Hot as Sun / Glasses

Song ratings

Rating	Comments	Author	Date
	I didn't think much of this instrumental at first, until I found myself whistling along with Hot As Sun. The organ part in the bridge sucks (from 0.41), the rhythm part gets too simplistic here. The transition to Glasses with the organ coming in at 1.21 is hopeless. This is two parts that doesn't mix together at all. What's it about? Just a chance for wordplay? Glasses sound like a rejected part of Blue Jay Way. In the end Glasses is segued into a snippet of an unreleased song called Suicide. Why? It doesn't make sense to my ears. Suicide was also performed during the Let It Be sessions and seemed to have been offered to Frank Sinatra. He rejected it. Funny to know that Hot As Sun used to be a Quarrymen song and was also played during the Let It Be sessions. Tim Rice put words to the song, which was later recorded by Elaine Page amongst others. Page claimed that McCartney had written the song especially for her. Yeah, right, in 1958.	Bobber	April 19, 2012
	A three-part instrumental: the main body of the song is an engaging melody which Paul conceived back in his Quarryman days. This is followed by the brief segment "Glasses", some odd shimmering sounds Paul elicits from wine-glasses filled with various quantities of liquid, and finally, the even briefer little snippet of a song (the vocal fragment) Paul had written which was called "Suicide"--a very un-Paul-like song title.	Bruce Beatlefan	November 17, 2008

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