Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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29 published records
01 / belief
“” Then there’s something else in there which seems to me more George than John, so I think we agree completely.”
02 / belief
“” I think John was the first to get onto that in a really strong way, and that’s probably what pushed him furthest ahead in those early years.”
03 / belief
“I think if the Get Back movie had been shot while they were recording Revolver, for instance, a couple of years earlier, we would have seen a very different John.”
04 / belief
“” The thing that I think we do know that Paul contributed to “Help” was those backing vocals, “and now those days are gone.”
05 / belief
“I think some of the performances on Wings Over America are pretty good, but I generally agree, and it leads my mind to this larger point, which is that part of the reason they were so incredibly innovative in the first place was that they were British and therefore had this distance from American music.”
06 / belief
“You’ve made my answer sound really boring because I think “Please Please Me” is the point when they turn into a pop machine.”
07 / recommendation
“I like “Come and Get It.” I don’t think there’s a truly great song that should have been released.”
08 / belief
“I think he was upset at Spector just more generally for having the arrogance to come in and change the Beatles’ music in any way without Paul’s permission.”
09 / belief
“Members have quite different skills, but they’re truly working together. That’s the other British Beatles, I think.”
10 / belief
“I think my lead would be, “What’s the New Mary Jane,” that if you had given Paul his way with it over the course of a week, he might have turned it into something great, even though it’s a John song.”
11 / belief
“I think the better version, better alternative history might have been George does All Things Must Pass, John does Imagine, and Paul does Ram, and then the next year, they do a Beatles album.”
12 / belief
“I think you could see even earlier in “I’ll Follow the Sun,” that sense of just keep on keeping on, just a sense of a troubadour with a guitar who’s just going to keep playing and will never get too attached to anybody.”
13 / belief
“Then, I know this is not an album, but YouTube cuts of Wings playing live with Jimmy McCulloch on guitar, I think are generally better than Wings Over America, which is quite good for a live album.”
14 / belief
“I think of Jagger-Richards as ultimately a business relationship, where they’re quite happy to give up being creative just to make a lot of money, and it becomes not interesting for 50 years.”
15 / commitment
“I am going to spend the spring and summer talking about John and Paul. I’m going to love every minute of it.”
16 / belief
“” Then Paul takes it and just takes it to another level. I agree. I do think the result is really beautiful and a really underrated song from Paul’s post-Beatles career.”
17 / belief
“There’s a lot of songs on it, like “Meat City” or “I Know” that seem forgotten, but they’re very good. I think the production is systematically weak, but the songs are excellent.”
18 / belief
“I think Walls and Bridges is really pretty good. With the exception of Imagine and the Plastic Ono Band, I’m not a huge fan of his subsequent albums, but I do think Walls and Bridges and Mind Games are pretty good.”
19 / uncertainty
“I don’t know how much of “Mull of Kintyre” was contributed by Denny, but that might have been Paul letting Denny in as it was.”
20 / evaluation
“” By 1965, mainly because of John, partly because of Dylan, who was incredibly boiling with hostility and anger, at times anyway, McCartney was really uncovering that side of himself as well and pouring that into songs.”
21 / evaluation
“I think of “Baby You’re a Rich Man” as maybe the last genuinely joint John-Paul composition.”
22 / evaluation
“He clearly had more of an influence on Paul, partly because they were both bass players.”
23 / evaluation
“I think I would agree with George’s version of “Roll Over Beethoven” — it’s kind of limp.”
24 / evaluation
“John did the composition and the vocal, but I think Paul did the arranging, the orchestration, worked with George Martin to do the production.”
25 / evaluation
“Postman” and others for John. They find the emotional heart of these songs in a way that sometimes the originals, which are a bit neater and have the edges sawn off, were not able to do, and I think that is just what makes them really so powerful.”
26 / evaluation
“Noam Dworman and I agree that either Paul McCartney or Wings covers of Beatles songs are almost uniformly mediocre.”
27 / evaluation
“You can debate who did what on Pussy Cats, but “Many Rivers to Cross” and “Subterranean Homesick Blues” — I think of them as much John songs as Harry songs.”
28 / prediction
“I think he should have just taken over, but he does, I think, only in the one song called “All My Loving,” which sounds quite like Paul, and the title itself tells you something.”
29 / evaluation
“I think everything would be better as a Beatles’ song because I think that when they played together, there was just this magic thing that happened.”