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  • How Good Is "Love Me Do" By Itself

    From nyarlathotep1@nyarlathotep1@hotmail.com (Norbert) to rec.music.beatles on Sun Jun 22 10:28:36 2025
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    I'm proposing this thought experiment in an effort to get discussion
    and/or debate going: If you forget about what came afterwards, how good
    is "Love Me Do" by itself? I don't think it's very good. The feel is
    dinky and trite. The lyrics are childlike. The melodies aren't
    memorable. And then there is the cringeworthy Elvis pastiche.

    The best part of the song is the harmony Lennon and McCartney create
    when singing "So plee -- ee -- ease" before the chorus.

    George Martin may have publicly praised the effort, but according to
    Geoff Emerick, on hearing the song, Martin begrudgingly told Lennon and McCartney that "I suppose you have a kernel of something there."
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  • From Geoff@geoff@nospamgeoffwood.org to rec.music.beatles on Mon Jun 23 11:08:22 2025
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    On 22/06/2025 10:28 pm, Norbert wrote:
    I'm proposing this thought experiment in an effort to get discussion
    and/or debate going:-a If you forget about what came afterwards, how good
    is "Love Me Do" by itself?-a I don't think it's very good.-a The feel is dinky and trite.-a The lyrics are childlike.-a The melodies aren't memorable.-a And then there is the cringeworthy Elvis pastiche.

    The best part of the song is the harmony Lennon and McCartney create
    when singing "So plee -- ee -- ease" before the chorus.

    George Martin may have publicly praised the effort, but according to
    Geoff Emerick, on hearing the song, Martin begrudgingly told Lennon and McCartney that "I suppose you have a kernel of something there."

    'Par for the course' for the era. More sophisticated than many, and instrumentally advanced for the genre especially considering they
    actually played it.
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    geoff
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  • From nyarlathotep1@nyarlathotep1@hotmail.com (Norbert) to rec.music.beatles on Mon Jun 23 12:02:25 2025
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    Except that Andy White played drums on the official version of the song.

    The Beach Boys' induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame came up on
    my Youtube recently, and I witnessed Mike Love's bizarre onstage
    meltdown once again. He took swipes at McCartney, Jagger, the Beatles
    and Stones. Love mentioned the number of live performanc3es the Beach
    Boys had played in the previous year, and said: "I'd like to see the
    Moptops achieve that." Excuse me? The Beatles had only broken up
    nearly two decades earlier. And BTW, they played their own instruments.

    So much for the benefits of transcendental meditation (of which Love was
    a big promoter).
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  • From swjenkins12@swjenkins12@gmail.com (cuppajoe2go) to rec.music.beatles on Tue Jun 24 04:37:11 2025
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    What's that got to do with the price of eggs??

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  • From nyarlathotep1@nyarlathotep1@hotmail.com (Norbert) to rec.music.beatles on Tue Jun 24 10:35:52 2025
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    I was agreeing with Geoff, in a roundabout way, that the Beatles'
    playing of their own instruments counts for a lot.
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