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Beckham 
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Posted: January 05 2008 at 01:03 |
I have heard all sorts of description of this song from progressive rock, proto-metal, noise rock to even proto industrial rock opinion anyone.
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Proletariat
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Posted: January 05 2008 at 01:09 |
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Best beatles song. Ever. Catchy as all hell, yet so experimental, pushing at the boundries like only The Beatles could. Also probably one of the first prog songs.
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who hiccuped endlessly trying to giggle but wound up with a sob
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Beckham
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Posted: January 05 2008 at 01:13 |
I forgot one of King Crimson songs is actually based on this song. My band mate thinks it's proto metal with an avant twist at the end.
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zappaholic
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Posted: January 05 2008 at 20:17 |
Coroner did a rather good cover of it.
A very interesting tune, despite its rather limited libretto.....
Edited by zappaholic - January 05 2008 at 20:21
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avestin
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Posted: January 05 2008 at 21:43 |
 zappaholic wrote:
Coroner did a rather good cover of it.
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Yeah, I love that cover.
Type O Negative also did one (they covered several Beatles songs, usually in a medley form), but the Coroner one is better, more energetic and aggressive.
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Avantgardehead
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Posted: January 06 2008 at 03:20 |
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The song that got me into The Beatles.
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SilverSean
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Posted: January 06 2008 at 14:50 |
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Probably my fav Beatles song. I definetely think that their later stuff could be classified as prog.
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Hold on to the Dream...
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Chelsea
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Posted: January 08 2008 at 12:57 |
Prog with noise rock elements 
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chopper
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Posted: January 08 2008 at 14:13 |
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A great Lennon song. Some very nice guitar playing as well. Lennon once explained the lyrics by saying "If you're drowning you don't say "excuse me, I'll be awfully grateful if you would come over here and extract me from this watery place in which I find myself"" you just scream "Help!". (or something like that)
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micky
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Posted: January 08 2008 at 19:43 |
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great song..... the only classification I give it... one of MANY MANY they had.... they are the frickin Beatles you know.
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Evans
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Posted: January 11 2008 at 10:20 |
chopper wrote:
A great Lennon song. Some very nice guitar playing as well. Lennon once explained the lyrics by saying "If you're drowning you don't say "excuse me, I'll be awfully grateful if you would come over here and extract me from this watery place in which I find myself"" you just scream "Help!". (or something like that)
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That is a great quute. I have never heard that.
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'Let's give it another fifteen seconds..'
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unforgivable74
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Posted: February 11 2008 at 07:27 |
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A vastly under-rated track and ignored by many 'mainstream' appreciators of The Beatles. Maybe it's too prog for some people to understand. It builds and the more it goes on, the more you want. Progressive and innovative.
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Laughs as I clean my teeth, laughs as I rub at my eyes.
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Jim Garten
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Posted: February 11 2008 at 07:55 |
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One of my favorite Beatles' songs - I've always just seen it as a medium paced blues growler with great Hammond work by Billy Preston (mind you the repeated arpeggio toward the end always reminds me of Siouxie & The Banshees for some reason)
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Chicapah
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Posted: February 11 2008 at 08:30 |
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Very cool song, indeed. I think it inspired a lot of prog riffs (Dream Theater's ending to Scenes from a Memory II comes to mind).
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LinusW
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Posted: February 11 2008 at 12:16 |
A heavy blues foundation with prog (strange noises  ) tendencies, nice, subtle organ work in the background and a touch of jumpy McCartney bass to spice it all up. But since it's made by the Beatles you can probably find anything you want to hear in it! 
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rockthebox
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Posted: February 11 2008 at 13:43 |
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This is a good example of a song that was way ahead of its time.
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JLocke
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Posted: February 13 2008 at 01:58 |
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Ah man, great song. I remember when I first heard it, and then when it suddenly cut off at the end, I felt like I was going to kill my player, then I realized that it was supposed to do that . . . heh?! Truly progressive.
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Posted: February 13 2008 at 08:42 |
massive 
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jammun
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Posted: February 15 2008 at 22:43 |
I always viewed it as John's final song with the Beatles. Yes there were a few on Side 2, but this was his last hurrah as a Beatle, and it's fitting that it is monumental.
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Moogtron III
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Posted: February 16 2008 at 04:19 |
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Nice song, like many on the Abbey Road album. I don't like it better or less than most of the other songs of the album, but it's good!
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The Beatles I Want You ( She So Heavy )
