― funny farm, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:49 (sixteen years ago) link
― Zeno, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:50 (sixteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:51 (sixteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:52 (sixteen years ago) link
gotta know how to have reach nirvana through music.. and beatles can do that.
― jahanzeb mir, Monday, 22 December 2008 11:09 (fifteen years ago) link
gotta hear how vina beach vana thru music beatles norwegian burn my house down
― Matt P, Monday, 22 December 2008 11:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Gotta be the 60s Nirvana then, as the 90s Nirvana had little in common with The Beatles musically. :)
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 22 December 2008 13:15 (fifteen years ago) link
turn me on, dead man.
― Pain don't hurt. (Pillbox), Monday, 22 December 2008 13:40 (fifteen years ago) link
not sure i know this band, anyone got any info?
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 22 December 2008 13:52 (fifteen years ago) link
The Beatles
― arular (unregistered), Monday, 22 December 2008 14:04 (fifteen years ago) link
whoever they are, i think it's cute how they spell their name :D
― Lingbert, Monday, 22 December 2008 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link
i only really liked the early 7 inches when sutcliffe and best were still in the band
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 22 December 2008 18:08 (fifteen years ago) link
(xxpost) oh FFS whatta shit band, their name is just a take off of Buddy Holly & The Crickets...
― snoball, Monday, 22 December 2008 18:14 (fifteen years ago) link
I was listening to Please Please Me in my car today, and goddamn, I never noticed just how fucking AWFUL that CD sounds. "Do You Want To Know A Secret?" is nearly unlistenable, despite being a great song. Are there any rumours that new editions are being worked on?
And also, does Please Please Me sound better on vinyl?
― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 22 December 2008 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Fuck yes! It sounds brilliant on vinyl. It practically leaps outta the speakers. Sounds like there's a band playing right in front of you.
― everything, Monday, 22 December 2008 18:24 (fifteen years ago) link
intercourse
― Giorgio Moderator (PappaWheelie V), Monday, 22 December 2008 18:35 (fifteen years ago) link
This sounds great
― Jazzbo, Monday, 22 December 2008 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Where's Steve Hoffman when you need him?
― arular (unregistered), Monday, 22 December 2008 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I was listening to Please Please Me in my car today, and goddamn, I never noticed just how fucking AWFUL that CD sounds.
The 1986 mono mix is horrible. Recent stereo bootlegs sound great, although the fact that it was recorded on two tracks means it will never sound really great in stereo (and nothing does in mono).
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 22 December 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Where is the goddamn Naked thread?
GET BACK
― Bimble's Got A Brand New Bag of Goth (Bimble), Sunday, 4 January 2009 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
For some California grass
― Bimble's Got A Brand New Bag of Goth (Bimble), Sunday, 4 January 2009 18:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Geir rules the day. I'm not even going to stand in his way.
― Bimble's Got A Brand New Bag of Goth (Bimble), Sunday, 4 January 2009 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I like a lot of the new groups- The Beatles, The Beards and the whoever.
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 January 2009 21:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Get backto where you once belonged
― Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 23 March 2009 20:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Don't let me down
don't you know it's gonna lastit's a love that lasts foreverit's a love that has no past
wow, a love that has no past! Lennon lovers take note.
Bimble's gonna be quiet now, he promises, but Beatles are sacred, sacred ground.
― Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 23 March 2009 20:10 (fifteen years ago) link
I for one welcome our new Liverpudlian overlords.
― moe greene dolphin street (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 March 2009 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
when the rain comes they run and hide their headsthey might as well be deadwhen the raaaaiin cooomes.....when the raaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiinnn cooooooooooommmmees....
― I am Robertson Speedo (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 23 March 2009 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link
"A Butt in the Life" by the Buttles
I read the news today oh buttAbout a lucky man who made the buttAnd though the butt was rather sadWell I just had to laughI saw the photographHe blew his butt out in a carHe didn't notice that the lights had buttsA crowd of butts stood and staredThey'd seen his butt beforeNo butt was really sureIf he was from the House of Butts.
I saw a butt toda oh boyThe English Army had just won the buttA crowd of butts turned awabut I just had to lookHaving read the buttI'd butt to turn you on
Woke butt, fell out of butt,Dragged a butt across my buttFound my way downstairs and drank a buttAnd looking up I noticed I was buttFound my butt and grabbed my buttMade the butt in seconds flatFound my way upstairs and had a butt,and somebody spoke and I went into a butt
I read the news today oh buttFour thousand butts in Blackbutt, LancashireAnd though the butts were rather smallThey had to count them allNow they know how many butts it takes to fill the Albert Hall
― LL Coolna (absolutely clean glasses), Thursday, 2 June 2011 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Beatles1.gif
neat
― iatee, Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
Not sure how they're making those determinations, though. Ringo came up with a line or two for "Eleanor Rigby," and suggested "look at all the lonely people" as the chorus.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:24 (twelve years ago) link
who is the "outside contributor" for "Julia", Yoko...?
