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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Post-breakup Beatles songs revealed their entire dynamic. George Harrison immediately drops All Things Must Pass and it is three whole albums of solid gold. John Lennon cranks out a few mildly trite pop songs (including a much better Christmas song than that) before his untimely death. Ringo takes the money and basically retires to a private life of happiness and joy.

But Paul McCartney, legendary singer-songwriter, and no stranger to experimentation or collaboration, begins a long and varied follow-up career of absolute crap. I don't understand how someone so demonstrably knowledgeable and talented achieves such consistent mediocrity, but in the absence of an equally egotistical genius to tell him off (and a polite wizard to feel challenged by) he was just useless. Wings goes on for a decade and produces maybe half a dozen decent songs, one of which is this Tame Impala anomaly nobody remembers.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

and a polite wizard to feel challenged by

are you referring to Ringo again here?

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

Nah. "Challenging" is not a quality you want in a drummer.

Lennon and McCartney were obviously quite talented, but neither of them could go "Hey by the way Eric Clapton's here. Mic him up."