In the US, "Penny Lane" topped the Billboard Hot 100 for one week, while "Strawberry Fields Forever" peaked at number 8

What year was that
DAC came in 1970

>spoken word is rap
>Lou Reed, who was greatly influenced by Dylan whose proto-rap preceded the VU by 2 years and actually sounds like rap instead of just talk-singing
You look at the lyrics to something like Subterranean Homesick Blues, and it's full of rap devices in meter, rhythm shifts, use of assonance and internal rhyme, etc. that not only sounds good but builds to rhythmic climaxes over the course of the verses. Reed is like someone who just heard Tombstone Blues for the first time in comparison lol

This one is cool too
youtube.com/watch?v=1d1Od9ybPN4

1967, but it's basically just a watered-down retread of the stuff Dylan did 2 years earlier in terms of sounding like actual rap
>youtube.com/watch?v=MGxjIBEZvx0

>someone linked spoken word

Interesting how Abbey Road-era Paul is basically a cross between his jammy 1966 bassline on Rain and the more measured, "composed" basslines he did on Sgt Pepper
>youtube.com/watch?v=7f7D2_jUkqA
>youtube.com/watch?v=lAxqvqT6ZfM

I'd like you to justify how that was any different from Woody Guthrie's spoken word songs from the 1930s user

>spoken word song

you just made this up though
This isnt a thing

Hey Bulldog bass is underrated
youtube.com/watch?v=HaorhqvIN3g

That Rain bassline. How can other 60s bands compete?

Are you fucking serious, pleb? Spoken word isn't a thing? You should try googling things you haven't heard of before posting about them and making yourself look like an idiot.

A spoken word song isnt a thing.

There is spoken word
Then there are songs

>This isnt a thing
lmao ok, so you're just retarded. I wonder what you think youtube.com/watch?v=mI-YiaWDgB4 is

holy shit

Yes it is a thing
That thing is called a song.
Not a spoken word song.

And yet his most influential bassline is still youtube.com/watch?v=vUdoqrGeDXA

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user is either underage or 80 years old

Huh, never noticed that the bassline drops the last beat

it's easy if you try

fpbp

nice citation
very academic

I like how this would also apply to your original baseless claim

It takes a while, but youtube.com/watch?v=Vkr67wOveEk is secretly his best one. Perfect balance of minimalism and groovy counterpoint composition

Why would you call something a spoken word song? It makes no sense.
Are you saying it sounds like it was a poem first then they made it a song?
What do you mean by spoken word song?