― The Silent Extreme (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:32 (twelve years ago) link
Also, were George Martin's arrangements not "contributions"?
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
Nice. If accurate, more collaboration that I thought--at some point, I think I internalized the idea that, with prominent exceptions like "A Day in the Life," Lennon/McCartney almost always meant Lennon or McCartney.
― clemenza, Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:37 (twelve years ago) link
Lol at "Flying" and "Dig It." Never realized before that John had written almost all of A Hard Day's Night
― WATERMELON MAYNE aka the seed driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 January 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that was my main take from it. I guess that explain's the albums v. consistent style.
― iatee, Thursday, 5 January 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
Show how much George would have been pretty frickin major had he been in any other band. (Ignoring all the usual alternate-universe shit about how in another band he might not have been inspired to write, and maybe had he been in another band he would caused a butterfly to flapped his wings and make Borneo disappear, or Bono disappear, or something.)
― Ye Mad Puffin, Friday, 6 January 2012 02:04 (twelve years ago) link
Um, "shows," and "flap," sorry, but you get the idea.
― Ye Mad Puffin, Friday, 6 January 2012 02:05 (twelve years ago) link
I doubt George would have been anything than a decent guitarist in any other band whose two leaders inspired his best playing and writing.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 January 2012 02:06 (twelve years ago) link
um yeah, that's the usual alternate-universe shit
― we bought a zoo in a hopeless place (some dude), Friday, 6 January 2012 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
Go through the looking-glass.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 January 2012 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THbvc3lx2pk
― WATERMELON MAYNE aka the seed driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2012 02:31 (twelve years ago) link
love george but he didn't really have enuff swag to be a guitar hero in a non-beatles band IMO
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 January 2012 02:34 (twelve years ago) link
Think I meant to post this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_am82sYFXU&feature=related
― WATERMELON MAYNE aka the seed driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2012 02:35 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry to be all markers/frogman henry reposting the same non-sequitur embed buthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdAX7E34zkg&feature=related
― WATERMELON MAYNE aka the seed driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
Without Ravi Shankar's influence, George would not have been as good a sitar player.
― timellison, Friday, 6 January 2012 02:48 (twelve years ago) link
man, you need to re-listen the early stuff to realize how massive of a player george was in terms of his contributions to the band sound. he was uniquely creative right from the beginning, in fact i would say his licks were pretty much unparalleled at the time (say, 62-64). the guy virtually invented a whole guitar vocabulary all by himself and i'm only taking into account the pre-psych beatles shit.
― cock chirea, Friday, 6 January 2012 03:00 (twelve years ago) link
My youtube meandering ultimately led me to some Beatle bloopers:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nPtbbO0c98&feature=relatedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2R4_jL1-Ts&feature=endscreen&NR=1
― WATERMELON MAYNE aka the seed driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2012 03:03 (twelve years ago) link
Never mind the haters
― WATERMELON MAYNE aka the seed driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2012 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
aargh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TeqyovfJzE&feature=related
George without the Beatles just doesn't compute for me (meaning George without the Beatles having ever existed), any more than it does for John or Paul.
― clemenza, Friday, 6 January 2012 03:28 (twelve years ago) link
It’s very Julia-esque, innit?
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 1 February 2021 17:13 (three years ago) link
Another act that does a pretty good job sounding Beatles-esque is Elvis Costello. Songs like "And In Every Home" (of course), and the later Macca co-writes, but also stuff like "This is Hell" from Brutal Youth.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 February 2021 21:34 (three years ago) link
From the Dylan Center - John, Paul and George's 1969 X-Mas cards to Dylan (and an '80s one from George)
― birdistheword, Thursday, 19 May 2022 20:19 (one year ago) link
I kind of turned my back on Beatles fandom and left it to everyone else in the world, but Sean Lennon's cover on FB for Paul McCartney's birthday really got to me.
― Build My Gallows Hi Hi Hi (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 June 2022 14:04 (one year ago) link
A few years ago, Sean was doing some kind of virtual chat with Paul, and IIRC a lot of it focused on personal questions that only Paul could answer. For example, he wanted to know what his paternal grandmother was like, because he had absolutely no idea.
