Favorite Beatles Album

[row_33]

1 hour ago, Rico said:

Abbey Road special edition coming out later this month, is anyone else in? The multi-channel mix could be great.

 

curious what they will do with it, so many overdubs and endless piling on during the mixing

 

(one of my least favourite albums, the medley was a total copout, but it was nice they took 2 of George's songs....)

 

 

[The Dean]

Revolver and Rubber Soul are right at the top of my list. 

[Gugny]

26 minutes ago, row_33 said:

 

curious what they will do with it, so many overdubs and endless piling on during the mixing

 

(one of my least favourite albums, the medley was a total copout, but it was nice they took 2 of George's songs....)

 

 

 

I love the medley and the entire album, myself!

[row_33]

23 minutes ago, Gugny said:

 

I love the medley and the entire album, myself!

 

It's Come Together and George's 2 masterpieces and the rest is best left uncritiqued... perhaps the two were holding back for their solo work?

 

It was nice they got together after all was said and done. 

 

 

 

 

Lennon told David Sheff that "Mean Mr. Mustard" was "a bit of crap that I wrote in India," adding that it was a "piece of garbage. I'd read somewhere in the newspaper about this mean guy who hid five-pound notes, not up his nose but somewhere else."

 

John knew....

 

and the comments by the other 3 about Maxwell's SH should be memorized by now....

 

 

 

 

Edited September 6, 2019 by row_33

[Rico]

47 minutes ago, row_33 said:

 

curious what they will do with it, so many overdubs and endless piling on during the mixing

 

(one of my least favourite albums, the medley was a total copout, but it was nice they took 2 of George's songs....)

 

 

It’s not at the very top of my Beatles list, but I still love it. I’m particularly looking forward to hearing the medley in 5.1, ie. the jam before The End could be amazing.

[Gugny]

16 minutes ago, row_33 said:

 

It's Come Together and George's 2 masterpieces and the rest is best left uncritiqued... perhaps the two were holding back for their solo work?

 

It was nice they got together after all was said and done. 

 

 

 

 

Lennon told David Sheff that "Mean Mr. Mustard" was "a bit of crap that I wrote in India," adding that it was a "piece of garbage. I'd read somewhere in the newspaper about this mean guy who hid five-pound notes, not up his nose but somewhere else."

 

John knew....

 

and the comments by the other 3 about Maxwell's SH should be memorized by now....

 

 

 

 

 

Irregardless ... I love it!

[row_33]

17 minutes ago, Gugny said:

 

Irregardless ... I love it!

 

no problem there, they grit their teeth and got through the White Album and it was nice they tried again to do something after the Let It Be/Get Back sessions

 

hard to argue with people who think everything they did was golden and GOAT

 

it was already 1969 and Led Zeppelin (the first) was out there and blew away anything the Fab Four could muster up at the time, along with many other acts on top

 

things changed drastically while they fiddled away at Twickenham... 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 6, 2019 by row_33

[Gugny]

3 minutes ago, row_33 said:

 

no problem there, they grit their teeth and got through the White Album and it was nice they tried again to do something after the Let It Be/Get Back sessions

 

hard to argue with people who think everything they did was golden and GOAT

 

it was already 1969 and Led Zeppelin (the first) was out there and blew away anything the Fab Four could muster up at the time

 

things changed drastically while they fiddled away at Twickenham... 

 

 

 

geez, #9 for 1969, after they gave John's kid with Yoko 4 of 5 starts for his album, yeah, it's above #10 and 11... 

 

https://www.albumoftheyear.org/ratings/35-rolling-stone-highest-rated/1969/1

 

 

 

69 was Zep II.

 

Hard to compare Zep to the Beatles.  Two very different bands in almost every way possible.

[notwoz]

The album I play most frequently is Rubber Soul.  But Meet the Beatles still gives me goosebumps, just like it did in 1964. 

[T&C]

37 minutes ago, notwoz said:

The album I play most frequently is Rubber Soul.  But Meet the Beatles still gives me goosebumps, just like it did in 1964. 

A taste of Honey does the same here from the first VeeJay Lp:

 

 

 

 

Guess VeeJay is off the map on youtube lol.

[The Dean]

4 hours ago, T&C said:

A taste of Honey does the same here from the first VeeJay Lp:

 

 

 

 

Guess VeeJay is off the map on youtube lol.

 

 

That was my first Beatles album.

[Gugny]

26 minutes ago, The Dean said:

 

 

That was my first Beatles album.

 

My intro to the Beatles was when I was 10 (1981) ... my brother is 6 years older.  He had the red and blue "hits" albums.  I gravitated toward the blue album (later stuff).  From there, I became a huge Wings fan.  As I got older (20s), I got back into the Beatles, but continued to focus on everything Rubber Soul and after.  Still do.  I love their earlier stuff, but I just enjoy listening to the later stuff more.

[T&C]

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

 

[LabattBlue]

I was just thinking about all the great Beatles songs which they never performed in concert because they stopped touring in Summer of 1966, and then broke up in 1969.

 

 

What a concert it would have been in the 1970's when they were all still in their prime.   

[row_33]

12 minutes ago, LabattBlue said:

I was just thinking about all the great Beatles songs which they never performed in concert because they stopped touring in Summer of 1966, and then broke up in 1969.

 

 

What a concert it would have been in the 1970's when they were all still in their prime.   

 

many offers were made in the 70s, a few were very serious.

 

getting them together in one room without something getting thrown down would have been amazing in the 70s

 

 

 

 

[row_33]

if John were alive in the early 2000s and saw how much $$$ was pulled in by comparable acts, they would for sure have been touring, all grudges instantly forgotten

 

remember that Paul cynically entered his wife into the Empire as a contributor scooping 1/5 of Beatles royalties in the 1970s... the Red and Blue and Rarities fortunes were equal parts to her....

 

 

Edited September 11, 2019 by row_33

[T&C]

[Gugny]

4 hours ago, LabattBlue said:

I was just thinking about all the great Beatles songs which they never performed in concert because they stopped touring in Summer of 1966, and then broke up in 1969.

 

 

What a concert it would have been in the 1970's when they were all still in their prime.   

 

Would have been great at Woodstock.

[Rico]

2 hours ago, T&C said:

Still hard to believe that was only 5 years removed from A Hard Days Night, what a bunch of dirty hippies.  

[row_33]

2 hours ago, Gugny said:

 

Would have been great at Woodstock.

 

They weren’t a live act at the time, their recordings were studio tricks with tons of overdubbing and actions that couldn’t be replicated live.

 

John has no interest in stadium concerts, he looked with horror when Paul suggested stadiums during the Let It Be sessions.

 

They had run their course, they made half an album in Abbey Road bailed out by George’s donations 

 

it it was a good trip but the dream was long over....