My other obsession besides The Eagles, The Fab Four. They have Impacted my life in such a way, their music is timeless, and they are all incredibly handsome. I love John's big brown eyes :inlove:
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My other obsession besides The Eagles, The Fab Four. They have Impacted my life in such a way, their music is timeless, and they are all incredibly handsome. I love John's big brown eyes :inlove:
Amazing EL, since they broke up 20 years before you were born! Their music is timeless - I'm just curious how you came to be such a huge fan. You know the old joke - I didn't know Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings - and that joke usually is intended for people even twice your age!
I borrowed the 1 CD from my Dad one time, and I was instantly hooked :thumbsup:
Where do you want to start?
First of all here is an approximate Top 10:
1. Yesterday
2. Norwegian Wood
3. A Day In The Life
4. Hey Jude
5. Come Together
6. Strawberry Fields Forever
7. Get Back
8. Back In The USSR
9. Revolution
10. Eleanor Rigby
It would have been easier to list 20. I could go on about this for a very long time.
What a coincidence Julie, my top ten is the exact same
My Top Ten Albums would be:
1. Sgt. Pepper
2. The White Album
3. Let It Be
4. Revolver
5. Rubber Soul
6. Abbey Road
7. Meet The Beatles
8. 1
9. 1967-1970 ( Blue Album)
10. 1962-1966 (Red Album)
EL, that is a remarkable coincidence, given how many wonderful songs there are to choose from.
Albums:
1. Revolver (my favourite album of all time)
2. The Beatles
3. Abbey Road
4. Rubber Soul
5. A Hard Day's Night
6. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
7. Let It Be (totally underrated)
8. Help!
9. With The Beatles
10. Beatles For Sale
My favorite Beatle would have to Be John, because he was very intelligent, witty, and could be arrogant at times. but he was funny.
Looking at the "Top 10" songs by the Brits...I would only change to include "Blackbirds". As for albums...wow, that is so hard to make a choice as to "the best". I'd probably have to go with "Abby Road" but "Sgt Peppers" is so close that I go into a tailspin trying to decide between them.
I guess I was in High School when the Beatles rose to fame. What a great time to be a kid!
I was a huge Beatles fan back in the day! I remember the Beatles arrived in the USA on my 12th birthday, February 7, 1964. One of my most vivid memories is going to see "A Hard Day's Night" in the theater, and screaming along with everyone else every time they sang!:hilarious:
I've always liked the Beatles. Not a huge fan, but enjoy many of their songs. I remember seeing them on the Ed Sullivan Show back when I was a kid. And I loved Paul's puppy dog eyes.
Favorite songs:
Hey Jude, Get Back and Yesterday.
I love Pauls Big Puppy dog eyes too :inlove:
We're going to see the Beatles tribute band Rain tonight. I think I've heard others mention them on the board before. I'm really looking forward to it!
My favourite. Second generation fan here.
Anyone get the remastered CDs?
I frankly didn't see the point of buying all the remastered CDs. I do hope that yet another generation of fans is introduced to the greatest popular music of our time.
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One of my favorites By George
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Love this one
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This is my favorite scene. So adorable in their white suits :faint:
One of my top favorite bands. My favorite Beatle is George Harrison, because he is in my opinion highly underrated as a guitar player. I really like the Beatles stuff, with my favorite song being "Here Comes The Sun". I remember being a little kid and listening to that on a movie and really liking it. I found out much later on who that was. In my opinion, the best 3 bands of all time are the Eagles, the Stones, and the Beatles.
Beatles: Grew up on them in the 60's. They defined the music and culture of that era. They pretty much unlocked the fetters holding the kids in check and gave the adults something to unite in hatred of <LOL>
I've heard it said that Harrison "invented" the guitar lead!
I think most people would pick Sgt Peppers as their favorite album but for me, it was always "Abby Road". I remember literally wearing the gooves off of my first Abby Road vinyl. Then bought another and recorded it to reel to reel tape and never played the vinyl other to re-record it if the tape became unplayable because of rewinds or something.
