t/s: "day tripper" vs "we can work it out"

I'm going with the latter.

Day Tripper is one of those mystery songs where I'm never quite sure I know what's going on. They had a lot of those. Women in Beatles' songs are very strange.

I'd probably take Penny Lane over Strawberry Fields, because it's funny and charming and odd, and also because "Nothing is real/ And nothing to get hung about" is not one of John's smarter lines even though the sound of Strawberry Fields is pretty spectacular.

day tripper just sucks. I find it nearly as boring as paperback writer.

I like the wheezy verses: premonitions of the "old man voice" Lennon adopts on Revolver. far out, man...

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Day Tripper.

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If "Day Tripper" gets a lot of votes, is it safe to assume how a "Penny Lane"/"Strawberry Fields Forever" thread would end up?

If that's the case then Penny Lane gets my vote because it's my favorite song ever. Sorry if that dissapoints anyone.

Noooo!!! Why "Girl?" It's my favorite Rubber Soul track.

Daytripper sounds like 64.
WCWiO sounds like 65
65 Love Affair sounds like Haulin' Oates
But it is Paul Davis
It's gonna be a cool night...

I'm not sure what this means, but I'm happy that somehow there's a connection between this single and "It's gonna be a cool night."

Daytripper is Roy Orbison's Pretty Woman, even if Daytripper was first, weren't they simultaneous? We Can Work is one of the best Beatles songs, but Stevie Wonder does do it better, but the Beach Boys don't do I Was Made to Love Her Better, and the Beach Boys don't do Hide Your Love Away better.

Rubber Soul doesn't hold any attraction for me now except maybe You Won't See Me and I think Girl is all right. Run for Your Life is lame in the extreme but that's all within the Meltzerian schema of the Beatles, the last song should be a lame Sun Records imitation. So it's my favorite song on the album.

I don't like Stevie Wonder's cover either. Deep Purple's is a little better but not much.

I do really like Wonder's verison of We Can Work. He does a cool little riff there that I wish the Beatles had done, whenever I hear the original. But it's a real good song--the fabled Lennon/McCartney dark/light thing, the fabled Chilton/Bell dark/light combination, Vanda and Young, Leiber and Stoller...Brian Wilson/Mike Love. I dunno.

Is there even remotely a contest between Ticket To Ride and Girl Don't Tell Me? I mean, I do like the latter, but, come on. There's not a song on "Help!" that doesn't beat Girl Don't Tell Me.

As for Run For Your Life, am I alone in thinking it's fabulous? It's nice to hear the Beatles working their murderous side, and I think it has a great noisy energy that they really didn't pull together very often, even on many of their would-be rockers. It would have livened up Beatles '65 immensely....

And "Girl," well, it just bores me and has for the ten years that I've been listening to this stuff. Can't put my finger on it. I like the IDEA of it, and can certainly relate, but the whole thing just feels REALLY sluggish and weary.

Yeah. Dizzy Miss Lizzy stomps the hell out of Brian's somber remake of Ticket to Ride...

The joke was they're the same song, complete with ripping off the Beatles riff.

And I maintain that Girl Don't Tell Me is sorely underrated. Certainly better than much of Help!

it's also got that killer tambourine.

stevie wonder's "we can work it out" comes pretty damn close to topping the beatles. one of my favorite stevie performances ever.

"girl don't tell me" is my favorite beach boys song. the beatles ripped off lotsa people, so why can't the beach boys rip off them? the carl wilson vocal is haunting and weird, as is the lyric with its shifting, never-quite-centered tone of anger, sadness and desperation.

We Can Work It Out wins....great melodic hooks and so on, although I'm going to have to go out on a limb and say the bridge kind of drags on me, in the same way that the chorus to Day Tripper does (dayyyyyyyyyyyy... blah). DT's got that great riff but not too much else. I think they put out a number of overrated songs around this time - "Girl" anyone?

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damn, i meant to mark my ten-year ILX anniversary when it came around, oops. i still feel mostly the same about these songs but the bridge really isn't that draggy, not enough to be worth calling out. "girl" still completely sucks.

would have said DT before, but my son started playing WCWIO on guitar the other day, and we tried to get the harmonies right, and couldn't quite. a thing of beauty

love this era -- easily the beatles stuff i go back to most. slightly prefer paperback writer/rain single to this one. but they're both great.

I can never even remember "Day Tripper". It never occurred to me that people might prefer to "We Can Work It Out". Then, I love "Girl" too.

pls listen to "Day Tripper" ASAP , it is amazing

"We Can Work It Out" might be the beginning of the McCartney sappiness creeping in, not one of my faves

interesting background:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Work_It_Out

I have never particularly liked these songs but I would say WCWIO is better in terms of songwriting.

http://i.imgur.com/JROE1mZ.png

great melodic hooks and so on, although I'm going to have to go out on a limb and say the bridge kind of drags on me

No way, the contrast between the bridge and v/c is what makes the song great.

Agreed that Day Tripper is a world-class riff without much of a job to do.

The new stereo mix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyclqo_AV2M

slightly prefer paperback writer/rain single to this one.

My god, that single makes a sick joke of 'Day Tripper'/'We Can Work it Out'

It never occurred to me until you brought it up just now, JD.

I'm biased as hell though, 'Rain' is quite possibly my overall favorite Beatles tune.

Yeah, Paperback Writer/Rain wins but I've learned or relearned to like this one too.

First Beatles tape I had was the US version of 20 Greatest Hits. As the years go by, I'm still irked by how they chose which split A-side to use. Couldn't give George just one, had to put Come Together on there.

Anyway. We Can Work It Out is probably the better song, but damn, Day Tripper is such a better performance.

yeah... Day Tripper... the drums! that cool little guitar solo turning into a bridge turning into a buildup back to the verse! Ringo is so rock steady on this one, great use of what I think is hi-hat?

agreed that PB Writer/Rain leaves this single in the dust, but things were moving fast back then and they are both stone cold classics

Excellent points, especially about the guitar solo. A recording could have been just a one riff pony is brought to higher ground by the performance and arrangement, if maybe not quite all the way to the astral plane. Dig that quotation in "Re-Make/Re-Model."

WCWIO is lyrically kind of astonishing, a paean to dogmatism and pig-headed obstinacy somehow successfully disguised as a plea for tolerance and compromise. I hate it!

Lol, agreed

haha true singer comes off as worst discussion partner ever

Nice use of "We Can Work It Out" in the 1983 documentary Seventeen (without copyright clearance, I would guess).