Beatles: Classic or Dud?

Not much has changed, but they live under water.

we're at the very tail end of the period when they will be listened to alongside contemporary popular music on the same or at least similar terms. Soon their status will become increasingly like, say, Duke Ellington's: revered in theory but listened to only by oldsters and the minority of enthusiasts prepared to work at breaking down the barriers that makes their music sound dated to most ears.

i dunno about this...

especially with the remasters, i get the feeling that these fellows' records will be accessible for quite a while

Oh that Beatles 3000 thing is HILARIOUS!
"Sgt. Pet Sounds and the Spiders From Aja"

LOL at the joke about the Napster-era mislabeling.

Oxygen and vitamins: Classic or dud?

There's a really good video of "Don't Let Me Down" from the rooftop concert streaming on the iTunes store right now. I guess it's a promo for the Let It Be...Naked release.

lol at the random ilx guy in 2002 dismissing them as 'a very popular skiffle combo.'

lol

Surely that was dave q.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrAdX4O1m4M

"Rock out in comfort"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v--q95oeWU

George Martin's string arrangement on "Eleanor Rigby" is really good. I have loved since I was a little kid how rhythmic the violin section is done, it rocks up pretty good for a string section.

I think that's cos Martin used Bartok st qts as a template.

What would be a good example of a Bartok quartet piece with this feel?

You can hear just the strings here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZA6jtxtTfQ

As someone says in the comments it sounds (in places) quite like Bernard Herrmann's score of Psycho.

George Martin:

I was very much inspired by Bernard Herrmann, in particular a score he did for the Truffaut film Farenheit 451. That really impressed me, especially the strident string writing. When Paul told me he wanted the strings in Eleanor Rigby to be doing a rhythm it was Herrmann's score which was a particular influence.

Geoff Emerick:

On Eleanor Rigby we miked very, very close to the strings, almost touching them. No one had really done that before; the musicians were in horror.

If this is the closest we're ever going to get to a restoration of Let It Be, I guess I'll take it.

Just announced: Peter Jackson’s “The Beatles: Get Back” documentary, featuring never-before-seen footage of the legendary band, comes to theaters September 4, 2020.
Photo Credit: ©1969 Paul McCartney / Photographer: Linda McCartney pic.twitter.com/8BM11NH3Iz

— Walt Disney Studios (@DisneyStudios) March 11, 2020

p excited for this tbh

and I haven't cared about anything Peter Jackson's done in ... 20 years?

Sounds about right!

the WWI restoration footage thing he did was incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcgceA64aAI

really looking forward to this

xxxp me too, except They Shall Not Grow Old was pretty good

ha, fuck, beaten to it