#always you songwriting

[get-back-homeward]

Peacock: Can you tell me about the first track, “Let ’em in?”

Paul: It was half-written with Ringo in mind actually. He asked me to write him a tune and there was that one and another one. In the end, I told him I was nicking it and he could have the other one. I just got this idea for a song about someone knocking on the door, someone ringing the bell, and then in the middle, I got into the idea of naming people, just sort of symbolic of a crowd coming in… Sister Suzie, Brother John. Who’s Brother John?

Peacock: I was wondering…

Paul: Whoever you want it to be really, Uncle Ernie? Keith Moon flashing, I suppose, but the trouble with talking about things like that is .. that’s you’ve got to make an excuse for it all after. Someone says, “What did you mean by that?” And really I don’t know. It just comes into your head. Brother Michael — that’s obvious — that’s my brother Michael! Auntie Jin — I’ve got an Auntie Jin, Brother John — that could be whoever you want.

Peacock: Do you get fun out of the thought that people are going to sit down trying to work out the meaning behind lyrics like that?

Paul: It would be great if I wasn’t the ultimate authority on it. It would be just like “Match of the Day” watching them all go around delving into who the Walrus or Brother John is. I mean, to me Brother John is John Lennon, or Linda’s got a brother called John. I suppose it’s anyone’s brother John, but to me, it’s John Lennon. But not in any weird way. It just came out like that. So rather than hide it or change it, I left it. But now, they’re going to ask me. That’s the only problem, that’s the reason it’s not so much fun as it could be because there’s always someone coming up saying “What did you mean by…” or “Linda is Venus, you’re Mars — right?” Wrong, they’re planets, remember?

Peacock: Do you ever take things out because they might be misinterpreted?

Paul: No, I don’t think I ever do that, because normally when it’s writ itself then it’s writ. I don’t really much around with it too much. It’s like most things — you do a painting and think it’s not quite right so you do it again and it’s worse. Like a record — you can go on beyond the right take, but it’s never better. No, I don’t take things out for that reason, in fact, I’d leave things in because people were going to talk about them.

April 3, 1976: Paul McCartney talks to Steve Peacock for Street Life (Vol. 1, Issue 12, Apr 1976)

[too-many-rooks]

In a world of heavy footprints, be untraceable. Wage wars! Get rich! Die handsome!

- The Mountain Goats

[darcyolsson]

like the thing is the last time i was a massive fall out boy fan i was 14 and i was still trying to figure out what Good Music was and truth be told most of what i considered Good Music at age 14 is absolute dogshit. so imagine my surprise when i returned to from under the cork tree 8 years later and it wasn't just Not Dogshit, it was from under the cork tree

[saisons-en-enfer]

I’ll be your silent witness I’ll be your border line I’ll keep you safe and sacred just keep your heart close to mine

[yumartist]

Today is my birthday. 🌟☺️

I'm grateful to everyone I've met

I want to make this a year where I deliver lots of songs. 🍀💫☺︎

[nellarw95]

We Miss You So Much Scott 💔

Scott Richard Kline 🤍

October 27,1967 - December 3,2015🙏🏻

Always in Our Hearts 🕊️♾️

Ci Manchi Moltissimo 💔

27 Ottobre 1967 - 3 Dicembre 2015🙏🏻

Sempre Nei Nostri Cuori 🕊️♾️

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

Begging people who don’t like musicals to stop saying shit like “musicals suck because the songs come out of nowhere and it’s unrealistic and it’s not good music (aka music I like to listen to)” and just simply

not watch musicals.

[hollyslangblr]

something i like about learning languages is i feel it allows me to better express myself, even if i’m only writing for me. if i’m writing a song and i feel like i’m laying myself too bare it helps me to switch language even just for a line or two cos it gives me a degree of separation and helps me stop judging myself so harshly

[anonymousdandelion]

Writing poetry or songs in a second language that you are not fluent in is an excellent language-practice exercise, let me tell you.

[chemicalarospec]

genuinely, I believe The Brobecks were one of the greatest bands of all time.

[mitamicah]

Anybody wanted a Käärijä fansong :3? Too bad if not the case because here is one x’D

This is a sort of spontaneous collab I made with @demi-eurovision. I stumbled upon their take on a fansong using the vocabulary they’d built from duolingo. I got inspired so I reached out to hear if I could create a melody. I got a yes which you’d probably have guessed already 🤣🤘💚.

