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thenewgreen  ·  3665 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Art of McCartney: The Songs of Paul McCartney Sung by Various Artists

You know what, I couldn't agree more about Dylan. That song had such a new dimension to it. I recognized the bitterness in the lyrics SO MUCH MORE because of his voice.

Agree about Joel -Carbon copies but with a weaker voice. Chrissie Hynde's Let it Be was pretty darn good. It's a hell of a song to take on. How on earth do you improve upon that? I almost wish it were approached in a completely new way. Okay, you gave it a new guitar solo, but it's really not even that different. I like her though and I believe her voice. It's such a gorgeous song though. I think that gets forgotten because we've all heard it a bazillion times. This is what's potentially cool about an album like this, we get to hear these songs for the first time and rediscover their virtues. Dylan did this. Joel failed at it and Hynde kind of did it.





user-inactivated  ·  3665 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You're right, yeah. I found myself listening to the lyrics of Let It Be ... haven't needed to do that since I was seven, and so I don't often do it.