Bonus Song Thursday - Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson "Say Say Say"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2015

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

It's Bonus Song Thursday! And Bill and Brian return to discuss some more about Michael Jackson and his collaborations with Sir Paul McCartney. Released on McCartney's album, the poorly received Pipes of Peace (1983, Parlophone/Columbia). The guys talk about how this is a better song than most give it credit for, the production on the song and its corresponding album, the picaresque video, and the falling out between the singers over a royalty dispute. Also, we read a listener email, which leads to a discussion about Guided by Voices and how one should attempt delving into their catalog.

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0:00.0	Say, say what you want what you want, but don't play games with my affection.
0:23.6	Take, take, take, take what you need, but don't leave me with no direction.
0:32.6	All alone, I sit home by the phone, I wait for you, baby.
0:40.3	And through the years, I can't just in the year, my place that's for you, you know I'm flying.
0:47.3	Woo, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, oh, oh, yeah.
0:53.3	Hello, I'm Bill, and I'm Brian.
0:55.9	This is the great albums podcast, Bonus Song Thursday, where usually on the podcast, we take a different great album of music and talk about what makes it great.
1:07.5	But on bonus song Thursday, we just talk about one song.
1:15.3	Make it easier on your listening ears so you don't have to spend two hours of listening to us, babble.
1:17.5	Yeah.
1:19.9	So what are we doing, what are we talking about today, Brian?
1:22.6	Talking about a song called Say, Say, Say, by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson.
1:29.0	Because what did we talk about the other day?
1:32.7	The Girl is Mine by Michael Jackson featuring Paul McCartney.
1:38.0	Off of his album.
1:39.2	The Thriller album.
1:42.5	And for those that listen to the episode, you probably heard that we weren't thrilled by that song.
1:48.6	No, not at all.
1:49.8	So what do you think of this song?
1:53.8	It's interesting because this song, I think, has a worse reputation because the parent album was not very good.
2:04.7	And that is, of course, an album called Pipes of Peace, came out in 1983 as well.
2:12.5	As well, I'm sorry, Thriller came out in 1982. Pipes of Peace came out in 1983.
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