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So what did you do when tomorrow inevitably came?
Yes!
Someone agrees with me??? That's a first!
Elvis is everywhere!
Unionist, I had no idea you had an inner fluffy arts thread host.
As I was saying to Boom Boom when we were cut off,
Band on the Run is a great album, though my personal favourite is Ram. And though I like Lennon's music ("John Sinclair", "I Don't want to be a Soldier" and #9 Dream are probably my favourites) I still think McCartney has the broader range in terms of style.
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And of course, Lennon had a hand in Bowie's "Young Americans", which is one of the greatest albums of all time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQHsOJXFpeM
(sorry for the religious content, U)
But that was yesterday - and yesterday's gone.
Great song cue, U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1toYmqDJeg
that would be Beth Orton
... and the Chemical Brothers
A friend once found, and we both listened to, Unfinished Music No. 2. In its entirety.
Not the sort of thing one puts on one's iPod.
Hosted my by-weekly jam last night and, (coincidentally) we ended up doing about 75% Beatle tunes with some Kinks, Stones, Dylan and CCR thrown in for the mix. A lot of Beatle tunes sound pretty simple but many are more complicated than they appear. Lots of chord changes and sometimes tempo changes. And of course lots of room for harmonies.
If you're super bored, Yellow Submarine is the original Karaoke track. One stereo track is just the music, the other is Ringo, a cappella (((shudder))).
listen to iron maiden like there was no tomorrow
I doubt many, if any, baby boomers listen to metal. It'll probably kill us off, finally (the bands made up of baby boomers have played/listened to this stuff so long they're probably innoculated against it).
I dunno. One of my good friends is in his late 50s and is very much into Motorhead...and the band Death.
Two excellent solo McCartney tracks are
No Other Baby - from 'Run Devil Run'
Plastic Beetle - from 'Liverpool Sound Collage'
Very interesting - thanks 6.
Best Album - Rubber Soul
Best Song - Strawberry Fields Forever
Best Quote - (John about Ringo) "Best drummer in the world? He wasn't even the best drummer in The Beatles"
An as far as influential - I think a good case could be made that the whole long hair and beards revolution that started but didn't really go mainstream till the 70's was started by the beatles in the early 60's.
I mean Smith W - you mentioned Iggy and the Stooges but without the Beatles - there would be no Stooges along with many others
@ VGE
I'm not so sure that if The Beatles had never existed the entire modern music pantheon would have fallen apart. Not do diminish their role, but I don't think they were the only, nor even the most, revolutionary band of their day.
well for at least Iggy Pop specifically I know he said that he was obsessed with The Beatles as a teenager, also Kurt Cobain started his love of music with the Beatles for another but I get what yr saying
Pop stars of the day prior to The Beatles rarely if ever wrote their own songs but as far a real greatness goes for artists from the 1960's - 2 words
Roy Orbison - Smith W - from yr list of bands in the previous thread - you strike me as the type who thinks that for something to be revolutionary in music it must be difficult or at least not easily pleasurable to listen to.
Check out the song structures of Roy's songs(especially Crying) and they are not written like most songs -verse chorus verse - they were and are still revolutionary.
trout mask replica?
First of all - I think the Beatles deserve their own forum on Babble.
Re: Imagine
Ya know, I never really understood all the fuss about this song. I always thought "All you need is love" was a better peace anthem. In my opinon, 'All you need is love' is Lennon's masterpeice, not imagine.
Re: McCartney solo work
I always liked the album Venus and Mars the best. I always liked it better than Band on the Run, and the less said about Paul's Christmas single the better.
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you strike me as the type who thinks that for something to be revolutionary in music it must be difficult or at least not easily pleasurable to listen to.
Roy Orbison, good.
Although your point about difficult music.... that's relative.
Carmen, The Rites of Spring and Be Bop were very difficult for those who had never heard them before.
And then there's Music for Airports, The Bee Gees' interpretation of Sgt. Pepper, Disco, and Dylan on electric. All revolutionary in their own way, but what kind of revolution?
And PB mentioned this fellow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_jZ_DgR8Yk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xepBfz3mVXs
Worst Beatle song of all time was 'Bungalo Bill'...product of bad acid,I can't think of another excuse for it.
As for Paul's solo career....Totally forgettable but it may not get worse than Ou est le Soleil (probably one of the worst songs I have ever heard)
I actually listen to folk music mainly, but occasionally I like to blast out the cobwebs with some funky music or the Stones. I'd start up a folk music thread but I suspect it'd get ignored real fast. Anyone here ever heard of Tim Hardin? I used to see him perform at Ottawa's Le Hibou coffee house, as well as at least a hundred other folk acts (and blues and rock as well).
Well Alan, although I confess it's not one of my favourites, it's very special in a few ways;
- The Beatles were in a TM retreat at the time, and one of the participants went out to shoot a tiger - he was actually in a bungalow, with his mum - thus inspiring the song. Nothing "acid" about it - it was naked realism if anything.
- You can hear Yoko singing in it.
- There's a bassoon part, which lends the song its "lugubrious" quality.
The thing about the Beatles is, everything is special, everything is quirky, everything is memorable.
In my opinion.
Thanks for giving me the background to the song,Unionist.
I could only take it as it was...Which,without the background story,sounds like something that purple dinosaur (which will remain nameless)would dance around singing.
The Rutles - Joe Public
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzFZSN-BMlY
"I put my faith in the powers that be, Joe Public that's me"
King Crimson - Dinosaur
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI6OcRvQ49o
"I'm a dinosaur; somebody's digging my bones."
"Shocked. And stunned."
That bassoon is great...geez, now I have "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" in my head. "Cry Baby Cry" is one of the best songs on that record, and nobody knows about it. Ringo's drumming is good on it as well. I have that record in white vinyl. Around 1978 Capitol records release a few Beatles records in coloured vinyl. The two "Greatest Hits" double LPs were red and blue, "The Beatles" was white (natch) and "Sergeant Pepper" was grey, with what a reviewer for the U of S student newspaper said was "like ol' Sgt. Pepper barfed on it."
Hey... I have one of those white vinyl white album too.
Strangely enough I went into McNally's last year and among their new re-releases - no Beatles, but a fresh new pressing of the Bee Gee's Sgt. Pepper. I actually asked the clerk if they got it in so we could have the pleasure of burning it all over again.
He was not amused.
Odd too, because they had a not bad selection of new vinyl otherwise.
few things they started or popularized that are still heard today are:
Strings with rock instruments
Telephone sounding vocals
Synths (Mini-Moog, specifically on Abbey Road)
Each person playing multiple instruments
Vocals through Leslie speakers
Automatic Double Tracking of vocals
Tape machine varispeed (esp. Strawberry Fields Forever)
Indian instruments ( yeah, I know Brian Jones was dabbling with sitar when he died, but, well, he died)
Bouncing tracks across multiple machine for more cumulative tracks
8 track recording
What was the other piece of crapola that the BG's released? It had a lot of really annoying disco thumping bass.
Have you heard Beth Orton singing Leonard Cohen's Sisters Of Mercy? That's really, really outstanding - I've heard it a dozen times, never tire of it. Another singer who covers Leonard Cohen incredibly well is Perla Batalla - I have all her albums. Amazing singer, great voice. Oh - and Rufus Wainwright - he possesses a voice that is absolutely ethereal.