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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
      0
    • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (out of order, but I somehow left it out)
      9

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A unique view of the last time they ever played together:  

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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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12 hours ago, Greybeard said:

   Maybe you all should consider the remastered Red album.

https://www.amazon.com/1962-1966-digitally-remastered-BEATLES-Korean/dp/B00CH80G8O/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1538441706&sr=1-4&keywords=beatles+remastered&dpID=51DdCFDkyRL&preST=_SX218_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch

 

a curse on the money grab of a red and blue album

 

 

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13 minutes ago, Helpmenow said:

Black album

 

the sudden availability of bootlegs and youtube and Anthology kind of drained the myth that they had dozens of great songs they hadn't recorded

 

i would give them 10 at most, some like What's the New Mary Jane is included but it justly wasn't put on vinyl

 

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2 hours ago, row_33 said:

 

the sudden availability of bootlegs and youtube and Anthology kind of drained the myth that they had dozens of great songs they hadn't recorded

 

i would give them 10 at most, some like What's the New Mary Jane is included but it justly wasn't put on vinyl

 

Haven't heard any of the "new" bootlegs but as far as I know Introducing the Beatles (veejay records) is the most counterfeited album of all time. Someone correct me if I'm wrong on this.

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1 hour ago, T&C said:

Haven't heard any of the "new" bootlegs but as far as I know Introducing the Beatles (veejay records) is the most counterfeited album of all time. Someone correct me if I'm wrong on this.

 

They aren’t new, they are recently widely available for anyone who wants to hear them.

 

 

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Paul McCartney in San Francisco jamming with Jorma Kaukonen & Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane.
In April 1967, Paul flew to the USA (with Mal Evans) to surprise girlfriend Jane Asher for her 21st birthday. She was on tour with the Old Vic Theatre company.
He visited the Fillmore Auditorium, where Jefferson Airplane were rehearsing.
Paul then joined the band at their apartment and played an acetate of the Beatles’ new album ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’. They also tried a jam, but Paul had problem playing Jack Casady’s right-handed bass guitar, so he switched to a guitar, which he could play lefty strung right.
San Francisco, 130 Delmar Street, 4/4/ 1967

 

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A great day for throwaway masterpieces as they start on Long Long Long, I'm So Tired, and TCSoBungalowBill...

 

Yoko gets the first female voice on a Beatles track...

 

 

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Paul adds Why Don't We Do it in the Road

 

Lennon: That's Paul. He even recorded it by himself in another room. That's how it was getting in those days. We came in and he'd made the whole record. Him drumming. Him playing the piano. Him singing. But he couldn't—he couldn't—maybe he couldn't make the break from the Beatles. I don't know what it was, you know. I enjoyed the track. Still, I can't speak for George, but I was always hurt when Paul would knock something off without involving us. But that's just the way it was then.

 

and the mix of bull and truth in that statement speaks volumes....

 

 

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It's All Too Much gets resurrected for the Yellow Submarine soundtrack

 

this and Only a Northern Song were started during the Sgt Pepper sessions, would have been a lot more "ahead of it's psychedelic time" released then instead of when we got to hear it.

 

George apparently wrote IATM about acid, then found meditation gave the same results, I'll take his word for it...

 

 

 

still argued over who provided the opening feedback, some go with John, others Paul (more his type of noodling in studio), George was at the organ

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On 10/16/2018 at 12:36 PM, row_33 said:

It's All Too Much gets resurrected for the Yellow Submarine soundtrack

 

this and Only a Northern Song were started during the Sgt Pepper sessions, would have been a lot more "ahead of it's psychedelic time" released then instead of when we got to hear it.

 

George apparently wrote IATM about acid, then found meditation gave the same results, I'll take his word for it...

 

 

 

still argued over who provided the opening feedback, some go with John, others Paul (more his type of noodling in studio), George was at the organ

It is John on the opening.

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3 minutes ago, Helpmenow said:

Totally John. 

Sonic blue strat used by John. Paul is on his Rick 

 

George later said it was Paul, he wasn’t into giving Paul a ton of extra credit.

 

It’s split on the internet discussions...

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1 minute ago, Helpmenow said:

Research this and it is mentioned that it was John not George.

 

I’ve read three sites tonight that quoted George saying it was Paul

 

 

 

 

The discussion occurred in the early 1990s, John wasn’t available for some reason

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20 hours ago, Helpmenow said:

It is John on the opening.

             I'm behind the times but this is the first time I have heard this.   The start sounds like "Black or White"

 

   I was on a plane today and I chose to listen to the Red Album on my mp3 player.  Bose noise canceling headphones.   I always enjoy listening to them, trying to guess who is singing what.   They did have a great vocal sound and they are probably under-rated in that regard.   It is also a great album to hear how they progressed.

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14 hours ago, Greybeard said:

             I'm behind the times but this is the first time I have heard this.   The start sounds like "Black or White"

 

   I was on a plane today and I chose to listen to the Red Album on my mp3 player.  Bose noise canceling headphones.   I always enjoy listening to them, trying to guess who is singing what.   They did have a great vocal sound and they are probably under-rated in that regard.   It is also a great album to hear how they progressed.

 

thanks Greybeard, the hardest (to me) thing to pick out is George's harmony on John or Paul songs, I think they deliberately mixed him down to put him in his place.

 

 

On Sullivan, John's voice was shot (often happened) or his mic wasn't working (happened a lot), so you get Paul's contribution.

 

 

 

Washington gives you John's part as Paul is washed out.

 

 

 

A good guide to their contributions to this classic.

 

On the single they are in unison for the first two lines, with John dominating for most of the rest of it.

 

 

 

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A fun website is this man's work, going too deep on every song in a great way.

 

http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/ss.shtml

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George Martin works on the dreadful 2nd side of the YS soundtrack

 

the biggest heist since all those nobodies made a killing from getting the Colonel to put their trash on an Elvis soundtrack....

 

 

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The divorce trial of John and Cynthia is finalized, in favour of the Mrs.

 

 

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a fun poll from a few years back, definitely The Who in this case, a rare instance...

 

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/i-can-see-for-miles-vs-helter-skelter.341559/

 

 

 

 

 

and up to 1000 pages for the 50th of the White Album

 

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/50th-anniversary-all-things-beatles-white-album.729833/

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15 hours ago, Helpmenow said:

Saw him four times. Twice in Toronto, here and syracuse

 

I haven't seen him live but gave 2 pairs of tickets as gifts for separate concerts to fans who really appreciated it.

 

What is your favourite part of his catalogue?

 

Mine are the throwaway masterpieces Good Day Sunshine and For No One, doing his thing while John was doing his.

 

 

 

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