The Beatles
#101
Posted 04 April 2016 - 11:44 PM
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#102
Posted 05 April 2016 - 01:48 AM
One night they played for 18 people... http://kottke.org/16...-only-18-people
"The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second-class citizen to a second-class immortal." - Satchel Paige
#103
Posted 04 May 2016 - 01:59 PM
#104
Posted 09 May 2016 - 03:55 PM
The Beatles made a lot of music that was pretty meh, but they also have some truly innovative, creative and exceptional work.
Abbey Road, Revolver, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and The White Album is their best work imo.
#105
Posted 09 May 2016 - 04:58 PM
The Beatles made a lot of music that was pretty meh,
Like what?
"The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second-class citizen to a second-class immortal." - Satchel Paige
#106
Posted 09 May 2016 - 06:22 PM
Like what?
Probably the bubble-gum stuff from when they were still cutting their hair
#107
Posted 09 May 2016 - 06:45 PM
Probably the bubble-gum stuff from when they were still cutting their hair
Bubblegum, my ass...
"The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second-class citizen to a second-class immortal." - Satchel Paige
#108
Posted 05 June 2016 - 09:56 AM
Name some Beatles tunes that you think are underrated or unheralded. Meaning, they didn't top the charts and you don't often hear them on the radio. I'll throw out 5, each from a different album:
-Got to Get you Into My Life
-Oh! Darling
-Long, Long, Long
-She's Leaving Home
-If I Needed Someone
There is baseball, and occasionally there are other things of note
"Now OPS sucks. Got it."
"Making his own olive brine is peak Mackus."
"I'm too hungover to watch a loss." - McNulty
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#109
Posted 05 June 2016 - 09:57 AM
The Beatles made a lot of music that was pretty meh, but they also have some truly innovative, creative and exceptional work.
Abbey Road, Revolver, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and The White Album is their best work imo.
You're half right. Abbey Road is the greatest album ever recorded, White Album is #3. You should also give Magical Mystery Tour and Rubber Soul a spin (or eight).
Very little of their music is meh. In fact, none of it is, really. Ringo had a few duds, but yea, that's about it.
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There is baseball, and occasionally there are other things of note
"Now OPS sucks. Got it."
"Making his own olive brine is peak Mackus."
"I'm too hungover to watch a loss." - McNulty
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#110
Posted 05 June 2016 - 10:11 AM
I'm Looking Through YouName some Beatles tunes that you think are underrated or unheralded. Meaning, they didn't top the charts and you don't often hear them on the radio. I'll throw out 5, each from a different album: -Got to Get you Into My Life -Oh! Darling -Long, Long, Long -She's Leaving Home -If I Needed Someone
#111
Posted 06 June 2016 - 03:17 PM
Please Please Me and Beatles for Sale has some weak stuff. By some point, they began to run out of ideas for the bubble gum pop. Thankfully they took off in a new direction.
#112
Posted 06 June 2016 - 03:29 PM
Name some Beatles tunes that you think are underrated or unheralded. Meaning, they didn't top the charts and you don't often hear them on the radio. I'll throw out 5, each from a different album:
-Got to Get you Into My Life
-Oh! Darling
-Long, Long, Long
-She's Leaving Home
-If I Needed Someone
"Oh Darling" is tremendous!
None of these songs hit the top 100 in the US:
Happiness is a Warm Gun
Julia
Dear Prudence
Across The Universe
She Came in Through the Bathroom Window (though Joe Cocker's is better)
#113
Posted 06 June 2016 - 10:42 PM
Please Please Me and Beatles for Sale has some weak stuff. By some point, they began to run out of ideas for the bubble gum pop. Thankfully they took off in a new direction.
It wasn't bubblegum until years later when other people tried to do it, well after the Beatles had quit doing it... others mostly failed to do it as well as The Beatles did... before that, it was just The Beatles...
"Please Please Me" was the name of their 1st British album... over here, it was "Introducing the Beatles" on the VeeJay label (which I have in a box around here someplace)... they weren't running out of ideas, they were just getting started... it was their very 1st album, and was nothing but them just recording their standard live set in the studio... they recorded the whole damn thing in just 1 day... it was not some triumph of composition, it was the music they played in The Cavern... it was great because it was part of the soundtrack of original Beatlemania, and rescued us from the massive gray depression of JFK having been assassinated just a couple months before...
"Beatles for Sale" was also the name of the British album... their 4th one... over here, it was kinda-sorta "Beatles 65" on Capitol, (which is in the same box) but not exactly the same... it was the beginning of their transition away from std boy-girl rock'n'roll lyrics, towards their more complex and more autobiographical songs...
"The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second-class citizen to a second-class immortal." - Satchel Paige
#114
Posted 07 June 2016 - 08:53 PM
There is baseball, and occasionally there are other things of note
"Now OPS sucks. Got it."
"Making his own olive brine is peak Mackus."
"I'm too hungover to watch a loss." - McNulty
@bopper33
#115
Posted 07 June 2016 - 08:53 PM
There is baseball, and occasionally there are other things of note
"Now OPS sucks. Got it."
"Making his own olive brine is peak Mackus."
"I'm too hungover to watch a loss." - McNulty
@bopper33
#116
Posted 07 June 2016 - 10:36 PM
Sgt Peppers? Prefer in stereo or mono?
Mono thru speakers... remastered stereo thru headphones....
"The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second-class citizen to a second-class immortal." - Satchel Paige
#117
Posted 07 June 2016 - 10:47 PM
Listening to Sgt Peppers. The way this band evolved but still managed to make sublime music at every step of the way is one of the all time great artistic achievements.
It caused the entire world to say in unison, "WTF is that? Turn it up and play it again."
"The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second-class citizen to a second-class immortal." - Satchel Paige
#118
Posted 10 June 2016 - 06:34 AM
I have tickets to see Ringo next week in Nashville. I'll have officially seen half of The Beatles.
#119
Posted 10 June 2016 - 03:14 PM
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#120
Posted 10 June 2016 - 05:28 PM
How time changes things...
"The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second-class citizen to a second-class immortal." - Satchel Paige
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