I have had it up to here waiting for the Beatles catalogue to be remastered

i absolutely love nowhere man, what a weird little tune. i love how it's basically just a psychedelic doo wop song, and it tickles me how the guitar solo comes in before the verse

my brain can barely take the suggestion that the beatles only became a rock band with revolver, that's a new one

Seeing as rock music itself didn't exist before 1966, I would have thought this was self-evident. Arguably, Revolver is the first rock (as opposed to pop) album.

• Paul is Dead: No one ever mentions that he's the one inside the case (coffin) on the Yesterday & Today cover.

• I've praised Beatles VI on here many times, so what's one more.

• As much as I can hype Beatles VI and Something New, I'm glad that I didn't have to live in an America where to get the Help! songs, I would've also had to buy a side of George Martin orchestra music.

xp are you saying Revolver is the moment rock 'n roll became just "rock?"

yes, exactly.

Revolver is when they became president

ill rock u in the head with that 1966 stuff

xp are you saying Revolver is the moment rock 'n roll became just "rock?"

― J. Sam, Tuesday, December 7, 2021 4:36 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yes, exactly.

― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, December 7, 2021 4:36 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ah, I remember the day so well. One day me and me chums were had cigarette packs rolled up in the sleeves of our t-shirts and were dancing the hop, the next day I was tripping on Carnaby St. Thanks, Revolver!

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lol I don't think I accept the proposition but I'm trying to entertain it. I need a minute...

Yeah I'm like, in the "moptop era" that was what bands like them were supposed to be doing.

Things changed remarkably fast - even the idea that they didn't need to wear matching suits was pretty new. Then all of a sudden came the fur coats and weird beards and sitars and everything

Were The Who a rock band? They also wore matching nehru jackets iirc

what about VU

What about the voice of Geddy Lee?

I wonder if he hits an anvil like an ordinary guy?

Were The Who a rock band? They also wore matching nehru jackets iirc

At no point in their career did the Who wear matching outfits. And Keith Moon only wore a Nehru jacket once, at the Monterey festival.

Lol, ums.

i love seeing folks popping in ITT to say how much they enjoy the documentary

hello LL and belated hello to FFM!!

Kiss kiss kiss!

And now, your host for the evening…

Hungry for more clear video footage after Get Back, I rewatched some of the Rolling Stones’ Rock and Roll Circus and man oh man that Who performance is just incredible.

Fun fact: not only did the Stones not release it at the time because of how dramatically the Who upstaged them, but at one point Allen Klein tried to sell the footage to the Who to release it as their “Rock & Roll Circus.”

I don’t blame them! I started with Dirty Mac and Who clips and then once I finally flipped to some Stones ones they were so dead I skipped through them

Rock N Roll Circus is, in the ancient parlance, a total GAS. I love it so much! And yeah that Who performance is incredible

Seeing as rock music itself didn't exist before 1966, I would have thought this was self-evident. Arguably, Revolver is the first rock (as opposed to pop) album.

― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, December 7, 2021 9:07 PM (yesterday)

…chuck berry isn’t rock?

Three little words, Rock and Roll. One little word, Rock.

Yr Blues, ILX, Yr Blues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMSp7NqBr7E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLKO4mIey88

and then one day roll just disappeared

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa17h1n5kCw

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MyJHh451Y4

please stop now

i can't stop hearing "two of us wearing raincoats" in my head
over and over and over

John and Paul were quick to promote the safe sex trend.

lol xpost i had it in my head for a week!!

well now i'm listening to all the beatles album again :(

supplementing it with the anthologies. the demo of "no reply" on anthology 1 is one of the funniest things i've ever heard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo15yhZe_V8

Gives “How Do You Do It?” a run for its money.

xpost brad i think of that version every time i hear no reply, and i crack myself up laughing

YOUR FACE

Contend that the LIB guitar solo on the album is the superior one, the way it screams out of the chord bed instead of mellowing out in it

Late to the party, but I was converted into a With the Beatles stan when the mono box came out. Everyone talks about the mono mix of Pepper, and sure. But WTB was the revelation of that set for me.

I don’t thing ever heard the stereo mix as my introduction to most of the Beatles was the CDs and they are mono for the first four albums. In fact, how easy is it to hear the stereo versions the first four now? Are they available digitally?

Thing ever = think I ever

think the stereo versions of all their albums, even the early ones, are the ones available digitally, including on streaming

the mono versions are still only available via the boxset these days iirc

my challop for today is ram > sgt pepper

Love that No Reply demo. Early Beatles are so much fun to sing along to.

xp otm

i think richard goldstein's famous takedown of pepper actually improves it for me -- the view that there is only one beatles song on the album, and all the others are intro / prelude / here......it......COMES......

See, the "Get Back" footage could be fashioned into a remake of "Hard Days Night".

Mal = Shake
Glyn = Norm
Yoko = Grandad

In which George (not Ringo) gets a bit put out and feels underappreciated and walks out.
Where Yoko (in a mostly silent part) tells John he could be doing so much more than this...
Where the Movie Producer (as opposed to Henry Spinetti) keeps having kittens because his wonderful ideas keep getting knocked back and the show looks like it won't happen or some such
And, at the end, the band get together and play songs and everyone is happy.

think the stereo versions of all their albums, even the early ones, are the ones available digitally, including on streaming

One early one where I do like the stereo version is Beatles For Sale