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Post by Joe Karlosi on May 1, 2012 5:44:49 GMT -5
If you don't know this song, play it here!
Comment and/or Rate this Solo Song
4=Great 3=Good 2=Average 1=Crap
"My Sweet Lord" - George Harrison, ALL THINGS MUST PASS (1970)
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Post by Joe Karlosi on May 1, 2012 5:46:00 GMT -5
4 -- 'Nuff Said?
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2012 6:20:08 GMT -5
Here are the Lyrics...
My sweet Lord Mm, my Lord Mm, my Lord
I really want to see you Really want to be with you Really want to see you, Lord But it takes so long, my Lord
My sweet Lord Mm, my Lord Mm, my Lord
I really want to know you I really want to go with you Really want to show you, Lord That it won't take long, my Lord Hallelujah
My sweet Lord Hallelujah Mm, my Lord Hallelujah My sweet Lord Hallelujah
I really want to see you Really want to see you Really want to see you Lord Really want to see you Lord But it takes so long, my Lord Hallelujah
My sweet Lord Hallelujah Mm, my Lord Hallelujah My my my Lord Hallelujah
I really want to know you Hallelujah I really want to go with you Hallelujah Really want to show you, Lord Ahh That it won't take long, my Lord Hallelujah
Mm, mm Hallelujah My sweet Lord Hallelujah My my Lord Hallelujah
Mm, my Lord Hare Krishna My my my Lord Hare Krishna Oh, my sweet Lord Krishna Krishna Ooh, ooh Hare Hare
Now, I really wanna see you Hare Rama Really wanna be with you Hare Rama Really wanna see you, Lord Ahh But it takes so long, my Lord Hallelujah
My Lord Hallelujah My my my Lord Hare Krishna My sweet Lord... Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Guru Rama, Guru Vishnu, Guru Deva, Hare Shwara, Guru Sasha, Hare Andara, Tashna Shrivi, Guri Nava, Hare
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2012 6:21:18 GMT -5
I'll give it a 4..
It's a shame about the court battle over the motif because it detracts from the songs greatness....
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Post by coachbk on May 1, 2012 8:52:54 GMT -5
4 A great and very distinctive opening guitar part. This was all over the radio when it came out and it was nice to know that the end of The Beatles did not mean the end of great music from the individual Beatles. The lawsuit was ridiculous. There are many more songs with way more similarities. Other than the syllables (My Sweet Lord/He's So Fine) I don't see the connection myself.
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Post by Joe Karlosi on May 1, 2012 8:57:06 GMT -5
The lawsuit was ridiculous. There are many more songs with way more similarities. Other than the syllables (My Sweet Lord/He's So Fine) I don't see the connection myself. Exactly my feeling. Just those three words, nothing else. What a waste of time, so stupid.
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Post by ReturnToPepperland on May 1, 2012 9:22:24 GMT -5
The lawsuit was ridiculous. There are many more songs with way more similarities. Other than the syllables (My Sweet Lord/He's So Fine) I don't see the connection myself. Exactly my feeling. Just those three words, nothing else. What a waste of time, so stupid. 4. One of George's best, but the simiarities go beyond three notes. Still, music is finite. There are only so many notes. It is natural to sound similar to the sounds that influenced you. A pop song written in the key of E major must use the notes in this key, E F# G# A B C# and D#, so after years of music written in this key, there is going to be some overlap. DO NOT confuse plagiarism with similarity, there is a difference. I agree that George got the short end on this.
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Post by vectisfabber on May 1, 2012 9:28:00 GMT -5
On the one hand I love it.
On the other hand, the sentiments mean nothing to me, and it's really repetitive.
Still a 4 though.
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Post by John S. Damm on May 1, 2012 9:30:02 GMT -5
4. Very inspiring regardless of one's faith or lack thereof simply because of the passion George puts into his singing and the music.
Allen Klein has his hands all over that lawsuit.
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Post by Joe Karlosi on May 1, 2012 9:57:23 GMT -5
but the simiarities go beyond three notes. My ears have never heard a similarity in anything other than the three syllables. And even then, not glaringly so. They can talk all they want, but the rest of these songs will never sound alike to me. Now Paul's song "Anyway" off of CHAOS.... that sounds like PEOPLE GET READY. (Seriously, RTP -- I could never see you so quickly willing to throw one of McCartney's songs to the lions like that).
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Post by coachbk on May 1, 2012 11:37:04 GMT -5
Wow, the beginning of Anyway really does sound just like People Get Ready! And that little bit of My Sweet Lord and He's So Fine playing together didn't convince me of anything. Only marginally sounded the same at best.
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Post by acebackwords on May 1, 2012 13:20:17 GMT -5
4. Wouldn't we all like to better get to know that Great Songwriter In the Sky. By whatever name you call Him.
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Post by acebackwords on May 1, 2012 13:24:17 GMT -5
Exactly my feeling. Just those three words, nothing else. What a waste of time, so stupid. 4. One of George's best, but the simiarities go beyond three notes. Still, music is finite. There are only so many notes. It is natural to sound similar to the sounds that influenced you. A pop song written in the key of E major must use the notes in this key, E F# G# A B C# and D#, so after years of music written in this key, there is going to be some overlap. DO NOT confuse plagiarism with similarity, there is a difference. I agree that George got the short end on this. Ha ha. Whoever put that video together would've made a devestating lawyer.
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Post by ReturnToPepperland on May 1, 2012 17:41:17 GMT -5
Wow, the beginning of Anyway really does sound just like People Get Ready! And that little bit of My Sweet Lord and He's So Fine playing together didn't convince me of anything. Only marginally sounded the same at best. The difference is that in Anyway, its just a piano vamp, not the main part of the song. The main part of Anyway is completely different from Ready.
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Post by mikev on May 1, 2012 18:11:37 GMT -5
4. One of George's best, but the simiarities go beyond three notes. Still, music is finite. There are only so many notes. It is natural to sound similar to the sounds that influenced you. A pop song written in the key of E major must use the notes in this key, E F# G# A B C# and D#, so after years of music written in this key, there is going to be some overlap. DO NOT confuse plagiarism with similarity, there is a difference. I agree that George got the short end on this. Ha ha. Whoever put that video together would've made a devestating lawyer. If they only did mash ups back then George could have released a settlement single.
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Post by Joe Karlosi on May 1, 2012 18:20:10 GMT -5
Wow, the beginning of Anyway really does sound just like People Get Ready! And that little bit of My Sweet Lord and He's So Fine playing together didn't convince me of anything. Only marginally sounded the same at best. The difference is that in Anyway, its just a piano vamp, not the main part of the song. The main part of Anyway is completely different from Ready. You mean the difference is that Paul did ANYWAY and George did MY SWEET LORD. If the situations were reversed, I believe so would your POV.
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Post by kc on May 1, 2012 18:52:43 GMT -5
4 (great). Absolute classic song, even though I am not a believer.
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Post by John S. Damm on May 1, 2012 21:06:19 GMT -5
My Sweet Lord is the only instance where I like the ATMP version more than the stripped down version!
The ATMP version is so majestic. The stripped down version opens the album released today and it just does not have the power of the final version.
Maybe we should blame Spector for the "He's So Fine" debacle because I will say George would never have lost that lawsuit if the stripped down version on this new album was the only version. It is only the final, ATMP version that even sounds slightly close to me and even then not as bad as other nicks out there in Pop.
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Post by ursamajor on May 1, 2012 22:11:28 GMT -5
This is an amazing song by one George Harrison. No number of superlatives can do the song's greatness justice.
Surely there must have been some divine intervention when George wrote this or at least some kind of astral surfing.
I would not say this this song totally defined George and his legacy but I'm sure George was proud that it had such an impact on so many people and he was still strongly associated with it until the moment he took his last breath and George would have liked that.
A 4.0+
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Post by Joe Karlosi on May 2, 2012 5:42:20 GMT -5
My Sweet Lord is the only instance where I like the ATMP version more than the stripped down version! The ATMP version is so majestic. I agree. The ATMP classic version of this song is an example of a great recording and production. I love its overall sound as well as the song itself. It's catching lightning in a bottle and I don't think any other version has ever come close.
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Post by John S. Damm on May 2, 2012 10:01:07 GMT -5
My Sweet Lord is the only instance where I like the ATMP version more than the stripped down version! The ATMP version is so majestic. I agree. The ATMP classic version of this song is an example of a great recording and production. I love its overall sound as well as the song itself. It's catching lightning in a bottle and I don't think any other version has ever come close. Also, while I love MSL 2000, it doesn't come close in my opinion to MSL 1970.
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Post by debjorgo on May 17, 2012 13:52:40 GMT -5
When this came out, anytime it was on the radio, we would point it out to our mother, a religious, church-going woman. We'd tell her "This is George, from the Beatles". She never said much about it. Years later, I asked her about, what she thought about the Beatle singing a religious song and she said she thought her was singing my sweet Lara.
This is every bit as a good as what the Beatles did. It falls short of perfection. It's not what I am looking for when .... Oh what the hell, 4.0.
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