The only thing I'd change in Austin's list of all time greatest rock bands would be to toss Led Zeppelin in ahead of the Stones. Both were deserving of the selection as one of the top three but I liked Zep's music and contributions to the industry more.
Funny you mention Abbey Road - its my favorite Beatles album as well!
My top 5 favorite Bands goes like this. Eagles - Stones - Beatles - Led Zeppelin - AC/DC or Aerosmith. For my 5th band I'm constantly trying to decide if I like Aerosmith or AC/DC better. I really love both band's music so it's a hard choice.
The Stones is kind of funny for me, I'm a huge Keith Richards/Mick Taylor fan but there are times where I'm not such a Mick Jagger fan. I really love the 70s stuff (Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street, Ya Ya's Live, etc). My favorite album of theirs is Exile. Just a great album.
I'm glad this has been revived. I could talk about the Beatles all the time. Every time I listen to them I get more & more out of them.
Although Revolver is my favourite Beatles album & also my favourite album of all time I'm finally starting to get the whole Sgt Pepper 'mystique'. One of the reasons why it's great is because it is so English. People always say the Kinks & the Who wrote better songs about England but the Beatles did too (don't forget that the amazing single Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever is from this period & it is as English as you can get).
Examples: the whole brass band thing of Sgt Pepper itself with Billy Shears (Ringo) - you can just picture the crowd maybe at one of the south coast seaside resorts like Brighton watching the band.
Good Morning Good Morning & Lovely Rita - perfect descriptions of English suburban life ('it's time for tea & Meet The Wife... watching the skirts you start to flirt now you're in gear').
She's Leaving Home -while this could be anywhere, the girl is meeting a man from the motor trade & the parents' lament ('we struggled hard all our lives to get by') seems very post World War II Britain.
Fixing A Hole & Getting Better - 'mustn't grumble'!
A Day In The Life - the ultimate Beatles song & has so many references from 'nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords' to '4000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire' & the Albert Hall to 'the English army had just won the war'.
As for Top 5 bands mine are Beatles/Eagles/Rolling Stones/Dire Straits/Led Zeppelin.
NEWS FLASH: The entire Beatles catalogue is finally on iTunes.
I've said this before, but I think the fact that I grew up with The Beatles has something to do with my love for their music. As Mike has said, they are responsible for changing our culture at the time, and I was a young person eating it up! It's almost like I evolved with The Beatles. I loved their first songs as they were played on the radio, but when Rubber Soul came out everything had changed! Even the album's title was telling. And I still loved everything I heard. Revolver was even more evolved. When you read books about them in the recording studio during these albums and Sgt. Pepper, you learn that they were like children wanting to try anything and everything to see what it sounded like. You guys know me and lists, so I don't have a favorite album, or even a favorite song. For me, nobody can touch this band, simply because of the effect they had on the world at the time. It also doesn't hurt that their message was peace and love.
FP, it's funny that the lyrics you quote as being very English were at the time for me very hippy/trippy. It wasn't until I read about how these songs were written did I know that they were about real places!
What cumulatively, Jack Nicklus, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player and Tiger Woods were to Golf, The BEATLES were to music. And they did it in ONE GENERATION where the golfers spanned four overlapping generations.
But as has been said, it wasn't just their profession the Beatles revolutionized, it was Culture itself!
I can think of little recently other than the H-Bomb and the Cold War that impacted culture as much as the Beatles! And depending on your point of view, one was as good or bad as the other!
I also was a child of the 60s and grew up with the Beatles. Can't consider a world without their music. As a younger kid, my favorite was Paul, 'cause he was Cute. But as I matured and became a more enlightened gal, John was my favorite. What lyrics and insight. The last couple nights PBS has played some Lennon material to commemorate his 70th birthday and 30th anniversary of his death. I resent missing out on all the new things he would have had for us in the last 30 years. Tonight was a show called LennoNYC, about his and Yoko's time in America. The quote that stood out for me was Yoko's "He was an artist. Why would anyone want to kill an artist?"
