Category: Commentary
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150: Piggies
Piggies is a song written by George Harrison and appearing on the White Album. For this song it is well worth reading the wikipedia article as the track turned out to have an undeserved and grisly historical significance well beyond anything the Beatles intended; it has received correspondingly more critical analysis and commentary, and it…
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Brief diversion
Today’s entry in the Beatles Song-A-Day blog is the first that reflects a reorganization of the underlying ratings. I decided that it would be useful to treat some groups of closely-related songs as blocks where there ordering reflected the entire group rather than the rating of the underlying songs. I also took the opportunity to…
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The White Album
I’ve picked 4 songs in a row from the White Album (properly called “The Beatles”), and even taking into account the quirks of my ranking system and the sheer craziness of attempting to rank art at all, I can’t deny that it is far from my favourite Beatles album. And yet it is very popular,…