Happiness is a Huge Melody
Jan 25, 2009•7 min
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Episode description
Happiness is a warm Gun is not a regular song, but a sequence of 3 or 4 songlettes. By chance or design, these fragments form a whole, that (for some) is more meaningful than any of its parts. The genius of Lennon at work ?
Listening to Happiness IAWG, I realised that McCartney did something similar on the B-side of Abbey Road; the final this of Abbey Road is a sequence of songs, fitted tightly together, culminating in The End (where we find Meaning, just as is the last part of Happiness IAWG): the Huge Melody section..
McCartney used both Lennon and McCartney comnpositions, while - of course- Lennon only used Lennon )and even deleted Macca's keyboard play form the final mix).
If the Abbey Road B-side is Macca'a Happiness reprise, can we do one better, and mash a sequence out of both Macca's and Lennon's tracks ?
Well, we tried anyway. The result is the longest mix in BDJ's cellar of Remixes. Relax and float downstream.....
Listening to Happiness IAWG, I realised that McCartney did something similar on the B-side of Abbey Road; the final this of Abbey Road is a sequence of songs, fitted tightly together, culminating in The End (where we find Meaning, just as is the last part of Happiness IAWG): the Huge Melody section..
McCartney used both Lennon and McCartney comnpositions, while - of course- Lennon only used Lennon )and even deleted Macca's keyboard play form the final mix).
If the Abbey Road B-side is Macca'a Happiness reprise, can we do one better, and mash a sequence out of both Macca's and Lennon's tracks ?
Well, we tried anyway. The result is the longest mix in BDJ's cellar of Remixes. Relax and float downstream.....
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