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| Your Favorite Beatles Song...and Why ?
Posted: 5/5/2008 2:48:27 PM | Ahhh...my mistake....I was about 14 at the time I heard it so it was 30 years ago.
So which song played backwards said "I killed Paul"..... | |
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| Your Favorite Beatles Song...and Why ?
Posted: 5/5/2008 8:30:20 PM | OP,
Have you listened to the end of Norwegian Wood? The guy sets the place on fire as he's leaving!
I'm a Beatlemaniac with a different bent, I love Beatles songs done by other bands. Cheap Trick did a killer Magical Mystery Tour, The Smithereens re-did the entire "Meet the Beatles" album, plus "One After 909", Pat DiNizio's rich baritone on "All My Lovin" is beyond compare, there are many others, and if you like cover-band renditions, the Fab-Four repertoire is often copied. It's fun seeing who's going to "punk" a Beatle tune next. | |
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| Your Favorite Beatles Song...and Why ?
Posted: 5/5/2008 9:03:21 PM | My favourite Beatles songs.
In third place... Love Me Do .
Second place...I Want To Hold Your Hand.
And the winner is...
drumroll
I Saw Her Standing There.
There. Now the Beatles can stop wondering.  | |
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| Your Favorite Beatles Song...and Why ?
Posted: 5/5/2008 11:27:26 PM | In My Life.
Why? Cause I'm old and dieing and it takes me back to the many good times.
But of course there are many of their songs that bring back old memories especially
what was happening at the time and where I was at the time of first hearing them as new releases all those years ago.
Chiny. I hope you're alright mate. A well accomplished sparky like you should know that we all run on electromagnetic energy. It must go somewhere right? You should have a listen to Paul Mc Cartney's latest album. "Memory Almost Full". I think he may be dealing with his own mortality with an ablum title like that. Not sure if that makes you feel any better, but if you give it a listen, let us know what you think, because I haven't heard it...lol. I've seen the film clip for the first single ...I think it's Natalie Portman playing a ghost or something. She can haunt my house anytime. He's only 64, but I think his retirement fund should see him out.
But seriously mate I hope all is well. If not, my thoughts are with you.
Here's a cut and paste of the Rolling Stone album review.
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Paul McCartney
Memory Almost Full RS rating-----3 stars Average user rating------4 stars
What's most remarkable about Paul McCartney's inaugural album for Starbucks' Hear Music imprint is its cross-promotional hoo-ha. To win it space on his demographic's overloaded cerebral hard drives, Memory Almost Full will play all day June 5th in every Starbucks in the world, in ten of which caffeinated fans will send birthday greetings to the ex-Beatle, who turns sixty-five on June 18th. Nevertheless, by McCartney's recent standards, the album justifies the pop eccentricity he pursues so imperturbably.
"Dance Tonight" is so simplistic it could make you shudder, but repeated plays soon implant its strummed hook, and the rest of the album establishes that the party it sets up is a setup -- a bit of Eden before a fall that comes immediately with the peppy but regretful "Ever Present Past," about all the time a sixty-four-year-old has already wasted on work instead of love. "Gratitude" is an astonishingly unrecriminating romantic fare-thee-well from a guy who is going through a bitter divorce. "Vintage Clothes" and "Feet in the Clouds" incarnate his nostalgia and whimsy with some wit and considerable musical invention. And the final tracks make clear that boyish Paulie conceived this record as the old man he is. "End of the End" lays out funeral instructions that include jokes, songs, "stories of old" and assurances of an afterlife not all his contemporaries believe will transpire. And "Nod Your Head" appears to advise aging lovers on their beds of pain. Not simplistic at all.
ROBERT CHRISTGAU
(RS 1027 - May 30, 2007)
PS: I heard Heather Mills got his plane as well. Needed it to shave her leg. | |
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| Your Favorite Beatles Song...and Why ?
Posted: 5/6/2008 4:23:50 AM | Across The Universe... because I find the melody appealing.
