McCartney's 'Coming Up': Do you prefer the studio or live single?

I like the studio version.

 

To improve it?

 

I remember only fragment-wise that I read somewhere that either John or someone else mentioned at least 'Honey Pie' also as 'granny music'.
Otherwise, it's just a guess because the two tracks I mentioned could fit well being called 'granny'. Or is it just me?

 

i think "honey pie" is somehow more tongue in cheek then "maxwell's silver hammer" or "64"... but just my opinion..

 

I like the full voiced live version with a band. Except I don't like live recordings, other than classical.

So I guess I wish there was a studio version done like the live version, with a 4-5 piece band & full voiced vocal. The studio version on McCartney 2 is gimmicky trendy & dated, like a McCartney version of Bowie's Fame.

As an aside, after I read about Lennon saying how much he liked Coming Up & heard his new funkier tunes like Clean Up Time & Forgive Me, I visualized Coming Up as an 80s Beatles reunion track. They spotted things in each others work, I wouldn't have noticed, otherwise.... Coming up to me is like Across The Universe, One of those great songs that never was nailed properly in the studio.

 

To the best of my knowledge Lennon never described "Honey Pie" as granny music in an interview, and I don't know of any insider accounts of him saying it either. People tend to think of the old-timey, music hall Beatles tracks as being granny music, under the presumption that something that's retro in sound would appeal to grandmas. But that doesn't seem to be the way Lennon himself viewed the term.

 

I didn't know there were two.

 

I think Lennon's remarks about Maxwell's Silver hammer, doing it over hitting pieces of tin, & some Harrison remarks, somehow conflated into this Granny music myth.

Lennon wrote Goodnight, & said " it was perhaps overly lush". But all 4 Beatles dabbled in 30s-40's music as we know. Sentimental Journey for Ringo. A bunch of Lennon's home demos of old standards, Harrison's Hoagy Carmichael songs, George Formby, the old track on 33 1/3, Devil & Deep Blue Sea by Harold Arlen. Etc etc... A myth about Granny.... I think Harrison actually said something about being a rock band.. even the Beatles Hamburg repetoire included lots of old standards.

 

If you count "Kampuchea", there's THREE!!!

 

Listen for Paul saying "Yeah" when Lennon starts playing the solo. The guitar solo is probably the best thing about the song- I wish it was longer but as it is it works perfectly for the song.

 

I was 7 to 17 in the 70s. I bought a lot of records (as did the rest of my family). (And re a comment about buying Beatles albums, we had all of those (the U.S. versions) when they were new, starting with the first album--both my mom and my older sister were taken with them from the time of that first Ed Sullivan appearance.)

 

You mentioned other people not just one.

 

Live.

 

I believe the version you're referring to is the same performance, just the unedited form. The single version had the extra verse edited out to match what was on the [also edited] studio version.

 

Studio. But I like McCartney II as a whole.

 

I was just giving myself as a counter-example. I can't be that weird, can I?

 

Tripping The Live Fantastic had a really cool version.

Prefer the live single version
Studio feels like an non single album track

 

I prefer the Knebworth '90 version. Almost the same. But they flub the verses in the Tripping version.

 

I don't really care. Coming Up was a terrible song

 

I heard the live version first and prefer it over the studio.

 

Honestly, neither. Something about this song that turns me off. Pretty well goes for most of his 80's stuff.

 

Live version

 

I started with the live version as it was the one constantly playing on the radio. When I got the album, the studio version sounded ''cheap'' in comparison. It was only later when I saw the video (of the studio version), that I started appreciating it. Ah, the power of visuals...