The Beatles

[LitNetIsGreat]

There doesn't seem to be a Beatles thread, which is wrong because they are probably the best popular music group of all time. Anyway, so post the Beatles song you are currently listening to or tell us what you like or whatever Beatles related.


And I Love Her:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96YQdiMV-Jc&feature=related

[Idril]

Dear Prudence, one of my all time favorite Beatles songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-2lMstw6qs

[LitNetIsGreat]

Don't Let Me Down (rooftop)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR-SlkUgCRg&feature=bf_next&list=AVGxdCwVVULXfH-k_IVzQbQcibTdWOSgKg&lf=list_related

[Delta40]

I am the Walrus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnpil_pRUiw

[LitNetIsGreat]

Eleanor Rigby:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaRNrDaoMqw

Now, I must go to bed...

[Delta40]

Let it Be

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdopMqrftXs&feature=related

[Charles Darnay]

Anything off of Revolver or Abby Road (my two favourites)....but currently listening to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oSuzEqHOcE

[BookBeauty]

My absolute favourite band of all time, and likely will always be. :) I know all of their songs, and the only one that's a bit grating is Revolution # 9. A bit too avante garde, for me. :)

I like their vaudeville play-song, ''Honey Pie''. I also love ''Mother Nature's Son'', ''Dear Prudence'', ''Sexy Sadie''.. Well, those are all from the White Album, so.. That is definitely my top favourite album, along with Let It Be, Revolver and Abbey Road.

I'd definitely have to draw attention to, ''Long, Long, Long'' by George Harrison though. That song should get a lot more credit than it does. It's so fragile, and beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jWSFdIAEUU

[Triter]

I Will

[Delta40]

While my Guitar Gently Weeps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3RYvO2X0Oo

[Charles Darnay]

"Goodnight everybody, everybody everywhere"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIKugx1sToY

[Darcy88]

While my Guitar Gently Weeps, Here Comes the Sun, and their old poppy number She Loves You. Picking favourite Beatles songs is like picking favourite flavours of ice cream - they're pretty much all amazing. Yes, The Beatles were a great band. Almost as great as The Rolling Stones.

[Calidore]

I Will

I'm not familiar with that one. Probably doesn't sound much like Rammstein's "Ich Will."

The Beatles and the Beach Boys are one of my favorite what-ifs in music: What if Lennon & McCartney had held it together and Brian Wilson hadn't flamed out? With the amazing latter-day stuff their friendly rivalry was pulling out of them, what kind of music would we have heard from them ten, fifteen, twenty years down the road?

[JuniperWoolf]

A Day in the Life.

[Mr. Bergstrom]

Something

[tonywalt]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN9n1bAahg4

Across the Universe written by Lennon.

[Charles Darnay]

All My loving , the cover from the movie "across the Universe"

[tonywalt]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S09F5MejfBE&feature=related

Yesterday

[Helga]

Rubber Soul and Revolver are my favorite albums, Norwegian Wood is one of their best songs I think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY5i4-rWh44

what about your favorite Beatle, everybody I know has a favorite member!?

Ringo has always been my favorite.

[Charles Darnay]

Rubber Soul and Revolver are my favorite albums, Norwegian Wood is one of their best songs I think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY5i4-rWh44

what about your favorite Beatle, everybody I know has a favorite member!?

Ringo has always been my favorite.

Norwegian Wood is one of their best songs, I agree. Unfortunately, apart from that and Michelle, I find Rubber Soul a bit disappointing (what goes on is an alright song).

As far as favourite Beatle, my love has to go to George. I love all his songs, and out of all the Beatles' post-Beatles careers, he has the best songs.

[tonywalt]

Nowhere Man. The song is one of the turning points to a late 60's sound, from their early 60's sound. Rubber Soul album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfWEPu0w-7w

[tonywalt]

Golden Slumbers/Carry that weight

Brilliant song, not as well know as it should be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qP4Ye15J0Y&feature=related

[Charles Darnay]

Golden Slumbers/Carry that weight

Brilliant song, not as well know as it should be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qP4Ye15J0Y&feature=related

The entire B side of Abby Road can be enjoyed as one long amazing song. The way it flows together is something not heard before in the Beatles.

