The Beatles I Want You ( She So Heavy )
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Topic: The Beatles I Want You ( She So Heavy )
Posted By: Beckham
Subject: The Beatles I Want You ( She So Heavy )
Date Posted: January 05 2008 at 01:03
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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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Posted By: Proletariat
Date 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. ------------- who hiccuped endlessly trying to giggle but wound up with a sob |
Posted By: Beckham
Date Posted: January 05 2008 at 01:13
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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. |
Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: January 05 2008 at 20:17
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Coroner did a rather good cover of it.
A very interesting tune, despite its rather limited libretto.....
------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: avestin
Date Posted: January 05 2008 at 21:43
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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zappaholic wrote:Posted By: Avantgardehead
Date Posted: January 06 2008 at 03:20
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The song that got me into The Beatles.
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Posted By: SilverSean
Date 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. ------------- Hold on to the Dream... |
Posted By: Chelsea
Date Posted: January 08 2008 at 12:57
Prog with noise rock elements
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: January 08 2008 at 14:13
| 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) |
Posted By: micky
Date 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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Posted By: Evans
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 10:20
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'Let's give it another fifteen seconds..' |
Posted By: unforgivable74
Date 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. ------------- Laughs as I clean my teeth, laughs as I rub at my eyes. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date 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) ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Chicapah
Date 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). ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: LinusW
Date 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!  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/LinusW88" rel="nofollow - Blargh |
Posted By: rockthebox
Date Posted: February 11 2008 at 13:43
| This is a good example of a song that was way ahead of its time. |
Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: February 13 2008 at 01:58
| 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. |
Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: February 13 2008 at 08:42
massive 
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Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: February 15 2008 at 22:43
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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. |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: February 16 2008 at 04:19
| 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! |
Posted By: reality
Date Posted: February 26 2008 at 22:21
| I call it a Beatles song! |