A more direct attack than previous, 'Can't Buy Me Love' walks the wire of Merseysound and rock & roll without managing to pull off a convincing take on either. The verses are pure Mersey with a joshing McCartney disdaining the materialistic before the harder edge chorus sweeps in to blow it no frills to the next round; 'Can't Buy Me Love' might have the immediacy of a live, one take recording with no overdubs or harmonies, but the motor turns without firing. McCartney tries to scream the song into life and Harrison drops in with a stinging rockabilly guitar solo, but despite it all 'Can't Buy Me Love' remains defiantly flat and earthbound. a protesteth too much response to a question nobody asked in the first place. A backwards step.Thursday, 6 May 2010
1964 The Beatles: Can't Buy Me Love
A more direct attack than previous, 'Can't Buy Me Love' walks the wire of Merseysound and rock & roll without managing to pull off a convincing take on either. The verses are pure Mersey with a joshing McCartney disdaining the materialistic before the harder edge chorus sweeps in to blow it no frills to the next round; 'Can't Buy Me Love' might have the immediacy of a live, one take recording with no overdubs or harmonies, but the motor turns without firing. McCartney tries to scream the song into life and Harrison drops in with a stinging rockabilly guitar solo, but despite it all 'Can't Buy Me Love' remains defiantly flat and earthbound. a protesteth too much response to a question nobody asked in the first place. A backwards step.
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