[Charles Darnay]

I Me Mine - Let It Be

[ShadowsCool]

The Beatles are so a part of who I am. Their music is soaked in my mind. Right now:
Let it Be. Paul is my favorite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfK3u485lGs

[ShadowsCool]

I'm not familiar with that one. Probably doesn't sound much like Rammstein's "Ich Will."

The Beatles and the Beach Boys are one of my favorite what-ifs in music: What if Lennon & McCartney had held it together and Brian Wilson hadn't flamed out? With the amazing latter-day stuff their friendly rivalry was pulling out of them, what kind of music would we have heard from them ten, fifteen, twenty years down the road?

I think the Beatles did all they could in the time they did it. They were no longer a functioning band the last year or so. So I don't think they had anything left in them. They broke up at the right time. As for the music they gave us, time has been a good judge and they passed the audition.

[KCurtis]

Golden Slumbers/Carry that weight

Brilliant song, not as well know as it should be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qP4Ye15J0Y&feature=related

Yes! I agree!

[KCurtis]

A Day in the Life.

very good one, I'm glad you know it. Actually I am really happy to see that many young people appreciate the Beatles and their individual members. I don't hear a lot of that appreciation.

[Idril]

Rocky Raccoon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nucSvl7VXVM

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Something

This.

[Drkshadow03]

Rocky Raccoon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nucSvl7VXVM

I really like Rocky Raccoon too.

[Sancho]

I'm wit'cha, Idril:

Now the doctor came in, stinking of gin, and proceeded to lie on the table
He said, “Rocky you’ve met your match.”
And Rocky said, “Doc, it’s only a scratch, but I’ll be better, I’ll be better, Doc, as soon as I am able.”

I like this one too:

Happiness is a Warm Gun

Bang-Bang Shoot-Shoot

But deep down, I prefer The Stones - just some good ole, bluesy, roadhouse, ROCK-N-ROLL!

[intoxicatedsoul]

all you need is love...
pamparumpumpum♫♪

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4p8qxGbpOk

[Charles Darnay]

All Together Now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P01-X9DW4qc

[cafolini]

Let it be has to be the best for me. Yellow submarine for the times.

[stlukesguild]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia1UjNBK_3Y


:biggrinjester::cornut:

[LitNetIsGreat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia1UjNBK_3Y


:biggrinjester::cornut:

Cheeky. Yes I like The Rolling Stones equally.

[metal134]

When I was a kid, I hated the Beatles. But I blame my parents for that. Because when I was I kid, the only exposure I had to the Beatles was through them and it was only the early, 1963-66 Beatles where it was sugar-coated pop and every other song had love in the title; Can't Buy Me Love, Love Me Do, She Loves You, All My Loving, P.S. I Love You, etc, etc. etc. I hated those Beatles, and I still do. It wasn't until later in my life, late teens or so, that I got exposed to the Revolver/Sgt. Pepper's/Abby Road Beatles. And those Beatles are INFINITELY superior to the early Beatles in my opinion, and I suspect in theirs as well. I know it to be so in John Lennon's case, as I have seen numerous interviews with him from the late 60's-early 70's where he dismissed the early Beatles work as something he was beyond. I have never heard Paul McCartney express that sentiment, but I suspect he feels the same way. Because now, in 2012, 45 years later, he still performs stuff like Get Back, Eleanor Rigby, Hey Jude, etc, etc, but when was the last time you saw him perform Ticket to Ride or I Wanna Hold Your Hand?

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Yeah, I can't get into the early Beatles stuff, either, though I don't think I dislike it. Rubber Soul really seems like the turning point, and therere still some gems in the early stuff.

[Charles Darnay]

Beatles For Sale (1965) is great. I do agree however that the later stuff is superior

[metal134]

Rubber Soul really seems like the turning point, and therere still some gems in the early stuff.
It's as though you pulled that quote directly from my brain.

[qimissung]

The entire B side of Abby Road can be enjoyed as one long amazing song. The way it flows together is something not heard before in the Beatles.

That's my favorite, too!

[Varenne Rodin]

I love Something, and I Will. I just sculpted a yellow submarine for a friend of mine. She has commissioned several more sculptures of characters from the movie as well. Fun fun.

[Adolescent09]

Let it Be is one of my favorites.

[Helga]

Sgt pepper will always be one of their best albums, even though I think they got better with age and Rubber soul is my all time favorite, pepper is just great!

[MarkBastable]

She's so......


