The wrong two Beatles died first.

GC

Like you said, Norad, the good they die young.

I get that it was a game-changing album, particularly when you add the George Martin genius, but there are finer Beatles albums. For me, Abbey Road is a startling work of genius firing on all cylinders. Also, Revolver was a full year before Sgt., and far more ambitious and radical for its time. You can play "Tomorrow Never Knows" for a group of 15 year-olds and then watch them deny it when you explain that it was recorded in 1966.

Really, just look at 1966. And then Revolver just farking happened. It must have been an event to have heard that in your bedroom one night in '66. That's why it's cute how hipster douchebags claim that The Beatles were overrated. Perhaps to you (there is no accounting of taste). But not to the history of popular music. These guys were absolute juggernauts of innovation and Win that still sounds insanely great 40+ years after the fact.
I wasn't around when these albums were originally released, but I've always heard that they were just mind-blowing vs. most of what was floating around, commercially, in those days. Hell, even if you don't like The Beatles there is no denying that they were serious progenitors of so much of what we take for granted today. Sure, someone else would have eventually brought what The Beatles did. But the thing is, no one did. They did. It's why, if faced with a gun and a decision, The Beatles are my favorite band, evah.

/hair on neck stands up during the 'medley' portion of Abbey.

"the crowd finally witnessed the closest thing to a Beatles reunion in 2009."

Unless there are some clones being brewed up, that was a Beatles reunion. :P

You make good points, Babylon. To me, Revolver is probably their best overall work as a group. Abbey Road is great but suffers from the inclusion of the retarded "Maxwell's Silver Hammer". (Paul likewise stunk up The White Album with the execrable "Ob-La-Di".)

My list of 10 greatest Beatles albums in order of awesomeness:

1. Revolver
2. Rubber Soul
3. Sgt. Pepper
4. The White Album
5. Abbey Road
6. Let It Be (the "Naked" version is particularly good)
7. Yellow Submarine
8. Magical Mystery Tour
9. A Hard Day's Night
10. Help!

These are subject to change by mood, of course.

And to the "hipster douchebags" who will certainly be in here to shiat on the Beatles: GFY. Come back when you've produced a ten-year string of albums that change the game forever.

And just think, back then, they were celebrating the 42nd anniversary of "Has Anybody Seen My Gal?"

The White Album is my favorite.
Even With "Ob-La-Di" and "Bungalow Bill".

Sgygus: Like you said, Norad, the good they die young.

John Lennon, Jeff Buckley, Kurt Cobain, Elliott Smith, Richey Edwards. Maybe Syd Barrett, who essentially went nuts at 20-something.

Norad: The wrong two Beatles died first.

GC

If McCartney dies next, look for sawed off dickhead starkey to ride the beatles bloated corpse like a rented mule.

Sgygus: Like you said, Norad, the good they die young.

I'm convinced they're cursed to die in reverse order of relevance and know it, and Paul is working slavishly hard to outlive Ringo.

There's a lot of hate for Paul, some of it justified, but more than he deserves. He pushed through songs that are an aquired taste. So did John (Revolution 9 for example... not even he really liked it).

Anyway, why a news story for 42? Good album though.

I thought it was released in June.

It was forty-one years and ten months ago last week.

That could work.

Stay Cool Babylon: You can play "Tomorrow Never Knows" for a group of 15 year-olds and then watch them deny it when you explain that it was recorded in 1966.shiat I only heard this song for the first time about 2 years ago and it still sounds fresh. It's definitely hard to imagine that song came out in 1966 and by the biggest band in the world, no less.

FeedTheCollapse: I only heard this song for the first time about 2 years ago and it still sounds fresh. It's definitely hard to imagine that song came out in 1966 and by the biggest band in the world, no less.shiat, this is what I was trying to reply with.

wtf? Fark quotes hate me today...

i liked "revolver" better when it was the U.S. vinyl version... [perhaps that's because that's the first version i ever listened to].

since i got the cd, i have to skip over "doctor Robert" and "your bird can sing" and "i'm only sleeping" because i find they're not as good as the rest are.

