![]() ![]() So if it is/was Ryde – it becomes your basic 3-way ( pun that is )….īrian C | Email | 02.21.05 – 10:11 am | # There is a very funny section in Simon Garfield’s The Nation’s Favourite where Radio 1 decide to resurrect the “Ticket To Ryde” pun for some unspeakable bit of organised jollity. Lennonword play that got “corrected” by a publishers eventual error. I’d heard that Lennon actually wrote this as ” Ticket to Ryde “, as in Ryde in the Isle of Wight. Hahaha, that will have been at my instigation, following the london bootleg orchestra’s original discovery at glastonbury…Ĭarsmile | Email | 02.21.05 – 7:11 am | # The band didn’t seem too happy with our experiment but science won the day. The irony of the LBO’s efforts is that I’d forgotten how relatively lugubrious the original is.Ī drunken Sinister crowd once attempted to Prove By Science TTR’s versatility by singing it loudly over every song played by an awful pub band in Finsbury Park. I hear you can bootleg this song with pretty much anything given a raw enough vocal style It’s not something the average adolescent could completely understand, but the song retains its appeal forty years on as most of us have by now learned exactly what it means.ĭoctor Mod | Email | 02.21.05 – 1:55 am | # I recall that some were shocked about the line “She said that living with me was bringing her down / She would never be free when I was around.” This might be one of the first suggestions of marital cohabitation in mainstream pop. There are no parental or other authority figures to blame–just him, her, and the eponymous “ticket,” and he’s trying to make sense of it all. This is well beyond adolescent romance, full of the tangled issues of adult life. There had been “resentful dumpee” lyrics before (e.g., “I’ll Cry Instead”), but this one is far more complex than any of the previous. This is, of course, a major turning point in the Beatles’ career, one that foreshadows Rubber Soul. « CLIFF RICHARD – “The Minute You’re Gone” ROGER MILLER – “King Of The Road” » Comments He doesn’t deny the rightness of his girl’s diagnosis – he hardly needs to, when his resentment at her newfound decisiveness seeps through every bar. The lead-weighted, hesitant rhythms match our not-quite-hero’s reluctance to meet the inevitable: he thinks it’s today, affecting vagueness when the matter is out of his hands. It’s an acute lyric with a coy drug reference or two if you’re squinting right – but “Ticket To Ride” works because the music fits that lyric so well. Which is thankfully great enough to shrug off such crassness. It sounds to me, though, like a tacked-on “Beatley bit” – even unto the handclaps – appeasing anyone put off by the startling drone and drag of the song proper. The sadness is tentative, the anger mixed with denial, and you could read the perky coda as acceptance if you like. Like almost any break-up, “Ticket To Ride” flickers between sadness and anger. ![]()
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