My favorites are the Red, White and Blue albums, Sgt Peppers, but most favorite is Abbey Rd, I also wore the vinyl out on this one.
For Beatles Fans...in the UK only I guess :eyebrow: 10.35 ITV Tonight
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I Was There When the Beatles Played the Cavern
Documentary marking the 50th anniversary of the group's first appearance at the underground Liverpool venue. Fans and fellow musicians - including two members of John Lennon's first band the Quarrymen - recall their memories of the former fruit warehouse, where the Beatles performed nearly 300 times. Including contributions by Ken Dodd, Gerry Marsden and Willy Russell, archive footage of the band performing at the Cavern, plus a rare interview with original drummer Pete Best
Category General Music/Ballet/Dance
Director John Piper
Executive Producer Mark Robinson
Thanks Carole. Guess I'll have to hear all about it from you! ;)
Yes - it sounds really interesting!
Now do I sense a "boot" in the offing?
Sadly Mike I don't have the facilities to do all this modern techy stuff :-(
but I have to admit it was actually quite ggod! It'll probably appear on You Tube or a more up-to-date member will have recorded it and be able to pass it around! :wink:
I'm pretty whacked out on the Bugs man. Everyone, or just about everyone and I include myself....we comment on how they changed culture. How they influenced the social and political minds of more than one generation.
But have you listened to their music. I mean REALLY listened to their music? They were a phenomena! And you could see them evolve from one album to the next. When it came to a songwriting team, I think the only duo to challenge John and Paul would have to be Don and Glenn. And as much as I love what Don and Glenn have done, I think they are still in the shadow of what Paul and John did.
I think Joe is right on the button when he says something to the effect of "If you want to learn Music....study everything the Beatles have ever done!"
Okay, it's late. I'm taking my meds now and heading for bed!
I heard two Beatles tracks yesterday - All My Loving & The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill. The endless wit & invention of these men and the way the music evolved from joyous love songs to weird stories & sound collages never ceases to amaze me. They are the benchmark against which all rock music should be judged.
Sadly, I don't think Henley/Frey really measures up to Lennon/ McCartney. Their body of work as a duo in terms of songwriting is not actually that big. To be honest I think more valid comparisons would be Jagger/Richards & Page/Plant. I wish there were much more Henley/Frey than there is.
I agree Julie, They've certainly had an impact on me, and I wasn't around during their heyday.
I also agree that Lennon and McCartney that are in a league all by themselves in terms of the quanity and quality of their body of work and definitely set the bar for all who followed.
Now, as far as Henley and Frey - while they were not that prolific in terms of the quantity of work they produced, the quality of their overall body of work is almost unsurpassed, IMHO.
Good grief, I can't believe I haven't seen this thread before. I guess I spent FAAAAAAAAAAR too much time away from The Border.
The Beatles are, without a doubt, my favourite group/band. The Eagles come a close second, but I've loved The Beatles since my childhood.
I was 12 years old when my mother hauled out two seven singles of "Can't Buy Me Love"/"You Can't Do That" (1964) and "Oh Darling"/Ob-la-di Ob-la-da" (1968 at my request, as I'd started listening to their music whenever I heard it on the radio. She also had a seven single of George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord"/"Isn't It A Pity", taken from his 1970 triple album "All Things Must Pass".
Two years later, I became Beatles obsessed, a passion that was exceeded only by my obsession with Elvis Presley. But even he took a backseat while I became engrossed in all things Beatles for a great part of my high school career.
John Lennon is my favourite Beatle - I just love his powerful voice, that could cover anything from "Twist And Shout" to "In My Life". He was an exceptional songwriter at his best, writing some timeless classics like the post-Beatles gems "Imagine" and "Jealous Guy", not to mention "Woman" and "(Just Like) Starting Over". I love his sense of humour - so quick-witted and clever, and last but not least, I think he was just gorgeous and sexy - in the pre-Yoko years (:wink:).
