The Beatles

Seriously folks try ignoring the negging around this cult but underrated band there is some dece stuff in their catalogue

my 8 year old saw Help! over at a friend's house last weekend and now she loves the Beatles! "They are so funny."

i had an epiphany when i first watched Help! on pot: "these beatles are all stoned!!"

you had watch Help! to figure that out?

i just didn't realize they were stoned on camera until then, i hadn't known what stoned people are like

The Beatles

beat the meatles

Abbey Road is a great record, and quite possibly one of my favourite albums of all time. I remember the first time I heard it. When I was first checking out The Beatles, I didn't go directly to the later stuff like many seem to.

With the Beatles was first, followed by A Hard Days Night, Help! and Rubber Soul. Revolver was next, followed by Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour, then The Beatles, then Abbey Road... and even after hearing all of those albums before it, the album still blew me away. The medley, the two great Harrison songs, the harmonies on 'Because', the great production, Ringo's best song etc.

I heard Let it Be after that, and then went back and heard Please Please Me, Beatles for Sale etc. but Abbey Road remained the "one" ...

You may enjoy So, should I let Amber and Alice see the Beatles' "Help" film? or you may not, putting it here anyway.

'The Night Before' rules.

someone on my facebok posted random lyric snippet from hey jude a second ago and i was like did paul mccartney fuckin die finally lol

i love these mop tops why because they look interesting

'The Night Before' rules.

True fact, too seldom asserted

my kid's favorite seems to be "You're Going to Lose That Girl" which was a little surprising to me at first, but then i was like yeah you're right, this rules.

I go through the process with myself in the place of the kid at times

The title track, 'The Night Before', 'You're Going to Lose that Girl', 'Another Girl', 'You've Got to Hide Your Love Away', 'Ticket to Ride' and 'Yesterday' = all top drawer Beatles, IMO. It's a shame about the other half of Help! ...

"I NEED YOU" imo

Never liked it, myself. I thought Harrison began well with 'Don't Bother Me', but didn't really get good until Rubber Soul.

I'VE JUST SEEN A FACE

my kid's favorite seems to be "You're Going to Lose That Girl" which was a little surprising to me at first, but then i was like yeah you're right, this rules.

the back-to-back "you're going to lose that girl" and "ticket to ride" at the end of side 1 are quite possibly my favorite 5 or 6 minutes in the beatles catalog.

and i've always loved the insistence on proper grammar in the title.

The Night Before' rules.

True fact, too seldom asserted

It's the Beatles song that could use the most asserting

do these guys have a new album coming out or something?

Good tunes imo

One off gig playing the "Yellow Submarine" album.

Re "Another Girl" -- the crazy chord progression on "Through thick and thin she will always be my friend" just kills me

The backing vocals on "The Night Before" are one of my favorite Beatles moments. Simultaneously simple and complex, bright and dark, in a way that few other bands could pull off at the time.

Their ability to do straw-boater almost barbershop harmonies in that vein is a definite thing

w/r/t the beatles, i've had this sort of ongoing project to find cover versions i like, and like at least as well as the beatles' version, of all the beatles' originals. it's pretty difficult even for how popular it is to play their songs. everybody wants to do "she's leaving home", nobody wants to do "lovely rita". and of all the thousands of versions of "yesterday" out there, i've never heard one as good as the beatles' version - that song is on a knife-edge.
i've got a decent chunk together, though. for "the night before", i like the version by the retreads.

YMO's "daytripper" is cool

My dad bought the Complete Beatles book with piano versions of every song, they got stuck in the mail, he got another one, so now I have a copy as well :)

YMO's "daytripper" is cool

― Men's Scarehouse - "You're gonna like the way you're shook." (m bison)

it is. so is bad brains'.

As far as I can see (and someone please correct me on this) the crazy thing in Another Girl is it goes from A minor to C Major and then to A Major for a couple measures, then back to A minor. Which is pretty great for a song about a breakup, but where you've already found someone else :)

Yeah, that's completely wrong.

I remember having a copy of that Beatles complete songbook and a lot of the chords were wrong, various songs were in the wrong key, wrong lyrics etc.

It's probably in the wrong key, yeah, but that doesn't really matter though?

The backing vocals on "The Night Before" are one of my favorite Beatles moments. Simultaneously simple and complex, bright and dark, in a way that few other bands could pull off at the time.

― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Friday, December 1, 2017 4:50 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, I love the backing vocals on it and there's some neat chord changes in there too, and such a powerful melody line. I'm surprised it's not more celebrated outside of Beatles fandom.

'Another Girl' is in A major, "through thick and thin she will always be my friend" should be C major, E7 and A major.

Definitely modulates to C major there

Another girl (C) who will love (G) me to the end (C)
(G) Through thick and thin (C) she will always (E) be my friend (A)

V/vi as pivot chord back

It's in A minor though? Melodic minor, to be precise.

I mean, most of the song, it's full of C's instead of C#. Friend is exactly on C#, solidifying it as major.

I'm really bad at describing this...

A major with a blues inflection.

That's a good call, though! Definitely C naturals in the melody.

Here's our guy Pollack:

http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/ag.shtml

Tim OTM, it's in A major with a blues inflection, but it modulates to C major and back to A major.

'Things We Said Today' is a great example of a song where the verses are in a minor key but it switches to a major key for a tiny bridge and then back to minor again.

I'm fascinated by the fact that augmented/diminished chords feature a fair bit in the Beatles' pre-Rubber Soul tracks, but from '66 onwards they appear far less.

Right? I just figured out how to play "Ask Me Why" recently.

It'll be in F. For you.
I'm in G, but it'll be in F.
And it goes, E minor, to A7, to D minor.
Ready?