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  1. 1. Which Beatles album is your favorite (not necessarily which you think is best) and why?

    • Please Please Me
      0
    • Meet the Beatles
      2
    • Hard Day's Night
      1
    • Beatles For Sale
      1
    • Help!
      3
    • Rubber Soul
      9
    • Revolver
      12
    • Magical Mystery Tour
      3
    • White Album
      15
    • Yellow Submarine
      2
    • Abbey Road
      37
    • Let it Be
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    • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (out of order, but I somehow left it out)
      9

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On ‎12‎/‎7‎/‎2018 at 3:39 PM, row_33 said:

 

 

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1966, this day, John was working on Strawberry Fields Forever, and Paul on When I'm Sixty-Four

 

no further comment...

 

 

 

Why no further comment?

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Norwegian Wood and In My Life are two of my favorite Beatles tunes.  I could play Rubber Soul on repeat.  Maybe not the best, but my favorite.

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Meet The Beatles  is THE first album I ever bought. So just for sentimental reasons it is my favorite

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14 minutes ago, Gugny said:

 

Why no further comment?

 

comparing what was going on with them, John writing a psychedelic masterpiece and Paul a weak music hall jest...

 

in 1968 John had 12 more years to live.

 

 

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10 minutes ago, Gugny said:

 

Sobering.

 

i'm sorry i forgot the anniversary on the weekend

 

woke up that morning and Ticket to Ride was followed by Happiness is a Warm Gun and Mind Games on the radio and I knew something was up...

 

 

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1 minute ago, row_33 said:

 

i'm sorry i forgot the anniversary on the weekend

 

woke up that morning and Ticket to Ride was followed by Happiness is a Warm Gun and Mind Games on the radio and I knew something was up...

 

 

 

Yeah, it's one that I definitely never forget.  Such a sad, sad time.

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19 minutes ago, row_33 said:

 

i was 14, it was crushing

 

 

 

I was 9 (turned 10 a month later).  My mom woke me up to tell me in the morning.  But she told me that it was Paul McCartney.  I loved the Beatles at 10, but I was also a big Wings/McCartney solo fan.  Radio had Beatles songs on every station, it seemed.  Then I found out it was John Lennon.  Still very heartbroken.  I remember cutting he article out of the newspaper and pinning it up to my wall in my bedroom.

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2 hours ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said:

How did everybody here feel about "Let it Be: Naked?" I was just getting into the Beatles at about 11 when this one came out, so I liked it better than the original. I also never had any sort of personal connection to it. Re-listening to it right now. 

 

on release they put a severe anti-copy and anti-play "code" on the CDs, which worked against my enjoyment

 

i liked the original, Paul's treacly church songs deserved Phil Spector's orchestration  :D

 

the muddy and disarrayed work was in tune with other great major releases for a few years like Exile on Main St and All Things Must Pass

 

forget whether George's solo on the single or album for Let It Be was the better one...

 

edit:  the album version is much better than the single...

 

 

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5 hours ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said:

How did everybody here feel about "Let it Be: Naked?" I was just getting into the Beatles at about 11 when this one came out, so I liked it better than the original. I also never had any sort of personal connection to it. Re-listening to it right now. 

            I liked the Naked version better.  That always surprised me because I was really into the "Wall of Sound" with the girl groups of the early 60's.

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15 hours ago, Greybeard said:

            I liked the Naked version better.  That always surprised me because I was really into the "Wall of Sound" with the girl groups of the early 60's.

I love Phil Spector, and I love The Beatles. I just think they're two different artists, and it didn't turn out well.

 

Also, I read online that there was a cocaine fueled jam session in the mid 70s between Lennon, McCartney, Harry Nillson, and Stevie Wonder. While that sounds awesome, I looked it up, and it was absolutely terrible. 

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1 minute ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said:

I love Phil Spector, and I love The Beatles. I just think they're two different artists, and it didn't turn out well.

 

Also, I read online that there was a cocaine fueled jam session in the mid 70s between Lennon, McCartney, Harry Nillson, and Stevie Wonder. While that sounds awesome, I looked it up, and it was absolutely terrible. 

    But it sounded good at the time.

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25 minutes ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said:

I love Phil Spector, and I love The Beatles. I just think they're two different artists, and it didn't turn out well.

 

Also, I read online that there was a cocaine fueled jam session in the mid 70s between Lennon, McCartney, Harry Nillson, and Stevie Wonder. While that sounds awesome, I looked it up, and it was absolutely terrible. 

 

The Let it Be album is supposed to sound awful, they couldn't get along and it all fell apart on them.

 

cleaning it up is not the intention or reality of it.

 

 

 

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They all have some great songs, and most have the occasional crappy, almost gimmicky tune that written purely as filler. I understand McCartney got the idea for Eight Days a Week - a really really simplistic tune with even more simplistic lyrics - from a conversation with the cab driver that took him to Lennon’s house one morning, and they conceived and finished the song in 3 hours.  (The cabbie told Sir Paul he was working so hard, it felt like 8 days a week.)

 

The one album that is consistently great, start to finish, is Abbey Road.

