Mon Jul 19, 2010 11:14 am
Mon Jul 19, 2010 12:34 pm
El Fug wrote:My favorite has got to be the middle years --- Help!, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's. That stuff is hard to beat. I love it all though.
Mon Jul 19, 2010 2:32 pm
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Mon Jul 19, 2010 7:47 pm
Kit wrote:My opinion exactly. The Beatles remain to this day my favorite band. I don't play that many of their songs, but every time when I try to learn one I find some interesting thing they put in the song. Their genius is still amazing to me. I have the Anothology DVDs too but I haven't watched it in a long time. I may have to relive that magic again now that you've reminded me.
Mon Jul 19, 2010 7:48 pm
Tim Buffalo Bros wrote:The subsequent album with "Anytime at All", "I cry Instead", etc. are all favorites due to the raw energy and flawless execution of the music by them. So I guess that would be pick # 1.
Tim Buffalo Bros wrote:Help with "Help", "You're gonna lose that girl" and "Ticket to Ride" (and she don't care) still bring back great memories. Anytime they come on the radio, how can you not sing along???
Mon Jul 19, 2010 7:55 pm
sirmyghin wrote:I will be the outlier here, Not really a Beatles fan. I appreciate their music, and how they helped revolutionize guitar music, they just don't speak to me. There are a few choice songs I enjoy (Maxwell's Silver Hammer in particular) but usually I can do without them, no issues.
sirmyghin wrote:Would rather be listening to RUSH!
sirmyghin wrote:No G&Ls here (YET!), but yours is quite nice.
Mon Jul 19, 2010 8:01 pm
zapcosongs wrote:I think the Beatles are great. The acid years are my favorite. Number nine....number nine.... I'm still mulling that one over.
zapcosongs wrote:BTW, Tim, I HATE Get Back (Yellow Submarine as well), but I love your enthusiasm for the band. My kids love it too. Heard Back in the USSR (fast version) on XM this morning, and the boys asked me to turn it up (I was taking them to camp). Anytime, boys!
zapcosongs wrote:Hey El Fug. Nice start! Man, that's a lot of PBJ. By the way, that Ezekiel bread is MUCH improved toasted!
Mon Jul 19, 2010 8:05 pm
zombywoof wrote:I actually got to see the Beatles in NYC. My buddy Frank B's Dad's company had something to do with the show so he took a few of us down to see it.
zombywoof wrote:Lately I have been listening more to the early Beatles stuff. But I guess my two favorite Beatles LPs are Help and the White Album. Funny, the only LP I did not like and did not buy when released was Sgt. Pepper.
Tue Jul 20, 2010 11:17 am
Tue Jul 20, 2010 11:56 am
Brock wrote:I'd have split The Beatles eras a little differently (#1 is before Help!, #2 is Help! to Revolver, and the rest (studio era) is #3). I strongly prefer #3. As you had it divided (White Album through to Abbey Road) I'm still taking #3.
All this said, I think Brian Wilson's SMiLE is the best of the era. Shame he didn't finish it until 2004.
Tue Jul 20, 2010 4:08 pm
But it's all arbitrary anyway,
I love Pet Sounds, but I've been afraid of diving into the 2004 SMiLE
Tue Jul 20, 2010 5:33 pm
Brock wrote:
Unless you have a complete hang up on Brian Wilson's voice being young and crisp, listen to it. It's a masterwork. Wilson along with Van Dyke Parks IMO wrote some of the greatest music ever. Had Wilson not had resistance in the band and the subsequent mental breakdown, this thing would have made it out sometime around January 1967. In some ways it's like a Sgt Pepper, but it's better while being bigger, and it also would have arrived earlier.
I was never that big on the Beach Boys. Too many cars and girls! I still prefer The Beatles catalog overall. SMiLE is different. Musically too. The modular composition is pure genius.
SMiLE rules. My favorite album ever. It's a shame Wilson didn't have more supportive bandmates, or figure out how to work SMiLE as a solo project.
-Brock
Tue Jul 20, 2010 8:00 pm
Brock wrote:Unless you have a complete hang up on Brian Wilson's voice being young and crisp, listen to it. It's a masterwork. Wilson along with Van Dyke Parks IMO wrote some of the greatest music ever. Had Wilson not had resistance in the band and the subsequent mental breakdown, this thing would have made it out sometime around January 1967. In some ways it's like a Sgt Pepper, but it's better while being bigger, and it also would have arrived earlier.
I was never that big on the Beach Boys. Too many cars and girls! I still prefer The Beatles catalog overall. SMiLE is different. Musically too. The modular composition is pure genius.
SMiLE rules. My favorite album ever. It's a shame Wilson didn't have more supportive bandmates, or figure out how to work SMiLE as a solo project.
-Brock
Wed Jul 21, 2010 1:53 am