Or has it?
Say something regarding the Beatles that as far as you can reasonably ascertain, has not been said.
OK, my go.
The "With/Meet the beatles" album. One day, I thought, that's a joke isn't it? that picture, I mean. I.e. Ringo is not that much smaller than John/Paul/George (who were the exact same height at the time)
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 12:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: correspondingly more exaggerated mixing is a scarifying error. (lat, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― climate of punter, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link
Say Something Interesting About The Beatles
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:29 (nineteen years ago) link
(warning: i may have dreamt this)
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: correspondingly more exaggerated mixing is a scarifying error. (lat, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link
-- mark s (mar...) (webmail), March 9th, 2005 1:31 PM. (link)
No, you are quite right. The story was, he received a copy of their album and took it away with him to Ibiza or somesuch on holiday with a friend. On his return, he said it will always bring back happy memories. Guess he liked it.
I assume the Beatles heared it too.
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 14:08 (nineteen years ago) link
So, you know all that masking stuff was bullshit.
― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 14:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 14:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 14:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Zarr, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 14:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Zarr, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 14:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 14:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 14:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:13 (nineteen years ago) link
in 1966 paul mccartney told roger mcguinn to ditch the rickenbacker and granny glasses as he didn't much like them.
― debden, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:25 (nineteen years ago) link
(I dunno, these schmucks off the Internet and their Exclusive! Undiscovered! Rarities!)
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link
Here's another:
They never did a song as good as Little Animal by the Raveonettes which is quite possibly the second best song of the past ten years.
― Zarr, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― the hard structure of the world, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aaron A., Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― coco, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aaron A., Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― coco, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link
I think he already sold those rights, as he couldn't afford to keep them. You have to pay quite an amount for a good lawyer, you know...
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link
Coincidentally (or not!), today is little Emmanuel's birthday.
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 17:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link
-- Geir Hongro (geirhon...), March 9th, 2005.
I love Geir! So true...
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aaron A., Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link
but geir there have already been generations that have done something with the legacy of the beatles.
Not as much as it ought to. Other than progrock, pomp pop and Britpop, not a lot of post 60s music has built that much on The Beatles.
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link
(And powerpop obv)
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Nirvana
― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link
Geir, contemplating the musical future you envision is boring me to near suicide.
― Hurting 2, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link
I hope you have fun listening to Ben Folds and the Friends theme song for the rest of your life.
― Hurting 2, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link
pomp pop?
(tell me less)
― Mark G, Friday, 22 June 2007 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link
Pomp Pop Defined.
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 22 June 2007 11:08 (seventeen years ago) link
ta.
― Mark G, Friday, 22 June 2007 11:20 (seventeen years ago) link
There's no frickin' way John is saying "cranberry sauce" at the end of "Strawberry Fields."
At about age 10, after finally recieving the courage to listen to it all the way through with headphones (cos the end is really fucked up sounding and scared the shit out me at age 7 and kept me up at night and I literally had bad dreams about those sounds haunting me), I thought he was saying "clap very slow."
― billstevejim, Friday, 22 June 2007 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link
Man, I was on fire on this thread.
Alex in NYC
I confess to nearly laughing out loud at my Magical Mystery Tour comment above. (And I usually hate encountering my old posts
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 22 June 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Did anyone else know about this?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AHrMQa-Iro
― timellison, Monday, 6 August 2012 04:07 (twelve years ago) link
When the Rush vs. Yes vs. Beatles poll happens, I expect the Beatles will win.
― clemenza, Monday, 6 August 2012 04:10 (twelve years ago) link
xp - now I want a Mellotron even more than i used to.....
― Lee626, Monday, 6 August 2012 07:25 (twelve years ago) link
In my early teens the family had a CD player that had buttons for intro and repeat. You could program a single song and use both buttons so that it'd play the first ten seconds endlessly. I discovered this worked rather well with "Girl," such that you get asked "Is there anybody going to listen to my story all about the girl who came to stay?" over and over. What was once a rhetorical question starts to seem rather desperate after a while.― eatandoph, Thursday, 21 June 2007 07:30 (5 years ago) Permalink
― eatandoph, Thursday, 21 June 2007 07:30 (5 years ago) Permalink
ROFLing at this.
― Quickly, take hold of my hand, asshole! (dog latin), Monday, 6 August 2012 09:20 (twelve years ago) link
There was no fifth Beatle, the substitutes all wore the number 8 shirt
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 6 August 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
wow no! wacky
― giallo pudding pops (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 August 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
Beatles guitarist George Harrison was the starting linebacker for the 1968 New York Giants. He recorded 40 tackles and 4 1/2 sacks.
― Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 6 August 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
The Beatles formed in Tower, Minnesota in 1958. They started out playing polkas at local dance halls, but quickly added popular country & western songs of the day to their repertoire.
― Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 6 August 2012 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, the intro to the Kinks Phenomenal Cat is a mellotron preset too. And all of the flute and guitar in that song are also mellotron.
― wk, Monday, 6 August 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
The Beatles' Paul McCartney is a lifelong devotee of knitting. He recently opened an online website, Paulspets.com, which specializes in selling handmade knitwear for pets.
― Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 6 August 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
this looks like it's going to do the opposite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqDgm2XJ9SA
― piscesx, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 01:42 (eight years ago) link
http://beatlephotoblog.com/photos/2013/07/ghjsrs.jpg
Little did he know the bloke on his right would be making movies about his career
― glumdalclitch, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 03:46 (eight years ago) link
i think it'll be an interesting doc, there hasn't been anything that explicitly focused on one topic like that and while there is a lot of live footage around, it's of varying quality. but i'm a sucker for all this shit.
― akm, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 05:00 (eight years ago) link
Why hasn't The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl ever been reissued on CD? Surely by now they have the technology to reduce the crowd noise further than was possible in 1977, and if not - shouldn't there be enough other live recordings out there of sufficient quality that they could cobble a real live (as in, before a paying audience) album together?
Anyway, cross your fingers that there's a soundtrack to the above-previewed doc. Even if there isn't, we already know that they're charismatic enough personalities to carry a feature-length, even one by Mr. Beautiful Mind himself.
― Futuristic Bow Wow (thewufs), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 06:09 (eight years ago) link
anyone here read the Albert Goldman book on Lennon? out of print, but worth buying online for a buck... very juicy, very trashy, extremely homoerotic...
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 06:39 (eight years ago) link
Was there anything made of the longterm Fluxus artist choosing to marry a populist pop star?
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 07:52 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I have that Albert Goldman book.
It's nowhere near as 'damning' as Bono (etc) have made out, it gives an awful lot of bumf and expects you to unpick it.
e.g. that whole "John hit Stu and that's why Stu died", bottom line there is that nobody thought that except for John himself, possibly racked with guilt over some fight they had.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 09:09 (eight years ago) link
urgh Goldman. i'm glad that book's pretty much been forgotten about in the UK. his lack of any decent footnotes AT ALL tells the real tale there imo.
the recently-edited-together live footage from Shea on the '1+' dvd (as a video for Eight Days A Week) looks killer, and seems to suggest the Shea footage has been remastered/cleaned-up for an upcoming release. possibly tied with the Ron Howard film?
― piscesx, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 11:30 (eight years ago) link
that book is poorly sourced rubbish
― akm, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 14:22 (eight years ago) link
It only had the one edition, I believe.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 22:14 (eight years ago) link
oh yeah, a lot of it is bullshit, but it's a great, grim read. like the opening scene of Lennon in the late-70s "smoking thai stick" in his Howard Hughes period. dark as all hell. and Goldman is just an insane writer, he's so nasty and obviously repressed - it comes out in the prose. a lot of very flowery penis descriptions and allusions
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 22:50 (eight years ago) link
yeah the goldman book isn't necessarily "good" as a reliable biography of an actual person but it's kind of a sick masterpiece. def remember being somewhat traumatized by a lot of it when i first read it as a teenage beatles fan. goldman's style is undeniably ridiculous and over-the-top but writing a 600+ page book without a single dull sentence in it is some kind of accomplishment.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 23:44 (eight years ago) link
Did you read the Elvis book too, J.D.?
― Poe, I know all about Ulalume (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 23:57 (eight years ago) link
yeah, the elvis book is amazing and deplorable for similar reasons. for pure unadulterated goldman nastiness, though, you need his other elvis book:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41n1UB9KkML._SL500_SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 23 June 2016 00:25 (eight years ago) link
That Goldman book opening: it's a young guy (named Kit?) couriering heroin up to John's Dakota apartment and the ensuing wasted ennui he sees, iirc. V memorable, given I read it 20+ years ago.
― albvivertine, Thursday, 23 June 2016 06:51 (eight years ago) link
It's been a while since I read it but I remember the Goldman book being massively entertaining, and actually pretty good when talking about the actual music.
― nate woolls, Thursday, 23 June 2016 07:12 (eight years ago) link
feel like the mark lewisohn book was so good and actually made the early days beatles story feel fresh i never want to read anyone else write anything about the beates except his next 2 upcoming books
― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 June 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link
^^^
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 23 June 2016 21:03 (eight years ago) link
ha i should give it another try, got a little exhausted around page 150 ... though I"m excited for that level of detail on the actual Beatles years
― tylerw, Thursday, 23 June 2016 21:05 (eight years ago) link
Lewisohn was very enthusiastic about the prospects for this film.
― timellison, Thursday, 23 June 2016 21:29 (eight years ago) link
"Something new about the Beatles"
― Mark G, Friday, 24 June 2016 11:05 (eight years ago) link
Cool band
― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 26 June 2016 02:56 (eight years ago) link
As far as I can gather, the people of the Philippines are still more than a bit embarrassed about the way the Beatles were handled here.
― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 05:55 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, "We're sorry about Imelda Marcos", they've said that a few times.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 07:45 (eight years ago) link
#9 Dream sounds an awful lot like an Ariel Pink song, doesn't it? (or the other way round if you're offended by this comparison)
― niels, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 11:51 (seven years ago) link
^ yes, it does
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 19:33 (six years ago) link
https://i.redd.it/bea2nydimowz.jpg
A better thread would be "Say something about a band that aren't The Beatles"
(and I'll bet 'Carnival of Light' is terrible)
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 19:58 (six years ago) link
haha, that's great
― niels, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 21:14 (six years ago) link
I always thought "From Me to You" was the weakest of their early singles, but I like it more now - pretty classic Beatles.
― timellison, Saturday, 3 November 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link