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Wow! Gobsmacked. This is such a thoughtful analysis of the song. I learned a lot. Some time ago, wrote and performed in a play in which the characters sing this song as the finale, despite one character's complaint that it was the worst Beatles song ever. Now I see how brilliant it is. Thank you!

"Reddit" isn't especially relevant.

Anyone who says the early "Beatles" were "corny" has yet to learn how to listen instead of being "superior" based upon baseless and uninformed skepticism. The fear of actually engaging.

Hard to pick a single perfect pop song, but I always had a soft spot for Care of Cell 44 by The Zombies !

"Press to Play" is not a travesty. Half the songs, like "Stranglehold," are fantastic.

Very refreshing and delightful channel. just discovered it and subscribed. Best wishes.

Check out Josh Turner and Katie Martucci's brilliant cover of this song!

"stevie wants the best for the person she is breaking up with!" is an applicable line to 1977 or to 1987 or even to 1997 but taken into the 21st century, it is just something that produces howling laughter. lindsey earned his spot in that band. getting away from her whatever the cost means lindsey won the breakup!!!

Lindsey's vision that Mick speaks about is not just for his song - but for entire albums. Mick said they were lost in the studio w/o him. Christine called him her favorite producer. Lindsey was working in the studio long after everyone else went home or on vacation. He was the main arranger and producer for Rumours and every FM album when he was with the band. He's credited under the band name as Producer (until Mirage) but even Caillat - who still holds a grudge over Tusk - said Lindsey was the leader they all followed. As for who won the break up musically - Lindsey can make his own songs to diss Stevie whereas Stevie needed Lindsey to make her lyrics and in her own words "skeletal melodies" into songs. Unlike Stevie he didn't complain about her lyrics even when they gave a self serving impression. So yeah, he did rise above. Meanwhile Stevie has been complaining about GYOW for over 40 years. She'd probably complain about 4 or so songs on Tusk if the album was more popular. Stevie said she cheated 2 or 3 times on Lindsey and he always forgave her. Her objection was that she wasn't shacking up with other guys. Hair splitting. Though she was always shacking up/packing up with Lindsey. Stevie complained that Lindsey's songs were too self confessional while hers are more mysterious. Even after they broke up both said they were making Second Hand News booty calls. SHN is a tongue in cheek song about their continuing relationship - it's also self mocking humor which is something Stevie lacks in songs. It's silly but it's also adult and self aware. Lindsey was a musician first who always wrote lyrics last but he evolved as a lyricist. Many of his lyrics on Tusk are sharp, witty and savagely to the point. By the 90s and 00s his writing became more poetic and overall he passed Stevie as a lyricist and song writer decades ago. Stevie said she wrote Rhiannon as a mid tempo ballad. Lindsey made it into a rocker which she resented at the time. He composed musical parts for it - that iconic riff - and arranged and produced it. You think Rhiannon would have soared as much on Stevie slow plonking 3 piano chords? Listen to the dirge it's become - it's not nearly as compelling. Jimmy Iovine said when he became her producer for her first solo album that he had no idea the amount and breadth of work Lindsey did on her songs and the work he and others would have to do. Derek Taylor is also who Stevie wrote Beautiful Child about when he ended their affair to go home back to his wife and six kids.

Truly enjoy your stance on some of the greatest musicians. Your mind and soul understand the rawness of music played by hand and groups who had amazing harmony ❤ refreshing 😊

You quote Christine but cut off her part about how Lindsey then “fashioned three sections out of identical chords, making each section sound completely different. He created the impression that there’s a thread running through the whole thing.” Christine said she never knew what to do with Stevie's songs - that she needed Lindsey to translate them into music first for her to contribute. The idea that the rest of the band didn't treat Stevie right or respect her songwriting is ridiculous. They gave her center stage from the start even when she only sang lead on 2-3 songs and didn't play an instrument. As a band they worked more on her songs than any others because she came in with a melody carried by her voice but otherwise musically bereft. She also often came in with long unwieldy songs - GDW, Silver Springs and Sara all started off at 10 minutes plus. Then she complained all her songs couldn't make it on a limited vinyl with two other great singer/songwriters. if she wanted SS on the album she should have let them edit down more of her three songs - she refused. Cutting say Oh Daddy - so Christine then had 9 minutes of solo material so that Stevie could have 15 - how would that be fair? That Stevie clip about Lindsey making her music wonderful only when he was happy with her.... he wasn't happy with her during Dreams or Rumours - she said that - yet he still worked his ass off producing, arranging and composing and playing parts for her songs. “I remember the night I wrote ‘Dreams.’ I walked in and handed a cassette of the song to Lindsey. It was a rough take, just me singing solo and playing piano. Even though he was mad with me at the time, Lindsey played it and then looked up at me and smiled. What was going on between us was sad. We were couples who couldn’t make it through. But, as musicians, we still respected each other - and we got some brilliant songs out of it.”

