Best Harrison-penned Beatles Song

Sort of felt like voting for "Something", but chose the underrated "You Like Me Too Much" just for a change (and because it's roughly just as good)

"But if I seem to be unkind, it isn't me it's just my mind, confusing things"

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It's not my favorite, but let me put a good word in for "It's All Too Much," which has one of the last recorded instances of Paul and George gettin' along and crazy guitar that George should have played more often.

The last recorded instance of Paul and George gettin' along was the version of "I me mine" recorded in 1970.

Until the beatles reunion that is.

Yep. Paul and Harrison being enemies is a myth created by those who think that John Lennon was the only genius that mattered and that McCartney was the one who broke up The Beatles, not Yoko Ono which is the actual truth.

(After all, Lennon stopped writing good songs once he met Yoko - she was the one who made him get into all that modernist avant garde idiocy)

"Within You Without You"

Goes will with a Chicken Biryani

"well"

(After all, Lennon stopped writing good songs once he met Yoko - she was the one who made him get into all that modernist avant garde idiocy)

I know, in 1966 he was listening to Albert Ayler and AMM, making tape-collage pieces, and...oh wait, that was MCCARTNEY. The suite on Abbey Road excepted, he was the one who stopped writing good songs after Lennon met Yoko.

Actually, Lennon wrote some of his best songs after meeting Yoko: Revolution (single, 1, and 9), Happiness is a Warm Gun, Mean Mr. Mustard, not to mention the entire JL/POB album.

Paul and Harrison being enemies is a myth created by those who think that John Lennon was the only genius that mattered and that McCartney was the one who broke up The Beatles, not Yoko Ono which is the actual truth

Yes, that's exactly what this Press to Play fan thinks.

"Here Comes the Sun", though the Nina Simone version is much better than the Beatles one. Actually, many Beatles tunes are better as cover versions sung by better singers than The Beatles.

I'm goin with Sinatra, "Something"

I never really liked Something all that much, but the version on Anthology 3 is outstanding.

Here Comes the Sun

"If I Needed Someone," easy.

blue - jay - way

Long Long Long

Don't Bother Me

I adore "Something," but it's gotta be "Taxman" for me.

Flipping a coin between "Long, Long, Long" and "Blue Jay Way"

(seconds later)

"Blue Jay Way"

probably Taxman or Long, Long, Long but I'd just as soon old brown shoe as any of them.

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"Here Comes the Sun", also largely for the Nina Simone cover. I like the Beatles version too.

George contributed many great songs to the Beatles catalogue, but "Here Comes the Sun" is a diamond.

where's the ringo thread???

oh i found it

It says "It's only me, it's not my mind" fwiw.

ah but in "I me mine" (the book) he stated that in retrospect, it should have been that way.

Correct.

Paul and Harrison being enemies is a myth created by those who think that John Lennon was the only genius that mattered and that McCartney was the one who broke up The Beatles, not Yoko Ono which is the actual truth

Oh and "Yoko broke up the Beatles" isn't a myth? Holy jesus, Geir, how do you sleep? How DO you sleep?

A breakup can almost never be attributed to one cause, esp. this particular breakup.

'Long Long Long', contender for eeriest Beatles song.

old brown shoe... love the line:
"If I grow up I'll be a singer wearing rings on every finger."

I've always been fondest of "I want a short-haired girl who sometimes wears it twice as long".

I voted for Here Comes The Sun, though, because it cheers me up, just like it's supposed to.

"Old Brown Shoe" has a great solo and Macca bassline.

It will delight you all to know that George's solo catalogue is, as of today, available on iTunes.

hey that IS good news! There are a bunch of individual tracks of his I'd like good digital copies of ("Cheer Down", "Don't Let Me Wait Too Long" especially)

I like them both. "Blow Away" is very nice too.

what the fuck the only version of Cheer Down available is a live version from Japan?!?? I blame Mel Gibson

(I guess I never shoulda thrown out that cassingle)

Oh and "Yoko broke up the Beatles" isn't a myth?

