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Right. Most All-Christmas stations start around Thanksgiving.
Yes Harry! When I hear our girl blurt out "frosted window panes", I will know that Christmas will soon be upon us!! Bring it!!!
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Right. Most All-Christmas stations start around Thanksgiving.
I like your assessment on Hush, but feel a rock opera style mix that it almost became could have penetrated the charts. It is too soft in places. Mid way through the song it begins to pick up to the point where it should have started.I find all the discussion about "I Just Fall In Love Again" to be quite interesting. It is a great song and I also like "You." I think one of the problems with either song being good enough to be a single were the final mixes. The entire "A Kind Of Hush" album suffered from less than wonderful mixing.
For me, "Horizon" was the best album in terms of sound and production. I found the original LP of AKOH to be a big letdown in this regard. It sounds mushy and not dynamic. On CD, it is the same.
I think "You" with a better mix could have been at least a top 20 hit. IJFILA for me was just too 60's easy listening sounding. Anne Murray's version sounded more contemporary.
Both ‘Baby It’s You’ and ‘Help!’ have ‘hit’ written all over them. Especially in 1970!
I always thought Baby It’s You was too slow and plodding to be a single. There’s no real hook in it.
I always thought Baby It’s You was too slow and plodding to be a single. There’s no real hook in it.
I don't know. It is slow but it's a powerful performance, with a real depth to it that's in keeping with other singles like 'Superstar' and 'Rainy Days and Mondays' from their earlier career. It might have stood a chance as a single, albeit that it's certainly less immediate than 'Close to You' or 'We've Only Just Begun' (although that's true of everything else on the Close to You album too - there's no other clear smash single on there in that vein).
Very glad 'Help!' was never a single. It's one of those songs that just gets worse the more I hear it. I really dislike the arrangement and Karen's doubled vocal is really offputting and one of her least attractive leads. Had it been released before 'Close to You' as was allegedly the plan, I'm pretty certain this forum wouldn't exist as their career would never have got going in the first place!
Help! suffers from being a really muffled recording.
I wonder if that’s because “Help” was recorded so soon after the “Offering” sessions. “Offering” was mastered pretty badly, when you think that there is a lot of distortion on the album. When I got the pink “Ticket To Ride” a few months ago, when the album went from “We’ve Only Just Begun” to “Your Wonderful Parade”, the opening to YWP was extremely noisy (and I don’t mean the crowd noise, but it sounded like there was a lot of tape hiss). It was like going from a CD to an audio cassette with no-Dolby noise reduction.Help! suffers from being a really muffled recording. I’ve never liked it. One of the poorest-recorded tracks on the album. The remasters did zero to remedy that.
I love Help! I don’t mind her double tracked vocal because the sole focus of the song isn’t her emotional performance. The dizzying baroque arrangement is dark, jagged and a fantastic experiment on a album full of variety.
Agreed on "Help." It's one of my favorites and I always crank it to the max when it comes up in the iPod shuffle. I think R&K's version is way better than the Beatles' own version.
Considering that “Help” was suppose to be an “A” side, it’s surprisingly that it never got a “B” side release, except in Uruguay where it backed “Canta”.
I love this track.I’ll respectfully disagree wholeheartedly.
‘Help!’ rocks effectively and it showed another side to their talents. It was also very contemporary for the times. The harmonies are shimmering and Karen’s enunciation is very different. Lastly, it showed more of a rock edge than anything else they recorded.
In addition, ‘Help!’ was a KILLER opening track for their early concerts. It’s how they opened the show that I attended in ‘73 and the crowd was instantly on their feet.
I’ll agree it could use a remix. I’ve always wished Richard would tackle it.
It would have totally helped reshape their image I feel. Or at least give people the understanding that they weren’t just workmanlike hitmakers.
Good lord their version is eons better than the Beatles! I hate when people believe that they could do nothing less than brilliant genius because they’re THE BEATLES. I can’t stand that mindset. They didn’t really hit their stride until the later 60s and even then it’s not as if every song was perfect.
I wish Karen’s lead wasn’t so muffled but other than that it’s an amazing example of the variety of textures and tones they could handle before ennui kicked in.
Here's a "never were" and "never should be". Bootleg vinyl. Don't reward these thieves.
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