The Beatles

'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?

???

Yeah, wut?

Looks like the chords to 'Yesterday' ...

Those Complete Beatles books were how I learned to play guitar back in the 80s.

a punk/hardcore friend of mine that never listened to the beatles but would find beatles covers by other bands and fall in love with them shared this awesome cover of "She Said She Said" with me recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY6F11XXh-0

awesome, much better than that black keys bullshit. now if i can just find covers of "yellow submarine", "and your bird can sing", and "doctor robert" i'll have covers of everything on the revolver lp

the shop assistants also did a killer take on "ace of spades" on their second peel session in '86.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV5Bd8Eu0ko

!!!

I've Just Seen A Face is like their best pre-Rubber Soul deep cut

strongly disagree

Good cover version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIeypMABI8s