I think I'm more into Beatallica though... who could forget such classics as
Blackened In The USSR
Sgt Hetfield's Motorbreath Pub Band
Helvester of Skelter
And Justice for all My Loving....
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| Your Favorite Beatles Song...and Why ?
Posted: 5/6/2008 4:42:08 AM | mmm... (lyingcheat suddenly decides to become a musician)
I Wanna Join Your Gang
All My Shovin'
Golden Showers
You Never Give Me Your Money, And Now You're Gonna Be Sorry
Smack A Pony
Get Back Inside B1tch
yeah, yeah, yeah! | |
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| Your Favorite Beatles Song...and Why ?
Posted: 5/6/2008 7:11:59 AM | Blackbird and I Will - sentimental reasons with my kids.
Dear Prudence - I love playing this one, gorgeous big fat flat chords.
Something - the ultimate love song
Happiness Is A Warm Gun - just excellent. | |
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| Your Favorite Beatles Song...and Why ?
Posted: 5/6/2008 11:26:02 PM | I was going to put down.
*Hold my hand while I kiss you, tomorrow I`ll miss you, remember I will always be true.*....when I realized the singer of that song was Johnny Young... so now I have to change it.....
Funny that when Eleanor Rigby, first came out, I used to get sad when I heard it, but about a month afterwards I read in our West Australian newspaper, about an old
*baglady* who was often seen around the streets of Perth, had passed away.,found on a seat in an area frequented by prostitutes........in East Perth, that area is gone now, swallowed up by the approaches to the *PolyPipe*...Polly Farmer Freeway.
This old lady, had been a recluse for years, every beat cop would have moved her on, at some time...... She had been married to a soldier who had`nt returned from the Korean War, and couldnt cope with out him, so took to the streets.. She had people who looked after her at a lot of the soup kitchens, and kept an eye on her welfare.
She left her estate to the Little Sisters of the Poor, charity, run by nuns, some 10 million dollars.......to help other people like her to hide themselves in the back streets and old buildings around Perth...... You never know who is more than they seem.
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| Your Favorite Beatles Song...and Why ?
Posted: 5/30/2008 11:29:53 AM |
So which song played backwards said "I killed Paul".....
Don't know about any that said that, but there was the snippet at the end of Strawberry Fields Forever where John says "Cranberry Sauce" in a voice which was made to slightly distort when the song was mixed. Not surprisingly it was wrongly heard by heaps of folks everywhere as "I've buried Paul"
But "I killed Paul???" Lord only knows! Maybe wishful thinking on one of John's solo songs in the 70's when he and Paul were sh***y with each other for a while? lol | |
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| Your Favorite Beatles Song...and Why ?
Posted: 5/30/2008 11:38:50 AM | | I like lots of Beatles songs but often think that Harrisons' "Something", is the best song that Lennon-McCartney never wrote. | |
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| Your Favorite Beatles Song...and Why ?
Posted: 5/30/2008 12:26:16 PM | I grew up hearing The Beatles, and my kids now like them too... 
And at a friend's birthday party at the weekend; while playing DJ she made me play a Beatles song I never heard off before 'I Want You (She's So Heavy)' and I must admit I was impressed by the song - although reading Wikipedia it stated "The song is an unusual Beatles composition for a variety of reasons, namely its length (nearly eight minutes), its disproportionately small number of lyrics (there are only fourteen different words in the song), its three-minute descension through the same repeated guitar chords (a similar arpeggiated figure appears in another of Lennon's contributions to the album, "Because"), its hard rock sound, and for its instantaneous and unanticipated end"
I Want You (She's So Heavy) is typical of John by that stage of The Beatles as a group. He didnt really want to be there, and was getting into heavy drugs such as heroin, so he simply did songs that were as simple as he could make them so they could be recorded as fast as possible. He's on record as calling many of his tunes from around then "just another load of rubbish" as a simple description.
