Say Something *NEW* about the Beatles...

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In my early teens the family had a CD player that had buttons for intro and repeat. You could program a single song and use both buttons so that it'd play the first ten seconds endlessly. I discovered this worked rather well with "Girl," such that you get asked "Is there anybody going to listen to my story all about the girl who came to stay?" over and over. What was once a rhetorical question starts to seem rather desperate after a while.

eatandoph, Thursday, 21 June 2007 07:30 (seventeen years ago) link

You know, I read recently that Paul wrote "for no-one" while on holiday abroad (switzerland?) with Jane Asher.

Must have been one hell of a downer holiday!

Mark G, Thursday, 21 June 2007 08:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I say let young people create their own music.

Yes. But based on the legacy of The Beatles. Just like Beethoven created his own music based on the legacy of Mozart and Haydn.

Geir Hongro, Thursday, 21 June 2007 08:47 (seventeen years ago) link

The bridge is the best thing about "I'm Looking Through You"

Geir Hongro, Thursday, 21 June 2007 08:49 (seventeen years ago) link

The 'pre-' version without the bridge is better.

Mark G, Thursday, 21 June 2007 08:57 (seventeen years ago) link

but geir there have already been generations that have done something with the legacy of the beatles. i don't know how long you expect it to go on.

Tim Ellison, Thursday, 21 June 2007 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link

It reads like a Minor Threat song without the bridge.

Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Stephen King shot John Lennon.

Mark Rich@rdson, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

but geir there have already been generations that have done something with the legacy of the beatles.

Not as much as it ought to. Other than progrock, pomp pop and Britpop, not a lot of post 60s music has built that much on The Beatles.

Geir Hongro, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link

(And powerpop obv)

Geir Hongro, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Nirvana

Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Geir, contemplating the musical future you envision is boring me to near suicide.

Hurting 2, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I hope you have fun listening to Ben Folds and the Friends theme song for the rest of your life.

Hurting 2, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link

pomp pop?

(tell me less)

Mark G, Friday, 22 June 2007 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Pomp Pop Defined.

Marcello Carlin, Friday, 22 June 2007 11:08 (seventeen years ago) link

ta.

Mark G, Friday, 22 June 2007 11:20 (seventeen years ago) link

There's no frickin' way John is saying "cranberry sauce" at the end of "Strawberry Fields."

At about age 10, after finally recieving the courage to listen to it all the way through with headphones (cos the end is really fucked up sounding and scared the shit out me at age 7 and kept me up at night and I literally had bad dreams about those sounds haunting me), I thought he was saying "clap very slow."

billstevejim, Friday, 22 June 2007 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Man, I was on fire on this thread.

Alex in NYC

I confess to nearly laughing out loud at my Magical Mystery Tour comment above. (And I usually hate encountering my old posts

Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 22 June 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

five years pass...

Did anyone else know about this?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AHrMQa-Iro

timellison, Monday, 6 August 2012 04:07 (twelve years ago) link

When the Rush vs. Yes vs. Beatles poll happens, I expect the Beatles will win.

clemenza, Monday, 6 August 2012 04:10 (twelve years ago) link

xp - now I want a Mellotron even more than i used to.....

Lee626, Monday, 6 August 2012 07:25 (twelve years ago) link

In my early teens the family had a CD player that had buttons for intro and repeat. You could program a single song and use both buttons so that it'd play the first ten seconds endlessly. I discovered this worked rather well with "Girl," such that you get asked "Is there anybody going to listen to my story all about the girl who came to stay?" over and over. What was once a rhetorical question starts to seem rather desperate after a while.

― eatandoph, Thursday, 21 June 2007 07:30 (5 years ago) Permalink

ROFLing at this.

Quickly, take hold of my hand, asshole! (dog latin), Monday, 6 August 2012 09:20 (twelve years ago) link

There was no fifth Beatle, the substitutes all wore the number 8 shirt

Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 6 August 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link

Did anyone else know about this?!

wow no! wacky

giallo pudding pops (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 August 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link

Beatles guitarist George Harrison was the starting linebacker for the 1968 New York Giants. He recorded 40 tackles and 4 1/2 sacks.

Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 6 August 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link

The Beatles formed in Tower, Minnesota in 1958. They started out playing polkas at local dance halls, but quickly added popular country & western songs of the day to their repertoire.

Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 6 August 2012 17:51 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah, the intro to the Kinks Phenomenal Cat is a mellotron preset too. And all of the flute and guitar in that song are also mellotron.

wk, Monday, 6 August 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link

The Beatles' Paul McCartney is a lifelong devotee of knitting. He recently opened an online website, Paulspets.com, which specializes in selling handmade knitwear for pets.

Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 6 August 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link

three years pass...

this looks like it's going to do the opposite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqDgm2XJ9SA

piscesx, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 01:42 (eight years ago) link

http://beatlephotoblog.com/photos/2013/07/ghjsrs.jpg

Little did he know the bloke on his right would be making movies about his career

glumdalclitch, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 03:46 (eight years ago) link

i think it'll be an interesting doc, there hasn't been anything that explicitly focused on one topic like that and while there is a lot of live footage around, it's of varying quality. but i'm a sucker for all this shit.

akm, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 05:00 (eight years ago) link

Why hasn't The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl ever been reissued on CD? Surely by now they have the technology to reduce the crowd noise further than was possible in 1977, and if not - shouldn't there be enough other live recordings out there of sufficient quality that they could cobble a real live (as in, before a paying audience) album together?

Anyway, cross your fingers that there's a soundtrack to the above-previewed doc. Even if there isn't, we already know that they're charismatic enough personalities to carry a feature-length, even one by Mr. Beautiful Mind himself.

Futuristic Bow Wow (thewufs), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 06:09 (eight years ago) link

anyone here read the Albert Goldman book on Lennon? out of print, but worth buying online for a buck... very juicy, very trashy, extremely homoerotic...

flappy bird, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 06:39 (eight years ago) link

Was there anything made of the longterm Fluxus artist choosing to marry a populist pop star?

Stevolende, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 07:52 (eight years ago) link

Yeah, I have that Albert Goldman book.

It's nowhere near as 'damning' as Bono (etc) have made out, it gives an awful lot of bumf and expects you to unpick it.

e.g. that whole "John hit Stu and that's why Stu died", bottom line there is that nobody thought that except for John himself, possibly racked with guilt over some fight they had.

Mark G, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 09:09 (eight years ago) link

urgh Goldman. i'm glad that book's pretty much been forgotten about in the UK. his lack of any decent footnotes AT ALL tells the real tale there imo.

the recently-edited-together live footage from Shea on the '1+' dvd (as a video for Eight Days A Week) looks killer, and seems to suggest the Shea footage has been remastered/cleaned-up for an upcoming release. possibly tied with the Ron Howard film?

piscesx, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 11:30 (eight years ago) link

that book is poorly sourced rubbish

akm, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 14:22 (eight years ago) link

It only had the one edition, I believe.

Mark G, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 22:14 (eight years ago) link

oh yeah, a lot of it is bullshit, but it's a great, grim read. like the opening scene of Lennon in the late-70s "smoking thai stick" in his Howard Hughes period. dark as all hell. and Goldman is just an insane writer, he's so nasty and obviously repressed - it comes out in the prose. a lot of very flowery penis descriptions and allusions

flappy bird, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 22:50 (eight years ago) link

yeah the goldman book isn't necessarily "good" as a reliable biography of an actual person but it's kind of a sick masterpiece. def remember being somewhat traumatized by a lot of it when i first read it as a teenage beatles fan. goldman's style is undeniably ridiculous and over-the-top but writing a 600+ page book without a single dull sentence in it is some kind of accomplishment.

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 23:44 (eight years ago) link

Did you read the Elvis book too, J.D.?

Poe, I know all about Ulalume (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 23:57 (eight years ago) link

yeah, the elvis book is amazing and deplorable for similar reasons. for pure unadulterated goldman nastiness, though, you need his other elvis book:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41n1UB9KkML._SL500_SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 23 June 2016 00:25 (eight years ago) link

That Goldman book opening: it's a young guy (named Kit?) couriering heroin up to John's Dakota apartment and the ensuing wasted ennui he sees, iirc. V memorable, given I read it 20+ years ago.

albvivertine, Thursday, 23 June 2016 06:51 (eight years ago) link

It's been a while since I read it but I remember the Goldman book being massively entertaining, and actually pretty good when talking about the actual music.

nate woolls, Thursday, 23 June 2016 07:12 (eight years ago) link

feel like the mark lewisohn book was so good and actually made the early days beatles story feel fresh i never want to read anyone else write anything about the beates except his next 2 upcoming books

Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 June 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link

^^^

Οὖτις, Thursday, 23 June 2016 21:03 (eight years ago) link

ha i should give it another try, got a little exhausted around page 150 ... though I"m excited for that level of detail on the actual Beatles years

tylerw, Thursday, 23 June 2016 21:05 (eight years ago) link

Lewisohn was very enthusiastic about the prospects for this film.

timellison, Thursday, 23 June 2016 21:29 (eight years ago) link

"Something new about the Beatles"

Mark G, Friday, 24 June 2016 11:05 (eight years ago) link

Cool band

Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 26 June 2016 02:56 (eight years ago) link


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