Obladi oblada : like or don't like.

Totally charming, lovely, life-affirming, learning that it was some sort of received wisdom that it sucked really surprised me when I picked up on that fact. I like the Beatles I guess an average amount for this board, they are not my favorite band or near it and the culture has more or less gotten them in my head so much I actually put on a Beatles record only a handful of times a year.

So I say this not from blind adoration of the Beatles, but just from finding it a totally peppy zesty good-feeling bit of pleasure. A good/very good song, not a classic, but a real charmer that deserves to live!

 

Critics were always harsher to Paul than John.

 

I never listen to Obla anymore. I skip it.

 

"Dislike" is too mild a description... "loathe" is in the ballpark but not quite the right row, never mind seat... it's everything I hate about Macca (I am a fan of his btw)... trite lyric, silly melody... have never liked it since first hearing it as a kid in the 70s... a betrayal of his best abilities... he farts these kinda things out with nary a thought... give me a trifle like "Why Don't We Do It in the Road" instead... at least it rocks!

 

I like it. Psst, I also like Maxwell's Silver Hammer.

 

The hate for "Maxwell's" reminds me of a common principle in declaring worst song of any variety--people find "distinctively peculiar in a way that could maybe be annoying" as qualifying for "worst" when to me the worst song is like fourth song on side two of some record that no matter how many times you hear it you'll never remember anything about it....I give points for "interestingly distinctive" and Maxwell's has that in spades, as pop songs go.

 

I like it alright, its kind of fun and light-hearted.

 

The Beatles' sort of had a vague tradition of "children's songs the whole family can enjoy", having roots going back to early in their career. It arguably starts with their cover of Larry Williams' "Bad Boy" :
" .. he put some tacks on teachers chair,
puts chewing gum in little girl's hair,
man, junior, behave yourself .."

.. okay, a rock n roll standard and not a Lennon-McCartney composition, but here begins with the lyrics.

They start to get in the habit of "child-like" content :

"Listen, do to want to know a secret, do you promise not to tell"

.. then, the appearance of "Yellow Submarine", "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill", "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da", All Together Now" , "Octopus's Garden",

plus further off-cuff lyrical references like :

"Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play?",

....

" ..the King of Marigold was in the kitchen
cooking breakfast for the Queen,
the Queen was in the parlor
playing piano for the children of the King...
.. The King was in the garden
picking flowers for a friend who came to play,
the Queen was in the playroom
painting pictures for the children's holiday...";

...


"..1,2,3,4,5,6,7, all good children go to heaven .."

...

They all did it, John, Paul, Ringo (with Octopus), even George got in on the action with "Piggies" .. while not a children's song by any means, the lyrics are adorned in nursery-rhyme imagery.

All part of the formula that keeps their legacy enduring after over half a century !

 

My thoughts are very similar to yours..I applaud your honesty

 

Just reading the thread title sets off the world's most annoying earworm.....

 

No but “Scrambled Eggs” with a little more effort became “Yesterday”. Who knows what MMD might’ve become.

 

.. imagine the 'chuckling-in-time'
part as done by Popeye ..;

..replace 'Desmond' with 'Popeye', 'Molly-girl' with 'Olive Oyl', and instead of
".. as he takes her by the hand.."
sing : " .. eating spinach from a can .."

cures hiccups too

 

i like it ... i know it isn't "what's goin' on" but i don't think it was supposed to be

 

I like it. Gotta admit, after I clicked vote I was very surprised to see the landslide in favor of this song so far. If you believe the critics it's an absolute piece of trash. So much for the critics.

 

Obladi blahblah. Damnit! now it's stuck in my head. That's it, i'm going to skip the song next time. Muhahaha... say obladi haha yay! no! *Unwatch Thread*

 

I LOVE this song. It's catchy. It's silly. It just works for me. To be honest, I didn't realize how much people didn't like it until I started coming to this forum lol.

 

I like it. I enjoy it when he plays it live particularly. It's just a daft little catchy Macca song and what's wrong with that? I'd like to know, 'cos here 'e goes...agaaaaaaaaain.

 

The song just makes me picture poor Arnold sitting there with his bowl in his mouth waiting for someone to feed him.

 

Dislike it immensely.

 

Can anyone explain why Rocky Raccoon never seems to be lumped in with Ob-La-Di, Maxwell’s, Yellow Submarine and When I’m 64 (even Martha My Dear) when McCartney is being trashed for his granny music?

And for what it’s worth, I would give my right arm to be able to write just one of those songs. Both arms for Martha My Dear.

 

About Granny music, let's just say the Mount Rushmore of Granny music is Paul McCartney, Harry Nilsson, Freddie Mercury, and Ray Davies. So I'm not ashamed to admit that I dig it as part of a well rounded album.

 

Really good music allows you to overlook bad lyrics

 

MMD is perfect the way it is.
The lyrics to that one are actually good.

 

I don't understand it either. In the opposite direction to the feelings expressed in my previous post, I've grown colder and colder towards RR over the years!

 

I’d like to hear your interpretation.