 

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They all have some great songs, and most have the occasional crappy, almost gimmicky tune that written purely as filler. I understand McCartney got the idea for Eight Days a Week - a really really simplistic tune with even more simplistic lyrics - from a conversation with the cab driver that took him to Lennon’s house one morning, and they conceived and finished the song in 3 hours.  (The cabbie told Sir Paul he was working so hard, it felt like 8 days a week.)

 

The one album that is consistently great, start to finish, is Abbey Road.

 

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They had minimal filler on albums for their era, compared to the Stones and the utter nonsense on Beach Boys albums

 

 

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1968, at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

 

A feature called 'Celebration In December---A Community Benefit' for which John and Yoko appeared in a white bag, this act they called 'Alchemical Wedding'.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagism

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On 12/12/2018 at 2:10 PM, The Real Buffalo Joe said:

How did everybody here feel about "Let it Be: Naked?" I was just getting into the Beatles at about 11 when this one came out, so I liked it better than the original. I also never had any sort of personal connection to it. Re-listening to it right now. 

I think Naked is interesting, but Let It Be is canon. That’s what I’ve been listening to for almost 50 years now, and even though it’s not my fav, I wouldn’t change a thing on it.

 

That being said, I am a fan of the new White Album remaster, especially on the songs that rock, not so much on the quieter songs like I Will.

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45 minutes ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said:

Honestly, I never understood how someone using your song to sell that product, assuming you're not opposed to the product itself, devalues the artistic value of your song. As long as you're not writing them intentionally to be used in ads.

 

it's an honour we still exalt The Beatles 50 years later to this extent

 

i try not to voluntarily watch commercials, usually taping or flipping during them

 

reminds me, time with the parents next week where they sit there and watch all the ads and laugh out loud even the 500th time they've seen them.... oh well it's the worst thing I can say....

 

 

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2 hours ago, row_33 said:

 

it's an honour we still exalt The Beatles 50 years later to this extent

 

i try not to voluntarily watch commercials, usually taping or flipping during them

 

reminds me, time with the parents next week where they sit there and watch all the ads and laugh out loud even the 500th time they've seen them.... oh well it's the worst thing I can say....

 

 

Only time I ever watch a commercial is during a sporting event. Even then it's rare. I usually start the hockey games about 45-60 minutes after they start, and catch up around the last ten minutes of the game. And I watch Bills games at a Bills Backers Bar with a DJ that plays music during the commercials. 

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8 hours ago, SoTier said:

I voted for "Meet the Beatles" ... I think it was the first record album I bought ... and I wore the vinyl out and eventually had to buy a new copy several years later. 

 

Did you buy it the year it came out? 

 

Mono or stereo?

 

in Canada the closest to that track listing was Beatlemania! With the same iconic cover and different chopped song selections

 

 

 

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3 hours ago, row_33 said:

 

Did you buy it the year it came out? 

 

Mono or stereo?

 

in Canada the closest to that track listing was Beatlemania! With the same iconic cover and different chopped song selections

 

 

 

I bought it in 1963, which was the year it came out I think.  Of course it was mono because I was thirteen and all I had was a "record player" to play mostly 45s (as opposed to a "stereo" which back in that day was an expensive piece of furniture like a TV).

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1 hour ago, SoTier said:

I bought it in 1963, which was the year it came out I think.  Of course it was mono because I was thirteen and all I had was a "record player" to play mostly 45s (as opposed to a "stereo" which back in that day was an expensive piece of furniture like a TV).

 

I showed up a few years later and remember those options very well.

 

how many 45s could you stack to play using some ingenuity?

 

i was surprised to read that the album was released in stereo at the time and that it was released a few days after the JFK assasination 

 

 

 

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i had had forgotten about the album The Beatles Story and will give it another listen through whatever means necessary this week

 

 

 

 

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9 minutes ago, Rico said:

I had all those early Beatles US Mono LPs when I was a kid. Unfortunately, I wrote my name on the back covers. :doh:

 

 

i flipped through 1,000s for $1 or so during the 1980s in record stores

 

 

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On ‎12‎/‎17‎/‎2018 at 12:45 PM, Rico said:

I think Naked is interesting, but Let It Be is canon. That’s what I’ve been listening to for almost 50 years now, and even though it’s not my fav, I wouldn’t change a thing on it.

 

That being said, I am a fan of the new White Album remaster, especially on the songs that rock, not so much on the quieter songs like I Will.

The White Album was always my favorite. I really liked "Savoy Truffle" and was never sure exactly why lol.

 

I looked up that song on Wiki and it said Harrison wrote it about Clapton's love for sweets, and how it was hurting his teeth ("you'll have to have them all pulled out after the savoy truffle").

 

Who knew?

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20 minutes ago, Bill from NYC said:

The White Album was always my favorite. I really liked "Savoy Truffle" and was never sure exactly why lol.

 

I looked up that song on Wiki and it said Harrison wrote it about Clapton's love for sweets, and how it was hurting his teeth ("you'll have to have them all pulled out after the savoy truffle").

 

Who knew?

 

were you around when the White Album was released?  If so, what did you think of it for your first listens?

 

 

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