Indeed. None of this has anything to do with The Beatles or Tusk, I guess this means that the Beatle cult struggle to stay on topic when challenged.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:14 (six years ago) link
FYI the White Album is better than Tusk
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:19 (six years ago) link
https://i.makeagif.com/media/5-17-2015/lNO8dg.gif
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:19 (six years ago) link
https://68.media.tumblr.com/c375dbe8e9f678af0c3ff0ed54a64b8c/tumblr_oua4zzNyhJ1rvlgz8o3_500.gif
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:21 (six years ago) link
LOL that my revive kicked off a whole nother cycle of Turrican trolling
― flopson, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 00:14 (six years ago) link
also stop calling it The Beatles it's called The White Album ffs
― flopson, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 00:15 (six years ago) link
Turdican Strikes Again!
― bodacious ignoramus, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 00:54 (six years ago) link
what's the funniest part of the white album, i think it's when paul wails "OH NO IT'S HELTER SKELTER" in a high pitched voice
― brimstead, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 01:24 (six years ago) link
"they are -standing- stilllll"
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 01:38 (six years ago) link
Hehbub zeebubbhahbub zebub
Always gets a chuckle
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 01:57 (six years ago) link
"Back in the USSR" is the funniest thing on the White Album!
― timellison, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 02:48 (six years ago) link
ha yes, especially being the opening track!
― brimstead, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 02:49 (six years ago) link
with tusk maybe it's more about "what's the moment that makes you feel most vulnerable" or something, there are so many.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 02:51 (six years ago) link
^ probably Over & Over for me
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 05:13 (six years ago) link
which is such a bizarre song to open an album with, it's such a 'middle of side 3' kind of song. the sequencing of Tusk is really interesting too, I always thought the album sounded like a loop, in kinda opens in media res. TWA is much more of a journey with a solid beginning, middle, and end. listening to Tusk is like walking in on a party that never started and never ended
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 05:18 (six years ago) link
there are a good number songs on TWA that, had they been released as private press 45s from some unknown band in ohio or florida or something, i imagine they'd fetch three figures on the secondhand market, be anthologized on "pebbles" or similar, and be regarded as stone cold classics of the psychedelic genre.
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 06:44 (six years ago) link
otm, i could easily see some of the songs on TWA having the appeal of someone like Harvey Sid Fisher in another universe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLfe3dBb69k
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 06:47 (six years ago) link
whoops sorry this is the hit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy3LcfkYHV4
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 06:48 (six years ago) link
my personal favorite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecvNT5OGnMg
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 06:49 (six years ago) link
The funniest moment on The Beatles? Probably one of the moments where it's not trying to be funny ... the ending to 'Happiness is a Warm Gun' is a great example of this, the "when ah hold yooou in maaaah arms" part made me laugh out loud the first time I heard it.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 06:50 (six years ago) link
i don't think you have a soul
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 06:53 (six years ago) link
I suspect there's more than a few songs on The Beatles that would have been swept under the carpet and forgotten about by now if they hadn't appeared on a Beatles album. A lot of these tracks have been over-scrutinised for this exact reason.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 06:55 (six years ago) link
Donald Trump vs The White Album
― Mark G, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 07:42 (six years ago) link
... or understand the concept of 'funny'... or 'spooky'... or anything else really.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 09:11 (six years ago) link
Probably one of the moments where it's not trying to be funny ... the ending to 'Happiness is a Warm Gun' is a great example of this, the "when ah hold yooou in maaaah arms" part made me laugh out loud the first time I heard it.
Given the provenance of the song, the idea that the band (and John specifically) were not trying to be funny here is . . . "mind-boggling" doesn't even BEGIN to cover it. Deliberately obtuse, but in a Dunning-Kruger kind of way.
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 13:44 (six years ago) link
yeah that shit is funny and i’m pretty sure they knew it
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 13:47 (six years ago) link
they're definitely not trying to take themselves seriously on that song. or pretty much any song on that album save for, like, Julia or something
― Fox Mulder, FYI (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 14:43 (six years ago) link
The Beatles as a series of jokes. Hmm, yeah... I can get on board with that assessment.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
Take one of "Happiness, BOOM BOOM hrah ah ah ah"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/875000/images/_879875_basilbrush_300.jpg
― Mark G, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 15:02 (six years ago) link
Funniest is Yoko's line in Bungalow Bill. I always thought it was John doing a silly voice.
