*****Paul McCartney*****

[The Nal]

12 hours ago, chatty said:

 

If it went:

 

Don't Pass Me By

 

Then that would be a fifteen track masterpiece

Christ.

[priest17]

Don't Pass Me By is a stone cold banger.

[SwedgeAntilles]

You can't hate a track that has the lyric

'I'm sorry that I doubted you,

I was so unfair,

You were in a car crash,

And you lost your hair'

[henry bear]

1 hour ago, priest17 said:

Don't Pass Me By is a stone cold banger.

As opposed to a hot, sizzling banger.

[Simsy]

 

[chatty]

2 hours ago, The Nal said:

Christ.

 

Need an obligatory Ringo singing track on a great Beatles record. 

Revolver had Yellow Submarine

Abbey Road had Octopuses Garden... 

[billum]

Not very keen on this White Album remix though, certainly not yet. Loved the Sgt Pepper remix Giles did a couple of years back, but that '2018 Back In The USSR' is taking liberties I don't think he shoulda took

[Bradders]

I like Octopuses Garden.

[stuartbert two hats]

2 hours ago, Bradders said:

I like Octopuses Garden.

Woah. A garden full of motherfucking octopuses!

[Guest]

28 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Woah. A garden full of motherfucking octopuses!

They were just grazing if I remember correctly. No fucking took place.

[Hugh Jass]

47 minutes ago, Ommadawn said:

They were just grazing if I remember correctly. No fucking took place.

Reading the lyrics it sounds to me like the Octopi we’re trying to lure unsuspecting children to a watery grave.

And Ringo was in on it. The massive bastard. 

[mashedonmud]

16 hours ago, Ommadawn said:

They were just grazing if I remember correctly. No fucking took place.

Must of been some foreplay with all those limbs waving about, maybe accidental but most certainly foreplay.

Accidental Foreplay is NOT a Defence. 

[Mr.Tease]

What bothers me is the emphasis of the octopus' Garden being in the shade--why is describe it as being in the shade? Is that technically true (I suspect not)  and is it particularly desirable if you're at the bottom of the sea? 

[henry bear]

From Ringo’s autobiography:

I wrote Octopus's Garden in Sardinia. Peter Sellers had lent us his yacht and we went out for the day... I stayed out on deck with [the captain] and we talked about octopuses. He told me that they hang out in their caves and they go around the seabed finding shiny stones and tin cans and bottles to put in front of their cave like a garden. I thought this was fabulous, because at the time I just wanted to be under the sea too. A couple of tokes later with the guitar – and we had Octopus's Garden!

[Guest]

1 hour ago, henry bear said:

From Ringo’s autobiography:

I wrote Octopus's Garden in Sardinia. Peter Sellers had lent us his yacht and we went out for the day... I stayed out on deck with [the captain] and we talked about octopuses. He told me that they hang out in their caves and they go around the seabed finding shiny stones and tin cans and bottles to put in front of their cave like a garden. I thought this was fabulous, because at the time I just wanted to be under the sea too. A couple of tokes later with the guitar – and we had Octopus's Garden!

So Ringo can't write a decent song even when high.

[chatty]

2 hours ago, Ommadawn said:

So Ringo can't write a decent song even when high.

Maybes it was an absolute belter when he was high as fuck though. 

N.B. I actually quite like Octopuses Garden. 

[H.M.V]

Octopuses Garden was my favourite song as a kid.  

[Penrhos]

I just want him to sing an encore of "we all stand together" with security dressed as frogs....

Trippy....

[stuartbert two hats]

Is everyone spelling Octopus's garden wrong on purpose now?

[zico martin]

2 minutes ago, Penrhos said:

I just want him to sing an encore of "we all stand together" with security dressed as frogs....

Trippy....

With an organised dance routine a la Dolly and Barry? 

I'm in!

[dentalplan]

3 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Is everyone spelling Octopus's garden wrong on purpose now?

*Octopus' Garden.

[zico martin]

Octopi's garden Shirley?

[H.M.V]

7 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Is everyone spelling Octopus's garden wrong on purpose now?

That would make you really cranky wouldn't it. ?

[Losing my hair]

16 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Is everyone spelling Octopus's garden wrong on purpose now?

No, but from now on they will be.

[billum]

Great story how Ringo wrote it

Now I'm moving on to whether Macca could even attempt Lennon's 'What's The New Mary Jane', and say it's "from the latest album"