Beatles Timeline: 50 years on
The perceptions are correct, though. They belong exactly in the same sentence as Bach on account of the massive influence they had on popular music. You might not enjoy the music, but to ignore or diminish that immense influence is to reveal a certain music-historical illiteracy.
Announcement
Collapse
No announcement yet.
Beatles Timeline: 50 years on
Collapse
X
-
Beatles Timeline: 50 years on
I don't dislike the Beatles really, just the notion that their cannon is something that towers over their contemporaries and is stupendously exceptional and the best of their time, and stated in the same sentence as Bach. That's how they are commonly perceived. I wouldn't put any Beatles album in my top 100 from 1965-72 (my list would be about 2,500 deep though.)
Sits wrote: An MOR song, forty-nine years ago
The best of the period was more on the margins, although the bigger bands were also really good.
Leave a comment:
-
Beatles Timeline: 50 years on
linus wrote: Ah, great, five years of semicentennial Beatles worship ahead. Looking forward to the long debates about which slightly better than average MOR Beatles album is the best album of all time.
Leave a comment:
-
Beatles Timeline: 50 years on
To linus, Bach just hummed, Billie Holiday just crooned, Miles Davis just doodled, B.B. King just strummed, Michael Jackson just hopped, Public Enemy just shouted...
Leave a comment:
-
Beatles Timeline: 50 years on
Ah, great, five years of semicentennial Beatles worship ahead. Looking forward to the long debates about which slightly better than average MOR Beatles album is the best album of all time.
Leave a comment:
-
Beatles Timeline: 50 years on
Rubber Soul was released 50 years ago today!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_Soul
Leave a comment:
-
Beatles Timeline: 50 years on
G-Man's vision of a world with fewer Beatles songs chills my bones.
Leave a comment:
-
Beatles Timeline: 50 years on
Good thread, only time for a top 10 for now:
Ticket to Ryde (John)
She's a woman (Paul)
Things we said today (Paul)
I feel fine (John)
Norwegian wood (John)
And your bird can sing (John)
Penny Lane (Paul)
Old Brown Shoe (George)
Don't pass me by (Ringo)
Here comes the Sun (George)
Leave a comment:
-
Beatles Timeline: 50 years on
Yeah, a few tracks are down already, including Nowhere Man and In My Life, though most will be recorded next month before the early December release. So no pressure.
Back to the studio in two days time to finish We Can Work It Out.
And bear in mind that on 6 April next year, they'll be back in the studio to begin recording Revolver, starting with Tomorrow Mever Knows.
Leave a comment:
-
Beatles Timeline: 50 years on
MBEs collected yesterday, recording of Rubber Soul is under way at Abbey Road.
Leave a comment:
-
Beatles Timeline: 50 years on
But would they have been that productive if they hadn't been under pressure to record 2 albums + 4 singles a year? When the pressure was reduced (1967-68) the songs became more fragmentary. Macca was always very active but Lennon could be lazy if nobody was telling him they needed 6 songs by the end of the month.
Leave a comment:
-
Beatles Timeline: 50 years on
Imagine The Beatles would not have had to release albums every few months. The tracklistings for Beatles For Sale/Help a Rubber Soul/Revolver combo would have been unbelievable.
August 1965 might have seen an LP like this (presuming that one or two of For Sale tracks could have been used in the movie, and let's add a single to it as well):
No Reply
I'm A Loser
Baby's In Black
I'll Follow The Sun
Eight Days A Week
Every Little Thing
I Feel Fine
Help!
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
I Need You
You're Going To Lose That Girl
Ticket To Ride
It's Only Love
Yesterday
And in 1966, Rubber Soul/Revolver
Drive My Car
Norwegian Wood
Nowhere Man
I'm Looking Through You (though Michelle might more obvious)
Girl
In My Life
If I Needed Someone
Taxman
Eleanor Rigby
Here, There And Everywhere
Good Day Sunshine
And Your Bird Can Sing (or I Want To Tell You)
Got To Get You Into My Life
Tomorrow Never Knows
Substitute your least favourite track for the obligatory Ringo track.
