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[woodwardiocom]

The Wikipedia article on the song "A Hard Day's Night" contains two paragraphs on the lyrics, and twelve on the opening chord.

This says something about Beatles fans. Or possibly about the Beatles themselves.

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

And something about the relative interestingness of the chord and lyrics...

[notthebuddha.livejournal.com]

Song lyrics have something of a privileged copyright status, and you can only say so much about them without saying what they say.

[darxus.livejournal.com]

You have something against providing useful links? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_%28song%29

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to help you with your browser-tab problem...

[darxus.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. Nice.

[fanw.livejournal.com]

Now that you mention it, the lyrics aren't much to speak of, but the chord is definitely memorable.

What says the article on Michelle? I hear the chord progression was stolen right out of Mozart.

[trooper6.livejournal.com]

Mostly is says something about Beatles fans, baby boomers, and the interest of conservative musicologists and music theorists who think the Beatles are probably okay to talk about because they can pretend they are like Beethoven....when...they aren't like Beethoven.

Through a terrible mix-up, I ended up having to give my paper on cross-gender vocal performance and anxiety across the century on a "Masterworks of Popular Music Panel" at an International Association of the Study of Popular Music conference one year and it was the worst. There was a paper explaining how the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's is so great because it is like Beethoven and another how Pet Sounds is great because it is like a Beethoven Sonata. I wanted to kill myself...no...I wanted to kill them.

Pop music doesn't have to be like classical music in order to be good. *shakes fist*