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Well, I think you are wrong. That's my opinion. The Beatles are great! But you are certainly entitled to your opinion.
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I love the Beatles, from the early days on to Abbey Road. But how about the movies? They all have their own charm, even the cool-but-a-downer Let It Be. My fave is Yellow Submarine. The animation is great, the story is wonderfully goofy, and the Blue Meanies kick ass!!
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You are of course entitled to your opinion, but I fail to see how you can possibly denounce all their music as simplistic. Just as an aside, just how complex do you think Led Zep is? I'm not being sarky here; I'm geniunely interested in how you think they compare. Please be as technical as you can in your response. Just dashing away something as "simplistic" without justification makes it rather hard to respond to.
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CBG: I do not think that the Beatles songs were simple. In the early years perhaps songs like She Loves You and Love Me Do were simple but at the end of the sixties, they became more mature. Some of the songs are very complex, like A Day in the Life and Strawberry Fields Forever, musically. As for thier lyrics, John wrote some really complex lyrics, like in All You Need is Love, which I still have trouble understanding. Speaking of All You Need is Love, who do you think sings "She loves you, yeah, yeah, yea, she love to.." at the end? I think its John, but some people think it is Paul.
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Beatles Rule!!
Mmmmmm! I like "A Hard Days Night" best (it's a hard call, I love the "ski clothes" in Help), the black and white shots on the trains remind me of living in Europe. Paul's "grandpa" was another "stinky old man"! I think you are right Cass, I go for John singing the "yeah yeahs".
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Check out
http://www.rathergood.com/chicken/ It's clean, very funny and sort of relevant to this thread!
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I know that AHDN is supposed to be the better film, and I really like it - especially Ringo's solo, and Grandfather, but Help! suits my sense of humour more.
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I'm happy to watch them both! repeatedly! Don't think I could do that with Yellow Sub though. I need my Fab Four in the flesh!
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BeardOfPants, lets just quit while we are ahead, none of us are going to accept (me included) anybodies points on anything and things can go ugly and personal when band loyalty is concerned.
I stress again that I like the Beatles and that I own several albums, my favourite Beatle's album is Srgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club band while my favourite Beatles song is Let it Be, it has one of my personal favourite guitar leads and interesting drumming. I believe that the Beatles hated Let it be as an album, can anybody clarify this? |
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Also, as Cass mentioned, there was a lot of bad blood during the recording sessions, so it is entirely possibly that some of this negativity translated over into their music. And then there was Phil Spector's atrocious mangling of The Long and Winding Road.
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Phil Spector! What a weirdo. To think, Brian Wilson thought he was speaking to him through the walls! Did Ronnie Spector (or the Ronettes) ever get any money from him? The Long and Winding Road! ugh!
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I have only seen the excerps of Let it Be from Anthology ... yes, I did watch all 8 videos.
I don't think Phil ever paid the Ronettes. Ugh. Wall of sound my lily white heiny. More like wall of crap. I like the original version of the Long and Winding Road, but even then, it's not my favourite song. I prefer Let it Be, Two of Us, and Dig a Pony. Paul looked like he was being a right prig in Let it Be, but then, someone had to be; it didn't look like they were making much progress... (Perhaps he could have handled it better, though.)
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So....I was just listening to "Beatle Brunch", today, a full hour on "Beatles For Sale" lp. (joy!) The BBC interviews are great! They said Beatle Brunch dot com, I'll have to try.
Also, The Let It Be period kills me with the hair! By that time, the long hair thing had totally run it's course, facial and head! Nobody knew what to do with it, including the Beatles! The hair thing may sound silly now, but in the sixties, it was such a "badge" of who you were, politically. It's almost impossible to comprehend in the "anything goes" atmosphere we have today. The fifities were all about crewcuts. Nobody but greaser guys had long (this would mean touching the ears or eyebrows!) hair, and they were basically considered "hoods". I remember the classical music section at the Army PX was called the "Longhair" section!! (Boy did that word change meaning heehee). Many people would look at someone with long hair and instantly hate them! (Easy Rider!). The longer hair thing ran it's course, after so many years, even the Beatles didn't know what to do with the silly hair business. How about all the "Handlebar" moustaches in the psychedelic phase! I think the glitter trend finally gave trendoids a new place to go with their hair, after all the long hair stuff. I must add, the current trend of the "Fu Man Chu" moustache and other funny linear little hair growths on men's chins has been going on quite a long time! I thought DeNizio of the Smithereens was on the cutting edge of that look back in the eighties. Who else? Sorry to ramble on, hair is/was a big deal to babyboomers!
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Beatles Brunch? Funny, there's a show like that where I am (er, was) in Calgary that I listened to every Sunday morning... are those commonplace?
As for the Beatles. Best. Band. Ever. Don't mess with them. I could go on and on about them but I think, out of laziness, I'll recommend the Douglas Adams essay "The Voices of All Our Yesterdays" instead. (It's found in The Salmon of Doubt) More details to come. Sometime.
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New George Harrison album released
http://www.itv.com/news/Entertainment1720395.html I was never the biggest fan of his work, although much of it I did find pleasant listening. |
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