One of my biggest dreams is to see Paul McCartney live in concert, but sadly, I don't think that dream will ever come true. Just another legend who doesn't grace South African waters... how sad. Paul has the same ability John had for singing and writing a variety of songs - from "I'm Down" to "Yesterday". As far as I can remember, he recorded the latter two songs on the same day. I also love his work with Wings, and my favourite is "My Love". Wow, Linda was a lucky girl to have a song like that written about her. :wink:
George Harrison - ahhh. The world's most underrated guitarist. Boy, could he PLAY! And that sweet voice, that just added dimensions to the Lennon/McCartney harmonies. Of course, George wrote one of the most covered songs of all time, "Something" - legends like Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and Shirley Bassey recorded it, amongs many others. Paul McCartney mentioned once that he thought it a great compliment when Frank Sinatra commented that "Something" was his favourite Lennon/McCartney composition!
Oh yes, and did I mention that I think both Paul and George were completely gorgeous. Paul, even at his age (68, is able to make my knees weak. He's still got it!
Richard Starkey - or Ringo Starr, as we have come to know him - the world's most underrated drummer!! In addition to his sweet nature and sense of humour, he is an excellent musician. The Beatles were not The Beatles before Ringo joined them. Listening to recordings that featured their previous drummer, Pete Best, there is just no comparison, with all due respect to Pete Best. Ringo helped to create what we have come to know as the Beatles sound.
Okay, before I go on and on, I'd better stop now. I must say, I rather enjoyed sharing that! I just wish I had more time to spend on The Border!
What a wonderful tribute Mrs F. Can you just 'imagine' what more John could have given us?
As a child in the 60's with 3 older sisters, I grew up listening to the Beatles and loved everything they did. One of my sisters still has every 7" single and all the albums. I have a few of my own.
I was lucky enough to see Wings in concert in Brighton on my 18th Birthday. Amazing. Best family birthday party I have ever missed lol. :thumbsup:
In the last year at her Junior school, (year 6) my oldest daughter got to study the Beatles as part of the National Curriculum. She grew to love them too and bought a greatest hits CD of her own that she still has and plays on her i-pod. Sadly they didn't repeat those school lessons 2 years later when her little sister was in year 6, and she still hasn't discovered the magic of them yet.
The sad thing about growing old is that inevitably, I find myself longing for the years that I got only glimpsed as a result of the way I was raised. Oh, I knew what was going on, but I wanted to be a part of it instead of a spectator! On the other hand, I was privileged to be there when it was happening and I wouldn't trade those memories for anything!
I was not allowed to buy any of the albums or 45's by any R&R musicians (nor any Blues either). I had my little transistor radio though and would spend hours channel hopping the AM dial, wading through the static hearing nothing but MoTown while searching for the few moments of Beatles.
The Beatles were a big part of that period of Jr and Sr School for me. They were, well, different! I didn't really care much for anything other than Blues back before the Beatles. And I didn't win any popularity contests because of my infatuation with Blues Music....you can imagine what it was called by the kids I was in school with....kids are NASTY creatures and our school was no exception.
I cannot make any adverse comment about anything Mrs Frey documented.
Brilliant.
Thank you, PM! Yes, John was in a creative resurgence when he was murdered. After his 5-year hiatus (when he spent time as a "househusband", raising his second son, Sean), he put out "Double Fantasy", which features wonderful songs like the aforementioned "Woman", "(Just Like) Starting Over" as well as "Watching The Wheels". The irony of this album is that it didn't sell as well as it could have before his death, due to the number of Yoko Ono songs on it as well (with apologies to all Yoko fans). The posthumous album, "Milk And Honey", also features songs that John recorded during that period.
I must say, I'm not really a fan of some of the work John put out just after The Beatles split. In my opinion, he was losing his musicality and becoming too focused on politics, which also landed him in some hot water. "Imagine" is the only album of his from the early '70s that I own.
Paul was the more commercially minded of the two, and reaped the benefits thereof. I'm also not a fan of everything Paul put out as a solo artist, but I think he pipped John to the post regarding commercial success, if we are to measure such things. Paul wrote some wonderful, tuneful songs post-Beatles, both with Wings and solo. "Maybe I'm Amazed" is just one example of such material.