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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Sad Songs |
| Date | Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:33:50 -0500 |
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AT Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:14:11 Benjamin wrote:
>On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 CCDatsMe@aol.com wrote:
>
> > Someone must speak on behalf of the 800-pound gorilla:
> >
> > "Yesterday" by The Beatles
> > I don't care that it's been overplayed, because that just makes
>it
> > paradoxically the single most underrated track in pop history. Not at
>all
> > overdone, remarkably restrained, and an absolute heartbreaker.
>
>I'd like to nominate another '65 Beatles tune--"We Can Work It Out."
>Don't you just get the feeling that they WON'T?
And one of the Beatles cleverist musical movements -- the verses are written
in a major key, and the chorus is in a minor key. They became masters at
this. Few acts except Cheap Trick and ELO have managed to pull it off to pop
perfection the way the Beatles did.
Jaimie Vernon,
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