The Beatles Eleanor Rigby/She's Leaving Home
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Topic: The Beatles Eleanor Rigby/She's Leaving Home
Posted By: NYSPORTSFAN
Subject: The Beatles Eleanor Rigby/She's Leaving Home
Date Posted: February 10 2016 at 12:05
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One of the more interesting approaches in style in music and instrumentation well to me was Eleanor Rigby/''She's Leaving Home. The dark lyrical themes, chamber style
orchestration, lack of rock instruments with just vocal backings is almost
entirely different genre of music in my opinion. Any thoughts. |
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: February 10 2016 at 12:14
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Love both songs but I just about prefer "She's Leaving Home" melodically and lyrically. SLH wasn't scored by George Martin, he was busy recording with Cilla Black when McCartney phoned him. McCartney didn't want to wait so he called in Mike Leander to do it instead (and he later found fame with G*ry Gl*tt*r). |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: February 10 2016 at 12:38
Rigby came first so was a revolutionary approach for a "pop" single, but I much prefer She's Leaving Home. More intricate musically and more emotional lyrically. Makes me happy for the girl to "leave home" and start a new life but also sad at the same time for the parents who are convinced they somehow drove her away and are desperate to understand what they did wrong. One of The Beatles most successful marriages of music and lyrics. If written 100 years earlier it would probably be considered a tone poem composition masterpiece 
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 10 2016 at 14:34
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She's Leaving Home is a real accomplishment but for pure songsmithing as well as musical and cultural impact, it's Rigby. Who'd have thunk a rock 'n roll band in '66 could've pulled off a no-rock-instrumentation arrangement and still make it rock? One of the most important pop recordings ever. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: emigre80
Date Posted: February 10 2016 at 14:58
| I find both songs very dull, both musically and lyrically. |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: February 10 2016 at 15:34
I feel the same. Nahh 'A day in the life' is where it's at...Pepperwise. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
emigre80 wrote:Posted By: emigre80
Date Posted: February 10 2016 at 17:28
Yeah, A Day in the Life is the best song on SP and the best Beatles' song all round. Unless you want to count the second side of Abbey Road as one extended song, in which case ADITL would have some serious competition.
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Posted By: TheLionOfPrague
Date Posted: February 10 2016 at 19:38
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Both are beautiful songs. Can't pick one. ------------- I shook my head and smiled a whisper knowing all about the place |
Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: February 19 2016 at 07:14
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Elanor is a true "pop" song in the sense that it has been covered by diverse artists from Sinatra to Harvey Mandel; SLH is a great topical song - it hit home as a lot of young people at the time were doing just as the title implies - leaving but not on the same paths as their parents and grandparents before them. Exciting, heady times for sure. ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: DDPascalDD
Date Posted: February 19 2016 at 07:59
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I much prefer the sound and ambience of Eleanor Rigby. Also it sounds much more fun if you cover it. Rigby feels more progressive and contains much more tension IMO. ------------- |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: February 19 2016 at 15:48
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The Aussie band Zoot did a really good hard-rock cover of Eleanor Rigby. I've never liked the whiney, orchestral SLH. That track alone stops Sgt. Pepper's from the 5th star for me. |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: February 19 2016 at 16:48
Personally, I prefer the calm pacing of the stringwork in "SLH" over the anxious pacing on "Eleanor Rigby". Probably because I prefer a more laid-back vibe.
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Posted By: DDPascalDD
Date Posted: February 19 2016 at 17:01
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Yeah this might be too different though and therefore too subjective. ------------- |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: February 19 2016 at 17:29
Splendid post. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |