The Beatles appreciation thread
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Topic: The Beatles appreciation thread
Posted By: alanerc
Subject: The Beatles appreciation thread
Date Posted: October 08 2008 at 13:45
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So, I've read and heard that Sgt. Pepper's is 'the first' prog rock album. Whatever, I'm making this thread to talk about the Betales, what you like, dislike, their aportations to music, etc. I see their albums as a compilation of great pieces, every album has at least 2 o 3 very famous songs everywhere, they were pioneers of rock music... well, I can't express my love for them, I'll only say that 'Abbey Road' is, to date, y favorite Beatles album  So, what about you? |
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: October 08 2008 at 13:48
| Love 'em, even a lot of the early stuff. Abbey Road is my favorite as well. |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: October 08 2008 at 13:54
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Never a fan.
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Posted By: febus
Date Posted: October 08 2008 at 13:56
Love them to death. .....because of them we have the chance to be on PA now!
I Like their beginnings, love everything starting with Rubber Soul/Revolver!
and to have the 2 best ever songwriters in the same band was a godsend! I don't know of any other Lennon/McCartney combo working that well!!
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Posted By: Hawkwise
Date Posted: October 08 2008 at 14:49
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Yep Love the Beatles but never Really liked Sgt. Pepper very Much ------------- 
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: October 08 2008 at 17:20
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Every album has at least 2 or 3 famous songs? A bit more than that, I would say. I would also say that "Revolver" was more prog than Sgt Pepper. Apart from being a year earlier, it has "Tomorrow Never Knows". |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: October 08 2008 at 19:06
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they knew how to crystallize a song down its most relevant parts and leave out the extra fat, making music that seemed to arrive preordained ..funny cause their early days were closer to punk rock shows than the master songsmiths we see later |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: October 08 2008 at 22:40
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"Let it Be" is criminally underrated, containing some of their best material. Especially the new version that drops the strings. I'll grab that disc every time over Abbey Road. And I LOVE that rooftop concert! ------------- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sQD8uhpWXCw" rel="nofollow - It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...Road Rage Edition |
Posted By: febus
Date Posted: October 08 2008 at 22:52
Completely agree
 .....great songs on it....just happen to be released after the icon Abbey Road, so that was a hard act to follow, but taken on its own merits, i don't see anything bad on LET IT BE! |
Finnforest wrote:Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: October 08 2008 at 23:03
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Thanks Febus, I think you're the first LIB fan I've met!! It's the boys at their simplest, song-based best. No frills, just classic, Across the Univ, title track, LaWR, Two of Us, all of it!
------------- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sQD8uhpWXCw" rel="nofollow - It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...Road Rage Edition |
Posted By: febus
Date Posted: October 08 2008 at 23:17
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....And i think this album appreciation has also suffered because it was released just at the time of their break-up and a lot of people felt ''betrayed' and were disappointed' by that as the Fab four were part of their daily lives, so a certain resentment against the Beatles at the time has to be taken in consideration and LET IT BE paid the price and still is. ( was considered as a rushed album even if it was recorded BEFORE Abbey road!)
What's wrong with an album featuring three #1 MacCartney songs, a great Lennon Across The Universe, some nice rockers like One after 909 and an extraordinary MCCartney vocal performance on I've got a Feeling, a great duo with Lennon.???
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Posted By: jimidom
Date Posted: October 09 2008 at 11:02
The answer is absolutely nothing. Let It Be is an excellent album, although it did suffer a little bit when Phil Spector got a hold of it. The "Naked" version is great as well, but I still prefer the original. ------------- "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - HST |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: October 09 2008 at 11:08
Count another fan here, absolutely love that album. |
Posted By: febus
Date Posted: October 09 2008 at 11:15
I always knew we can count on you!!!
  ................at work or on the sofa??? |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: October 09 2008 at 11:18
I wish I was on a sofa. 
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Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: October 09 2008 at 12:35
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The Beatles were so HUGE and so significant that they've almost taken on a mythical quality but when you put on an album like Revolver or Rubber Soul and just let it drift into your subconscious you suddenly realize what immense talent they had and what extraordinary rebels they were. They changed everything. And bear in mind that they did most of their very best work on 4-track recording machines. 4 tracks! ------------- "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: terransage
Date Posted: July 30 2009 at 18:24
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The Beatles were the reason I started getting into prog in the '70's. They were and still are my "favorite" band. I was raised in a musical family (classical music and jazz and, later, rock and folk were heard in our house all the time). In fact, it was my bebop jazz-trumpeter dad who introduced the Beatles to all of us, in 1969. The experience of hearing each one of their albums was an adventure for me. You never knew what style you would hear, what guitar or keyboard sound, what sound effects, what harmonies. Their eclectic approach to rock perfectly suited my eclectic musical upbringing. For some of the same reasons I liked the Beatles, I also took to progressive rock.
Once in a while I'll look at a YouTube video of the Beatles and other bands, and I always read the comments. What surprises me (and yet doesn't surprise me) is how many twenty-year-olds and teenagers leave comments, saying things like "I can't believe this was recorded forty years ago," or "'I Am the Walrus' is pretty bizarre. It's still ahead of its time." Tomorrow Never Knows is repeatedly referred to as the first electronica/acid house or trance song. I think that's quite an accomplishment for a band who, three years earlier, produced "Love Me Do" (which I also like, lol).
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Posted By: SgtPepper67
Date Posted: July 31 2009 at 15:29
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I love them, they're my favourite band ever.
