Beatles Song of the Week: Hello Goodbye

note: I've decided to go about my twelve favourite Beatles songs in no particular order. 

I'm starting the summer with Hello Goodbye, one of the more frequently played Beatles songs on the radio.
Similar to how Glee kicked off the second half of its first season, restarting the blog with a Hello song might be a good idea. Though this might not be straightforward as it sounds.

But let's start with an introduction to the song first. The year is 1967. It's November. Paul McCartney wrote this one. The Beatles are featured in the video on the left.
To the right is the Glee cover, which isn't bad, but still can't compare to the Beatles.



Why do I like this song? Well, Hello Goodbye is a struggle of communication and of intentions. And while John Lennon (who didn't like this song very much) called the composition "three minutes of contradictions and meaningless juxtapositions", I feel that this song is a good representation of conflicting ideas and how one, or a society, tries to make sense out of compromise. But it always seems that instead we always get lost in our own ideas.

tangent:
I find Lennon's call on "meaningless" lyrics to be slightly amusing, especially since "Hello Goodbye" is the A-side while Lennon's "I am the Walrus" (another wonderful song, though not on my top 12) is on the "B-side", which of course features the verse:

"Yellow matter custard
Dripping from a dead dog's eye
Crabalocker fishwife
Pornographic priestess
Boy, you've been a naughty girl
You let your knickers down
I am the eggman
They are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob"
/tangent


I also admire the spontaneity at the end of "Hello Goodbye", one of those classic impromptu Beatles moments =). Lastly, about things being straightforward. You'll probably note that some of my writing may be reminiscent of "Hello Goodbye", especially my blog posts. The cliches (though fewer in number) that artsci has yet to eliminate from my writing, the contradictions of viewpoints that I'm still debating, and mayhaps random endings that have had little connection to their starts.

Oh well.