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Post by torethatbridgeout on Feb 13, 2004 2:29:51 GMT -5
Everytime I hear "What I Day for a Night" I picture Paul and Carole King sitting knee to knee with guitars. At least someone said it was from a songwriting session they had in the early 90s.
Who else has Paul written songs with? Do the shared credits for some Mats songs really reflect who wrote or cowrote, or was it just a way to keep the band happy with royalties to go with the meal money?
The other Mats proved to be no slouches in the songwriting dept. What if ... there had been a Tommy, Chris or Slim song on DTAS or ASD, or if a solid songwriting team had developed amongst them? The Mats might still be together.
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Post by claypigeon on Feb 13, 2004 10:07:37 GMT -5
From the Onion AV interview:
"I wouldn't be a good one to sit down, knee-to-knee, to try to write a song with someone. I did it with Carole King, oddly enough. No one hardly knows about this, but we wrote a couple of songs together. I was in between labels or something, and the publishing company suggested it. I went over to her apartment. Boy, she just sat down and was like, "Okay, let's write." She started hitting something, and I was just rifling through my little grab-bag of scraps of paper and started giving her words. We wrote about three songs that were pretty schmaltz, the sort of thing that sounds like what happens when two people get together and want to write a song for someone else."
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Post by BoringEnormous on Feb 13, 2004 11:37:05 GMT -5
I know he wrote the lyrics for that GooGoo Dolls song, "We are the Normal"...and I have a video of a Joan Jett song that he plays guitar and sings backup on called "Backlash", but I don't know if he cowrote it with her or anything...
As far as the Mats, I imagine the shared credits were more a diplomatic kind of thing...
"They're my songs, they're our records" as the man himself said...
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Post by ClamsCasino on Feb 13, 2004 16:43:39 GMT -5
Everytime I hear "What I Day for a Night" I picture Paul and Carole King sitting knee to knee with guitars. At least someone said it was from a songwriting session they had in the early 90s. If it was, then she would get a songwriting credit, which she doesn't. Anyway, Paul's account of that "schmaltzy" writing session would lead me to believe that nothing came of it, let alone "What a Day." He's said elsewhere that he wrote "What a Day" for someone else. I have a video of a Joan Jett song that he plays guitar and sings backup on called "Backlash", but I don't know if he cowrote it with her or anything... He cowrote it with her. Great song. Joan also sings backup on "Someone I Once Knew", but she isn't credited as a co-writer. |
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Post by claypigeon on Feb 13, 2004 17:10:48 GMT -5
Do the shared credits for some Mats songs really reflect who wrote or cowrote, or was it just a way to keep the band happy with royalties to go with the meal money? I think those songs originated as jams at rehersals and sound checks and then Paul took those ideas and finished the songs himself. "Natural Mean Lover" on DMS was co-written with Elrod Puce. The schizophrenia issues keep getting bigger. |
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Post by torethatbridgeout on Feb 13, 2004 19:09:07 GMT -5
If it was, then she would get a songwriting credit, which she doesn't. Anyway, Paul's account of that "schmaltzy" writing session would lead me to believe that nothing came of it, let alone "What a Day." He's said elsewhere that he wrote "What a Day" for someone else. I think I just totally made that up. Though I wouldn't rule it out as being too un-schmaltzy. The title alone is pure Tin Pan Alley; you can just see the sheet music cover with the couple in the canoe and the moonlight, or whatever. OK, but he did write it back then around the time of the Carole King's kneesy sessions and held onto it all this time for some reason or no reason. |
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