HDN Posted August 17, 2020 Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 I'm always looking for people to talk about my favorite band with. I love the Beatles! In fact, I even saw Sir Paul live in concert last year! If anyone wants to talk anything Fab Four related, just let me know! socrates63 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dauber Posted August 18, 2020 Report Share Posted August 18, 2020 Beatles are my all-time faves, easily. Been a major fan since the summer of 1987! socrates63 and HDN 2 Quote Supernatural, perhaps...baloney, perhaps not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dauber Posted August 18, 2020 Report Share Posted August 18, 2020 BTW, wanna hear me talk Fab Four related? 🙂 [PROMO MODE] Every episode of my podcast Autobiography of a Schnook has a segment in which I talk about my musical interests. Several are Beatles-centric, including the one that's coming out some time this month. 🙂 socrates63 1 Quote Supernatural, perhaps...baloney, perhaps not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDN Posted August 18, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2020 @dauber Got a favorite album? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dauber Posted August 18, 2020 Report Share Posted August 18, 2020 It changes. For a while it was Abbey Road. Such greatness. My wife and I often describe how important it was as their final recorded album, and how it's basically their thesis: it shows how they grew over the years and demonstrates all the styles they did: raw rock'n'roll ("Come Together," "Oh! Darlin'"), orchestral ("Something," "The End"), psychedelic to a degree (the use of the Moog on "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" and "Because"), etc. For a time it was Magical Mystery Tour because...well, all the great songs on it..."The Fool on the Hill," "Blue Jay Way" (took me a long time to appreciate it!), "I Am The Walrus," "All You Need Is Love," "Strawberry Fields Forever"... Currently it's Rubber Soul. When I first heard it -- the U.S. version, specifically -- I felt it was the most unusual sounding Beatles album. Still feel that way, actually. Nothing else sounds like it. It sounds so unlike the Beatles, yet it's also unquestionably The Beatles, know what I mean? So much brilliance. For the past couple of years I've been dealing with an internal struggle over whether I prefer the U.S. version or the U.K. version. On one hand, the U.S. version has an overall better flow, but on the other hand, the U.K. version has "Nowhere Man" and "If I Needed Someone." (And the dropping of "Nowhere Man" on the U.S. version breaks the continuity of the "Ooooooh la la la" backing vocals it shares with "You Won't See Me.") I've actually played with trying to put together my own Rubber Soul lineup that incorporates some of the U.S. lineup, some of the U.K. lineup, and "Day Tripper." But I haven't perfected it. (Yet?) Quote Supernatural, perhaps...baloney, perhaps not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDN Posted August 18, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2020 3 minutes ago, dauber said: For the past couple of years I've been dealing with an internal struggle over whether I prefer the U.S. version or the U.K. version. Rubber Soul is their only album where it's debatable. If I remember correctly, it had some songs on it from Help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dauber Posted August 18, 2020 Report Share Posted August 18, 2020 22 minutes ago, HDN said: Rubber Soul is their only album where it's debatable. If I remember correctly, it had some songs on it from Help? Yep. Both versions have "Wait," which was recorded during the Help! sessions. I think if anything, they overdubbed percussion for Rubber Soul to get it to sound like the other songs on the album. The U.S. version has "I've Just Seen a Face" and "It's Only Love," both from the U.K. Help! album. Quote Supernatural, perhaps...baloney, perhaps not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDN Posted August 18, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2020 Thanks. I'm not terribly familiar with the us versions, but I've listened to them all in the past. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted August 19, 2020 Report Share Posted August 19, 2020 SGT Peppers. 'Nuff said. I like their music but I'm an 80's child. Journey is my band of choice. The Steve Perry Journey not the others. I like them all but Journey was more interesting to me with Steve Perry at vocals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDN Posted August 19, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2020 @kamakazi20012 Sgt. Pepper's LHCB is their most overrated album. I can name 5 of their albums that are better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dauber Posted August 19, 2020 Report Share Posted August 19, 2020 Well, not for nothin', historically, SPLHCB was a seriously mind-blowing album. (Then again, it was The Beatles' answer to Pet Sounds; which in turn was Brian Wilson's answer to [the US version of] Rubber Soul...) There's a lot of game-changing stuff on there, both musically and technologically. Quote Supernatural, perhaps...baloney, perhaps not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDN Posted August 19, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2020 (edited) 8 hours ago, dauber said: Well, not for nothin', historically, SPLHCB was a seriously mind-blowing album. (Then again, it was The Beatles' answer to Pet Sounds; which in turn was Brian Wilson's answer to [the US version of] Rubber Soul...) There's a lot of game-changing stuff on there, both musically and technologically. I can't deny the historical and cultural significance of Sgt. Pepper's, but I don't think it's their best work like so many others do. Revolver is a better album in my humble opinion. Edited August 19, 2020 by HDN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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