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW6G3nh5S3I

[metal134]

Lucky me, I was out today at a new record store that opened near me (by record store, I mean actual vinyl records) and snagged a copy of Sgt. Peppers' in pretty good condition for just $13.

[MarkBastable]

Whadda you say? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7P_zqw5Bro)


And listen to the bass. Jesus, the bass.

[Darcy88]

The White Album is sick. Seriously. Lennon said the Beatles were bigger than Jesus. I think Jesus was the invisible 5th Beatle. Not really, but wow, that album is unbelievable, every song. Birthday sounds like The Ramones. If I had been around back in the sixties I would have screamed louder and more stridently than any adolescent female at the sight or sound of them.

[Jack of Hearts]

Yeah, that's a thought this reader often has... how were people listening to this in the 60's? It seems like their head would explode (Similar to the effect that Buddy Holly and Little Richard had in the 50's).





J

[prendrelemick]

Abbey Road is almost perfect.

As to the early stuff, Twist and Shout. I love the no brainer energy, no clever lyrics, just 4 young lads belting a song out.

[jajdude]

No doubt about their greatness and largeness but really can't listen to em much ever, just heard so much of em as a kid from older bros albums. I guess the doors and a few others like some rolling stones or Dylan or Van Morrison would also fall in the same category for me.

[RicMisc]

My favourite Beatles song is Blackbird. I also love I Want to Hold Your Hand but I like one of the many covers of this song better. It's by Chris Colfer (don't shoot me ;)).

[MarkBastable]

No doubt about their greatness and largeness but really can't listen to em much ever, just heard so much of em as a kid from older bros albums. I guess the doors and a few others like some rolling stones or Dylan or Van Morrison would also fall in the same category for me.

When I get to be Emperor, which, as I think we all agree, can't be far off now, there will be daily public floggings of people who suggest that The Doors belong in the same conceptual universe, let alone the same category, as The Beatles.

It's going to be a harsh regime, but an entirely reasonable one.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Idril's prudence has forced me to select another of my favored Beatles songs:

"Mother Nature's Son"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39eJpAUMa78&feature=related

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[jajdude]

When I get to be Emperor, which, as I think we all agree, can't be far off now, there will be daily public floggings of people who suggest that The Doors belong in the same conceptual universe, let alone the same category, as The Beatles.

It's going to be a harsh regime, but an entirely reasonable one.

I agree though I liked them in younger years. Just pointed out some stuff I heard so much of way back when that I'm not sure I need to ever hear it again, maybe sometimes is OK.

[Charles Darnay]

Die Beatles, anyone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrZQk03uKsQ

[metal134]

I don't even like that song in English. Mop-top Beatles bad! Psychadelic Beatles good!

[LitNetIsGreat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lKwXwU5iWs
Lennon - Working Class Hero.

[LitNetIsGreat]

I think this is one of my favourite Beatles - Girl:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVr_6kE1vio

[MarkBastable]

One of my favourites....

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ztr8j_-gD4)

[LitNetIsGreat]

Help:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU7JjJJZi1Q

[Snowqueen]

With A Little Help From My Friends

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBDF04fQKtQ

[prendrelemick]

I'm just old enough to remember those early songs when they came out. Everyone in the playground was air guitaring and singing She loves you yeah yeah yeah. Our parents would turn up the wireless when it was on. People who didn't "get" pop music got that one.

I agree the later stuff is better, but those first raw shouty songs and the strong personalities of John Paul and Ringo had an impact I haven't seen since.

[LitNetIsGreat]

The complete albums which have started popping up on youtube are pretty good. For example the No. 1 album like this make for great background when you are typing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_bci2g7P2s&feature=related

I'm a bit gutted though because somewhere I have all The Beatles albums on one CD - just I can't bloody find it!!!:willy_nilly:

[LitNetIsGreat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqHp3tOj870&feature=related
Please Mr Postman.

[nancybella]

'you and i have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead' - I can't say I like that line; it's like driving in reverse with the cliff edge not far behind you and enjoying the field you've left behind at far too great a price for the present.

It's an idyll, that line; and idylls are nice, so if that idyll isn't working, it's because the line, as it's written, hasn't captured it.

Well, whatever about that...but the image that the line brings to mind is not the road left behind, but that there's not much tarmac left ahead.

