(I dunno, these schmucks off the Internet and their Exclusive! Undiscovered! Rarities!)
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link
Here's another:
They never did a song as good as Little Animal by the Raveonettes which is quite possibly the second best song of the past ten years.
― Zarr, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― the hard structure of the world, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aaron A., Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― coco, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aaron A., Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― coco, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link
I think he already sold those rights, as he couldn't afford to keep them. You have to pay quite an amount for a good lawyer, you know...
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link
Coincidentally (or not!), today is little Emmanuel's birthday.
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 17:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link
-- Geir Hongro (geirhon...), March 9th, 2005.
I love Geir! So true...
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aaron A., Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aaron A., Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:11 (nineteen years ago) link
actually, def leppard's on through the night and judas priest's british steel were both recorded at ringo starr's house. actual true fact!
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link
This has been said before, by lots of people who were not yet 5 years old when The Beatles broke up in 1970, plus Thousands of fans of metal, R&B, funk, soul, hip-hop, jazz, rock'n'roll, classical, avant garde, electronica, dance or other musical styles that The Beatles rarely touched.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:08 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh, wait. You said about, not by...
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lee F# (fsharp), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 20:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― John Fredland (jfredland), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 22:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link
but that's not true. they had a lousy reissue campaign, with questionable remastering, no bonus tracks and perfunctory packaging.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 22:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dot Dash, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link
I don't know which Beatles thread to post this in, so this'll have to do. I've been listening to "Sgt. Pepper" lately (40th anniversary and all) and there is a line in "She's Leaving Home" that has bugged me for many years. The line in question?
"Fun is the one thing that money can't buy."
My reasons for hating this line are thus:
1. Not three years before, the Beatles themselves informed us that money cannot buy love. 2. Of all the things that money can't buy, Macca lists FUN as the ONE THING that MONEY CAN'T BUY? Fun would seem to be one of the easier things to procure through the use of currency. Go see a movie or something, for Christ's sake.
God, I'm a nerd but I had to get this off of my chest.
― Davey D, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link
that line bothered me too
― Dominique, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link
oh wells
― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link
i enjoyed reading johan kugelberg's beatles are so awesome piece in the old issue of ugly things with kim fowley on the cover the other day.
― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link
As if Paul actually believed every line of lyric that he wrote. I always thought he was more into the idea of putting words together that sound good with the song, rather than emphasizing his words.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link
To be fair, the speaker in the other song mostly emphasizes that money can't buy HIM love, weakly suggesting that it can't buy YOU love as a sort of trailing afterthought.
― nabisco, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link
Also the original 45 pressing had "YMMV" etched along the run-off groove.
― nabisco, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link
xx-post
Agreed, fully! However, the rest of the song is so evocative (especially for Paul) and carefully put together that I'm surprised he chose such a cop-out line to conclude the whole story (and then stuck poor John with the task of delivering it).
― Davey D, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link
how do you know john didn't write that line?
― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 23:19 (seventeen years ago) link
Well, I don't.
― Davey D, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 23:29 (seventeen 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
As far as I can gather, the people of the Philippines are still more than a bit embarrassed about the way the Beatles were handled here.
― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 05:55 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, "We're sorry about Imelda Marcos", they've said that a few times.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 07:45 (eight years ago) link
#9 Dream sounds an awful lot like an Ariel Pink song, doesn't it? (or the other way round if you're offended by this comparison)
― niels, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 11:51 (seven years ago) link
^ yes, it does
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 19:33 (six years ago) link
https://i.redd.it/bea2nydimowz.jpg
A better thread would be "Say something about a band that aren't The Beatles"
(and I'll bet 'Carnival of Light' is terrible)
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 19:58 (six years ago) link
haha, that's great
― niels, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 21:14 (six years ago) link
I always thought "From Me to You" was the weakest of their early singles, but I like it more now - pretty classic Beatles.
― timellison, Saturday, 3 November 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link