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Saying that any Paul McCartney<\/a> song is catchy is like saying that the sky is blue. <\/p>\n There are so many melodies that have had years to engrain themselves in everyone\u2019s consciousness, and while there are more than a few times where they have made something strange, McCartney never sacrificed his ear for hooks for the sake of making something wacky. But when he was first hashing out his tunes with The Beatles, there were a lot more pieces that needed to be worked on with John Lennon until they sounded like the versions that we know and love to this day. <\/p>\n In fact, there\u2019s a good chance that McCartney was destined to have Lennon as his conscience for a while in the band. He was always in danger of going too far into sentimental territory every now and again, and while there were moments where he could go overboard and write something that sounded a bit too saccharine, all it took was one biting line from Lennon for Macca to start rethinking what he was doing. He took his partner very seriously, but there were also tunes where he needed to follow his heart.<\/p>\n He was always a fan of the golden age of pop songs in the pre-rock and roll age, and while he wasn\u2019t going to convince the rest of the band to get up and do the Charleston or anything like that, you could hear that witty streak across many of his tunes. \u2018When I\u2019m 64\u2019 is one of the more goofy songs<\/a> that McCartney ever wrote, but even with Lennon\u2019s ridicule, it\u2019s hard to think of a single note being out of place when listening to it.<\/p>\n But for all of The Beatles\u2019 tunes that have been written into the DNA of pop culture, what happened to the songs that don\u2019t get that same kind of treatment? There are plenty of tunes that don\u2019t get talked about nearly enough as their greatest tunes, and while \u2018I Saw Her Standing There\u2019 remains one of the greatest<\/a> tunes from their early days, there\u2019s no reason to ignore a song as brilliant as \u2018There\u2019s A Place\u2019.<\/p>\n Then again, it comes down to which songs have the best single potential, and even for a band like the Fab Four, they did have a few songs that didn\u2019t hit the mark as they should have. Even \u2018The Nerk Twins\u2019 could admit when they wrote a \u2018work job\u2019 song that didn\u2019t resonate with them on a personal level, but that\u2019s usually better than songs that McCartney didn\u2019t even remember, like \u2018Tell Me What You See\u2019.<\/p>\n The entire era of Help saw them progressing on nearly every song, but whereas Lennon was trying on his best Bob Dylan impression on many of his tunes around that time, McCartney felt that this meagre attempt at making a folksy tune was far from the kind of tune that most people would have been humming years down the line, even admitting<\/a>, \u201cI seem to remember it as mine\u2026not awfully memorable.\u201d<\/p>\n Further reading: From The Vault<\/p>\n On the other hand, that\u2019s not really giving the song its due credit. There\u2019s no way that every Beatles song is going to be considered one of the greatest of all time, but when you look through their catalogue of hits, \u2018Tell Me What You See\u2019 does have a bit more of an interesting angle, with McCartney playing the role of someone who\u2019s in love with this girl that doesn\u2019t even seem to know that he exists. <\/p>\n That kind of topic is the kind of thing that worked well in a song like \u2018Teenage Dirtbag\u2019<\/a> years after the fact, but it\u2019s not like the tune hasn\u2019t found its fans, either, with Stevie Nicks singling it out as one of her favourites on the record. So while many work jobs came and went throughout every Lennon\/McCartney writing session, sometimes the best ones are the tunes that you don\u2019t realise are classic until years after the fact. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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