I thought it was "BITCH fag jew." Yeah, Lennon... what a great guy.
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 3 October 2009 12:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, he said that one thing once, therefore he was terrible.
― a wicked 60s beat poop combo (Pancakes Hackman), Saturday, 3 October 2009 13:02 (fourteen years ago) link
x-post. Yeah, I guess PM Dawn did. I was thinking more along the lines of Apple allowing someone like Weatherall or the dudes from The Studio to run wild on the Beatles' back catalog.
― leavethecapital, Saturday, 3 October 2009 13:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, and in front of a recording device, thus preserving it for all time.
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 3 October 2009 13:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Pretty sure you've said worse here on ILX, preserving it for all time.
― a wicked 60s beat poop combo (Pancakes Hackman), Saturday, 3 October 2009 14:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Probably, but I'm not deified as the veritable personification of peace n' love that Lennon is. I'm a fan, I just bristle at the revisionism.
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 3 October 2009 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
"Alex in NYC" is love.
― Mark G, Monday, 5 October 2009 07:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Alex is The Word.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 5 October 2009 13:09 (fourteen years ago) link
All you need is Alex.
― staggerlee, Monday, 5 October 2009 21:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Alex is all you need.
Lennon being a sarcastic asshole, what a shocker.
― leavethecapital, Monday, 5 October 2009 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
deified as the veritable personification of peace n' love
Isn't this mainly a posthumous marketing meme? I mean even on Imagine you have "How Do You Sleep?" which is pretty bitter and hateful. Seems like Lennon-is-Love came about mainly as a good way to sell t-shirts in the early 80s.
― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 00:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Hearing a horrendous remake of "All You Need is Love" playing on a commercial this evening really makes me understand the hate. The commercial is either for a bank or credit card or both.
― Adam Bruneau, Saturday, 10 October 2009 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
i've come to the conclusion that blue jay way is my favorite beatles song
― buzza, Thursday, 4 November 2010 09:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow, this is off the mark even by ILMs standards. How the hell is the track Flying not easily the worst? It's a forgettable instrumental with neither melody or invention to save it. Fool On The Hill is far superior and Blue Jay Way should be more highly esteemed. End of rant.
― Tim. E "LazRus" Lucas (Prose b4 Hoes...and Big Hoos), Thursday, 4 November 2010 09:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd have thought "Hello Goodbye" should have walked this. The other higher ones are there purely through overfamiliarity. "I say a positive thing, you say a negative thing" for 3 mins.
― Mark G, Thursday, 4 November 2010 09:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I think Flying is pretty cool
― Randy Moss' dog's personal chef (Bill Magill), Thursday, 4 November 2010 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link
8. Strawberry Fields Forever 36. I Am The Walrus 0
;_;
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 4 November 2010 13:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Why so? No-one thinks Walrus is the worst song on this?
― Mark G, Thursday, 4 November 2010 14:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Buzza OTM. Especially Ringo's performance, the drumming is KILLER
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 4 November 2010 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I love flying. Sounds like being stoned.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 4 November 2010 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Flying, also, is a great performance, particularly from Ringo. And how can you hate on that ambient mellotron ending? The tremolo guitar, that silly four-part harmony, and the gentle acoustic guitar solo in the lead-in. It's all so wonderful. Really a beautiful couple of minutes on a rather intense and schizophrenic album.
"Hello Goodbye" is the one song on this album I can't stand.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 4 November 2010 19:43 (thirteen years ago) link
re: "hello goodbye," i think the appeal of that song is not particularly about the lyrics (which, yes, are nursery-rhyme-ish). the round-like vocal harmonies are very nice. one of the beatles' better straight sunshine-psych tunes IMO.
― swvl, Thursday, 4 November 2010 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
The CODA for heaven's sake.
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 4 November 2010 20:33 (thirteen years ago) link
^this. Redeems the song.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 4 November 2010 20:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Flying is an amazing bedroom rocker btw.
― Moka, Thursday, 4 November 2010 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Flying is chillwave LOL
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 4 November 2010 20:59 (thirteen years ago) link
wouldve voted Penny Lane and not thought twice...
