White Album for life
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 2 October 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link
Psychedelic whimsy just isn't a popular aesthetic right now. I admit I'd rather hear Rubber Soul than any later Beatles album right now.
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Thursday, 2 October 2014 18:16 (nine years ago) link
'63 to '66 beatles haven't aged a day imo. i can go back to that stuff over and over. the paperback writer/rain single still sounds like their pinnacle to me. love lots of the later stuff but the worst of it is pretty bad, and even a lot of the best of it is overplayed.
i've said this before but the most depressing transition on any cd i own is volume 2 of past masters, where you go from rain to lady madonna. you hear them going from being the coolest band in the world to paul mccartney plus three bored stoned guys messing around in the studio.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:00 (nine years ago) link
People tend to put down the early Beatles mostly in regard to lyrics (yakky dakky), but musically they were very sophisticated from the start. The harmonies on "If I Fell" are among the greatest things they've ever done.
― DavidLeeRoth, Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
also almost no one but oldsters knows what Merseybeat was aside from the Beatles
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:09 (nine years ago) link
really like the beatles good band
― zero content albums (darraghmac), Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
XP I hate this shitwww.youtube.com/watch?v=dw4gd6O3pbE
― DISMISSED AS CHANCE (NotEnough), Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:29 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw4gd6O3pbE
― Mark G, Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
Ah right.
Lennon and co didn't like it much either
― Mark G, Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link
tho I think their ratio of great-to-clunkers stayed fairly consistent over their whole career. For every Hard Days Night there's a Come Together, for every For Me To You there's a Ballad of John and Yoko.
― DISMISSED AS CHANCE (NotEnough), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
lol wut
― zero content albums (darraghmac), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
Xp Cannot parse that sentence, can you Venn diagram it for me?
― bippity bup at the hotel california (Phil D.), Thursday, 2 October 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link
For every Hard Days Night there's a Come Together
^i can't tell which one is supposed to be the bad one?
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 2 October 2014 22:09 (nine years ago) link
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/media/authors/walbert/venn/Edwards-Venn-six.png
― The "5" Astronomer Royales (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 2 October 2014 22:12 (nine years ago) link
Come Together has a bad rap these days
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 2 October 2014 22:27 (nine years ago) link
http://www.clickhole.com/video/incredible-man-can-name-all-beatles-1055
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 October 2014 22:28 (nine years ago) link
tbh considering how much the beatles recorded in so short a time period it's kind of remarkable how generally high-quality their material generally is. like, they had barely finished sgt pepper when they were back in the studio making magical mystery tour. even if you dislike (say) three songs from every album, that's still an incredibly good record.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 2 October 2014 22:35 (nine years ago) link
Otm
― The "5" Astronomer Royales (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 2 October 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
As a friend observed, early on John and Paul were often writing these songs under chaotic circumstances - parties, hotel rooms, studio hustle and bustle -and then band would get something like three days to make an album in between commitments. Even when the band took longer (I think Rubber Soul took a month, Revolver three months) there was so much other stuff going on.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 October 2014 22:59 (nine years ago) link
Even when the band took longer
― The "5" Astronomer Royales (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 2 October 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
Its esp impressive to think they pulled shit like writing & recording Rubber Soul, Revolver, Day Tripper/We Can Work it Out and the Paperback Writer/Rain singles in the span of 9 months (in between crazy tours, death threats and Jesus statements).
― Darin, Thursday, 2 October 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
I haven't even cleaned my closets in the last nine months.
― Darin, Thursday, 2 October 2014 23:15 (nine years ago) link
It's really no surprise that they looked absolutely fucking shattered on the sleeve to Beatles For Sale, thinking about it.
― Welcome To (Turrican), Thursday, 2 October 2014 23:32 (nine years ago) link
Come Together is an amazing song, hilarious self-portrait
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 2 October 2014 23:40 (nine years ago) link
Yup. Truly awesome bass and drum interplay intro too.
― The "5" Astronomer Royales (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 2 October 2014 23:45 (nine years ago) link
one thing about the beatles i think that keeps them out there is the records just *sound* so good...like the drum sounds, bass, guitar sounds, just really good sounding records
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 2 October 2014 23:53 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, apart from their able to generate songs, their records sound good, they knew how to play together and they knew how to arrange a pop record properly.