The part of the line where it says a lot of road left behind, that's lovely. But it's a car crash of an image and doesn't finish with finesse, because of what it says about the road ahead. That either shouldn't be mentioned or should be left vague. But a definite image that's it's very short, in comparison to what's gone before, is brought into the mind.

And instead of being left reflecting on the golden memories before, you're suddenly left apprehensive about the end of the road. The line falls flat in its purpose. It's well conceived, but more patience was needed to finish that line.

[LitNetIsGreat]

Been listening to a lot of Beatles recently as I am well and truly living in the 60s as much as possible. A Hard Day's Night is my favourite album so far available here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HCP1zI16ko

Listening to this every other day it seems anyway.

[qimissung]

I love every Beatles song on here. I love them much more than the Stones. The Stones are alright, I guess. :D

BUT, I can't believe no one's mentioned these, from Magical Mystery Tour:

Penny Lane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7gelS0glC8


Flying


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFrpclWP3eQ


And one of my favorites, Baby Your a Rich Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdDVgJWXMCI

I love all their albums, and I'm just grateful I don't have to choose among them. Have a good night, Neely. :)

[byquist]

The question is: how many Beatles songs have orchestras recorded vs. how many Rolling Stones songs have orchestras recorded? I would guess about 50x1, but have no idea.

The Beatles had such variety!!!!

[cafolini]

By the way guys, the three surviving Monkeys are back on the road.

[Maria May]

Please mr. Postman

and

Roll over Beethoven <3

Only two of many Beatles songs that I adore :D <3

[LitNetIsGreat]

The Hard Day's Night album is definitely my favourite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09QJt9MBBUY&list=PL_Eg3gX1HAG43wtesICRt3X6uUjo-0vHy

[NikolaiI]

Oh My Love - John Lennon

[Tyrion Cheddar]

There doesn't seem to be a Beatles thread, which is wrong because they are probably the best popular music group of all time. Anyway, so post the Beatles song you are currently listening to or tell us what you like or whatever Beatles related.


Funny you should ask. ;-) Yesterday I suddenly started singing the dark instrumental section of She's So Heavy, the part at the end featuring the arpeggiated chords on guitar, and as a lifelong progressive rock fan realized that, as with the tail end of I Am The Walrus, this was one of the seminal moments in popular music which initiated what was later called progressive. It was an extended instrumental section, for a start, that was thematic, and as crucial to the overall song as the vocal portions. It was played on the traditional instruments of rock 'n' roll, however supplemented by orchestral instruments and odd sounds, courtesy of George Martin's genius. Both examples are very trippy, taking the listener on an inner journey of sight and sound, something later progressive rock was famous for. Finally, too, is the fact of how long the songs go on, with these instrumental sections included. In all, a real forerunner of end of 60s, beginning of 70s progressive.

[Sancho]

Rocky Racoon.

By the way, I know this quote is from a couple of years ago, but...


The question is: how many Beatles songs have orchestras recorded vs. how many Rolling Stones songs have orchestras recorded? I would guess about 50x1, but have no idea.

The Beatles had such variety!!!!

...somehow I think orchestras covering rocknroll tunes is not a good measure of the ROCK. Probably it's not good for either genre.

I never much cared for "rock operas" either. I like hard, driving, loud, sweaty, gutsy roadhouse -rock played with a beat that makes you want to get out on the dance floor and shake your money maker. No orchestra ever did that.

Rock-n-roll for the sake of rock-n-roll, and long-hair music for the sake of long-hair music, eh?

[Sancho]

This Bill Haley Remix gets at it pretty good:

http://youtu.be/XOZtaaYskqk

I dig the radio call-in bit, right in the middle.

[Emil Miller]

Rocky Racoon.

By the way, I know this quote is from a couple of years ago, but...



...somehow I think orchestras covering rocknroll tunes is not a good measure of the ROCK. Probably it's not good for either genre.

I never much cared for "rock operas" either. I like hard, driving, loud, sweaty, gutsy roadhouse -rock played with a beat that makes you want to get out on the dance floor and shake your money maker. No orchestra ever did that.

Rock-n-roll for the sake of rock-n-roll, and long-hair music for the sake of long-hair music, eh?

Why does it have to be electric guitars and off-key shouting ? This is he sort of thing I used to listen to at dances and concerts and it doesn't come more hard, driving, sweaty and gutsy than this:

https://youtu.be/S4iwRGLImfI

[Sancho]

Shake it but don't break it, Emil. I'm kinda surprised you posted a tune that features a banjo so prominently, a tenor banjo anyway - yot-digga-digga-digga-digga...

