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Originally Posted by Badlittlekitten
Paul's happy - go - lucky persona is a façade, and by some accounts he's quite a nasty little fella (one only has to hear the 'pakis go home' nonsense).
But I'll forgive him as he did write 'For No One' and some other stuff that I enjoy very much indeed.
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You do realize that the "pakis go home" nonsense was part of a parody song he had written? It was meant to be a satire and didn't reflect Paul's opinion at all.
He can be quite a difficult person but I doubt that he's a "nasty little fella" any more than any one else out there or here.
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Originally Posted by Scarbo
No, this was way after The Kinks made See My Friend, which was clearly Indian.
Now that that's out of the way, I love The Beatles to bits, and I have never grown tired of them after years of listening. I'll admit, sometimes they will be a bit overrated, but it's my opinion that their music was highly influential and perfect in almost every way.
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For the record, "See My Friends" had the Indian vibe but it didn't feature a sitar hence the comment about "Norweign Wood". Paul's contribution to the song was the idea and he wrote that section with John that the character burned down the flat IIRC adding a nasty element to the song. It's primarily a John song with contributions from Paul.
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Originally Posted by Hitting_Singularity
I just bought the Beatles in mono a couple weeks ago. It was literally the best 200 dollars I have ever spent on music. their stuff was seriously supposed to be listened to in mono. Mostly just because 80% of the stereo mixes are super annoying to listen to on headphones and even speakers sometimes.
Not to mention it is the best physical collectors item as far as CDs go.. Each album comes in a mini-replica LP sleeve that is exact, down to the construction of the cardboard and sleeves for the would-be vinyl discs. And the CDs all have protective slips on them as well.
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Mono was the stanard at the time and as I'm sure you're aware The Beatles themselves would be around for mono mixing sessions later in their career whereas stereo was an after thought with less time devoted to it (and sometimes Martin himself wasn't around).
Some of the stereo mixes were done by Martin, Norman Smith, etc. with the idea that if someone wanted to listen to them on a mono set (for whatever reason) they would "fold down" into mono when played that way--although I want to point out that the mono mixes were not in anyway a fold down (in fact the only fold down I recall being done during that time was for "Revolution 9" and, some argue, that "Revolution 1" although I'm not a strong believer in that theory based on what I recall of the mixing history of the White Album).
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