I sorta like "Revolver."
... But I listened to it a lot and it was I think, the only
Beatles album in the house. However, if you count cock-roaches
as Beatles, we had plenty of Beatles in the house in all their
shiny-backed cuteness.
Mines is The White Album then Rubber Soul, then Revolver.
On one of the documenturies about the beatles in the weekend. Lennon was saying he thet Subber Souls was more like a continuation of Revolver. Which is confirmed something hat I had thought for years.
It is very hard for me to pick my favorite. It changes all the time. I find myself listening to Revolver more than the others. I went through a long Magical Mystery Tour phase not long ago. That has some of the greatest recordings John has laid down. 'Strawberry Fields Forever'...'I Am The Walrus'...come on! Doesn't get much better than that!
'You start out wrinkled and you cry...you end up wrinkled and you die.'
I feel/believe/think/have noticed - that everything the Beatles ever did is now iconic and will continue to grow ever more Iconic - how can you pick out a favourite Icon??????????
I just bought Abbey Road. Sounds great very clear. I can't remember what the previous version of it was like but this is great. Seems to have some very clear seperation. Never paid much attention to this album until now. Love it!!
Still Because is my favourite.
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I just bought Abbey Road. Sounds great very clear. I can't remember what the previous version of it was like but this is great. Seems to have some very clear seperation. Never paid much attention to this album until now. Love it!!
Still Because is my favourite.
'Because' sounds MAJESTIC on the remaster!!
'You start out wrinkled and you cry...you end up wrinkled and you die.'
... No I don't - I can appreciate their greatness but being a '70's girl I find the obsession with all things '60's extremely repetetive. Amazing things have come out of all decades including now -and because the Beatles were rammed down my throat from an early age I'm afraid I butted against them. Each to his own. love on ya
It is remarkable that my dad, a songwriter himself and not unfamiliar with the blues, so disliked the Beatles, but I think for him it may have been personal. Rock 'n' roll was an affront to his refined sensibilities, and I think he felt competitive for his daughters' headspace. He did concede that 'Yesterday' was a good song but it was grudging.
Its been a while since Ive played SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND .In one of the songs A Day in the Life when the lyric came up I would have a flashback of my early years of smoking Dope........
Woke up, fell out of bed,
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup,
And looking up I noticed I was late.
Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke,
Somebody spoke and I went into a dream
Following that verse - when Lennon sings that melodic "aaaaaahhhhhhhh......", they hit their single finest music passage.
Yep, I'm a big fan but at the same time I can see Paulinee's assertion for the first half of their career (but certainly not the latter). Fave album is the WHITE.
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1. The Beatles (White Album)
2. Revolver
3. Magical Mystery Tour
4. Rubber Soul
5. Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Ridiculous not liking The Beatles. That is like saying you don't like breathing air. Would love to hear Bowie's take on Strawberry Fields Forever, slated for Pin Ups II.
Gay wankers? There's nothing wrong with homosexuals who masturbate, just so long as they don't play any Beatles songs at the same time.
I'm rather underwhelmed by the Beatles too, but I do like Hello Goodbye & Strawberry Fields.
There's a piece of flute playing in Life On Mars? which sounds like it was lifted off Strawberry Fields. It comes in (appropriately) just after "Lennon's on sale again".
I think my love for them went up after reading Bob Spitz excellent biography a few years ago. After reading about the White Album i just had to own it. It's just remarkable. It's an album in danger of collapsing in on itself like some bloated black hole, but somehow it holds together. You can almost hear the tension between the four of them.
that's a hard decision to make...i play abbey road the most, so i suppose that's my favourite. the new remaster sounds great, i think. they wrote so many good songs. i also play revolver / rubber soul a lot. oh, and sgt pepper. ah...and magical mystery tour. mmm..and the white album. see? tough choice.
i know what you mean (101diva? i think?) about hearing beatles songs for the first time - such amazing pop songs, great melodies & some very entertaining lyrics. i often think, when i listen to the beatles, 'how come nobody ever wrote that song before?'. what i mean is that they are such strong songs that they seem...well...obvious, somehow. duh! maybe it is simply familiarity with so many of the classic songs that they wrote that makes them seem 'obvious'. regardless, many are, imo, works of genius.
I have always been amazed at the drastic change in sound from Sgt. Pepper to the White Album. Before that...the band had a slight change in style and direction from album to album. They progressed...but not like Sgt.-White. Before Pepper, Revolver had Tomorrow Never Knows, Eleanor Rigby and others that hinted at what was to come. Pepper gave no hint of what we were to hear on the White Album.
'You start out wrinkled and you cry...you end up wrinkled and you die.'
Rubber Soul and Revolver have their differances...but not a huge leap. Nowhere Man could have easily have been on Revolver. Could you imagine Lucy In The Sky on the same album as Helter Skelter? I still say the biggest leap was from Pepper to White Album.
'You start out wrinkled and you cry...you end up wrinkled and you die.'
It's not surprising given we're all Bowie fans here and thus probably more inclined towards the more eccentric and experimental end of the Beatles catalogue.
When you listen to the Beatles it's amazing how you can hear how Bowie was influenced by their music. Two examples:
1. That crashing crescendo chord at the end of R and R Suicide. Remind you of anything? How about the end of A day In The Life?
2. The coda to Memory of a Free Festival. "The Sun Machine...." Remind you of anything? How about the long coda to hey Jude? There's more, believe me, there's more.
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