Still in haste
Mar. 16th, 2011 04:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakSomething nice for the day amid bad news: Catherine Tate and David Tennant, looking great in the photoshoot for their upcoming Much Ado About Nothing production. Yeeeeeessss.
And how's this for an amazing Beatles cover? Mumford & Sons cover Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight from the Abbey Road medley and manage to be great and nearly as heartbreaking as the original. I swear, that part of the medley is the true tearjerker in the Beatles canon for me. There are other sad songs, naturally. But that one gets me bawling every damn time. Once there was a way to get back home... is all the heartbreak, grief and longing for what was lost in the world set to beautiful music. And then the Carry that Weight fragment starts to pick you up a bit (despite the still sad text, the music is starting to upbeat again), carrying you to the glorious finale. Which Mumford & Sons didn't cover, but that part of the medley surprisingly works on its own as well.
P.S. This is why the part in the Playboy interview where John is asked about Golden Slumbers/Carry that Weight is one of those "you better mean that sarcastically, Lennon, because you can't possibly have been that clueless!" moments for me: "Oh, that's one of Paul's. Apparantly he was under some stress at the time."
And how's this for an amazing Beatles cover? Mumford & Sons cover Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight from the Abbey Road medley and manage to be great and nearly as heartbreaking as the original. I swear, that part of the medley is the true tearjerker in the Beatles canon for me. There are other sad songs, naturally. But that one gets me bawling every damn time. Once there was a way to get back home... is all the heartbreak, grief and longing for what was lost in the world set to beautiful music. And then the Carry that Weight fragment starts to pick you up a bit (despite the still sad text, the music is starting to upbeat again), carrying you to the glorious finale. Which Mumford & Sons didn't cover, but that part of the medley surprisingly works on its own as well.
P.S. This is why the part in the Playboy interview where John is asked about Golden Slumbers/Carry that Weight is one of those "you better mean that sarcastically, Lennon, because you can't possibly have been that clueless!" moments for me: "Oh, that's one of Paul's. Apparantly he was under some stress at the time."
