smoe.org mailing lists
ivan@stellysee.de
| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | McCartney then and now |
| Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:22:08 -0500 |
[Part 1 text/plain us-ascii (1.7 kilobytes)]
(View Text in a separate window)
>>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:40:38 -0000
From: "Borislow, Gary" <gary.borislow@sage.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Subject: Re: McCartney was God, I'm not yet over it
Message-ID:
<30E402E258191A418DAAAE74CD4F956B0433A900@GS-CLUSTER2-3.gs.adinternal.co
m>
<<I'll bite...
Thomas Walsh/Pugwash
Jason Falkner
Jon Brion
Roger Manning Jr.
the Posies (Dear 23-era)
Steve Eggers (The Nines)
Fiona Apple
Finn Brothers>>
Obviously a matter of opinion, but these artists all rank higher on your
list than McCartney? Somewhat surprising, considering that many of
these are using a playbook that Paul wrote. The two that I, to a
certain extent, agree with you on are Falkner and Eggers. And I would
add Emitt Rhodes and mid-90s Robert Pollard to this list. They're all
consistently great, but really they write the same song over and over
again. It's a fantastic song, but still virtually the same.
One significant thing about McCartney and the Beatles in the 60s is that
they continuously progressed their style, yet almost without fail their
songs remained supremely melodic at their core. I have yet to witness
another artist or band that has been able to do this.
<<
Gary, you're missing the point. Read back through this thread, and
you'll discover that the list you've requested is for
artists/songwriters who outrank McCartney *now* -- not the McCartney of
the 1960s. You can't simply excise the vast bulk of McCartney's
1970-2007 catalog from this discussion as though it doesn't exist, nor
can you ignore the fact that McCartney is still an active recording
artist and songwriter who is presenting new work to the public.
Greg Sager
For assistance, please contact
the smoe.org administrators.