March 2, 2006

Save the Seals

I think Paul McCartney is a vapid tunesmith without a touch of real genius, but I'm glad he's decided to try to save the seals.



Sir Paul is in good company; Paris Hilton also is concerned about the plight of my namesakes:



Thanks for the, umm... support, Paris.

Posted by Andrew at 11:39 PM

5 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:04 AM

    Hey Andrew,
    You're an idiot.
    Fuck you.
    Die.
    Love,
    God

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  2. Anonymous10:05 AM

    Hey Andrew,
    You're an idiot.
    Fuck you.
    Die.
    Love,
    God

    ReplyDelete
  3. Anonymous10:43 AM

    So why does a "tunesmith" as good as Paul McCartney not get the Andrew Seal of Approval of Genius, I'm curious. Because a tunesmith just works in a medium as base as bass lines and melodies? Because a tunsemith writes popular ditties, though, in this case, often so musically inspired they could have been written my Mozart?

    I'm not a huge fan of McCartney's public style these days, and John Lennon was always more profound, but you sound like someone who just doesn't get music when you say this.

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  4. Andrew12:03 PM

    I'm not being an elitist here: I think there are plenty of geniuses who work in "a medium as base as bass lines and melodies" and who become very popular. Bruce Springsteen, for instance. Paul Simon has it occasionally. Certainly Dylan, as if that weren't obvious. Bowie. (Grudgingly,) Brian Wilson. Ray Davies while with the early Kinks. Michael Stipe every once in awhile. David Byrne. Mike Skinner. Jay-Z. Miles and Coltrane are undoubtedly geniuses. And, if they wanted to be more popular, I have no doubt that Jeff Tweedy or Beck or Thom Yorke or Nick Cave could be.

    I feel that McCartney doesn't compare with any of these artists in terms of depth or breadth of thought.

    But geez, I never knew I had so many die-hard Wings fans reading my blog.

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  5. connor6:22 PM

    have any of you fuckers ever heard mccartney's "Freedom?" it's fucking horrible. maybe he wrote some good songs once, but let's be honest. the beatles' catalogue is perfectly listenable but it's also at this point completely irrelevant. listen to that shit with an open mind, which is to say a mind that contains no preconcieved notion of how Important the band is, and you just hear well-constructed 60s pop, unless you're listening to one of the wanky sitar records. now listen again, this time outside the context of the 60s, and, in my opinion, it just sounds insipid and silly. i can't see any to listen to the beatles post-kraftwerk/bambaataa- yellow submarines? lucy in the sky with diamonds? the only excuse for this shit is that they hadn't heard "the message."

    so fuck off with that "you sound like somebody who doesn't know about music" shit, because in all likelihood you don't know anything about it either.

    and can we not say "tunesmith?"

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