― The "5" Astronomer Royales (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 October 2014 00:00 (nine years ago) link
The only problem with The Beatles is that I have to clear off a layer of cold ejaculate off my leg every time I listen to them - they are that fucking good.
― xelab, Friday, 3 October 2014 00:07 (nine years ago) link
✓
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Friday, 3 October 2014 00:09 (nine years ago) link
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, October 2, 2014 6:35 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Especially amazing given that two of the strongest songs on MMT (the LP version) are the first two things they recorded for Pepper's! They were just unbelievably productive for a very sustained period of time, it's natural that there are clunkers in there but the overall quality is, as most folks have noted, super super high.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 3 October 2014 00:39 (nine years ago) link
one thing about the beatles i think that keeps them out there is the records just *sound* so good...like the drum sound....
slowly gathering a few mono vinyl re-ish's and the drums on "tomorrow never knows" are so so **cking glorious sounding it's incredible (even sans pristine mono alanog mastering, but)
― Tom Waits for no one (outdoor_miner), Friday, 3 October 2014 01:02 (nine years ago) link
That latest Lewisohn book, btw, is some sort of masterpiece. So many things had to go right in the Beatles story, and after all the jostling and coincidences and hard work, in the end they still had to write great songs.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 October 2014 01:20 (nine years ago) link
It is amazing how much better their records sound than even most of their peers'. And that isn't just down to them having more money/power/time to use in the studio - though that definitely helped by the mid-sixties, however hurried for time they were - since even the early stuff sounds pretty damn good, most of it anyway. I think George Martin, Geoff Emerick & co were just really good at what they did and maybe also kind of perfectionists, in Martin's case maybe not wanting to do pop records unless he could at least make them sound good. But I'm kinda speculating there.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 3 October 2014 02:55 (nine years ago) link
No, I think its well established fact, that.
― Mark G, Friday, 3 October 2014 06:38 (nine years ago) link
yakky, cross the dakky
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 3 October 2014 06:44 (nine years ago) link
'63 to '66 beatles haven't aged a day imo.
But '62 was shit, right? When was the first album, cuz I'm pretty sure that's what I was listening to (enduring) yesterday - and, Jesus, that stuff has aged decades. I've got to give them their due though, the vocals were stunningly good, much better than Adam Faith or even Frank Ifield.
― The Count has shot himself (Tom D.), Friday, 3 October 2014 09:54 (nine years ago) link
'63 was the first album.
― Mark G, Friday, 3 October 2014 09:56 (nine years ago) link
I am not a Beatles fan.
― The Count has shot himself (Tom D.), Friday, 3 October 2014 09:57 (nine years ago) link
First album arguably the most 'dated' in this sense but I don't think that's a problem when the material is as strong as "I Saw Her Standing There," "Misery," and "Twist and Shout." I'll allow that "Love Me Do" and a couple others fall to yakky-dakky Merseybeat status but I'm not beyond the reach of their charms and they're short, anyway.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 3 October 2014 13:19 (nine years ago) link
imho With The Beatles sounds more dated than Please Please Me
― Darin, Friday, 3 October 2014 15:21 (nine years ago) link
Don't want to open a can of worms here, but are those the American albums? So basically, compilations of the British ones + singles?
― The Count has shot himself (Tom D.), Friday, 3 October 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
No - "With" is British, "Meet" is American.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 3 October 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link
American releases have v different mixes, also, not just reshuffled tracklists
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Friday, 3 October 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
*opens can of worms*
No.
Please Please Me album was called "Introducing The Beatles"
With The Beatles album was called "Meet The Beatles"
xpost. * 4
― Mark G, Friday, 3 October 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
I hate the concept of 'dated' anyway
― The Count has shot himself (Tom D.), Friday, 3 October 2014 15:52 (nine years ago) link
Maybe I misread you then, re: "aged decades"?
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 3 October 2014 16:21 (nine years ago) link
Please Please Me and the White Album are probably the two Beatles albums I listen to the most.
― DavidLeeRoth, Friday, 3 October 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link
(xp) That was flippant response to the statement that it 'hadn't aged a day' when in fact it sounds like it was released in 1963
― The Count has shot himself (Tom D.), Friday, 3 October 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
― Doctor Casino, Friday, October 3, 2014 11:48 AM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"Meet" is murder iirc
― bippity bup at the hotel california (Phil D.), Friday, 3 October 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link