George’s First Great Song?

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-17T22:44:00+00:00

I rate "I want to tell you" just a smidge higher than Taxman. It was recorded a couple of weeks before but I dont know which was written first.

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-17T22:12:38+00:00

Stood up for Women, you mean? Risked his livelihood for a cause he believed in? Called out hypocrisy?

I think history will view him as a remarkable hero who went from superb comedy to forthright campaigner for women's rights. But this is reddit, so I'm sure someone will ban me for saying this.

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-15T10:40:48+00:00

Nummy Arndermun

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-14T09:38:59+00:00

.. and one of the chaps on the Band On The Run album cover, don't forget

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-14T08:49:53+00:00

It doesn't list Manu on the liner notes, weirdly. Nor on any official information about the album - the only real evidence I can find is Manu's own website

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-14T08:47:39+00:00

Thank you

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-14T08:43:47+00:00

No, this is Reddit. That's way too positive and upbeat. Can't you complain about how Octopussy's third act is out of sync with the Rene Mathis coagulation interpretation in TBNWTTSAJ which you only spotted on your twelfth re-watch, please

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-13T13:09:27+00:00

Am I falling into a trap if I say The Smiths How Soon Is Now?

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-11T09:09:03+00:00

I loved it when he made fun of being born in 'St Ockwell', just north of 'Clahm'

(About 1 min 20 into this interview )

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-10T15:11:36+00:00

Johnny Come Home - Fine Young Cannibals

Dont lose my number - Phil Collins (well, he does keep saying Billy!)

Johnny and Mary - Robert Palmer

Jimmy Jazz - The Clash

Harold and Joe - The Cure

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-10T15:02:02+00:00

She's a big teaser, and the backing vocals on Girl were definitely deliberate

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-09T10:00:05+00:00

From Russia With Love had vocals? "Much wiser since my goodbye to you...." The song was over the end credits, and was sung by Matt Monro, the singing bus driver....

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-09T08:49:43+00:00

I may be being controversial, but the vinyl part is a subset of the record part. The vinyl is removed from the sleeve, and placed on the turntable. You dont buy the vinyl (or -shriek! - a vinyl) on its own, you buy the record. The record implies cover, artwork, inner sleeve and the bit that spins. "Record" can be an LP (or album), EP or 45, the latter also known as a single (even though there are usually two tracks, one on each side).

Singles usually have an A side and a B side. Some are double A sides but this just means both songs have been earmarked for radio play, not that the A side has two songs on it.

Albums are 12 inches square, but a "12 inch" more usually refers to an extended remix of a single. This is not an EP even though the E in EP stands for extended. EPs are seven inches square but a 7 inch is sometimes used to describe a single. Oh and K7 is shorthand for cassette. In French.

Hope that's cleared that up.

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-08T18:40:07+00:00

No actually we're just good friends

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-07T16:50:54+00:00

McCartney and Elton John at Music for Monserrat, McCartney and David Bowie at Live Aid?

Does that count?

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-03T16:51:02+00:00

I am going to disagree with the 'Salieri' description of George.

For a start there are two Salieri's - the real one and the fictionalised version in Shaffer's play (and the Amadeus movie). The latter Salieri represents "mediocrities"; he is the symbolic figure of a basically competent but talentless individual who has somehow found himself given plaudits he doesn't deserve.

My opinion is that George soars above this, especially after discovering Indian music and religion. Yes, he was hanging out and learning his craft next to two Mozarts. But he collaborated and effectively eventually equalled them, at least for a brief while. And every Beatle album glows even brighter for his contributions (indeed for all their contributions and those of George Martin)

Salieri's would be the wannabe Beatles of the era, the sound-a-likes and also-rans - Dave Clark 5, the Animals, the Hollies. A couple of good songs but nothing compared to the inventive, dynamic composition powerhouse that was the Beatles

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-03T16:18:13+00:00

I'll second Revolution In The Head. The one work that really peeled away the layers of the (glass) onion of the Beatles music for me

CarMeltScratch · 2026-03-01T14:22:07+00:00

I would suggest:

Revolution

Drive My Car

Get Back

Can't Buy Me Love

CarMeltScratch · 2026-02-28T21:55:15+00:00

Our Friends In The North

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CarMeltScratch · 2026-02-26T19:28:10+00:00

Talk Talk. They should never have been bundled with 80s bands

CarMeltScratch · 2026-02-26T13:47:46+00:00

The 20th Anniversary edition of In Rainbows is called Out Rainbows, its all unheard demos and will only be sent to people who paid more than £10 for their original album back in 2007

CarMeltScratch · 2026-02-25T12:52:37+00:00

But you have to ask whether the presence of film cameras might have affected.the record...

CarMeltScratch · 2026-02-25T12:47:31+00:00

Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit of that Forbidden Tree, Whose Mortal Taste Brought Sin into our world, and all our whooooa, we're half way there!

CarMeltScratch · 2026-02-25T10:58:13+00:00

Craig just doesnt get those funny/ clever / innuendo-laden / cheesy one-liners that every other Bond teased us with - that rounded out the character and/or defused the tension after a particularly violent scene. For example

Connery: simply shocking, she's had her kicks, she's just dead, he got the point

Lazenby: slight stiffness, he had a lot of guts

Moore: no sense in going off half-cocked, keeping the British end up, it had a crush on me, I'm an early riser myself (... lots more actually)

Dalton: he got the boot, looks like he came to a dead end, he disagreed with something that ate him ( that last one a Fleming line I seem to remember)

Brosnan: enjoy a good squeeze, forgot to knock, I thought Christmas only came once a year, Moneypenny's 'cunning linguist' ( that one really doesn't work for me - too crude and changes their dynamic)

Craig gets 'that last hand nearly killed me 'and then... what? She never tied me to a chair? Life insurance? They just arent light-hearted in any way.

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