"Sgt. Pepper's" is still good... [i hated "within you..." a lot when i first got it, now it's alright]
one day i shall find the mono LP version... i heard it at a friends' house, and there's a few changes... interesting changes...

i think "the white album" could've been a F***ing great single LP album, but the whole sprawl over 4 sides thing is part of it's goodness, in a way...

What, are you kidding me? "I'm Only Sleeping" is not only one of the greatest songs ever written, it is my personal anthem and is sums up pretty much everything I have to say to the world.

Stay Cool Babylon: I get that it was a game-changing album, particularly when you add the George Martin genius, but there are finer Beatles albums. For me, Abbey Road is a startling work of genius firing on all cylinders. Also, Revolver was a full year before Sgt., and far more ambitious and radical for its time. You can play "Tomorrow Never Knows" for a group of 15 year-olds and then watch them deny it when you explain that it was recorded in 1966.

Really, just look at 1966. And then Revolver just farking happened. It must have been an event to have heard that in your bedroom one night in '66. That's why it's cute how hipster douchebags claim that The Beatles were overrated. Perhaps to you (there is no accounting of taste). But not to the history of popular music. These guys were absolute juggernauts of innovation and Win that still sounds insanely great 40+ years after the fact.
I wasn't around when these albums were originally released, but I've always heard that they were just mind-blowing vs. most of what was floating around, commercially, in those days. Hell, even if you don't like The Beatles there is no denying that they were serious progenitors of so much of what we take for granted today. Sure, someone else would have eventually brought what The Beatles did. But the thing is, no one did. They did. It's why, if faced with a gun and a decision, The Beatles are my favorite band, evah.

/hair on neck stands up during the 'medley' portion of Abbey.

THIS

I could not have said it better myself!!!!

Third_Uncle_Eno: i liked "revolver" better when it was the U.S. vinyl version... [perhaps that's because that's the first version i ever listened to].

since i got the cd, i have to skip over "doctor Robert" and "your bird can sing" and "i'm only sleeping" because i find they're not as good as the rest are.



Blasphemy! The only decent vinyl copy of that album I've been able to track down is that butchered US version, and it bugs the hell out of me every time I look at it that those particular three songs aren't on there. Those are three John Lennon classics right there, and without them, the whole albums balance of material feels off. Its too Paul-heavy, and for chrissakes, George ends up having more songs than John. That's just not the real "Revolver" in any way, shape, or form.

Third Uncle, you are farking NUTS. Those are among the three strongest tunes on the record. Seriously, the British releases are superior to the "butchered" US LPs across the board.

Speaking of Beatles, more big news for Beatle-philes today:


The Beatles' Remastered Albums Due September 9, 2009

4/7/09, 9:22 am EST

On September 9, 2009, after a nearly 22-year wait, digitally remastered versions of all of the Beatles studio albums will be released, a press release has confirmed. Each album will feature the track listings and artwork as it was originally released in the U.K. and come with expanded booklets including original and newly written liner notes and rare photos. For a limited time, each of the Fab Four's 12 proper albums will be "embedded" with a brief documentary about its making. The rereleases will include the Beatles' 12 studio albums and Magical Mystery Tour as well as Past Masters Vol. I and II, which will be packaged as one collection. All 14 discs will be available with DVDs of the documentaries in a stereo box set, and a set titled The Beatles in Mono featuring 10 discs will also be released.

A crew of engineers at London's Abbey Road Studios have spent four years working on the remasters using new technology and vintage equipment, the press release says, in an effort to preserve "the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings" and ensure "the highest fidelity the catalog has seen since its original release."

Oh, and here's the link (new window) to that article, which I imagine will be greenlighted on Fark before too long.

As much as I love listening to the Beatles on vinyl, these remasters are long overdue, and as I'm fairly sure George Martin has been involved in every stage of the process, they will sound totally awesome. Can't farking wait to pop those CD's into my stereo system, roll up a fat number, and crank it the fark up. 9/9/09 is going to a great day.