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Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: July 31 2009 at 16:19
Hum they're... Amazing. My favourite albums are Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's. Revolver, yeah  ------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers, Un marin mort, Il dormira - Paul Éluard |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: August 01 2009 at 10:27
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I've got all their latter stuff, but when you get earlier than Rubber Soul, I lose interest. Still good music, though.
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Posted By: weetabix
Date Posted: August 15 2009 at 20:36
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I found that The Beatles had an appeal,for everyone, on mostly all their post Rubber Soul LP,s McCartney and his showtunes like "When I'm 64" or "Honey Pie" Harrison and his mystic Psych genre and Lennon w/ hard rock. And Ringo?
If they would have just all came to the conclusion Let's stop bickering and just make music and money it would have been better?
But they changed music in general not just rock, and today even though people won't admit it they are influenced heavily by them, but that is my opinion.
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Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: August 30 2009 at 09:01
| I loved everything, however my favorite period was when the Beatles first started hanging about with Bob Dylan. The particular style that I am making reference to began on BEATLES FOR SALE. Then continued on HELP.....progressed further on RUBBER SOUL.......and then started to fade slightly on REVOLVER. The usage of acoustic guitar became less on REVOLVER. The folk style that I am making reference to turned up again on THE WHITE ALBUM. But only selective tracks. They certainly didn't approach writing this way on SP or Magical Mystery Tour. So this was a magical but short lived period for the Beatles. |
Posted By: Matthew T
Date Posted: August 30 2009 at 15:20
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I grew up hearing them on the radio and one of the first songs that I can remember as a child is I Want to Hold Your Hand. The first LP record I ever bought was Help and I still suffer from Beatlemania. ------------- Matt |
Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: August 30 2009 at 15:24
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The first band I liked as a band, not just songs here and there. I was probably 11 or 12. Still favourites and immensely important to me  |
Posted By: toroddfuglesteg
Date Posted: September 01 2009 at 11:16
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I am warming more and more to The Beatles. I will probably be a fan when I am getting old if the thaw continues at this rate. The remasters (relasesed 9. September) are supposed to be great and I may grab some of those albums. I am actually listening to For Sale (not the remaster, I have to add) now and that album is not bad at all. Very charming, in fact. Yes, The Beatles is a superb band. I really appreciate them. Their best song ? Something....... and that is not even written by Lennon/McCartney. |
Posted By: Rank1
Date Posted: September 01 2009 at 12:07
| The Beatles were great songwriters but when they added experimental things like avant tape techniques, odd meters, Indian Instruments, feedback, and backward music to their songwriting is when they pushed the limits of pop music and changed how rock musicians thought of songwriting. Not only that they did more in eight years than most bands did in 30 to 40 years. |
Posted By: pmendes
Date Posted: September 16 2009 at 06:12
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I am a great fan, I just got their 2009 remixes stereo box. From this box I have already listened to Abbey Road, Magical Mistery Tour (such melodies, one of my favorites) and Let it Be, and I love all these albums, just hard to pick one. Going through this rediscovering journey I would say Abbey Road is probably the best ot those 3, a more experimental,diverse and deeper album. There is just «Something in the way she moves» I also used to love the White Album. The magical mistery tour will go on and I'll be back on this thread as I relive their magic...It won't be, for sure, a long and winding road or a hard days night, if it takes very long I'll just have to let it be and be patient before I get back to penny lane and strawberry fields. I am sure bungallow bill will give me some help and that when I say hello you won't say goodbye and we'll all come together even if we don't make a revolution. Paulo ------------- NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH |
Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: September 18 2009 at 12:01
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Great fan also.
My first proper rock band to hear about... i was 8-9 years old. -------------  |
Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: October 02 2009 at 10:38
| Another tale from Toddler. When I was a kid my neighbour called me over and said: You have got to hear the new Beatles single! It was just released ....Paperback Writer/Rain. He played the 45 on a 3 channel stereo. It was Paperback Writer. He focused my attention on the bass guitar. He asked me: What exactly is different on this record about Paul's bass? Then he played Rain and asked me again if I could hear a difference in the bass compared to Beatles material that had been released before? What I heard was a driving and daring sound in that bass which was aggressive and mystifying to me. How did he come up with that sound? As a kid I was impressed and couldn't think of any bass player that sounded like that. It was groundbreaking for the times we were living in. |
Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: October 03 2009 at 04:10
 Consider the Beatles thoroughly appreciated
Right now I'm going through a huge Beatles revival (just like the rest of the western world after the release of Beatles RockBand
 ). They've been getting more plays from me lately, as I had somewhat abandoned them a number of years ago.The Beatles, who I consider the greatest band of all time, were probably the first band I was really into, at the age of 6 or 7. Actually, the first albums I ever bought were a Beatles album and Ozzy's Diary of a Madman (the combination of the two is probably responsible for all my musical tastes afterward).
Abbey Road arguably my favorite album of all time, and Sgt. Pepper and the White Album aren't far behind. I love The Beatles. ------------- "WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!" -The Great Gig in the Sky |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: October 03 2009 at 07:37
I absolutely love The Beatles! They have some of the best vocal melodies I've ever heard, and we all owe a lot of debt to them. They are actually one of my favorite bands ever! Abbey Road has got to be my favorite of theirs, but everything from Rubber Soul onward is excellent. -Jeff ------------- 
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Posted By: inrainbows
Date Posted: October 03 2009 at 14:02
Exactly, ------------- 
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