Also the version of Obladi on Anthology at the end of which John is mocking Paul with, "Obladi blada, brother."
― dinnerboat, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 15:07 (six years ago) link
Yeah it never occurred to me that that was Yoko. Bungalow Bill's Beach Boys analogue would be 'Little Pad'
― Fox Mulder, FYI (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 15:22 (six years ago) link
Ooh good connection
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 15:26 (six years ago) link
Arent Yoko (and Patti?) also on Birthday?
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 15:27 (six years ago) link
Yoko also appears on Revolution 9 'you become naked...'
Speaking of which, I wouldn't mind hearing Turrican's opinion of Smiley Smile, which is one of my favourite albums of all time and for similar reasons to White Album.
I guess the unifying things between all these, including Tusk and also Sandinista and countless others is that they're 'burn out' albums with cult followings. Band reach what is largely regarded as the peak of their work. They've worked hard, put all their creative powers into their album. They've sweated and worked and collaborated with each other and argued and drugged themselves and had love affairs and the world loves them. They set out to make a follow-up, but find it impossible to summon the patience to go through these motions. They're still brimming with ideas, their egos suitably lubricated, but the sheer effort involved with working like that and living with each other again is too much. So they work fast and get a bit scrappy - 'we know what we're doing this time, we're The Beatles, we don't need to sweat over this like we used to cos we're pros'.They take shortcuts, pump out the songs, preferably with as few of the other members around as possible. And so you end up with these big, dopey, mishmash albums that are weirdly appealing but tonally all over the place. They don't quite compare to their predecessors because they're in a different league. Critically, they come across as flawed but in an endearing way.
― Fox Mulder, FYI (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 16:01 (six years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, November 7, 2017 2:19 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
probably but I only listen to Tusk anymore
― phenibut rock (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 16:07 (six years ago) link
The Smiley Smile version of 'Wind Chimes' is a zillion times creepier than anything on The Beatles. I've said this before on a Beach Boys thread, but the thing about Smiley Smile is that it's a far less commercial/inviting record than Smile would have been, and more uncompromising too.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 16:11 (six years ago) link
You mean "Wonderful" yeah?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 16:13 (six years ago) link
Xp Well I wasn't asking about which was creepier. I agree, Smiley Smile has some very eerie moments on it - Fall Breaks and Back To Winter is another. Would you say the same about Peppers/TWA as you would about Pet Sounds/Smiley Smile?
I take it TWA didn't start off as originally intended either.. did the Beatles have another concept in mind before choosing on a double album of genre exercises?
― Fox Mulder, FYI (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 16:15 (six years ago) link
Bungalow Bill is garbage, Little Pad is transplendent, I don't see the connection.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 16:23 (six years ago) link
You mean "Wonderful" yeah?― Mark G, Wednesday, November 8, 2017 4:13 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Mark G, Wednesday, November 8, 2017 4:13 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
That too. The Smile version of 'Wonderful' is stunningly beautiful, but the Smiley Smile sounds like a paranoid episode set to music.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 16:38 (six years ago) link
*version
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link
Would you say the same about Peppers/TWA as you would about Pet Sounds/Smiley Smile?
No. I'm also unconvinced that The Beatles ever had a concept in mind for The Beatles beyond them having a lot of material between them and seemingly being unwilling/unable (for whatever reason) to work out what to record and what not to record.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I think it's significant that there is only one tiny photo of them altogether on the poster inamongst the other pics
― Mark G, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 22:50 (six years ago) link
i love the mouse on mars track that samples "wind chimes"
― brimstead, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 22:56 (six years ago) link
Woah, what now?
― Fox Mulder, FYI (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 23:54 (six years ago) link
harvey sid fisher was on my radio show a few weeks ago! tusk is better
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 23:58 (six years ago) link
xp It's on vulvaland, samples a bit of the vocals and speeds them up, it sounds really cool
― brimstead, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 23:59 (six years ago) link