coffee-eyes wrote: 
Got to admit that this why I like this tune, but it certainly feels like Beatle - filler too.

Nice swan song.

To defend helgigermany:  this Beatles tune never gets the respect (or airplay) it deserves.

 helgigermany wrote: 
How was it living under that rock for the past 40 years?

 romeotuma wrote: 
"One of my rare 10s"  LOL.

Check romeo's song ratings, his tongue is firmly in cheek.

"She done me good !" Oh yeah,one can hear that...

Billy Preston played the electric piano with the Beatles when they recorded this song in 1969...

Everybody in my hotel room loves this song...


 

Great, great track.  Especially the last minute, with the Preston keys, bass riffing, and the vocal ad libs.  Love it.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

HazzeSwede wrote: 


Yes, I gave it one of my rare 10's...  this song is perfect...

 romeotuma wrote: 
Must agree with you there.. romeo..did you give it a ten ? I did !

I always enjoy hearing this, but it's never risen above "Beatles oddity" for me.

Just love this one. I always think of the boys on the roof, with Billy Preston playing the keys. You can play this any time you like, Bill (as if you need my say so ...)

Never heared this before! RP surprises me one more time! Very nice tune BTW!!

One of my Beatle favs. I could not give this a 10 fast enough.

 lmic wrote: 


I love you...

 

 Proclivities wrote: 
The audiences are as much to blame as the industry.  If the consumers were not content to hear mass-produced pablum on repeat on a corporate radio format - if we'd support local and/or independent radio - if we'd support local artists - well, you know I'm preaching to the choir typing this here, but RP listeners really aren't indicative of your average music consumer, and if you doubt that, click here.

Thanks, romeo. Totally validates this as being one of my very most favorite Beatles masterworks. "J.W.O. Lennon, Misery Expert," indeed! LMAO

 unclehud wrote: 
I blame the recording industry, for sure. It's about sales and money for them, and not about creative expression. Same with the film and TV industries (I can't believe there's a remake of "La Femme Nikita," which was a series based on the original Luc Besson movie "Nikita."  Shows how little imagination the "industries' have.)

There are precious few groups/individuals who can show versatility. I don't even look for it anymore - if a song moves me, I'm happy. If I can sing alternate lyrics to the same tune, or if I can hum an already-recorded song to the lyrics, I yawn and switch to Neopets or my ever-difficult spreadsheets.

Geez, I think I just depressed myself.

Richie Unterberger of Allmusic said that "Don't Let Me Down" was "one of the Beatles' most powerful love songs"...  Roy Carr and Tony Tyler called it "a superb sobber from misery-expert J. W. O. Lennon, MBE. And still one of the most highly underrated Beatle underbellies."


An anguished love song John Lennon wrote to Yoko Ono, Paul McCartney interpreted it as a "genuine plea", with Lennon saying to Ono, "I'm really stepping out of line on this one. I'm really just letting my vulnerability be seen, so you must not let me down."

Lennon's vocals work their way into screams, presaging the primal scream stylings of the following year's John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band album...
 

 

 peter_james_bond wrote: 
Man, you got that right!

They let me down with this one.

Yessss...  love it...

 

 Jamunca wrote: 


Thank you...  I bask in your unbridled adulation...

this song be good...

 

The Beatles in 1968 by rising70
http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_first_rays/


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I see Mr. Tuna is busy employing allllll his macros in this song thread. Funnier still that I don't disagree with him.

hurts so good.............

second best beatle song after golden slumbers medley.............

good choice bill!

 lmic wrote: 

Yes, we miss him...  this song is soooo awesome...