As for the 3:34 long chord descension at the end of the song, it's sudden cutoff is because (no pun intended) it was trimmed down so as not to make the album amazingly long. It's my favourite part of that track, and you could actually DROOL at the thought of what is in the Apple/EMI archives for that song. Just the descension part itself, (after no more lyrics are sung) is part of a master tape which has that effect and style of playing going on for over 35 minutes (post lyrics) can you believe!!
"Because" sounds fantastic without the music (just John, Paul & George singing the vocals) i found when the Anthology came out, but musically, its essentially a straight lift of Beethoven's "Moolnlight Sonata".
Yes, as one post stated, The Beatles DID influence so many areas of music. Not the least of which was their use of technology & techniques. Most artists use methods and instumental technology which was only 1st being invented when The Beatles were together, so as one of the leading bands of the era, the were among the 1st if not the actual 1st people to take advantage of multiple instruments & effects on their albums, Multi track tapes, distortion pedals, synthesizers, guest artists etc et al.
They were among the 1st, if not the 1st to SUCCESSFULLY write & record their own original material in the rock/pop genre, they endured touring schedules like nobody since which resulted in huge burnout at the time. So no wonder they didn't want to tour again when they were able to stop. Film clips, almost unheard of back then, became their tour "replacements" instead. They made their own films, eventually did their own music publishing (until it was sold from under them) while still together.
They dared to have publicly reported opinions on issues they were asked about which until then artists weren't usually known for. They founded a company for themselves, and began to try talent scouting (Hell, even some of their Apple employees went on to form some of Pink Floyd!). Maybe Apple wasnt successfully done the 1st time, however Apple takes care of their interests in its present, more experienced form to this day. Remarkable with all the chaos it has endured.
Even when the whole group was sinking, & after all 4 of them had "abandoned ship" they still managed one final feat which i believe nobody as a fully functioning group has achieved to this day (let alone as a band that internally hates each other enough to want to tear each other's throats out).
Everybody knows that The Beatles recorded "Let It Be" first & then "Abbey Road" & that then they were released in reverse order.
However, the musical score for "Let It Be" won an Oscar for "Best Original Song Score", for the film of the same title, in the (Northern Hemisphere) Spring of 1971; after they had split........ I don't think any other pop or rock GROUP has ever won an Academy Award. Usually, its only grammys.....
As for favourite song; after all their recording achievements, simply for keeping around memories of a late friend, "In My Life" is the one.
For summing up why i like the The Beatles themselves, i know of three memorable quotes, of which the 1st is by John:
-- "How long are you going to last? Well you can't say you know? You can be big headed, and say: "Yeah we're gonna last 10 years!" But as soon as you've said that you may be lucky to last 3 months you know?"
The 2nd is from George Martin:
-- "I think that the great thing about The Beatles, is that they WERE of their time; their timing was right. They didn't choose it, someone chose it for them, but the timing was right, & they expressed the mood of the people; their own generation."
Lastly, an obscure reference which again highlights how individual The Beatles were with how their career panned out; doing what nobody else ever can again:
-- "The most important thing about The Beatles, is that for their entire careers, they remained at the cutting edge of popular music; INVENTING that cutting edge as they progressed." | |
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| Your Favorite Beatles Song...and Why ?
Posted: 6/7/2008 6:34:36 PM | I had almost all theircatalogue before I was 17, 10 years after they had split up, but I would have to say:
Her majesty (the last 20 seconds inside the end track of on of their LP's)
Why don't we do it in the Road (My kids when late teenagers used to love hearing it and making suggestions why not)
Rocky Racoon
If you want a great site with just about anything you wanted to know about bands of the seventies try superseventies.com
You will find out why the beatles were actually the death knell for the band bad finger for a start (Day after day etc), or how Kung Fu fighting was only expected to sell 10000 records (think in was 4 or 5million in the end)
Very interesting reading. | |
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| Your Favorite Beatles Song...and Why ?
Posted: 6/8/2008 8:29:36 AM | ^^^^^^^^^ 
Hey I like that song too! But not all that fussed about it!
My favorite is this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COMsKPeWAsw&feature=related | |
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