i am oppen to anything

cant wait however it sounds its a beatles track. be excited

lets hear it, pablo!!

Now for George to have had a negative opinion, that’s saying something. Just the same, Paul likes it which just goes to show just how free and subjective one’s appreciation of creativity is.

I hear the song is inspired by the works of composers like John Cage. If that’s the case then brace yourself for fourteen minutes of musical terrets. John Cage stuff is unfortunately not for everyones taste.

Turn me on dead man…….

There is probably a good reason it wasn’t released before

It is McCartney’s revolution #9

The best way to manage (and lower) expectations would be for everyone to stop referring to it as a “song.” From all I’ve read about it over the years, it’s a recording, an audio experiment, a sound collage a la Revolution 9 — but not a song. No chord progression, melody or lyrics, but an ahead-of-its-time, psychedelic pastiche that has minimal musical value, but huge historical significance (for the few of us who are into that sort of thing).

I can hardly wait. YYYYAAAWWWNNNNN

If your legacy is intact and secure, the only thing you can do with something like this is damage it.

Since there really isn’t any full length ‘album’ this would be appropriate to release it on… they should just release it as an Itunes track.

I think it would be a good way to crosspromote the Beatles catalog on Itunes, if and when that ever gets off the ground.

This could be the one Guitar Hero track where you hold down one note for 14 minutes.

It could not be much different from the middle of “what a shame mary jane had a pain at the party”, which contained ghoast sounds, screaming, jangling piano and the like.

After hearing John’s art stuff with Yoko screaming we don’t always expect pristine pop tunes.1967 was a creative time.Listening to the Beatles eat lunch is entertaining.

“PLINKY-PLONKY”??? That comment proves McCartney’s a musical savant. He should never give interviews or even be quoted. I’ve read a lot of his interviews over the years, and the dumb stuff still continues to come out of his mouth.

now for George to have a negative opinion, that’s saying nothing. George isn’t known for his taste in the avant-garde. give him a ukulele and some Hoagy Carmichael or Jerry Lee Lewis records, and George is in heaven. McCartney, on the other hand, was light years ahead of the others when it came to discovering new artistic territory. but he always kept it to himself and for friends. Lennon learned from McCartney. when Lennon was twiddling his thumbs on acid by his pool at his home in the stockbroker belt, McCartney was getting down with the creme of the art world in his three-story St John’s Wood home right in the middle of 1960’s swinging London. while Lennon was paranoid from all the coke and acid he was doing, McCartney was hanging with the likes of people like Allen Ginsberg and John Cage. while McCartney was doing his own Stockhausen, Lennon barely knew how to pronounce the name. McCartney was making experimental 16mm films in 1966, while Lennon was still trying to decide whether he wanted to be a Beatle, an actor or a fisherman. i, for one, am anticipating the moment when i finally get to hear Carnival of Light. rock on with your bad self, Paul McCartney. i don’t care what anyone else says, plinky-plonky is ok with me. you’ve never let me down yet, Sir Percy Thrillington, or may i call you Thrills?

Paul liked alot of crap. OK he wrote a few classics.The thoughtful stuff was John’s. Like silly love songs,uncle albert,some real bad songs that would have ended anyone elses career As John once said of Paul’s songs, sentimental fluff.

It the song compares to any of the brilliant tunes on MACCAS “Fireman-Electric Arguments” CD, it must be released.

Look, people who lived Beatlemania
like we did would be crazy not to want to hear this. Anything even considered for the anthology is worth it for us, are you with me? Anyone who would critize this material is a catagory 5 moron.

ive heard it.great if your on acid!

no sorry, but you haven’t heard it… there are a lot of fake mp3’s circulating on the internet, purporting to be ‘Carnival Of Light’, but they are not the legit 1967 Beatles recording. This track is among the very few that never got into bootleggers’ hands.

Good or Bad it is worth a listen.

man, i agree with art monkey, people don’t realize that paul was the artsy one. if it wasn’t for paul lennons songs wouldn’t be nearly as great, listen to his basslines he contributes, we wouldn’t have pepper, magical mystery tour-the film, let it be, all brilliant ideas from a brilliant man. we would of been very short changed if it wasn’t for paul. listen to the white album, helter skelter, martha, i will..abbey road-oh darling, all of the fantastic medleys. you guys are crazy.

and do yourself a favor, really dig into mccartneys solo stuff and wings, once you get past the cheesiness there are some wonderful tunes, ram is incredible.

lennon and mcCartney were from the sticks and what they did wasn’t nuclear science. let’s just say it wasn’t mcCartney who sang about the girl who was well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand like a lizard on a window pane and the man in the crowd with the multicoloured mirrors on his hobnail boots. mcCartney sang harmony and was a good bass player but Lennon could make his guitar f*%#*#* howl and move. lennon was the artist in the band, mccartney handled the PR.

Paul,
Respect George’s wishes and don’t release “Carnival of Light.” If you think there wasn’t complete agreement then don’t do it!

