you're content because john wrote it??
― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 23:41 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm content because I'd never imagined that particular line as the parent trying to rationalize their daughter's departure - "oh well, fun is the one thing we couldn't buy for her."
― Davey D, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link
parent -> parents
indeed - problem solved!
― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Man, I was on fire on this thread.
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 23:48 (seventeen years ago) link
also, how can you say "so evocative for paul" when he was writing stuff like...
Ah, I think you misread Davey D. He meant that the line was evocative for paul! Since he knows that it was, obv "Davey D." is Paul.
...when he was writing stuff like for no one...
oh come on, even though Davey could only describe his own feelings about the lyrics, I'm sure he was aware that there was an audience out there as well.
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 21 June 2007 00:08 (seventeen years ago) link
1st comment is funny but you lost me on the 2nd one!
― Tim Ellison, Thursday, 21 June 2007 00:20 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't know if this has been said, but the version of "I'm Looking Through You" is much, much better on Anthology 2, not just for the superior arrangment and sonics, but because it doesn't yet have the bridge, which is weak musically, and which corners the song into being about love, when it can be about many other kinds of relationships otherwise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eedLQ006ciM
Bridge: Why, tell me why, did you not treat me right? Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight
― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 21 June 2007 00:30 (seventeen years ago) link
I prefer the Anthology versions of 'Something' and 'Can't Buy Me Love'. 'Something' has more of a sitar-y guitar and a new verse, and 'Can't Buy Me Love' has a call and response structure that works really well, too bad it was scrapped.
― musically, Thursday, 21 June 2007 00:53 (seventeen years ago) link
IIRC john wrote all of the parents' chorus and took it largely from things his famously cranky aunt mimi used to tell him ("never a thought for ourselves...")
― J.D., Thursday, 21 June 2007 00:58 (seventeen years ago) link
There is nothing new to say about The Beatles. But their music is still great nevertheless. Both as a listen in itself, and as a source of musical influence for new generations of musicians to come.
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 21 June 2007 02:13 (seventeen years ago) link
You are a true patriot.
― Hurting 2, Thursday, 21 June 2007 02:17 (seventeen years ago) link
musical influence for new generations of musicians to come.
That could very well be needless wishful thinking, Geir. I say let young people create their own music.
― Tim Ellison, Thursday, 21 June 2007 02:26 (seventeen years ago) link
They will anyway.
― Tim Ellison, Thursday, 21 June 2007 02:27 (seventeen years ago) link
Have you heard my amazing new album, Memory Almost Full? It like, a stunning return to form, or something, y'know?
― Davey D, Thursday, 21 June 2007 03:56 (seventeen years ago) link
I agree about the bridge cornering the song lyrically, but I prefer the original arrangement. Anthology 3's version of "Ob-La-Di" completely slays the White Album version, though.
― Davey D, Thursday, 21 June 2007 03:59 (seventeen years ago) link
It's been a long time since I've heard it, but I seem to remember the acoustic version of "All Things Must Pass" on "Anthology 3" being pretty amazing.
― novaheat, Thursday, 21 June 2007 06:10 (seventeen years ago) link
Insert commas in your mind before and after "like".
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 21 June 2007 06:30 (seventeen years ago) link
In my early teens the family had a CD player that had buttons for intro and repeat. You could program a single song and use both buttons so that it'd play the first ten seconds endlessly. I discovered this worked rather well with "Girl," such that you get asked "Is there anybody going to listen to my story all about the girl who came to stay?" over and over. What was once a rhetorical question starts to seem rather desperate after a while.
― eatandoph, Thursday, 21 June 2007 07:30 (seventeen years ago) link
You know, I read recently that Paul wrote "for no-one" while on holiday abroad (switzerland?) with Jane Asher.
Must have been one hell of a downer holiday!
― Mark G, Thursday, 21 June 2007 08:30 (seventeen years ago) link
I say let young people create their own music.
Yes. But based on the legacy of The Beatles. Just like Beethoven created his own music based on the legacy of Mozart and Haydn.
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 21 June 2007 08:47 (seventeen years ago) link
The bridge is the best thing about "I'm Looking Through You"
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 21 June 2007 08:49 (seventeen years ago) link
The 'pre-' version without the bridge is better.
― Mark G, Thursday, 21 June 2007 08:57 (seventeen years ago) link
but geir there have already been generations that have done something with the legacy of the beatles. i don't know how long you expect it to go on.
