It's as though you pulled that quote directly from my brain.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandi
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It's as though you pulled that quote directly from my brain.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandi
That's my favorite, too!Quote:
Originally Posted by Charles Darnay
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.
Let it Be is one of my favorites.
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!
She's so......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW6G3nh5S3I
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.
Whadda you say?
And listen to the bass. Jesus, the bass.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 ;)).
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by jajdude
It's going to be a harsh regime, but an entirely reasonable one.
Idril's prudence has forced me to select another of my favored Beatles songs:
"Mother Nature's Son"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39eJp...eature=related
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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.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
Die Beatles, anyone?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrZQk03uKsQ
I don't even like that song in English. Mop-top Beatles bad! Psychadelic Beatles good!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lKwXwU5iWs
Lennon - Working Class Hero.
I think this is one of my favourite Beatles - Girl:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVr_6kE1vio
One of my favourites....
You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead...
With A Little Help From My Friends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBDF04fQKtQ
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.
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_bci...eature=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:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqHp3...eature=related
Please Mr Postman.
'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.
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.
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. :)
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!!!!
By the way guys, the three surviving Monkeys are back on the road.
Please mr. Postman
and
Roll over Beethoven <3
Only two of many Beatles songs that I adore :D <3
The Hard Day's Night album is definitely my favourite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09QJ...Rt3X6uUjo-0vHy
Oh My Love - John Lennon
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by byquist
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?
This Bill Haley Remix gets at it pretty good:
http://youtu.be/XOZtaaYskqk
I dig the radio call-in bit, right in the middle.
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:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sancho
https://youtu.be/S4iwRGLImfI
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'Quote:
Originally Posted by Sancho
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