*band
― Fox Mulder, FYI (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 18:59 (six years ago) link
creepy/spooky/eery =/= frightened
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:00 (six years ago) link
Anyhow, I'm pretty comfortable in the knowledge that those lining up to "defend teh Beatlez honour, maaaaan" look far more ridiculous in their OTT losing-their-shit reactions than anything I've posted, so...
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:00 (six years ago) link
hmmm
no
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:02 (six years ago) link
oh yeah we're sure embarrassing ourselves in front of that imaginary audience
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:02 (six years ago) link
the juvenile namecalling shit is all you, Turrican
xp
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
http://twi-ny.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/king-of-comedy-1-e1466704758571.jpg
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
Dear Turrican,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNjTPZW7GCU
― Moodles, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link
Talking Heads- Classic or Dud?
Frederik is all over this thread fyi
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:05 (six years ago) link
Another car crash of a thread.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I know he is, but you're gonna have to search long and hard to find his posts on the thread for any other funk band.
Glad we're all finally admitting it, though.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:11 (six years ago) link
hi, so is the White Album any good
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:11 (six years ago) link
Too artsy to be funky, so that's a no.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:13 (six years ago) link
Indeed. None of this has anything to do with The Beatles or Tusk, I guess this means that the Beatle cult struggle to stay on topic when challenged.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:14 (six years ago) link
FYI the White Album is better than Tusk
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:19 (six years ago) link
https://i.makeagif.com/media/5-17-2015/lNO8dg.gif
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:19 (six years ago) link
https://68.media.tumblr.com/c375dbe8e9f678af0c3ff0ed54a64b8c/tumblr_oua4zzNyhJ1rvlgz8o3_500.gif
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:21 (six years ago) link
LOL that my revive kicked off a whole nother cycle of Turrican trolling
― flopson, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 00:14 (six years ago) link
also stop calling it The Beatles it's called The White Album ffs
― flopson, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 00:15 (six years ago) link
Turdican Strikes Again!
― bodacious ignoramus, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 00:54 (six years ago) link
what's the funniest part of the white album, i think it's when paul wails "OH NO IT'S HELTER SKELTER" in a high pitched voice
― brimstead, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 01:24 (six years ago) link
"they are -standing- stilllll"
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 01:38 (six years ago) link
Hehbub zeebubbhahbub zebub
Always gets a chuckle
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 01:57 (six years ago) link
"Back in the USSR" is the funniest thing on the White Album!
― timellison, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 02:48 (six years ago) link
ha yes, especially being the opening track!
― brimstead, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 02:49 (six years ago) link
with tusk maybe it's more about "what's the moment that makes you feel most vulnerable" or something, there are so many.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 02:51 (six years ago) link
^ probably Over & Over for me
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 05:13 (six years ago) link
which is such a bizarre song to open an album with, it's such a 'middle of side 3' kind of song. the sequencing of Tusk is really interesting too, I always thought the album sounded like a loop, in kinda opens in media res. TWA is much more of a journey with a solid beginning, middle, and end. listening to Tusk is like walking in on a party that never started and never ended
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 05:18 (six years ago) link
there are a good number songs on TWA that, had they been released as private press 45s from some unknown band in ohio or florida or something, i imagine they'd fetch three figures on the secondhand market, be anthologized on "pebbles" or similar, and be regarded as stone cold classics of the psychedelic genre.
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 06:44 (six years ago) link
otm, i could easily see some of the songs on TWA having the appeal of someone like Harvey Sid Fisher in another universe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLfe3dBb69k
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 06:47 (six years ago) link
whoops sorry this is the hit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy3LcfkYHV4
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 06:48 (six years ago) link
my personal favorite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecvNT5OGnMg
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 06:49 (six years ago) link
The funniest moment on The Beatles? Probably one of the moments where it's not trying to be funny ... the ending to 'Happiness is a Warm Gun' is a great example of this, the "when ah hold yooou in maaaah arms" part made me laugh out loud the first time I heard it.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 06:50 (six years ago) link
i don't think you have a soul
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 06:53 (six years ago) link
I suspect there's more than a few songs on The Beatles that would have been swept under the carpet and forgotten about by now if they hadn't appeared on a Beatles album. A lot of these tracks have been over-scrutinised for this exact reason.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 06:55 (six years ago) link
Donald Trump vs The White Album
― Mark G, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 07:42 (six years ago) link
... or understand the concept of 'funny'... or 'spooky'... or anything else really.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 09:11 (six years ago) link
Probably one of the moments where it's not trying to be funny ... the ending to 'Happiness is a Warm Gun' is a great example of this, the "when ah hold yooou in maaaah arms" part made me laugh out loud the first time I heard it.
Given the provenance of the song, the idea that the band (and John specifically) were not trying to be funny here is . . . "mind-boggling" doesn't even BEGIN to cover it. Deliberately obtuse, but in a Dunning-Kruger kind of way.
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 13:44 (six years ago) link
yeah that shit is funny and i’m pretty sure they knew it
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 13:47 (six years ago) link
they're definitely not trying to take themselves seriously on that song. or pretty much any song on that album save for, like, Julia or something
― Fox Mulder, FYI (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 14:43 (six years ago) link
The Beatles as a series of jokes. Hmm, yeah... I can get on board with that assessment.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
Take one of "Happiness, BOOM BOOM hrah ah ah ah"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/875000/images/_879875_basilbrush_300.jpg
― Mark G, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 15:02 (six years ago) link
Funniest is Yoko's line in Bungalow Bill. I always thought it was John doing a silly voice.
Also the version of Obladi on Anthology at the end of which John is mocking Paul with, "Obladi blada, brother."
― dinnerboat, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 15:07 (six years ago) link
Yeah it never occurred to me that that was Yoko. Bungalow Bill's Beach Boys analogue would be 'Little Pad'
― Fox Mulder, FYI (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 15:22 (six years ago) link
Ooh good connection
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 15:26 (six years ago) link
Arent Yoko (and Patti?) also on Birthday?
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 15:27 (six years ago) link
Yoko also appears on Revolution 9 'you become naked...'
Speaking of which, I wouldn't mind hearing Turrican's opinion of Smiley Smile, which is one of my favourite albums of all time and for similar reasons to White Album.
I guess the unifying things between all these, including Tusk and also Sandinista and countless others is that they're 'burn out' albums with cult followings. Band reach what is largely regarded as the peak of their work. They've worked hard, put all their creative powers into their album. They've sweated and worked and collaborated with each other and argued and drugged themselves and had love affairs and the world loves them. They set out to make a follow-up, but find it impossible to summon the patience to go through these motions. They're still brimming with ideas, their egos suitably lubricated, but the sheer effort involved with working like that and living with each other again is too much. So they work fast and get a bit scrappy - 'we know what we're doing this time, we're The Beatles, we don't need to sweat over this like we used to cos we're pros'.They take shortcuts, pump out the songs, preferably with as few of the other members around as possible. And so you end up with these big, dopey, mishmash albums that are weirdly appealing but tonally all over the place. They don't quite compare to their predecessors because they're in a different league. Critically, they come across as flawed but in an endearing way.
― Fox Mulder, FYI (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 16:01 (six years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, November 7, 2017 2:19 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
probably but I only listen to Tusk anymore
― phenibut rock (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 16:07 (six years ago) link
The Smiley Smile version of 'Wind Chimes' is a zillion times creepier than anything on The Beatles. I've said this before on a Beach Boys thread, but the thing about Smiley Smile is that it's a far less commercial/inviting record than Smile would have been, and more uncompromising too.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 16:11 (six years ago) link
You mean "Wonderful" yeah?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 16:13 (six years ago) link