― only! assholes! write on doors! (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 5 November 2010 02:07 (thirteen years ago) link
hello goodbye is among the top 5 worst beatles songs. flying is awesome. the sentiment of AYNIL I appreciate more as I approach the elder stages of life, tho musically it is sometimes a bit much to take
― Dominique, Friday, 5 November 2010 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Documentary on the BBC about the making of Magical Mystery Tour. Blu Ray & DVD comes out this week, finally!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xiz41xJ5ExQ
It's actually pretty good, plenty of stuff I've never seen before. Funny that this is the first time I've ever seen the stripper's tits, they have always been censored out!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 02:14 (eleven years ago) link
Scorsese helpfully points out it was made without the use of CGI.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 02:18 (eleven years ago) link
interesting doc but a bit too 'crazy days.. groovy man' at times. did make me realise how much of an guiding influence Epstein was; no way he'd have let them arse about on a bus for a week in the countryside stoned as fuck without a script. good to see Macca has made his peace with it all since the Anthology days mind.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 02:31 (eleven years ago) link
(Macca style) thumbs up to Macca for using Albert Ayler as the soundtrack to one of his experimental home movies! MMT still boring tho apart from "Walrus" segment and Johnny's dream sequence.
― Hello, Good Evening and Expenses (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 11:49 (eleven years ago) link
no way he'd have let them arse about on a bus for a week in the countryside stoned as fuck without a script
Well, he would, but he wouldn't let them film it.
― Tom Hardy & the Batbreakers (Phil D.), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 12:10 (eleven years ago) link
You kidding? He'd have been right there on the bus!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
"Your Mother Should Know" seems like a great combination of reassuring voice x lyrics & music a little elusive, not so reassuring (the music is maybe in a minor key, and gliding like dancers in and out of the lamplight). Really the feeling of childhood, a moment of interest and knowing you're not quite getting it. "Hello Goodbye" the jangling round of relationships---"Pattern recognition gets us all in the end," Jane Dark once said of rock writing, but may apply to all things observational, especially if you're a Beatle, tripping on the masses and vise versa (agree about the coda's coolness, though always thought it was "get fucked get fucked everybody GET fucked", in a good bad hello goodbye way, opposites being equal and attracting) "Penny Lane". "Straberry Fields", "I Am The Walrus" are great, "Baby" jangling on a wire like a kebab of baby toys, the rest suggest the Rutles, only not as good.
― dow, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
Scorsese really reminding me of Eugene Levy in this. Hadn't seen him in a while...guess I'm not the only person struck by the resemblance. Anyway, this album was a great mystery when I was little, looking through the photos in our lp and trying to figure out what the movie might be like. Documentary was surprisingly interesting. The bits of Blue Jay Way in the doc seem extremely eerie and very ahead-of-their-time in relation to the rest of this. Harrison almost seems like John Cale or something: a member of a completely different band.
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
xpost. I also wondered about the Rutles. Have been playing Piggy In The Middle and Cheese & Onions (originals and Highway Revisited versions) and very seriously trying to decide if they're better than the MMT soundtrack...
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG7PS2k9J_o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4jXc3t9JR4&feature=related
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Victor Spinetti :(
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/_n11s85RtVE/0.jpg
― Tom Hardy & the Batbreakers (Phil D.), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
"Blue Jay Way" is the best part of the film imo.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
I've always loved Your Mother Should Know. The elliptical lyrics and overall spookiness make me think its the Beatles' equivalent of Rubber Ring by the Smiths. Sort of, ha ha, here is the kind of music that old people like, pretty fun... but, damn, our music will become old-time music too, vanity of vanities etc. No doubt I read too much into it.
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
MMT is the most underrated Beatles album
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
8. Strawberry Fields Forever 3
huh?
― rap game klaus nomi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
Scorsese helpfully points out it was made without the use of CGI.So wait a minute, Clark. You tellin' me that was a real walrus?
― pplains, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
It was Paul, no?
― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
My only problem with Flying is that it sounds like Kiss The Girl from the Little Mermaid, and once I heard that I can't unhear it. Now every time I listen to that song my brain automatically adds in a little singing crab.
― wk, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
Crab was Ringo, according to Lewisohn.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
Octopus surely?
― Hello, Good Evening and Expenses (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
Though he is pretty crabby these days.
― Hello, Good Evening and Expenses (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link