Somebody on this website said that Paul McCartney wishes he'd written this song. Not sure I agree, but they had a certain point. A truly wonderful song. Emitt Rhodes - Love Will Stone You
@TDSOTM again, if I may propose a suggestion! A "TDSOTM Random Musical Musings" megathread where all these individual thoughts can be compiled in one area as opposed to one thread per thought
Yeah I know the theory. My best friend once told me 'listen to this; it's like McCartney!!!'. I listened to it and well... It's B-sides McCartney. Pretty generic. It's always the same. Same people get overhyped about an unknown artist for whatever reason (someone dead or out of the music biz). Yesterday it was Rodriguez (does anyone remember? A friend of mine told me 'it's like Love, but better'. Yeah, sure.), these days it's Emit Rhodes.
I don't agree... one album cannot compare to the output of Paul McCartney at the time...who was they? who started this idea?
Emitt's first two albums are great McCartneyesque power pop. Absolutely nothing wrong with that. Was he as great as Paul? It doesn't matter because I still love the albums.
Emitt's first album was released around the time of Paul's first album. Both were "one man band" efforts and Beatlesque. He has been compared to Paul ever since then. So critics, listeners and DJs all started this idea long ago.
I know that..I was referring to Paul's writing way before Emmit hit the scene...probably more of the critics fault...he is no Paul McCartney by far IMO.
Well, yeah, and there's no doubt that Emitt was influenced by all that Paul music. Plenty of other artists were too and made good and not so good music. It's just an easy reference point. Maybe some people do think Emitt is as great as Paul. But like I said, it doesn't really matter..
I searched for the post and I think I've found it. I believe I came across this post from @spindly while in the process of doing a search related to McCartney. songs that sound like Wings or McCartney
thanks, but i was referring to outside the forum back when Emitt first appeared on the scene and who started the comparison.
And as I’m sure you’ve noticed, he did NOT say McCartney wishes he wrote this song. So your thread title is inaccurate at best, and misleading.
Didn’t McCartney wish that he wrote „God Only Knows“ by the Beach Boys and „Just The Way You Are“ by Billy Joel?
Yes, the thread title does appear to be inaccurate, but that was probably my memory of the post and I went ahead with creating the thread. My bad.
McCartney scholars will point out Billy Joel's Just the Way You Are, citing the Conversations with McCartney book.
I’m sure there are many songs Paul wishes he wrote. The only one I’ve heard him say that about is Mr. Blue Sky.
For the first forty-something years of my life, I thought 10CC’s “I’m not in love” was McCartney and Wings. Totally sounds like seventies Macca to me.