Third_Uncle_Eno: since i got the cd, i have to skip over "doctor Robert" and "your bird can sing" and "i'm only sleeping" because i find they're not as good as the rest are.

lolwut? Those are all far better than Yellow Submarine...

Considering George Martin is pretty much TOTALLY DEAF!
I doubt he did much work on these

Confabulat: What, are you kidding me? "I'm Only Sleeping" is not only one of the greatest songs ever written, it is my personal anthem and is sums up pretty much everything I have to say to the world.

A poster after my own heart.
My throughly subjective ranking of the top 13 Beatles Tunes:

I'm Only Sleeping
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
She Said She Said
Hey Bulldog
A Day In The Life
Blackbird
And Your Bird Can Sing
Norwegian Wood
Within You Without You
I've Just Seen A Face
One After 909
I'm Looking Through You
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
With A Little Help From My Friends
Yer Blues
Mother Nature's Son
If I Fell
Across The Universe
Eleanor Rigby
Ballad of John And Yoko

Er, as I ultimately did whilst compiling that, amend that number to 20.

Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane were supposed to be on Sgt Pepper but were allowed to be released as 1 single under pressure from the record company - George Martin called it the biggest mistake he ever made -



1. forget the " it is what it is " attitude and resequence Sgt Pepper with those two songs on it , where would you put them ?

- and -

2. you have to take 2 songs away due to time limitations

Track listing

Side one
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" - 2:02
"With a Little Help from My Friends" - 2:44
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" - 3:28
"Getting Better" - 2:47
"Fixing a Hole" - 2:36
"She's Leaving Home" - 3:35
"Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" - 2:37

Side two
"Within You Without You" (George Harrison) - 5:05
"When I'm Sixty-Four" - 2:37
"Lovely Rita" - 2:42
"Good Morning Good Morning" - 2:41
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)" - 1:18
"A Day in the Life" - 5:33

pope183: Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane were supposed to be on Sgt Pepper but were allowed to be released as 1 single under pressure from the record company - George Martin called it the biggest mistake he ever made -



1. forget the " it is what it is " attitude and resequence Sgt Pepper with those two songs on it , where would you put them ?

- and -

2. you have to take 2 songs away due to time limitations

"Strawberry" for "Kite".
"Penny" for "Goodmorningx2"

pope183: Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane were supposed to be on Sgt Pepper but were allowed to be released as 1 single under pressure from the record company - George Martin called it the biggest mistake he ever made -



1. forget the " it is what it is " attitude and resequence Sgt Pepper with those two songs on it , where would you put them ?

- and -

2. you have to take 2 songs away due to time limitations

Within You Without You was an easy sacrifice, but LitSwD was much more difficult

Side one

1. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" - 2:02
2. "With a Little Help from My Friends" - 2:44
3. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" - 3:28
3. "Strawberry Fields"
4. "Getting Better" - 2:47
5. "Fixing a Hole" - 2:36
6. "She's Leaving Home" - 3:35
7. "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" - 2:37

[edit] Side two

1. "Within You Without You" (George Harrison) - 5:05
1. "Penny Lane"
2. "When I'm Sixty-Four" - 2:37
3. "Lovely Rita" - 2:42
4. "Good Morning Good Morning" - 2:41
5. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)" - 1:18
6. "A Day in the Life" - 5:33

who?

ok wait a minute... "i'm only sleeping" is actually a good tune. i must've got it mixed up with another one... my bad.

i like the lyrics and the vocal delivery and the backwards guitars....

Beatles suck. The only good thing about that album is my Fark handle.

/Also, Nirvana sucks, Pink Floyd sucks
//done trolling

Confabulat: What, are you kidding me? "I'm Only Sleeping" is not only one of the greatest songs ever written, it is my personal anthem and is sums up pretty much everything I have to say to the world.

Wow, I thought I was the only one. I don't think it's my favorite Beatles song, but it's definitely the one I'd most likely take as my theme song.

Everybody seems to think I'm lazy
I don't mind, I think they're crazy

My Philosophy of Life.