Well, she was the one who destroyed John Lennon. He was a genius until 1967. From 1968 onwards he would usually shift between boring blues-based rock'n'roll and pointless experimental avant garde. Just throwing in the occasional but very rare highlight such as "Imagine", "Love", "Oh My Love" and "Jealous Guy".

"destroyed John Lennon." Geir hates marriage!

I'd be more inclined to blame the heroin and deeprooted emotional/psych issues... I'm kinda glad Geir hates Yoko, being the antithesis of Geir's ethos is something to be proud of.

Well, she was the one who destroyed John Lennon.

That's another (extremely debatable) matter. Do you honestly think The Beatles would have stayed together had Yoko Ono not come along?

don't go there

"destroyed John Lennon." Geir hates marriage!

John was married when he met Yoko. To a considerably more sensible woman.

Oh hells no! And just when I was entertaining some warm thoughts for your consistently ridiculed positions...

"sensible" = stays home and does the dishes and keeps her mouth shut about cheating, abusive, asshole drug addict husband

That's EXACTLY what I was thinking.

"Old Brown Shoe" has a great solo and Macca bassline.

except it's george playing bass. he turned the tables on ol' macca, who would routinely tell george what to play, and sometimes just play lead guitar himself (which was actually probably a good idea, as it resulted in the solos on "taxman" and "good morning, good morning"). so george got his revenge by playing bass himself on "old brown shoe." masterfully, too.

really?? nice to know. The only songs on which I know he definitely played are "Back in the U.S.S.R." (with John, no?) and one of those Let It Be numbers.

Fuck you, Geir!

Well said, Roxy!

Geir in hating Yoko Ono and James Brown/hip hop shocker = We must not encourage survivors of various Euro-American inflicted holocausts, nein?

Yay, Herr Hongro!

Yoko was a better musician than John.

(ok, geir. go for it. Well, go something anyroad!)

my wife says "it's all too much" and who am i to argue?

long long long

xpost I like the very long version that was on umm... Anthology three? Or was it a bootleg? Seven minutes, anyway.

Flipping a coin between "Long, Long, Long" and "Blue Jay Way"
(seconds later)
"Blue Jay Way"
-- Z S

If that's not a secret, how many times did ya flip that coin eh? :)

Um, if I were to flip same, I'd flip at least the-best-of-seven - but! I'd have to flip betwixt "Something" and "Here Comes The Sun", really.

p.s. i love you,
geir,
but i want to tell you it's all too much.

my wife says "it's all too much" and who am i to argue?

Well, it depends. Is she destroying your recording career if not history itself? Or is she a considerably more sensible, even supplicant woman?

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"Taxman"

For the 93rd time: If Yoko DID break 'em up (which she didn't), GOOD FOR HER! All the better to leave behind a totally pristine catalogue and preserve forever the legacy of the greatest (maybe) pop band of ever, just ahead of the deterioration. And too bad she couldn't have set her sights on Mick Jagger as well. (And yeah, I'll take Yoko's POB over John's, anyday.)

"If I Needed Someone" for me.

Yeah, with that brilliant bridge:

"Ahhhhhhhhhh. Ahhhhhhhhhhh."
(new note) "Ahhhhhhhhhhh."
(original note) "Ahhhhhhhhhh."

All the better to leave behind a totally pristine catalogue and preserve forever the legacy of the greatest (maybe) pop band of ever, just ahead of the deterioration

But why then make her own husband detoriate. After all that's all she did, even though luckily he recovered and made nothing even remotely as bad as that awful and musically worthless "Plastic Ono Band" album, where "Love" was the only decent song.

i sigh, and then I cry, and wonder why.

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oh for Christ's sake

xxxpost

Entirely appropriate.

But why then make her own husband detoriate. After all that's all she did, even though luckily he recovered and made nothing even remotely as bad as that awful and musically worthless "Plastic Ono Band" album, where "Love" was the only decent song.

this is obviously incorrect. john's best work was his plastic ono band album and his guitar playing on yoko's plastic ono band album. both were far more melodically and harmonically richer and more complex than most anything he'd attempted before, particularly the musically worthless "being for the benefit of mr. kite."

Would disagree with those records being harmonically and melodically richer.

Would disagree with both opinions expressed here about them.

Still puzzled by all the love for "Long Long Long."