Leave a comment:
-
Beatles Timeline: 50 years on
The thing about the Beatles is the incredible diversity. Also even now the freshness. I played Rain and hey bulldog do my son in law and he couldn't believe they were just short of 50 years old
Leave a comment:
-
Beatles Timeline: 50 years on
This Boy
A Hard Day's Night
In My Life
And Your Bird Can Sing (I like the Anthology "stoned" version best)
It's All Too Much
I've Got A Feeling
{Mean Mr. Mustard/Polythene Pam/She Came In Through The Bathroom Window}
{Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End}
not a bad sign off either
Leave a comment:
-
Beatles Timeline: 50 years on
Serge Gainsbourg wrote:Originally posted by TaylorI'm a sucker for any of those desperate-sounding acoustic Lennon songs.
All written between the ages of 23 to 25, and it shows a very sensitive side to someone who was quite self-loathing and a self-confessed bastard on occasion.
Leave a comment:
-
Beatles Timeline: 50 years on
Sits wrote: Tracks 2 and 3 on For Sale are wonderful, especially Baby's in Black which is another one of those "forgotten" gems.
Every time I hear it, and they sing
Oh, how long will it take
Till she sees the mistake
She has made
I get the 'bumps.
I'll Follow the Sun: "And now the time has come and so my love I must go. And though I lose a friend, in the end you will know.
I Don't Want to Spoil the Party: George's guitar solo and "Though tonight she's made me sad - I still love her."
The aforementioned "Every little thing she does, she does for me"
And George Martin's piano playing in the "Go get you here and
play a tango" verse of Rock 'n' Roll music. Ringo's drumming kicks arse in the same bit too.
Leave a comment:
-
Beatles Timeline: 50 years on
Tracks 2 and 3 on For Sale are wonderful, especially Baby's in Black which is another one of those "forgotten" gems.
Every time I hear it, and they sing
Oh, how long will it take
Till she sees the mistake
She has made
I get the 'bumps.
Leave a comment:
-
Beatles Timeline: 50 years on
Even their weakest albums - Beatles for Sale, Let It Be - have some awesome songs. Maybe the best measure of "strength" of an album is to look for the median quality track, which is still going to be very good on any album except arguably those two above (if I had to pick a No. 1 on that basis, I'd be split between A Hard Day's Night and Revolver; Pepper and the White Album would be fairly high because their middling tracks are under-rated IMHO: Lovely Rita, Long Long Long?).
One caveat: I don't think Magical Mystery Tour and Yellow Submarine were proper album releases. MMT charted here as an import; Yellow Submarine was a compilation of odds and sods to cash in on the movie.
Leave a comment:
-
Beatles Timeline: 50 years on
Taylor wrote: I'm a sucker for any of those desperate-sounding acoustic Lennon songs.
All written between the ages of 23 to 25, and it shows a very sensitive side to someone who was quite self-loathing and a self-confessed bastard on occasion.
Leave a comment:
-
Beatles Timeline: 50 years on
Of the early Beatles stuff, I think If I Fell is the lost gem.
But yes, Help was the first coherent album. And this was at a time where the idea of an album didn't really exist.
Leave a comment:
-
Beatles Timeline: 50 years on
I've never quite understood why people don't like "It's Only Love" (apart from a few crappy lyrics). Even Lennon thought it was pretty wack. I think it's great - although I'm a sucker for any of those desperate-sounding acoustic Lennon songs.
Imagine Levi Stubbs singing the chorus. We missed a good one there.
Leave a comment:
-
Beatles Timeline: 50 years on
Serge Gainsbourg wrote:Originally posted by kokamoa
I see nothing particularly wrong with "Another Girl" and "It's Only Love". They are not pop classics, but they are not loathsome.
Leave a comment:
-
Beatles Timeline: 50 years on
kokamoa wrote:
I see nothing particularly wrong with "Another Girl" and "It's Only Love". They are not pop classics, but they are not loathsome.
Leave a comment:
Leave a comment: