the blog quebecois

A pallid and lame selection tonight, almost as pallid and lame as watching a white guy dance.

This is a sort of interactive Flash thing. You guide your character up, up, up, and he sort of interacts with things along the way.

To most critics, "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" was the weakest track on the Beatles' Abbey Road album. Apart from Paul McCartney, who wrote it, the Beatles tended to agree. John Lennon in particular hated it:

The song took three days of overdubbing because McCartney imagined that it could be a future single. John Lennon later recalled, "he did everything to make it into a single, and it never was and it never could have been." According to Lennon, the band spent more money on that song than any other on Abbey Road.

I thought the song was stagy and mannered myself, especially when McCartney chuckled during the line "Writing fifty times I must not be so". It sounded too rehearsed, but I've since read here and elsewhere that it was Paul's reaction to John, who was mooning him at the time.

Whatever. This is a good Flash animation of the song, and musically it was perhaps a bit better than I remembered.