krtek a houby
Sail hatin'
This.
The progression of their output over such a short space of time was astonishing.
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The progression of their output over such a short space of time was astonishing.
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
I think that’s what a lot of people forget - not only the quality but the innovation in just that timescale.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
I believe you don’t. But I think Dub and Boris Sprinkler actually love them. I mean really, really love them.
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
Yep - definitely a case of “methinks the lady protesteth too much”
Phoney Beatlemania had bitten the dust
SpookyFrank
Float like a caterpillar, sting like a tree
1. Abbey Road
2. Sgt. Pepper
3. Revolver
4. Let it Be (de-spectored version)
5. Hard Day's Night
6. Rubber Soul
7. Magical Mystery Tour
...and the rest in no particular order. Never sat through the entire White Album so can't give it a rating.
2. Sgt. Pepper
3. Revolver
4. Let it Be (de-spectored version)
5. Hard Day's Night
6. Rubber Soul
7. Magical Mystery Tour
...and the rest in no particular order. Never sat through the entire White Album so can't give it a rating.
krtek a houby
Sail hatin'
savoloysam
Pisces Moon
Revolver, Rubber Soul and Sgt Peppers shows what you can do with art when you get creative on recreation drugs. "The White Album" is what happens when you have taken too many. 
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Lol. Fair.Revolver, Rubber Soul and Sgt Peppers shows what you can do with art when you get creative on recreation drugs. "The White Album" is what happens when you have taken too many.
SpookyFrank
Float like a caterpillar, sting like a tree
I know the Abbey Road medley is just a random jumble of whatever half-finished stuff they had lying around to pad out an album with but that just goes to show how extraordinarily creative they were at their peak, and how good McCartney's ear was.
Jennaonthebeach
Wish I was as perfect as you.
Well I've come full circle on this. In 1982 when i first discovered the White album i would have put it and Revolver right at the top. But as years have gone by I've realised that my regard for those two albums rests on just a few tracks. Then i went through my massive Rubber soul phase, but can barely bring myself to listen to it these days.
Now I rate the early albums above the later ones. Let it Be is poor, does anyone disagree? Abbey Road is mostly annoying, I guess because at heart it is a McCartney album. As discussed on another thread, the White album is a very good EP, as is, imo, Revolver. Revolver might be two eps, a McCartney one and a Lennon/Harrison one.
My favourite Beatles single remains "Strawberry Fields, Forever." I can listen to it endlessly even after all these years.
But back to my favourite albums - and I don't care who disagrees, I won't be arguing.
1. Help!
2. Hard Days Night
3. Revolver
4. With the Beatles.
5. Beatles For Sale
and there I shall leave it.
(there are two albums I haven't mentioned but I wouldn't really rate either).
Now I rate the early albums above the later ones. Let it Be is poor, does anyone disagree? Abbey Road is mostly annoying, I guess because at heart it is a McCartney album. As discussed on another thread, the White album is a very good EP, as is, imo, Revolver. Revolver might be two eps, a McCartney one and a Lennon/Harrison one.
My favourite Beatles single remains "Strawberry Fields, Forever." I can listen to it endlessly even after all these years.
But back to my favourite albums - and I don't care who disagrees, I won't be arguing.
1. Help!
2. Hard Days Night
3. Revolver
4. With the Beatles.
5. Beatles For Sale
and there I shall leave it.
(there are two albums I haven't mentioned but I wouldn't really rate either).
ouirdeaux
Caring, Understanding, Non-judgemental Type
The 40s looked pretty ancient from the point of view of the 60s. The difference was that people listening to the Beatles -- or indeed other popular beat combos, m'lud -- weren't looking back to the music of the 40s. At all.
skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
I suppose the equivalent today would be like looking back at stuff like Girls Aloud or 50 Cent. But they feel like last week to me. #old
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Pretty sure they were. In fact plenty of talking heads BBCFour type programmes have 60s musicians saying how when they went to New York you could still see the 30s and 40s jazzers playing the clubs.
Remember also King of the Delta Blues was released in the 60s.
Jennaonthebeach
Wish I was as perfect as you.
Isn't Sgt Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour completely about looking back to previous eras - "it was 20 years ago today", etc? etc. Them and the Kinks - probably lots of other bands I can't think of right now. Edit - Bowie, Small Faces, The Who....
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Yup. A big part of psychedelia is that nostalgia thing. Nostalgia for old music forms, nostalgia for childhood themes, nursery rhymes, nostalgia for a probably mythical innocence. All used as a contrast to modernity and knowing cynicism.
Jennaonthebeach
Wish I was as perfect as you.
That's what I was trying to get at, didn't have the right words, but you did!
I keep think of more - The Band certainly ploughed that furrow too in the US.
And as for Jazz, well Jazz is constantly referring back to its past. And you hinted about the 60s blues revival which was all about looking back to the 30s and the 40s - even bringing back many of the original artists who's careers had ended some time before.
mojo pixy
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Jennaonthebeach
Wish I was as perfect as you.
This is what i can't get my head around. in fact prior to 1966 I can't actually hear any of the Beatles members' individual styles either, which makes me suspicious they didn't have session musicians working on the down low. A few have come out of the woodwork and made claims that they worked on Beatles records, but to date such an idea still sits in conspiracy theory land.
I think they’d basically got bored of the whole thing by that point.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Any album with piggies, blackbird and revolution 9 - not to mention helter-skelter - goes straight in at number 1. Plus it plays well backwards
ouirdeaux
Caring, Understanding, Non-judgemental Type
But most of the kids listening to the 60s musicians weren't listening to the jazzers as well. That's the difference.
The problem is I never listened to it whilst tripping, unlike the others in my list.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Possibly. I have no way of knowing. Although born in the 60s, I was only a wean.
I know my Dad liked Manfred Man, the Small Faces, the Corries, the Clanceys and trad jazz. But he was a bit older than “a kid”.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
I've never listened to any beatles album while tripping, you'd lose the nuances
Nah, it’s written for it! Well, between Rubber Soul and Let it Be.
Jennaonthebeach
Wish I was as perfect as you.
The "kids" were paying whatever they could afford for genuine American records be they jazz, blues, country, rock n roll - particularly in cities with major docks, and ships coming in from the US, like Liverpool. And rock n roll had existed since the 40s so, sorry, i think the "kids" were listening to music as far back as the '40s, as far as they could get hold of them.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Let it bleed a superior title and better album
ouirdeaux
Caring, Understanding, Non-judgemental Type
Maybe it's a cultural difference. I grew up in the US.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
If you look at the music which occupied the charts, a great many people were listening to utter bilge
