Is the Beatles 1962-66 (the 'red' alb) the only record of theirs that you need?

It’s really,really growing on me.

Maudlin, safe, pedestrian, clumsy, inflated, rhythmically-dull as dishwater, tedious, frozen-in-nostalgia, a real bummer, and absolute non-music as well. And no doubt the best they can do at this point (I don't care about Macca's recent solo work). And all of this is beside the point, as stated above. It's a genuine return to 1995 when we all had to pretend to like Free as a Bird for a week, when we could all hear it was a lump of over-produced caked snot with zero joy or adventure or meaning beyond its ominous commercial significance. Credit to them for resurrecting the heady past of 27 years ago, and I hope it does wonders for their grandchildren's' bank balances, or something.

mccartney should take on the rest of the lennon solo catalogue next - I think he really could turn it into better pop music. he could finally add a really scathing verse to how do you sleep (how do you sleep with brian to get your name first on the credits? something along those lines)

By the way, "Knicker Elastic King" is miles better than any of these reunion Beatles tracks.

That's a high bar!

XP In the late 90s a music magazine (forget which) had a feature where famous musicians sent in questions for an interview with Paul, and the question from Marilyn Manson Was "How do you sleep?" - in reply I think Paul just had a story about how in 1971 he was getting great sleep for the first time in his life.

Question would he been better put to Manson.

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

the '64 Ed Sullivan "Now and Then" cover is awesome

and more enjoyable than the official release, i should add

nooooooo

Have any of the new red album tracks leaked yet? Anyone 'in the know' on this thread who's heard any of it?

So after all this, I finally heard it. At first, I didn't even recognize it as a Beatles song.

lol it is so bad - george harrison otm in 1995

people attribute way too much wisdom to the grumpy beatle

I showed my 17 year old the new video (cringe all around) and a bunch of other Beatle stuff last night and after a while she said “I think probably the quiet one is underrated.”

george was a grump who hated literally everything always & only becamd moreso after the split so this whole “george was otm” amounts to a stopped clock being right twice a day

Did George become the hip choice to be one's 'fave Beatle' overnight after the Scorsese soc? That how it appeared to me

george is the most 90s beatle in many ways

I have zero skin in the fave fabs game - but i think in this specific instance george was indeed OTM that this uninspiring scrap wasn’t worth tarting up into an uninspiring song

George was by all accounts a 100% different dude when not around Paul and John. Billy Preston, Dylan, Tom Petty, etc. all think the guy was a joy to be around.

ask Bernie Krause

xpost like when grouchy teen visits w other families who find them to be a delight lol

lol

Taylor later called Harrison "the very best and my most favorite person" of all the artists with which he had worked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Taylor#

Wait what about Bernie Krause?

Mentioned earlier today.

O RLY? I can’t find it.

ask Bernie Krause

― brimstead, Monday, November 6, 2023 3:37 PM (two hours ago)

Wait what about Bernie Krause?

You're coming on like you're Jimi Hendrix," he responded, his voice rising in pitch and volume. "When Ravi Shankar comes to my house, he's humble.”

I wish George was still around so I could put a lot of his silly music opinions on a shirt and give it to him

Did George become the hip choice to be one's 'fave Beatle' overnight after the Scorsese soc? That how it appeared to me

idk the opposite for me -- the St. George of the Scorsese doc was more unapproachable than the passive aggressive sulker in GB.

Seems to me that the George reclamation project began when he died...the expansion of the Cult of "The Quiet One".

He also had the benefit of a new solo peak between 1987-1990 and shutting up thereafter.

Seems to me that he has always been fairly popular with Beatle fans.

he has long been the 'alternate' choice, it's too bad the bulk of his solo catalog is poor. If he'd lived longer I think he may have continued to do great albums though (his final two + the Wilburys stuff being a real increase in quality). Or he may have just retired completely.

He was always the easy pick for "favorite Beatle" imo. John's too obvious, Paul's too cute, Ringo's the pick if you want to be extra quirky, but George had classic good looks and was quietly funny in the movies and wrote "Here Comes the Sun," and you got to feel like you were very slightly rooting for the underdog by picking him.

I finally saw the video and heard the song yesterday, was happily surprised that it's good.

Later on, listening to Radio 1 and there was an ident plus "the most happening sound right now" and "Now and then" played, and it did not sound out of place. It's a well produced single, whereas "Free as" and "Real Love" were not, even beyond the bad quality vocal.

Basically, the song had hampered the treatment, whereas this time it all works together. And that's all you can hope for, really.

George was always hip but lost a lot of his shine in the 70s due to a succession of mediocre albums and a surfeit of dour misery guts religious proselytising.

Nah actually I just put “Real Love” on (Anthology 2 version) and damn if it’s not core Beatles canon for me now. I teared up a little.

Or he may have just retired completely.

From music, yes - I can easily picture it. I always have the feeling with late period George that he saw his restoration of Friar Park and its gardens as possibly his most important achievement in the unsatisfactory ‘material world’, where all things are innately temporary and subject to change and suffering.

Is anybody else bothered that the Anthology is now older than the history it documented?

Anthology has been written out of history a bit hasn’t it? I mean it was a stodgy meandering old thing anyway.

Good to see that The Compleat Beatles is still knocking around;

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLALI9Wu6Vd6EkjUPV0MM1viAjOrPSifL6&si=immtTVVVmbHtPd1M

An expanded and remastered Anthology is probably the next big Apple project.

The TV series that is – not sure about the records.

In some interviews recently, someone from Apple hinted they were taking a look at Anthology again. It seems inevitable that this will get an update, but I imagine the video restoration would be expensive (but maybe cheaper every year as tech advances). The Anthology albums could have been irrelevant due to the SDEs but they've avoided complete overlap which is kind of annoying in some respects. My gut tells me that within 4 years we'll get reissues of these with Now and Then on the third volume as originally planned and remixed FAAB and Real Love.

oh goodie

Good to see that The Compleat Beatles is still knocking around;

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLALI9Wu6Vd6EkjUPV0MM1viAjOrPSifL6&si=immtTVVVmbHtPd1M🕸

Hmm, some of them work at least.