This, from Paul Sexton, I was referring to:
"You talk about the vibe of Ringo and Zak together?"
"That's why I wanted the end like that, just that bish-bash-bosh on the kit. That sums it to me in many ways, just the spirit of the thing. "
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Well, this is a very eloquent answer that explains a lot of my "problems" with this track and current production techniques in Mark's work.
I understand where they are coming from, but excuse me, showing a bit of "fun" and "bish-bash-bosh" in an obviously overly-produced, overly edited and remotely recorded track is just plain ridiculous to me. It's like you would leave the original ending in the studio version of "Telegraph Road" where it just ends abruptly with random guitar licks, when everybody knows the thing was polished to death nearly rendering it lifeless. These are certain creative decisions I'm not a fan of.
If, again, there would be a video showing Ringo and Zak having fun, and after all 9 minutes they like "huuuuuh, we did it", that would make sense. But on merely just an audio version it's weird. I feel like Mark's previous works were less inclined towards a certain producer so much, or were made more neutral on purpose, which was much better. So you either "get it" and go along with it, and it's the best thing you've ever heard, or it goes entirely against the grain and you "hate" it like I do.
