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"Now and Then"

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Posted on November 26, 2023 at 15:12:23
halfnote
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 No posts regarding the "final" Beatles song?

The lyrics? They need some enhancement and polish. They sound like a work in progress, where the lyrics are placeholders, waiting for a more purposeful treatment.

Lennon, still, shows his penchant for unusual chord contrasts and melodic twists.

The video? A jumbled, sometimes inappropriately zany, nonsensical mélange, which has as its main objective, an exercise in nostalgia.

 

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RE: "Now and Then", posted on November 27, 2023 at 06:27:00
zacster
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 Ummmm, where would they get more polished lyrics from John? They had what they had. And the quality was so poor that it required the AI techniques used even to extract that.

While I don't think it is a great song they did the best with what they have, including the still living members. Paul's voice is croaky, I don't know about Ringo's, but he never sang the harmonies in the past like he does on this. They only had some guitar parts from George that were recorded when they tried to do this in the past.

When I watched "Get Back" I was fascinated with their creative process. A song would go from a few hummed lyrics or a guitar/piano tune to a polished recording in a pretty short time.

What surprised me though was how cleaned up the songs are on the Blue and Red albums now. "Yesterday" in particular was fixed so it isn't a mono string quartet on one side and Paul on the other. They were able to spread it out as a normal stereo recording.

 

RE: "Now and Then", posted on November 27, 2023 at 06:47:04
halfnote
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 Of course John is not around to polish the lyrics, and of course the remaining Beatles would not take such a liberty. It IS John's song, after all.

But the lyrics are dull and repetitive by any standard. Perhaps the quality of the recording itself was not the only reason the song had not been released till now.

And please explain the wacky, slap-stick dance antics that are featured in the video. How on earth do they related in any fashion to the more somber, confessional nature of the song itself.

I don't think the song is up to the standards of either of the first two posthumously released songs, "Free As A Bird" and "Real Love", which are both superb.



 

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