Thank you so much for letting me do this btw 🥺💚. I had a lot of fun 💚💚. I hope you all enjoy it and to any finnish people out there … I am so sorry for butchering your language like this with my horribly broken finnish pronunciation x’D

Places to find the lyrics (x) (x)

Transscription under the line

Hello it’s your fellow tumblruser. Eh my name is Micah, and I am here to do a collab with @demi-eurovision. I found their eh beautiful beginner finnish lyrics about Käärijä and thought it would be very, very fun to make a melody of it, so I asked if that was possible [that I could get permission to do it], and since you are here, you can probably guess what I was told.

So thank you for letting me butcher your lyrics, and yeah this is my guitar and I do not own a microphone and/or any eh finnish language skills, so this will be fun, Hopefully. So I’ll just start and eh hopefully you can hear what I am saying

[sings/plays song until 4.00]

I hope you enjoyed, and eh maybe they’ll be a draft two but otherwise feel free to share. [End]

[itspileofgoodthings]

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[thedreadvampy]

I GENUINELY wish I understood the appeal of Taylor Swift I really really do. many of my friends do. but it's just. I don't think a single one of her songs has ever landed above 'ok' or 'nostalgically cheesy' for me and every time I think that I feel so incredibly like I'm trying to be snobby but I'm not? it's not about not liking pop or not liking the cool thing I love pop I love cheese I just also like music that has some...I guess energy and danceability or specific and meaningful rage and I have found nothing to hook into in anything she's made. Antihero nearly works for me. Blank Space works conceptually but not in practise. but other than that the last thing she made that did anything for me even as a throwaway pop song was. god it actually might be We Are Never Ever Ever Getting Back Together or 22 which at least are catchy but I can't say ever made it to my playlists.

I want to get it, I genuinely do. I have listened to most of her releases at least once because I keep thinking if I try hard enough something will open up for me but nah however hard I try it's just extremely mid. like yes that certainly is music. I can immediately recognise it as Taylor Swift, it's not like it's utterly generic, but it absolutely just registers to me as background music. I want so much to understand what it is about her that makes her the biggest person in music for like 15 years now.

(I could say the same about Beyoncé who if anything lands worse for me. Break My Soul owns, but other than that I have landed everything I've heard of hers since like 2008 firmly in the Do Not Relisten pile it just lands like a ton of loose sand for me. and this is not mentioning the actual crime against music that was Jolene bc I don't think that worked for most people tbf. and again it's not that I don't like pop or r&b or rap cause that's like. between those genres about a third of the music I listen to. but her work is just so unengaging to me personally and I don't know why and I wish I got it)

[goldenpinof]

honestly don't care if Troye never performs youth again as long as he keeps performing bite, ease, too good, dkla, talk me down and heaven

[statementlou]

In the article that came out this morning about Andrew Cushin's album, Pete Doherty was quoted being defensive about his decision to collaborate with Louis, saying, “Look at some of the great labels, look at The Sex Pistols with Malcolm McLaren getting together with Richard Branson. Over the years, labels’ main aim was to be a springboard for their artists to get as many people to hear the music they believe in. Whatever that takes – if that means having a major label take you up the alley for five minutes I will do that for my artists any day of the week.” Initially this just pissed me off (and it still does) but the more I thought about the more fascinating it is actually. There's never been any question that 78 Productions' role in co-releasing Andrew Cushin's album is primarily financial, and I'd say this confirms that, but he's saying more than that; he's saying that Louis and his label, that has never had a single release before now, offer more than just cash, that it is on par with Virgin Records in its infancy because of the position and reach Louis has in the industry... and he can be as sour as he wants about it, that's a hell of an admission and not a position you just automatically hold by being a former boyband member. We already know this but that doesn't mean I don't love it when people say it out loud!

[chodzacaparodia]

url music game

Thanks @witch-from-a-block-of-flats for the tag !♡

No pressure tagging: @galaxynajma, @blue-thief, @slyfoxann544, @a-iya, @deathandnonexistentialdread and anyone who wants to play! ♡

C - "Criminal Minds" by Set It Off

H - "Halloweenie V: The Moss King" by Ashnikko

O - "Oh, Well, Oh Well" by Mayday Parade

D - "Dangerous" by New Medicine

Z - "Zanim pójdę" by Happysad

A - "American Sun" by Fire From The Gods

C - "Cringe" by Matt Maeson

A - "Aftermath" by Crown The Empire

P - "Parasite Eve" by Bring Me The Horizon

A - "Alamo" by Alec Benjamin

R - "Remembering Sunday" by All Time Low

O - "Oh Ms Believer" by Twenty One Pilots

D - "Death note" by Chivas

I - "If I Surrender" by Citizen Soldier

A - "Another Love" by Tom Odell