The Beatles? Who are they? A band?
SouthCrackalack
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I am embarrassed to admit this...but I have NEVER in my life listened to a Beatles album. Sure I have heard tons of songs here and there, but never just sat down and listened to a whole album. I am ashamed to admit it, but I just had to put myself on blast in a public forum. Somehow, I don't even think I own any Beatles vinyl. Anyone feel free to come to SC and slap the shit out of me..I deserve it. I think that might be a mission for me to do this week...DL a few LPs by them and give them all a good solid listen. What are the essential LPs to check out? And in what order?
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My college days informed me w/ all the Beatles I needed. I still dont own an album.
I remember smokin a big joint and sittin down w/ Sgt Pepper's for the first time...............
Silly Shit, get familiar.
Again, silly shit. This thread pops up every so often and everytime the same silly shit.
2) Rubber Soul
3) Abbey Road
5) Magical Mystery Tour
6) Sgt Pepper
7) White Album
8) Help
9) Hard Days Night
10) Let It Be
11) Beatles For Sale
12) With The Beatles
13) Please Please Me
In that order and proper UK releases...non of this US re-packaging bull!
"Tomorrow Never Knows" is very Strutter friendly.
That's the obvious breakbeatish one.
cosign.
Thats like sayin' you love Chinese food but don't care much for rice.
nope. Just never liked them. I have and had friends that love them. to me their songs are like nails on a chalkboard.
Plaese to explain.
Diss the Beatles and you diss yoursleves. It's as silly as rock fans dissing James Brown.
What I don't get is that you can say you don't like the Beatles but not having listened to their albums and then claiming never to want to is just plain stupid.
Sayin....
I was think 'bout puttin together a Beatles Soul R&B covers mix for myself. The fact that there so many is a testament to their art.
I can understand the hatt, but id rather listen for myself then properly hatt.
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Sgt. Pepper
Abbey Road
The US configurations of "Rubber Soul" and "Revolver" differ slightly from the original UK releases (personally, I think they're slightly inferior). Overall, those four albums are their most consistent and musically adventurous. There's no shortage of good stuff on all the others but, as end-to-end listens, these ones hold up the best.
Please to define above term.
Up until "Sgt. Pepper", the US releases of Beatles albums were all noticeably different from the corresponding UK versions, even though they were often released within days of each other. US-only releases like "Beatles '65", "Something New", "Yesterday and Today", "Beatles VI" and "The Beatles Second Album" were in many cases compilations of singles, b-sides, EP cuts, alternate mixes and tracks which hadn't made it onto the US releases of UK albums.
I disagee w/ that.
There a many cats who grew up outside of the Beatles direct influence.
start with a low numbered UK press White Album or don't bother...
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I know folks who have every nanosecond of everything they recorded, but yeah, I don't own anything. I have stuff I like to listen to more. They do have a great catalogue, but when you live close to Liverpool, it's no big deal. Perhaps the good Doctor McCoy knows what I mean?
ALTHOUGH - I am having trouble thinking of an more recent (>80s?) act that I can tell my kids "Ah, you'd have to have been around at the time to grasp the enormity of their achievement" etc. They all seem to be derivative. Maybe Prince, but then, isn't he Jimi in disguise? (or "in The Skys" - Henrix Joke!)
I hardly think you need to listen to more than some of their songs to figure out if you like it or not. For example I don't have to listen to more than a few new country songs to know I hate all of it, so listening to an album full of new country hits would be torture. I have HAD to listen to whole Beatles albums and yes to me, it was torture.
a good place to start for the uninitiated.
US Capitol at least got the Magical Mystery Tour right when they packaged that as an LP rather than release the same format as the UK 6 track EP.
I appreciate that not everyone is into them but for me they were the first group that you listen to when checking 60's pop, which leads you off into loads of other groups. I find it strange that people can be into freakbeat, psych, etc but hate The Beatles.
I purposely didnt listen to any rock or whatever from the 60s/early 70s(except Sabbath,Cooper,and shit like that) back when I was in middle and high school(when I was skating a good bit and listening to a shitload of rap and rock stuff like Sonic Youth,Butthole Surfers,Suicidal Tendencies,Slayer,etc.) I hated anything that I thought was "hippy music" as well, I couldnt stand any of the dumbfuck dorks that wore sandals and Grateful Dead and Phish Tie Dyes and shit. Funny related story about this actually..when I was in 9th grade, a senior wannabe hippy fuck threatened to beat my ass for wearing a Droors shirt because it "made fun of the Doors." Yall ex skaters probably remember the graphic they used to have where it looked just like the Doors logo but said "Droors" instead.
Anyways..because of being an anti-hippy kinda dude when I was younger, I didnt listen to a lot of (probably) good music that I want to discover now.
Right. Capitol in the U.S. would intentionally leave 3-4 songs off every proper Parlophone UK Beatles album so that every third (or so) actual Beatles LP, they could combine the left-off tracks with a few singles and have an extra album to sell. Thus the LPs mentioned above, as well as Hey Jude, were not conceived as albums by the Beatles, but instead cynical compilations designed to get more $$$ out of American consumers.
Most of the American public probably rec'd those LPs as consisting of new Beatles songs, but by Hey Jude it must have become much more blatant, as Capitol was trying to pass off 1965 material as new in 1968, and the difference in songwriting and production between those two eras was presumably very noticeable.
Cool! Thanks for the heads up! This is why I love this place..people actually helping people. To think, if I didnt make this thread, I wouldnt even have known about that auction. Again, good looking out on that lead..I just hope I placed a high enough bid to ensure I gladly take this off record the hands of that sucker..oops, I mean seller on Ebay.