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Post by eraserheadbaby on Mar 14, 2019 18:43:47 GMT
What do you lads think of the fab four John, George, Paul, and Pete Ringo
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Post by eilish on Mar 14, 2019 21:29:18 GMT
they were a band
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Post by The Cincinnati Kid on Mar 14, 2019 21:36:02 GMT
I hear they were pretty famous
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Post by eraserheadbaby on Mar 14, 2019 21:40:51 GMT
Not as good as Jan and Dean TBH
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Post by The Cincinnati Kid on Mar 15, 2019 0:56:46 GMT
I was just thinking, before streaming my only exposure to the Beatles was through the red and blue albums (not counting the radio). So all I've ever known is the proper UK album releases that are on the various streaming services. I wonder if the US releases will be forgotten or if they will somehow become highly desirable collector's items someday.
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Post by jk on Mar 15, 2019 10:43:35 GMT
I grew up with The Beatles. Or rather they were rammed down my throat at school when they first broke in the UK in early '63. I was exclusively into US music at the time--in a tiny minority in other words. Since then I have come to love some of their work, particularly their debut album Please Please Me, Rubber Soul, Revolver and Abbey Road (UK versions where applicable). My all-time favourite Beatles track is "The Word", for which I am occasionally ridiculed: Mods, is there any way to straighten up the topic title? Please?
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Post by Do You Like Veggies? on Mar 15, 2019 20:28:26 GMT
Fixed. I didn't know I had the ability to do that, honestly. Pretty useful stuff!
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Post by micd95 on Mar 16, 2019 8:23:15 GMT
I grew up with The Beatles. Or rather they were rammed down my throat at school when they first broke in the UK in early '63. I was exclusively into US music at the time--in a tiny minority in other words. Since then I have come to love some of their work, particularly their debut album Please Please Me, Rubber Soul, Revolver and Abbey Road (UK versions where applicable). My all-time favourite Beatles track is "The Word", for which I am occasionally ridiculed: Mods, is there any way to straighten up the topic title? Please? Why is that your favourite, jk?
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 16, 2019 14:18:36 GMT
I'm curious about that, myself. It's a good song in my opinion, but it wouldn't occur to me to put it into the conversation for my favorite. (Then again, what's in that conversation for me is irrelevant for what's in yours.)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2019 15:41:07 GMT
They compelled me pick up a broom and pretend play and sing when they first appeared on Ed Sullivan, in the same way that seeing Elvis on the Sullivan show made me get up on a coffee table and gyrate when I was a tyke. I was learning to play guitar and piano when Yesterday And Today came out. Each subsequent record was a semester in songwriting and record making. Seeing them at Candlestick was thrilling beyond words.
They profoundly influenced me as a composer.
In my mind, it's only US mono albums until I get to The Beatles.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 16, 2019 15:56:23 GMT
What's crazy is, twenty years later I had similar experiences with the Beatles. First, when I was about four to six, probably, I didn't understand the concept of time very well. I'd listen to my parents' and older sister's music, ranging from 1950s gospel harmony groups and rock and roll right through late '70s and early '80s pop, and it was all the same to me: contemporary. Everything was new because I was new. That Beatles Hey Jude compilation was an exciting, immediate experience.
As I got a little older, I started realizing the world of music expanded beyond my house's physical collection. There was a classic rock station from a nearby town that had an occasional Beatles show, and I was astounded to realize how many "new" Beatles songs there were! I would record them off the radio onto horrible three-for-99-cent cassettes and listen back until those pathetic tapes warped or tore or stuck (which, given their low quality, unfortunately wasn't long). "Eight days a week!?" I remember thinking. "But there's only seven. That's funny!"
Then at its 20-year anniversary, there was at least one televised Sgt Pepper documentary. That completely won me over and struck me as definitive proof that this was the greatest album in history. (I a had previously held Michael Jackson's Thriller and Twisted Sister's Stay Hungry as legitimate contenders for the title. I was ten or eleven.) I don't think it has fallen from at least a tie in that position in the subsequent three decades, however much its reputation seems to have fallen for those who look immediately before or after it in the Beatles catalogue for a new number one.
Not only the greatest popular music band of all time, but so much greater than the sum of its parts it is that it's hard to imagine what could have been had they hung on another five years, even. Assuming they could avoid killing one another.
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Post by kds on Mar 27, 2019 13:47:14 GMT
What do you lads think of the fab four John, George, Paul, and Pete Ringo Their reputation as the greatest rock band there ever was, or ever will be, is well earned.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jun 4, 2019 12:25:39 GMT
An all star band (not Ringo's) touring The White Album:
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Post by Kapitan on Jun 4, 2019 12:32:18 GMT
The Beatles themselves missed out on the cash cow of legacy acts touring classic albums, didn’t they? Right now they could’ve been firmly in year 3 of the 50th anniversary Pepper tour. (Plus it would’ve been priceless to see Lennon disciples explain John’s cash grab.)
As for this “all-star” band doing White, I’m sure it’ll be kinda cool. But I wouldn’t pay for it.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jun 4, 2019 12:41:25 GMT
I love The white Album songs, but I would look just as forward to hearing these guys - Rundgren, Molland, Dolenz, Scheff, Cross - performing their own/band's hits, too.
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