I think the one-word answer to the question - why the electric guitar? - is: AMPLIFICATION. To play to a big crowd ya gotta play loud.

Here's one of the two inventers of rock-n-roll playing a big crowd:

Bo Diddley, Road Runner

http://youtu.be/WOOFx9c6qyA

Anyway, great dance tune, Emil. Flappers, like rockers, broke all the rules.

Hey, here's a mish-mosh of Jazz, Big Band, and Rock-n-roll:

Brian Setzer covering Louis Prima's Jump Jive and Wail:

http://youtu.be/aHWcN5YxuYc

Just a tad more choreographed than the folks at the race track, but still good, eh?

[Emil Miller]

Shake it but don't break it, Emil. I'm kinda surprised you posted a tune that features a banjo so prominently, a tenor banjo anyway - yot-digga-digga-digga-digga...

I think the one-word answer to the question - why the electric guitar? - is: AMPLIFICATION. To play to a big crowd ya gotta play loud.

Here's one of the two inventers of rock-n-roll playing a big crowd:

Bo Diddley, Road Runner

http://youtu.be/WOOFx9c6qyA

Anyway, great dance tune, Emil. Flappers, like rockers, broke all the rules.

Hey, here's a mish-mosh of Jazz, Big Band, and Rock-n-roll:

Brian Setzer covering Louis Prima's Jump Jive and Wail:

http://youtu.be/aHWcN5YxuYc

Just a tad more choreographed than the folks at the race track, but still good, eh?

The dancers in the first number were retro Teddy boys dressed in the garb of the original 'Teds'
and prancing in a football stadium in the same manner as their forebears.
That's quite a line up of trombones and saxes in the Louis Prima piece and the dancing is a good deal less scurrilous.
The banjo backing on the Acker Bilk number is in accordance with virtually all traditional jazz
bands ,and one guy, Eric Silk, was a banjo player who was the actual leader of the band;
one of the best nights I can remember was at a local dance where his band was playing.
This was the music of my latter schooldays and early adult years although I had from childhood liked what is loosely called classical music. Listening to it now makes me nostalgic for rip roaring concerts and dances in pubs and municipal buildings that were the venues for the enormous number of people who followed traditional jazz in the UK. One of the pubs was called The Three Crowns where Acker Bilk used to play in a dance hall at the back and the whole place used to jump in an atmosphere of beer and smoke that wouldn't be tolerated today.
But the band I followed most avidly were these guys who were generally recognized as the kings of traditional jazz.

https://youtu.be/DCG7mZ27rdU

[Sancho]

Great stuff, Emil. Sounds like Dixieland to my ear. I know the Jazz purists have distinctions between Dixieland (white), New Orleans Jazz (black), Chicago style, St. Louis style, and suppose a bunch of others, but honestly they all build on and borrow from each other. You can't have Dixieland without New Orleans.

Right after 9/11 I was moseying down through the quarter in New Orleans, marveling at how empty it was - nobody was traveling yet - when I walked by Tipatinas, a place off Bourbon St, and heard a glorious noise. A small band was playing in a style I can only describe as a mix of rock-n-roll, zydeco, Cajun, Jazz, and probably a few others. Whatever it was, it worked. I stayed there all afternoon.

Then another time I was on a layover in Düsseldorf, actually we stay in Nuess, a small medieval town near Düsseldorf. Anyway, it was near Christmas and you know how the Germans are about Christmas. So a few of my coworkers and I were wandering around the festival huts, drinking these little mugs of hot wine, eating brats, and generally enjoying ourselves. One of the huts had an unusual band playing. Four guys in their 60s, with long, greasy, gray hair, and bad-Santa outfits were playing. They had a trombone, an alto sax, a snare drum and a tenor banjo, and they were playing standard Christmas songs interpreted in a Dixieland style. You wouldn't think it would work, but it did. Sort of. Anyway we had a great time.

At any rate, I get that same sense of nostalgia you mentioned when I listen to the songs of my youth. In fact I read somewhere that the music we grow up with in our teens and twenties leaves just that impression that you spoke of, which is unlucky for me since I grew up in the tackiest decade of known history - the 70s.