Comments on: Bad Boy

By: Big___Al

Big___Al — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 20:41:15 +0000

Too funny, re: James Taylor. Always said his music inspired suicide.

And, the R&R HOF, what’s up with Jethro Tull not in there yet???

By: EchoNov

EchoNov — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 17:26:42 +0000

The Beatles really made a very good and rocking version of this song.

By: Dave Sharpe

Dave Sharpe — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 12:11:41 +0000

Totally agree – and with the sentiment about James Taylor music, ha ha. Made me laugh!
When I was lead singer in a band in the mid 90’s I used to like to sing ‘Bad Boy’ and ‘Slow Down.’
Classic rock n roll……..

By: EchoNov

EchoNov — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:24:55 +0000

One of my favourites of the cover versions the Beatles made in their early years. John Lennon in real life?

By: Not John

Not John — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 22:59:59 +0000

Oh man, John’s voice is amazing in this song. A very powerfull song.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 19:07:44 +0000

Larry Williams, who to date (3/2018) is still not in the Rock and Roll hall of fame. The guy who wrote Dizzy miss lizzy, Slow down, Bad Boy, Bonie Maronie on and on is not in the Rock and Roll hall of fame. But Madonna is. So is disco singer Donna Summer. So is James Taylor and his put you in a coma songs.

By: Damon

Damon — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 03:50:25 +0000

I love your comment about John’s lyric vs Larry Williams’s original intent. As a former singer in a rock band — and we did not have good access to recorded material outside airplay — and, as one of those guys who always mis-heard lyrics — you have to do the best you can. Sometimes that boils down to “hizim frizzim”.

By: Teddy Salad

Teddy Salad — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 21:20:20 +0000

For the last forty years, I’ve been singing “juiced the canary.” Same general idea, I guess.

By: R cross

R cross — Sat, 20 Aug 2016 11:57:22 +0000

The word has many meanings including ‘to stop because of exhaustion’. Your question is silly though, as LarryWilliams, the writer was American not British, so why would he use a purely British expression?

By: John

John — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 22:17:12 +0000

I am convinced the gibberish wasn’t deliberate gibberish, but fluffed vocals which either time or total lack of importance resulted in their staying.

By: Otis

Otis — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 18:13:47 +0000

I hope it does

By: Dennis Hardesty

Dennis Hardesty — Fri, 06 May 2016 20:28:53 +0000

What about ‘poop’? Really, does it have another meaning in the UK?

By: JPDegallado

JPDegallado — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 08:50:37 +0000

literally laughed out loud on this one… i remember the gibberish when he sang “Don’t Let Me Down” live on the rooftop…

By: Cachiva

Cachiva — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 23:23:48 +0000

More lyric corrections needed:

Thumb tacks, not some tacks

Every dime that he gets, he’s off to the jukebox, man

Took the canary. No throwing!

Mama’s head? Please. “This modern mess has got to stop”

Thanks!

By: Ramon

Ramon — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 21:05:13 +0000

It’s one of the most powerfull rock song of the Beatles, though not composed by them.
The same energy as in “I’m down” or “Helter Skelter”

By: Dean Prescott

Dean Prescott — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 03:34:19 +0000

I also agree. John’s vocal is simply amazing. That Lennon tone is so perfect. Another tune I think has that quality but is completely different is “I Know (I Know) from 1973’s “Mind Games.

By: jennifur Sun

jennifur Sun — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 23:34:06 +0000

totally agree. my second fav John vocal, it is sooo him probably in real life.

By: DianeC

DianeC — Sat, 14 Nov 2015 21:10:01 +0000

I had never heard of this song until I read about it in Stephen King’s newest novel “Bazaar of Bad Dreams”. Mr. King rocks because this is not the first song he’s written about that I’d never heard of.

By: Graham Paterson

Graham Paterson — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 10:59:04 +0000

Great John Lennon vocal. First obtained a copy of this when I got Beatles ” Oldies ” album in August 1980. Lennon does Larry Williams songs so well i.e. ” Slow Down”, ” Dizzy Miss Lizzy ” and ” Bad Boy “. The British “Oldies” album is essential, a long side the US ” Hey Jude” album, because those songs on them compliment the” “regular” albums so to speak. The ” Oldies” cover is brilliant and is a great singles collection 1963-1966 and the inclusion of the brilliant “Bad Boy” with it’s great beat, guitar and vocal tops it off.

By: yannboyer

yannboyer — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 20:55:57 +0000

I can hear the piano almost only during the solo… Can you?