Floating in a bubble powered by the velocity of 10 Billion ButterFly sneezes, the remains of the Big Beatle Bang continues to unvolve.
It, this “Carnival of (dark) Light” will be sampled by acid-engineered zealots who will in turn reconstruct the musical alchemy used to inspire those initial rushes, and thus bring the revolver to our collective head and pull the trigger.
Leading, of course, to the inevitable rebirth. It will ring like a final note in an advanced Opera filtered through extreme echo… but it will really be the first note of the next yet-imagined symphony.
Revolution #10 in a series.

Why does it always have to come down to who’s better? If you’ve read any history at all the the Lennon-McCartney writing team you know that they both benefited from the other. They’ve both written some great stuff … together and separate … and they’ve both also written some horrible stuff. There doesn’t have to be a better one!

Not being familiar with the lore on this song, I don’t know how George’s feelings factor into it. If its Paul’s song he should be free to do what he wants with it. As for comparisons to Rev#9, none of them wanted that on the White Album, but that didn’t stop John … therefore it shouldn’t stop Paul.

From the sound of it, Paul

Why does it always have to come down to who’s better? If you’ve read any history at all the the Lennon-McCartney writing team you know that they both benefited from the other. They’ve both written some great stuff … together and separate … and they’ve both also written some horrible stuff. There doesn’t have to be a better one!

Not being familiar with the lore on this song, I don’t know how George’s feelings factor into it. If its Paul’s song he should be free to do what he wants with it. As for comparisons to Rev#9, none of them wanted that on the White Album, but that didn’t stop John … therefore it shouldn’t stop Paul.

From the sound of it, Paul doesn’t think much of the song and is probably only releasing it for it’s historical value. Don’t make more of it than that and let it be.

i always prefered gerry and the pacemakers…

I don’t know why people slam either Lennon or McCartney saying one is better than the other. They obviously don’t look at the history or comments that both of these men have made in interviews after the break-up. Lennon was asked why he thought George had such a large success in the beginning after the Beatles broke-up in a 1971 RS interview. He said “George had it both good and bad in the group. He had to compete with two brilliant songwriters to get his album space. He learned a lot from being around us and now he has the space to show it.”
Also, in his last interview with Playboy in 1980, he stated “I’ve chosen 2 geniuses in my life to work with, Paul & Yoko. Not bad, huh?”
And McCartney has always stated that he has missed working with Lennon. Personally, I believe they both missed working with each other and probably would have again if Lennon wasn’t killed. Lennon was planning on moving back to England and also talked about getting the Beatles to sit-down together to do the Anthology to tell the fans how it really was before more ‘false rumors’ are spread.

I don’t know why people slam either Lennon or McCartney saying one is better than the other. They obviously don’t look at the history or comments that both of these men have made in interviews after the break-up. Lennon was asked why he thought George had such a large success in the beginning after the Beatles broke-up in a 1971 RS interview. He said “George had it both good and bad in the group. He had to compete with two brilliant songwriters to get his album space. He learned a lot from being around us and now he has the space to show it.”

I’d like to hear it. Why not?

If you want facts about Beatle history the biggest fact is that their best work was never recorded. When they were playing straight rock in Britain there wasn’t anybody that could touch them. You must remember that they were first and foremost performers and what they could generate was unbelieveably fantastic. And they did it without wiggling their arse and without speaker monitors (and high tech PA systems) on stage (no one had thought of the idea yet). Now that’s saying something.

teddyboy is right on..perhaps “Twist and shout” gives some idea of the power of the early beatles pre-recording days. that’s why they took england and then the world…no white group in 1962-64 could touch them.

the beatles are a good example of a good example.
now a bad example of a good example would be Ron, Stig and Dirk McNasty.
and of course a good example of a bad example is people who keep trying to pinpoint the exact moment when the beatles were the best example of the example they represented. and still do.
Whew.

Play it backwards

I think Denny Lame knows what is going on here. Hold on lads, let’s not over step the mark, this is the real thing. To think that these English white boys could tap into what Muddy Waters and Albert King were saying and deliver it back to white teenage America who had never heard it before, in a distilled English way and perform the H..E..double hockey sticks out of it, was the essence of John Lennon’s genius. It hypnotized you in a way that made us (white America) believe that we could have something cool. I know they say they were just a group who made it very big but they gave us something that made us believers in something bigger.

John sang the blues better than any white man was ever able to do. These guys knew everything about what rock and roll was. They’re work will be studied as classics until forever.

Lennon was always my favorite but both Paul and George wrote (and played) some absolutely unbelievable stuff, and as Lennon often said- Ringo was the best drummer in rock ‘n roll. I’ve played with drummers who trash Ringo because he doesn’t try to overpower the song- same with Charly Watts. There are many musicians (and fans) out there who could care less about lyrics, melodies, and songs. So they idolize the various members of Rush or Deep Purple or even Zeppelin for all the wrong reasons. The Beatles were a perfect band, because they wrote perfect songs. I don’t often walk around with someone’s drum solo or guitar riffing echoing endlessly through my head. One more thing about the Beatles- george martin was definitely the fifth one, and the whole was greater than the sum of its parts.