I Love I Hate The Beatles

As for the Beatles, these days I listen to Abbey Road most.

It's just a counterexample, not a counterargument, but no other huge rock/pop band of the late 60s would have put something like "Revolution 9" on one of their albums. In retrospect, it seems weaker now because there has been so much unearthed old found-sound collage, and so much new found-sound collage since, that "Revolution 9" sounds like it's hovering in a more benign stasis, relatively speaking. But in 1968, mainstream wasn't exactly sure how to react to that song, collectively. So you have to give them that.

Probably the best thing Paul ever did was "Helter Skelter". He wrote it supposedly because he heard that the Who had written "the loudest song ever" and he had to do something to challenge them and release it first, or something like that. Again, most of the song doesn't sound heavy compared to, oh, SUNN0)))))))) or Fu Manchu today or whatever, but it was pretty out there for its time. I'd say the epilogue to that song still sends chill down my spine as George and/or John is thrashin' away, and Ringo cries out at the end of the song, followed by more guitar noise/feedback.

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Way more people would like The Beatles if all of the vocals were changed to theremins. Does anyone want to start that tribute band with me?

And nabiscotm.

Well, John's "Plastic Ono Band" would have been the worst Beatles album ever.

Was that from Dave Marsh's The Book of Rock Lists? Anyway, Alfred, five stars in the first RS Record Guide ('79 red cover edition).

my favorite solo beatles album, though, might be mccartney's first (and i'm pretty indifferent to pretty much all his post-'70 stuff, a few fun singles aside): as tossed off as it is, there's a real sense of something sad and lost in all those broken, throwaway tunes - it really does sound like an album made by a guy sitting alone in his house trying to cheer himself up. you can tell how bereft he felt without the other three. and the way the whole record builds up to "maybe i'm amazed" is incredible.

i've always found ram totally unlistenable because of PM's habit of going "do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do" on every single fucking song.