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I've just been trapped in a room (not literally) at work having to listen to some early Beatles (might have been the first album - how the fuck would I know?) Jesus, but how I hate all that yakky-dakky Merseybeat stuff.

Yakky-dakky?

Girl, shake that yakky dakky (that yakky dakky)
Twist and shout

It's a phrase of my own invention for relentlessly chirpy Scouse shite.

The world is treating me bad yakky dakky

Actually pronounced yachy dachy

You know, if you break my heart I'll go
And yakky-dakk again

Yakky Dakky
What have you done?
You've made a fool of everyone

Yakky Dak, don't talk back!

"You know my naaammme.... Yakky Dakky,"

"You say you wanna Yakky Dakky,
Weeeelll, you know..."

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm Yakky Dakky?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROI-FH6tnfY

Assume I made a Photoshop here of the Manson murder scene with "Yakky Daky" scrawled on the wall in blood, then chortle to yourself, please.

You'll have to have'em all pulled out after the Yakky Dakky.

I don't care too yakky dakky
Cos yakky won't yakky dak

And the yakker never wears a dak
In the pouring rain... Very strange

Let's just do this all day.

Why don't we yakky in the dak?

No one will be watching us.

Dak dak, Yakswell's silver hammer came down on her head...

Picture yourself in a yak by the dakky

Yakkiness is a warm yes it is Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak

"YAKKY DAKKY" written in blood on the LaBiancas' refrigerator

aw, someone else already made that joke :(

John and Yako

Now I come to think of it, Iechyd Da is probably the source of the phrase, there is a notable Welsh influence in Liverpool after all.

I don't think merseybeat has aged too well. I'm sure it was terrific at the time and everything but yeah, yakky dakky chippiness I always find a turn off.

Yakky Dakkoon checked into his room...

Sorry we hurt your field mister.

http://images.45cat.com/alan-price-set-iechydda-decca.jpg

oops.

I like the Beatles and even spent money on some reissues back in 2009, but to be honest I just haven't felt any sort of whim or need to listen to them in any serious way since roughly that time.

I'd be ready to put this down to familiarity, having heard pretty much all their material at one point or another. But I also wonder if there's a wider cultural shift at work here. I can't really remember the last time I heard anyone discuss the Beatles in the last couple of years. For the first time they feel like a really distant relic, apposite to pretty much anything going on in culture and music today.

I wonder if it's possible for big hivemindy shifts ion perception to work like this? There's always an 'old band du jour' or cause celebre that people get wrapped up in and start appearing towards the top of 'Best Album Ever' lists. The idea of a Q Poll with Revolver at the top would feel very strange in 2014. Feels like the general consensus has shaken free of its sixties obsessions of late - I can't remember the last time the Beach Boys got talked about as breathlessly as people did in the mid-2000s. Most sixties pop for that matter...

Does this really happen? I wouldn't have thought so until I read the Joni Mitchell thread spanning 14 years on ILM. The shift in opinion happening throughout the thread - posters can't stand her at the beginning, whereas she's unassailable by the end.

Beatles

I'm still not a fan of Joni Mitchell. Too much - or not enough? - yakky dakky.

so awesome just to say it

The Beatles

in this thread The Beatles saying The Beatles

If you were The Beatles, then you would be The Beatles saying The Beatles in this thread The Beatles.

I'm still not a fan of Joni Mitchell. Too much - or not enough? - yakky dakky.

"And a big yakky dakky
Took away my old man"

Fucking dying at the yaks, y'all, esp ''the yakker never wears a dak.'' As for the Beatles...hard to separate my personal feelings from any kinda generational thing or w/e. Everyone I know likes at least some aspect of what they do. There are no surprises left for me but I still love almost all their records. I'd have to poll people ten years younger than me to really get a sense of these things. The young turks at the hipster cuban sandwich place that I talked to a few weeks ago were really hyped about collecting Jethro Tull vinyl. We could be at a (relative) ebb in the promotional cult of Beatlesiania and it could be that fading boomer influence plays a role. I suspect dorm rooms are still rife with Abbey Road posters, probably not Pepper's though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUx78Ecyxvk

Pepper's importance seems to have waned, I will give you that. I don't know anyone, these days, who has a bad thing to say about Revolver.

There's not a lot of hipster capital to be had with The Beatles (as opposed to loudly proclaiming your Jethro Tull vinyl collection).

One and one is two, yakky dakky doo, darlin' I'm in love with you.

boomers and the beatles, you say??!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLSDAZLvtwA&feature=youtu.be

64-66 Beatles seems to endure best imo....from what I can tell