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Post by Swamp Gas on Feb 8, 2004 22:54:20 GMT -5
You either love them or hate them, but they made an impact like no one else, Elvis included. Yesterday was their 40th anniversary on the Ed Sullivan Show, which I remember watching. The nation and world were still in shock from the JFK killing, and them coming was like a breath of fresh air coming over a rancid smell of death in America. The Beatles, hippes, Beatniks, LSD, marijuana, Civil Rights, Black Rights, Vietnam War, and Squares running the country. If you think today was tumultuous, you should have been there. I won't go on much more with that part for now, but first I'd like everyone to list their top 5 Beatles albums and top 20 single songs. Here's where you can find single and album lists to help you along: www.triskelion-ltd.com/beatles.htmlAlbums 1) Magical Mystery Tour 2) Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart's Club band 3) White Album 4) Yellow Submarine 5) Abbey Road Singles: 1) Magical Mystery Tour 2) Tomorrow Never Knows 3) There's A Place 4) Only A Northern Song 5) Penny Lane 6) Yes It Is 7) Strawberry Fields Forever 8) Hello Goodbye 9) I Am The Walrus 10) Good Day Sunshine 11) Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds 12) She Loves You 13) Glass Onion 14) While My Guitar Gently Weeps 15) Fixing A Hole 16) Day In The Life 17) Please Please Me 18) Within You Without You 19) Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite 20) And I Love Her
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Post by AtomHeartMother on Feb 9, 2004 0:12:55 GMT -5
I just discover them five years ago so my favorites are the only albums I have heard in entirety yet: - The White Album
- Abbey Road
- Magical Mystery Tour
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band
I'll be thinking on the singles, but my favorite song quote of their is: And in the end The love you take Is equal to the love you make.
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Post by Mech on Feb 9, 2004 0:29:14 GMT -5
Mechs' Picks......... Top 5 Beatle albums * White Album * Revolver * Magical Mystery * Rubber Soul * Let it Be Top 20 Fav songs. *Across the Universe *Tomorrow Never knows *Revolution *While my guitar gently weeps *Carry that weight *Strawberry Fields *Let it be *Mother Nature's son *Norweigian Wood *Helter Skelter *I am the walrus *Because *Think for yourself *Fool on the Hill *Taxman *Bungalow Bill *Julia *Revolution #9 *Sexy sadie *Everybodys got somethin to hide (cept for me and my monkey) Personally...I think John Lennon was rubbed out by the NWO because he started talking about them too much. Im VERY leery of Paul McCartneys recent TITLE knighted to him by the Queen of england...but that's my vibe. I think GEORGE was trying to tell us something about the NWO before HE left this world........ As for RINGO...I really enjoyed what he did with members of the great LOST rockabilly/folk group THE BAND and a arms list of great musicians.
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Post by Swamp Gas on Feb 9, 2004 9:50:18 GMT -5
I too think that Lennon was rubbed out by the NWO. With GHW Bush one month before elected as VP, they did not want Lennon stirring things up with the youth. TPTB simply did not want another 60's to happen, and they saw it starting again, with Punk, DEVO, and other bands becoming VERY political again, the last thing they needed was Lennon coming into the fold. Rightaround the same time was Reagen's "October Surprise" with the Iranian hostages and making Carter look bad.
If one looks at Marc Chapman's life, he was set up as the assassin of Lennon, no doubt in my mind.
As far as McCarthny goes, I am not so hard on him. There seems to be a concensus that he was the "fluff" Beatle. The story from musicians I have personally known that knew Lennon and McCartney said quite the opoosite in their everyday life. Lennon was a funny and intelligent person, but always f*cked up on booze or downers. Infact, it was McCartney who propped up Lennon during the entire recording of Magical Mystery Tour. When we went to the Farm Sanctuary in New York, the people there talked very highly of Paul, and said he was a regular guy, someone you could probably party with.
What the final analysis of The Beatles is this...Each were unique in their own way. Their combined talents were greater than the sums of their parts. With the current influx of musicians that are polluting the airwaves, we must never forget that this was Pop Music at one time. There were a few bands that completely changed the direction of music: The Beatles, DEVO, Kraftwerk, The Weavers, Pink Floyd, the Tornadoes, Elvis, Bill Haley and The Comets, The Residents, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Art of Noise, King Crimson, The Moody Blues, Led Zeppelin, ELP, The Doors, Black Sabbath, and The Stranglers.
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Post by Thetaloops on Feb 9, 2004 13:35:24 GMT -5
The Beatles', ' I want to Hold Your Hand' was the first 45 that I heard of theirs. At the age of 8yrs it was totally turned on by the sound and the message, being a romantic and a dancer. I wasn't a screamer though, ;D. This would be my list of Albums and singles: Albums Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band Magical Mystery Tour Yellow Submarine Abbey Road Help Revolver Singles Blue Jay Way Tomorrow Never Knows Norwegian Wood Magical Mystery Tour Sgt Peppers Heart Club Band Strawberry Fields Across the Universe Here Comes the Sun I'm the Walrus Long and Winding Road There is a Place Fool on the Hill Nowhere Man Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds Penny lane Yes it is There is a Place Help I could go on and on. These fellows changed the world in a most positive way. Big loss to us as a culture, that John and George had to be rubbed out. I like alot of what they did as individual musicians as well.
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