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#101 Icterus galbula

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Posted 04 April 2016 - 11:44 PM

There are certain songs that always take you back to a time and place. In between high school snd college I drove from Baltimore to NYC with a couple of firiends and we listened to the whole white album twice, or so I recall. I think of youth and getting New York bagels at 6 am.
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Posted 05 April 2016 - 01:48 AM

One night they played for 18 people...  http://kottke.org/16...-only-18-people


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Posted 04 May 2016 - 01:59 PM


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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.


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Posted 09 May 2016 - 04:58 PM

The Beatles made a lot of music that was pretty meh,  

 

Like what?


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Posted 09 May 2016 - 06:22 PM

Like what?

 

Probably the bubble-gum stuff from when they were still cutting their hair ;)


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Posted 09 May 2016 - 06:45 PM

Probably the bubble-gum stuff from when they were still cutting their hair ;)

 

Bubblegum, my ass...

 

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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


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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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Posted 05 June 2016 - 10:11 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

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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.



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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)


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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...


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Posted 07 June 2016 - 08:53 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.

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Posted 07 June 2016 - 08:53 PM

Sgt Peppers? Prefer in stereo or mono?

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Posted 07 June 2016 - 10:36 PM

Sgt Peppers? Prefer in stereo or mono?

 

Mono thru speakers... remastered stereo thru headphones....


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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." 


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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.



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Posted 10 June 2016 - 03:14 PM

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Posted 10 June 2016 - 05:28 PM

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How time changes things...

 

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