  155

2019 write-up:

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (White Album, 1968)

A #1 hit in several countries, this was also voted the worst song of all time in a 2004 online poll in the UK.

Inspired by a phrase used by his Nigerian friend Jimmy Scott (full name:  Jimmy Anonmuogharan Scott Emuakpor), while in India Paul wrote this story about a fictitious couple named Desmond and Molly.  The Beatles recorded it joyfully and merrily during the White Album sessions, all agreeing it was one of their best efforts, and it became a smash hit single.

Wait, that's not quite right.  Actually the other Beatles hated it, hated all the time spent on recording and re-recording it, and this was one of the songs that inspired John to start complaining about Paul's "granny ####."   John famously and furiously acted out during one of the re-recordings, started smashing the piano keys as hard as he could and at twice the speed of prior recording, shouting "This is how the ####### song should go!"  I guess he was right, as this was the intro take that was used in the final product.  Paul's profane tirade against George Martin during later vocal re-recordings then drove away Geoff Emerick, who could no longer stand the atmosphere and vowed never to record with them again (though he did later return for Abbey Road).

Despite the fact that the atmosphere was tense (put charitably) at this point, the song somehow sounds joyous, with the other Beatles hootin' and hollerin' in the background, shouting out clever little retorts.  I think this is the ultimate love-it-or-hate-it song in the Beatles catalogue, and since I vacillate between the two, it falls in the middle of my rankings.  Sometimes I just can't bear that faux-ska sound or the inanity of the lyrics, and sometimes I get caught up in the harmless fun of it and want to dance around.  What can I say; I'm a woman.

If this is "love it or hate it," let's mark Mr. krista firmly in the latter column:  "I hate this ####### song.  I hate the stupid laughter; I hate the background noise. That’s what happens when white people try to play reggae.  It’s awful.  I’m surprised he didn’t put on a fake Jamaican accent like George Harrison did in "Gone Troppo."  All of the Beatles should feel deep shame about this song.  Every time it comes on the radio, they should feel like they just got caught masturbating.  Because they did."

Suggested covers:  Arthur Conley, with Duane Allman on guitar  The Marmalade had a #1 hit with this cover.  Desmond Dekker was the inspiration for naming the character "Desmond."  For a couple more where the videos are pure gold: Andy Williams and Don Ho ; Bing Crosby

2022 Supplement:  Love or hate the song, it’s a huge crowd-pleaser to this day at Paul’s shows, with everyone dancing in the aisles, and he clearly loves playing it.  He’s described this song as a favorite because it deals with “everyday stuff,” and it’s another song in which he was trying to channel “the power of the ordinary” by describing scenes that he thought were universal, such as “a couple of kids running in the yard.”  If you like the song, check out this earlier take that I think sounds great, without some of the sillier effects added later:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Qb0m2Cf1o

Also love or hate the song, at least we can all agree it was one of Mr. krista’s best bits of 2019 commentary.  

Guido Merkins

Ob-La_di Ob-La-Da was a phrase that a Jamaican conga player Jimmy Scott-Emuakpor, who was an acquaintance of McCartney would use in concert.  Paul used the phrase to write a reggae flavored song around, and got sued for it.  Paul eventually helped Jimmy with some legal fees, and Jimmy dropped the suit.

In any event, John and George HATED this song.  Probably because of Paul’s perfectionism trying to record it just right.  This song caused a bunch of friction during the sessions for the White Album.  John’s open disdain for the song caused many fights.  Geoff Emerick, the Beatles recording engineer since Revolver quit during these sessions, unable to take the fighting anymore.  John coming into the studio stoned one night sat at the piano and said something like “this is how Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da should ####### sound” and proceeded to bang away at the piano really loud and really fast, resulting in what would become the finished take.  Personally, I like the take on Anthology 3 the best and I’m not sure what McCartney heard that he didn’t like about it.

In any event, the audience disagreed with John and George as Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da was one of the more popular songs on the White Album. In some countries it was even released very successfully as a single.  Critics are split on the song, some saying it’s fun and others saying it’s crap.  I’m kind of in the middle.  The White Album is anything goes, so I think it’s great.  It’s certainly not McCartney’s greatest song, but he continues to play it live to this day and the audience loves it.  

 
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I make no apologies for liking Obla, and I make no apologies for playing it often to where my kids grew to love it as well.  Sometimes, especially these days, you just need something that is mindless and fun.  This song fits the bill more than any other in the catalog. 

 
Getzlaf15 said:
...the other Beatles hated it, hated all the time spent on recording and re-recording it, and this was one of the songs that inspired John to start complaining about Paul's "granny ####."   John famously and furiously acted out during one of the re-recordings, started smashing the piano keys as hard as he could and at twice the speed of prior recording, shouting "This is how the ####### song should go!"  I guess he was right, as this was the intro take that was used in the final product.  Paul's profane tirade against George Martin during later vocal re-recordings then drove away Geoff Emerick, who could no longer stand the atmosphere and vowed never to record with them again (though he did later return for Abbey Road).
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Where's Michael Lindsay-Hogg when you need him

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