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Mariah Carey sings like a dysfunctional canary with cupcake boobies and ADD.

Drunk with the power of success perhaps? What is with those out of date sunglasses and two days worth of stubble on the face BTW? I don't get that either.

I also noticed that the "Boss" is starting to look and sound like Bob Dylan.

Christina Aguliera's vocal acrobatics made me shut off my TV. I mean why put 6,000 extra notes in a song, simply because you can?

Mariah Carey with stubble?

You must have one of those new high-definition TVs, Brian!

Mariah started that acrobatic thing. I work with a semi-pro singer who sings like that. Drives me nutz, although she's a nice lady.

Brian: Yep, Bruce will soon be changing his name from 'The Boss' to 'The Bob'. His silhouette was very similar to Dylan's with his hair combed up high and the harmonica around his neck. Rather uncanny. I'm sure it was purely accidental...

The Last Good Rock DID come out almost 40 years ago. At least consistently. There are flashes of brilliance from some of the new performers, but most of it is depressing, one-dimensional gunk. And I say this as a 57-year-old who remembers well when his parents couldn't tell the difference between the Stones, Beatles, Animals, Hermits and DC5. And it pains me to say it ... somewhat. But I hear what my 16-year-old kid listens to, and I understand how my parents felt. A lot of it DOES sound the same. System of a Down singing "Banana Terracotta Pie" ad infinitum may be entertaining, but it can't hold up against "Yesterday." It's well known that I am a Macca fan, and I suppose some who have seen my posts think I will blindly defend the guy no matter what. But I could've done without "Fine Line." And I agree that almost every time I've seen him on TV in the last year, he's been doing the same songs. I'm torn between what to make of this. On one hand, he's trapped by public expectations of what he will play. On the other hand, "Helter Skelter" is STILL one of the best rock songs, ever. I don't know. I rather hear Paul do a bad version of "Helter" than hear Mariah Carey sing anything.

Someone has to ask...

Dane, you've come up with some wity comments in the past. I'll give you that.

But why on earth do you hang around The Beatles forum if all you ever do is rag on Paul? I know, all of that "everyone's entitled to their opinion" garbage. Yeah, yeah... I don't want to hear that. You are lop-sidedely negative in this forum and I'm quite sick of it. You must enjoy putting Paul down all the time, because anyone else would have gotten sick of hearing themselves say the same negative thing over and over again by now.

Paul McCartney certainly deserves a Grammy...
...and U2 are nice guys, if only for the fact they once passed their VMA award to Ramones who had just lost Joey...
I recently came to liking Paul MC, for he still can rock and for he never gives up. The same song - SO WHAT?! When it comes to "Helter Skelter", i'm always ready to hear it again, again, again,(again)! I love this song!
(and i like all of you guys, too!)

>>I mean why put 6,000 extra notes in a song, simply because you can?

Good point Jerry.... thats one of my pet peeves.... and not only about vocals - many guitar players fall into the same trap.

To me, this is all the same Forum. I keep my eye on the ones I like, and they arrive in my mailbox with equal import and alacrity.

So, Beatles is a subtopic.

The Beatles area, as far as I know, is public, and not a worship service. A reaction of irritation is personalizing, if you ask me. My own reaction to everything except a lack of capitalization (which must be directly tied to my own lack of capital, I'm convinced), is something I work hard not to personalize, because personalization accomplishes nothing but does lead to quarrels over--of all things--opinions and feelings.

I love "Helter Skelter", too, even with Macca doing it, and he DID rock!

Paul McCartney performs at the
48th Annual Grammy Awards on
Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2006, in Los Angeles.

Many people are critical because it gives the impression they know BETTER, when in fact they're not any more an authority than the rest of us. Just one more opinion. Sometimes it's also a pyschological response to having a small umm, you know.

Paul, I understand that a reaction of irritation is personalizing, but it doesn't bother me, because the respect I once had for this individual has plummeted to what I would call non-existant levels.

It just doesn't make sense why someone would incessantly rant about or put down the same entity - not only for our sake (having to hear it all the time), but for their sake (it has to get old at some point!). Yeah, I'm biased towards The Beatles, but that happens to be the heading for this forum. My reaction applies across the board. It just isn't logical to continually post the same drivel over and over again. I despise rap, hip/hop, or "noise," whatever you'd like to call it, so as a result of this feeling, I do not post on rap forums. I wouldn't be as happy of a person if I posted on a rap forum, and I'm aware of that, so I don't. The same logic should apply in this situation. Dane thinks Paul is washed up, can't sing, and should set off into the sunset. We all know how he feels on this subject, so I could personally do without the constant reminder.

I think Steve's got the right idea.

>>The rappers et al were like some television writer's version of what's happening. << The music world according to Clear Channel, where the "music" people behind the scenes have more in common with TV writers than people that got into the music business because they like music (obviously this breed is long gone.) Would congress please re-regulate radio?! Otherwise, like a friend of mine said about the Cream reuion, "I don't get why everyone gets so excited seeing some old guys do something they did better once before." Of course, much of that is explained by what passes as telent from the younger folks. But at least Cream isn't like U2 and Aerosmith and, unfortunately of late, Macca. There was a day when rock was not just better, there was a concept called overexposure. Apparently that no longer exists. I missed the show, but it appears it was better than Sunday's halftime show.