― Tim Ellison, Thursday, 21 June 2007 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link
It reads like a Minor Threat song without the bridge.
― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link
Stephen King shot John Lennon.
― Mark Rich@rdson, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link
but geir there have already been generations that have done something with the legacy of the beatles.
Not as much as it ought to. Other than progrock, pomp pop and Britpop, not a lot of post 60s music has built that much on The Beatles.
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link
(And powerpop obv)
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Nirvana
― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link
Geir, contemplating the musical future you envision is boring me to near suicide.
― Hurting 2, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link
I hope you have fun listening to Ben Folds and the Friends theme song for the rest of your life.
― Hurting 2, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link
pomp pop?
(tell me less)
― Mark G, Friday, 22 June 2007 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link
Pomp Pop Defined.
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 22 June 2007 11:08 (seventeen years ago) link
ta.
― Mark G, Friday, 22 June 2007 11:20 (seventeen years ago) link
There's no frickin' way John is saying "cranberry sauce" at the end of "Strawberry Fields."
At about age 10, after finally recieving the courage to listen to it all the way through with headphones (cos the end is really fucked up sounding and scared the shit out me at age 7 and kept me up at night and I literally had bad dreams about those sounds haunting me), I thought he was saying "clap very slow."
― billstevejim, Friday, 22 June 2007 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link
Alex in NYC
I confess to nearly laughing out loud at my Magical Mystery Tour comment above. (And I usually hate encountering my old posts
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 22 June 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Did anyone else know about this?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AHrMQa-Iro
― timellison, Monday, 6 August 2012 04:07 (twelve years ago) link
When the Rush vs. Yes vs. Beatles poll happens, I expect the Beatles will win.
― clemenza, Monday, 6 August 2012 04:10 (twelve years ago) link
xp - now I want a Mellotron even more than i used to.....
― Lee626, Monday, 6 August 2012 07:25 (twelve years ago) link
In my early teens the family had a CD player that had buttons for intro and repeat. You could program a single song and use both buttons so that it'd play the first ten seconds endlessly. I discovered this worked rather well with "Girl," such that you get asked "Is there anybody going to listen to my story all about the girl who came to stay?" over and over. What was once a rhetorical question starts to seem rather desperate after a while.― eatandoph, Thursday, 21 June 2007 07:30 (5 years ago) Permalink
― eatandoph, Thursday, 21 June 2007 07:30 (5 years ago) Permalink
ROFLing at this.
― Quickly, take hold of my hand, asshole! (dog latin), Monday, 6 August 2012 09:20 (twelve years ago) link
There was no fifth Beatle, the substitutes all wore the number 8 shirt
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 6 August 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
wow no! wacky
― giallo pudding pops (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 August 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
Beatles guitarist George Harrison was the starting linebacker for the 1968 New York Giants. He recorded 40 tackles and 4 1/2 sacks.
― Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 6 August 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
The Beatles formed in Tower, Minnesota in 1958. They started out playing polkas at local dance halls, but quickly added popular country & western songs of the day to their repertoire.
― Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 6 August 2012 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, the intro to the Kinks Phenomenal Cat is a mellotron preset too. And all of the flute and guitar in that song are also mellotron.
― wk, Monday, 6 August 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
The Beatles' Paul McCartney is a lifelong devotee of knitting. He recently opened an online website, Paulspets.com, which specializes in selling handmade knitwear for pets.
― Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 6 August 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
this looks like it's going to do the opposite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqDgm2XJ9SA
― piscesx, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 01:42 (eight years ago) link
http://beatlephotoblog.com/photos/2013/07/ghjsrs.jpg
Little did he know the bloke on his right would be making movies about his career
― glumdalclitch, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 03:46 (eight years ago) link
i think it'll be an interesting doc, there hasn't been anything that explicitly focused on one topic like that and while there is a lot of live footage around, it's of varying quality. but i'm a sucker for all this shit.
― akm, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 05:00 (eight years ago) link
Why hasn't The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl ever been reissued on CD? Surely by now they have the technology to reduce the crowd noise further than was possible in 1977, and if not - shouldn't there be enough other live recordings out there of sufficient quality that they could cobble a real live (as in, before a paying audience) album together?
Anyway, cross your fingers that there's a soundtrack to the above-previewed doc. Even if there isn't, we already know that they're charismatic enough personalities to carry a feature-length, even one by Mr. Beautiful Mind himself.
― Futuristic Bow Wow (thewufs), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 06:09 (eight years ago) link