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I feel a need to make a less critical comment. I'm finding this channel to be very informative, and very well researched. Okay, then. For a perfect pop song I choose "My Only One" by the Indonesian band Mocca. Arina Ephipania is sunshine on steroids.

My Fittonia and i love Plantasia!

I never thought of this era of Fleetwood Mac as Pop Rock at all. I thought of it as a return to straight Rock and Roll, as in the 50's.

I really enjoyed the Mac back in the day, and saw them in an on-the-green concert while at UCStaBarbara in '77, but always felt that they were pop-rock fluff in the midst of the prog-rock explosion... But Nancy, stylin' in mom's whirling disc top, even makes pop-rock fascinating! Thanx

The perfect pop song? That is a tough question. The one that comes to mind is Sir Paul McCartney's "Silly Love Songs." PS: The Muddy Waters insert was inspired!

Thanks for explaining and demonstrating the Pentatonic Scale, that was really helpful! This is a really fun Buckingham/Nicks song, they really made great music together. Excellent video as always.

you should have gone for the swear there was a nice alliteration available there! some good mining for the details in the track: the rhythm guitar is clean. strangely it comes across as a jolly ditty but is forgettable and... 🙎 go on you were saying saying what 🤷 about the song for cryin' out loud ... what song

Red Rubber Ball by the Cyrkle. Why? Because it’s not a rock song, not a folk song nor a country song or anything else. It’s pure pop. If you were trying to demonstrate to an alien what was meant by “pop” music, I don’t think you could do much better than that.

i do know A perfect pop song and it might be A favourite, fontella bass RESCUE ME and on the b side of this fantasy 45 it'll be the ronnettes BE MY BABY. poptastic.

Now, THERE'S a supergroup we have to bring together once we figure out time-travel (or necromancy): Holdsworth, Peart and Squire

Perfect pop song is just a tangy question. So tough! hm! I do believe ABBA is as close to the perfect pop song/s as we'll get. But my others that come to mind: Prince, Avicii, The Chainsmokers, The Bangles, Taylor Swift, Beach Boys, Blink 182. But it's such an impossible tangy question haha hmm oh gosh

I love Fleetwood Mac SO MUCH. Thank you for talking about Fleetwood Mac!! :D

Huge fan of some of ABBA’s stuff, like Mamma Mia might be my favorite pop song

What's your perfect pop song? Discuss!

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Beatles are trash

Tomorrow never knows, the most deliciously drug addict song ever!!!

Their best album ever in my opinion.

Many Beatles musical moments are indeed "heavenly!"

great use of rapture and sublime and because i struggle to keep up with you i'll throw in another, ' intoxicating ': howzabout that.

“Sunny afternoon” isn’t really a good vibes song. And I’d argue it’s far superior to “good day sunshine” as it has much more darkness that juxtaposes the “sunny afternoon” image conjured in the lyrics.

Reminds me of Paul cracking up in Maxwell’s Silver Hammer on the “writing 50 times” bit- difficult to unhear once you find it

hello! great short! keep up the amazing work!!

Both the Kinks Sunny Afternoon AND Loving Spoonful's Daydream both used to be on my setlist. I would not play ANY Beatles, though. Am not and will not be a fan of the Beatles.

You should listen to Aurora, her voice is angelic and when you realise all the sounds she can makes without any auto-tune it literally makes the hairs on your skin stand up.

I wouldn’t couldn’t feelin’ Groovy, it was too short to ever be released as a single and Simon has talked about not liking it many times

So glad i found this channel, instant sub! Your accent is very interesting, did you happen to attend international schools as a kid?

Beatles are amazing. But let’s not turn this into a competition. The boring parts of life are competitive. Music isn’t a professional competition. It’s a song.

I love things like this. There's a few moments like this scattered throughout The Beatles' catalogue. Everyone knows about the swear in "Hey Jude", but my favourite is when they switch to German during the end of "Good Morning, Good Morning", slightly masked by the animal noises. "Guten morgen, guten morgen, gut! Ja! Ja! Ja!" 😆

their interplay, fully up front on i've got a feeling, almost throway on ' getting better all the time - couldn't get much worse ' is one the essential ingredients of the beatles for us beatles fans. paul going up in the harmony john going down in the harmony at the end of 'you think you've lost your love'. an intimate musical relationship. paul's best giggle is on helter-skelter. well i've finally done it, had far to much say on a shorts video.

"Feelin' Groovy" is an example of Simon's best work?? HORSESHIT.

Good day sunshine is a beautiful happy song. No complaints from me. Maybe a throwaway for the Beatles but still a very good song, composition, feeling. And the ending is sublime. Changing key and adding a call and response takes the song into a new reality that fades out majestically.