the Beatles thread -> Please contribute something

fada

pearljamharmony wrote:

HEHE the same could be said for chris cornell but he plays live shitty. Why does everyone on dislike the white album? WTF?

Long Long Long
Helter Skelter
Glass Onion
Happiness is a Warm Gun
I'm So Tired
Bungalow Bill
Dear Prudence
Julia

It's a great album for sure there is some filler, when I say filler I mean it in the most minimal way. But to come out with such an enormous amount of material after writing Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Peppers, and Magical Mystery Tour is crazy. Those are like 4 of the best albums of ALL TIME. Has anyone ever looked at the track listing of Magical Mystery Tour lately? Its almost like a greatest hits album.
1. Magical Mystery Tour
2. Fool on the Hill
3. Flying
4. Blue Jay Way
5. Your Mother Should Know
6. I Am the Walrus
7. Hello Goodbye
8. Strawberry Fields Forever
9. Penny Lane
10. Baby You're a Rich Man
11. All You Need Is Love

and that just goes to show you how talented this band really was. Think about it. The band made "videos" as promotion, Sgt. Peppers was one of the first concept albums. To follow those four albums with the white album, let it be, and abbey road is astonishing. Thank god they knew how to end it when they were on top or they would have been the rolling stones. Even their solo stuff is amazing, All things must pass, Plastic Ono Band, Imagine, Ram? The Beatles hands down were the best band ever. If you don't believe me watch the video of Hey Jude when the crowd rushes the stage during the na na na na na na part, because they were so emotionally attached to them.

Magical mystery tour was released as an ep in england ( 6 songs) and the album version in the states

dunkman

http://www.geocities.com/~beatleboy1/dbsongs.html


great site in which each album and its songs have a wee description of who wrote each song and information about that process.

lovely stuff!!

Pearls&Stones

I like enough Beatles songs to fill up one cd. So I made a compilation of all their work that I like, and I listen to it quite a bit. Rather than divide them into "eras," I think they were pretty consisent throughout their career. They always had some good stuff, but there were always a few songs that weren't so stellar.

The cd I made has...

Let it Be
Dear Prudence
Rocky Racoon
We Can Work it Out
Yesterday
Help
Ticket to Ride
Eleanor Rigby (their best song, in my opinion)
Strawberry Fields Forever
Penny Lane
A Day in the Life (one of the most creative songs ever written, I believe)
All You Need is Love
Sgt. Pepper
A Little Help From my Friends
Hey Jude
...and I filled the rest with the best songs from "Abbey Road"

pearljamharmony

Pearls&Stones wrote:

I like enough Beatles songs to fill up one cd. So I made a compilation of all their work that I like, and I listen to it quite a bit. Rather than divide them into "eras," I think they were pretty consisent throughout their career. They always had some good stuff, but there were always a few songs that weren't so stellar.

The cd I made has...

Let it Be
Dear Prudence
Rocky Racoon
We Can Work it Out
Yesterday
Help
Ticket to Ride
Eleanor Rigby (their best song, in my opinion)
Strawberry Fields Forever
Penny Lane
A Day in the Life (one of the most creative songs ever written, I believe)
All You Need is Love
Sgt. Pepper
A Little Help From my Friends
...and I filled the rest with the best songs from "Abbey Road"

cool cool, and thats whats so great about the Beatles that everyone has their own favorite songs by them because every song was so wonderfully produced they cater to everyones separate interests. I like how you had Dear Prudence on there thats a real obscure choice, as well as rocky raccoon, and am I correct in assuming that you put the side B melody of abbey road to fill the rest?

Mohab

Ringo has an awesome solo career.

Check out

Ringo the 4th
Ringo Rama w Dave Gilmour
Blues boutique
Self Titled w lennon, mcartney and harrison

He's still touring too. Check him out for sure. Whats better than Dont pass me by in the flesh? ANd octopusses garden too.

deadmosquito

you have the unique opportunity to listen to all of these albums in chronological order and witness the development of possibly the best band of all time. listen to them in the order they were released in, but if i were you, i wouldn't do it all at once. let each one sink in. realize, when you get to the rubber soul/revolver era, that you are hearing a band pioneering the face of rock music for a long time to come.

i really wish i could be like you, not hearing any of their material yet. i would have loved to go through the albums chronologically instead of in random order.

have fun!!

decides2dream

ANYthing by the beatles is pure gold. period. yes, it is just imho, but yea...i stand by it. seriously. total LOVE for the beatles, pure genius. btw - i ADORE the white album, particularly disc 2..... but it's all amazing! abbey road is pure brilliance, can't go wrong. just listen, enjoy, fall in love....and you'll see.........:)


edit - ooooo, just read dead mosquito's post above me, great advice, do that! really see their growth/progression....sounds like an excellent plan of action.

darthvedder88

i like matt.c wrote:

Magical Mystery Tour! Love that album, esp Blue Jay Way.

Best Beatles album ever...

catefrances

i like some beatles stuff. and i don't like some beatles stuff.
when i bought abbey road i was a little disappointed. but that perhaps has more to do with me rather than the beatles. but you know there's no rule that says you have to like the beatles.

yosi1

catefrances wrote:

i like some beatles stuff. and i don't like some beatles stuff.
when i bought abbey road i was a little disappointed. but that perhaps has more to do with me rather than the beatles. but you know there's no rule that says you have to like the beatles.

But there should be.

Ledbetterman10

"Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out.....they leave the west behind"

the most brilliantly sarcastic song ever

dunkman

http://www.flickr.com/photos/76048782@N00/sets/72157600217073114/