The Beatles

[DU Ute]

Listened to revolver 3 or 4 times this weekend, and every time I got to tomorrow never knows, despite how many times I've heard it in my life, it left me absolutely jaw-dropped. The thing was recorded in '66 and would still sound boundary pushing in the contemporary era. There's ahead of the game...and then there's the beatles.

Yes yes yes

[NorthwestUteFan]

The most astounding thing, in my estimation, is the short time span in which the Beatles pumped out all their music. They released 12 albums in essentially 7-8 years, and just covered a huge range of music styles. My grandparents, who only listened to classical music in their home and for many decades had season passes to the Opera, ballet, and Symphony, while they lived in DC and later in Utah, absolutely LOVED The Beatles.

My sweet baby sister, who was born more than a decade after the Beatles broke up, played guitar and sang a self-arranged mashup of "Here, There, and Everywhere" and "Till There Was You" at her own wedding reception.

She was married on what would have been my grandparents' 54th wedding anniversary, and the first since we lost Grandma to cancer. She followed up these songs with "In My Life", dedicated to the memory of Grandma.

It was one of the most touching musical events I have ever experienced. The songs are incomparably powerful and stand on their own, especially when sung solo by a strong, beautiful, teary-eyed woman on one of the most positive and emotional days of her life. I still get chills when I think about it a decade later.

[Joe Public]

Listened to revolver 3 or 4 times this weekend, and every time I got to tomorrow never knows, despite how many times I've heard it in my life, it left me absolutely jaw-dropped. The thing was recorded in '66 and would still sound boundary pushing in the contemporary era. There's ahead of the game...and then there's the beatles.

Spot on.

[BoylenOver]

I really need to spend more time with The Beatles. I've only listened to 2-3 of their albums, and didn't listen to those until about 4 or 5 months ago.

[Sleeping in EQ]

I think the Beatles are great, and I really enjoy George Harrison's parts on their later recordings.

His fills on Something are deliciously not technical. Every one of them sounds like "flips-her-undies-at-the-ceiling-fan."

[Rickomatic]

This is what I get for having SU on ignore for so long. I totally missed this thread. Brian Wilson is the modern day Mozart. It is just too bad he had to go insane writing his music. IMHO John Lennon wrote some very good music (probably the best was after he left the Beatles (Imagine is the best song ever)) but Paul wrote the music that filled the albums and kept the Beatles on the charts for so long.

[MartyFunkhouser]

I really need to spend more time with The Beatles. I've only listened to 2-3 of their albums, and didn't listen to those until about 4 or 5 months ago.

I disagree you should spend some more time with the Stanton Moore, Charlie Hunter, and Skerik. I'll send you some Garage a Trois to take up the time that you would have spent with the Beatles. Since you liked All Kooked Out, you should enjoy the Garage a Trois albums with Moore/Hunter/Skerik. I haven't heard much of the last 2 Hunterless Garage a Trois albums.

[MartyFunkhouser]

Listened to revolver 3 or 4 times this weekend, and every time I got to tomorrow never knows, despite how many times I've heard it in my life, it left me absolutely jaw-dropped. The thing was recorded in '66 and would still sound boundary pushing in the contemporary era. There's ahead of the game...and then there's the beatles.

I've softened my stance on the Beatles. I have decided not to proclaim that they suck, they just aren't my thing and I have no desire to listen to them.

I'm starting to realize the impact that they had on the rock/pop genres and you got to give that respect even if I don't really like the stuff. However, if you go into other genres, there are plenty of other artists that were boundary pushing in the 60's with stuff that would still be boundary pushing in the contemporary era.

Guys like Trane and Ornette Coleman certainly recorded stuff in their era that is still boundary pushing now and those are just a few examples. There are plenty of artists out there that were ahead of the game in their genre like the Beatles apparently where in their genre. Hell, right now we have a guy recording in Zorn that is recording stuff that will likely be boundary pushing for the next 50+ years.

Maybe as part of my attempts to get into rock/pop music, I'll try to listen to Revolver. I make now promises.

[Viking]

This is what I get for having SU on ignore for so long. I totally missed this thread. Brian Wilson is the modern day Mozart. It is just too bad he had to go insane writing his music. IMHO John Lennon wrote some very good music (probably the best was after he left the Beatles (Imagine is the best song ever)) but Paul wrote the music that filled the albums and kept the Beatles on the charts for so long.

If you had SU on ignore, then odds are I am, too.

I agree with the Brian Wilson comment. I can't listen to Sgt. Pepper's without being reminded of how it was their best attempt to replicate Pet Sounds, which to this day, I can't listen to without tearing up a little bit. The Stones' Their Satanic Majesties Request is a joke in comparison.

[Rickomatic]

If you had SU on ignore, then odds are I am, too.

I agree with the Brian Wilson comment. I can't listen to Sgt. Pepper's without being reminded of how it was their best attempt to replicate Pet Sounds, which to this day, I can't listen to without tearing up a little bit. The Stones' Their Satanic Majesties Request is a joke in comparison.

Nope, not on ignore. I do agree with you about this. Stones have always been way too over rated.

[SteelBlue]

I grew up in a hippie town and in HS we used to have some pretty interesting guest speakers pulled in from the community. Most of my teachers came of age in the 60's and were really upset about changes taking place in their generation during the 80's. I think I got a closer look at this than most in my generation due to the activist nature of the teachers in my town. Anyway, one of the most memorable guest lecturers was in an English class during which a local folk singer spent the first 15 minutes of his lecture railing on the deification of The Beatles and what he called "bubble gum music". He really pounded into our heads the notion that they were basically a boy band singing about holding hands and when they grew up and got serious they simply translated the hardcore 60's music scene into the language of pop (this wasn't a positive thing to him). He was angry that the band was going the defining one of his generation. This seemed like sacrilege to me as my mother had taught me otherwise. I can still see that hippie in my mind, getting all worked up about it and playing records of "real" artists with "real messages". I remember thinking none of them could sing.

I don't know why I remember that few minutes of his lecture all these years later but I thought he made some interesting arguments. Since that day I've found that I get annoyed when young people (read those not old enough to have been able to participate in sex, drugs or rock during The Beatles' reign) wax on about the greatness of the band. I can't really explain why, I guess because perhaps more than any other band in history, I think one really had to be there to get it. I wasn't.

[EuropeanFootballMale]

Very freaking cool

http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/v...-comes-the-sun

[wuapinmon]

Very freaking cool

http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/v...-comes-the-sun

Yes indeed. George Martin's looking fragile there.

[doctorcoug]

Very freaking cool

http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/v...-comes-the-sun

I really love the solo.

What would it be like to be them and have access to the master tracks?

[EuropeanFootballMale]

http://m.npr.org/story/141125040?url...ad&f=124289519