Hey all,
Welcome On That Note, where we present a musically themed post every week. Your hosts alternate between @cyclones500, @CycloneRulzzz and me. This week is my turn.
Recently, I was thinking about the first Elvis Costello album, specifically the song Welcome to the Working Week. Great song from a great album. But to me, it always seemed too brief, like maybe with a bit more work, it could have been better or more complete.
That got me wondering what other songs seem too short or not as fully fleshed-out to their full potential. Then my mind wandered the opposite direction — when a song seems like it needlessly drags on past the point when any new musical or lyrical content is evident.
Thus, the title, Long Tall Shorty (Song from the Kinks first album), and this week's theme:
Songs that seem too short and songs that seem too long
Not to put too fine a point on it, I don't mean songs you dislike that just happen to be long; I'm looking for songs you believe pointlessly go on too long.
Another example of “too-long” might be a two-part song that you like one segment, but hate the other. For example, Jackson Browne's The Loadout/Stay; perhaps you like the Loadout part but hate the cover version of Stay.
Last week's OTN was the final in our annual Albums of the Past series covering 2001 and 2011.
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My first examples are both from Abbey Road...
Too short: Golden Slumbers
How can a person pick on Abbey Road, Side 2? Considered by some to be the greatest pop music to make up an album side! I do love how it goes and as is. That said I find the song Golden Slumbers to be cut above the rest of the song snippets pulled together to make the side. IMHO I think if McCartney had worked out another verse this could stand with some of his best works along side Let It Be, Yesterday and all the rest. I think it is that good - at least what there is of it. A full 2 and a half or 3-minute pop song version would have been spectacular.
Too long: I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Closing side 1 of Abbey Road is this Lennon penned song. It is just too repetitive and drags on with no variation for too long. It's almost 8 minutes! A nice fade out about 5:10 would have worked for me. Or even an abrupt clipped ending.
Welcome On That Note, where we present a musically themed post every week. Your hosts alternate between @cyclones500, @CycloneRulzzz and me. This week is my turn.
Recently, I was thinking about the first Elvis Costello album, specifically the song Welcome to the Working Week. Great song from a great album. But to me, it always seemed too brief, like maybe with a bit more work, it could have been better or more complete.
That got me wondering what other songs seem too short or not as fully fleshed-out to their full potential. Then my mind wandered the opposite direction — when a song seems like it needlessly drags on past the point when any new musical or lyrical content is evident.
Thus, the title, Long Tall Shorty (Song from the Kinks first album), and this week's theme:
Songs that seem too short and songs that seem too long
Not to put too fine a point on it, I don't mean songs you dislike that just happen to be long; I'm looking for songs you believe pointlessly go on too long.
Another example of “too-long” might be a two-part song that you like one segment, but hate the other. For example, Jackson Browne's The Loadout/Stay; perhaps you like the Loadout part but hate the cover version of Stay.
Last week's OTN was the final in our annual Albums of the Past series covering 2001 and 2011.
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My first examples are both from Abbey Road...
Too short: Golden Slumbers
How can a person pick on Abbey Road, Side 2? Considered by some to be the greatest pop music to make up an album side! I do love how it goes and as is. That said I find the song Golden Slumbers to be cut above the rest of the song snippets pulled together to make the side. IMHO I think if McCartney had worked out another verse this could stand with some of his best works along side Let It Be, Yesterday and all the rest. I think it is that good - at least what there is of it. A full 2 and a half or 3-minute pop song version would have been spectacular.
Too long: I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Closing side 1 of Abbey Road is this Lennon penned song. It is just too repetitive and drags on with no variation for too long. It's almost 8 minutes! A nice fade out about 5:10 would have worked for me. Or even an abrupt clipped ending.