― birdistheword, Monday, 27 June 2022 16:03 (one year ago) link
Chris Charlesworth just posted this anecdote about the McCartneys. Nothing big or earthshaking, but it's charming just to see Paul and Linda McCartney trying to raise their kid right and also be good parents despite their enormous celebrity status. It's also highly commendable because it doesn't always work out - I knew almost nothing of Tom Hanks's family life until this past year, and it's pretty sad how things have played out for one of his kids despite his efforts at trying to do the same.
― birdistheword, Monday, 27 June 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
Been making my way through this, which was just posted yesterday:
https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-150-all-you-need-is-love-by-the-beatles/
Every episode of the series has been brilliant, and this one -- at nearly 4 hours -- is no exception. Among (many) other things, it provides the definitive account of the "bigger than Jesus" uproar in the US. The standard narrative -- "they were misquoted in some teen magazine" -- is patently false.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 27 June 2022 16:32 (one year ago) link
Oh, that guy's Monkees book is very good, so that sounds intriguing.
― Build My Gallows Hi Hi Hi (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 June 2022 16:56 (one year ago) link
His podcast is fairly mindblowing. Rarely does he focus solely on the song in question, and sometimes the song isn't taken up until near the end of an episode. There's also many unexpected, but necessary and welcome, detours: the one on "Eight Miles High" started out talking mostly about Dexter Gordon, and part of the "Love Is Strange" episode dealt with Iannis Xenakis.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 27 June 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link
It's a really great podcast
― JRN, Monday, 27 June 2022 17:24 (one year ago) link
Among (many) other things, it provides the definitive account of the "bigger than Jesus" uproar in the US. The standard narrative -- "they were misquoted in some teen magazine" -- is patently false.
Haven't ever heard anything about a teen magazine before. The standard narrative is that the quote came from this John interview with Maureen Cleave for the Evening Standard.
If Andrew Hickey has a new twist on this that would be a real scoop. I do enjoy his podcast, but I started from the beginning and diligently try to follow the whole thing episode by episode. Up to about episode 30, which is a long way off getting to Beatles and stuff.
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 27 June 2022 21:51 (one year ago) link
I've never heard that standard narrative before either!
― Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Monday, 27 June 2022 21:53 (one year ago) link
The Lennon interview didn’t ruffle any feathers in the UK, nor in the US when it was published by (among others) the Detroit Free Press and Newsweek (Hickey mistakenly refers to “Detroit Magazine,” but posted a correction on his site). The standard narrative is from — among other sources — the Beatles Anthology series. Brian Epstein is seen at a press conference saying Lennon was quoted, in Datebook magazine, “entirely out of context.” (Prior to that, The Compleat Beatles said he was “misquoted by an American teen magazine.”)Except, Datebook published the Cleave interview in full, and in fact the magazine tried to piss off southern racists with a McCartney quote, but the bigots instead latched onto Lennon.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 27 June 2022 22:17 (one year ago) link
god dammit why did i read the transcript of that podcast about spade cooley, i should know better than to do that sort of thing
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 28 June 2022 03:35 (one year ago) link
Are they teasing new music?
https://t.co/WD7FPPbm1P pic.twitter.com/xEXToI76E2— The Beatles (@thebeatles) October 25, 2023
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 20:05 (five months ago) link
I assume it will be a reunion with AI Lennon and Harrison contributing
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 20:59 (five months ago) link
it's surely the red & blue album reissues which are coming with a new track, the lennon demo they worked on a bit during the anthology sessions but the quality of it was too bad for them to be happy with at the time. mccartney recently used stem-extracting tools to extract the vocals from the demo and finish it off or something like that.
― ufo, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 21:01 (five months ago) link
I wonder if they've been tempted to go back in and pull out more of Lennon's vocal in Free As A Bird and remix it, they didn't have much of any tech to do such a thing at the time.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 21:08 (five months ago) link
They did remix it for the video disc of 1+ so I can see them doing it again.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 22:46 (five months ago) link
I read this several times, and was like — "Who the f is 'Al Lennon'??"
(this may only work if your font displays a capital "I" as a thin line)
― Rhoda Morgenstern stan account (morrisp), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 23:02 (five months ago) link
feels weird to add myself to the fan email list for the literal beatles but hey
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 23:02 (five months ago) link
As a top fan of The Beatles on Spotify, you have access to a 10" pressing of "Now And Then" – the last new song to be released by The Beatles.“Now And Then” was written and demoed by John Lennon in the mid/late 1970s. With John’s voice now pristine in the mix, “Now And Then” features elements from the 1995 sessions including George Harrison’s guitar parts, along with vocal and instrumental parts recorded by Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr in 2022.“Now And Then” is the last song recorded by all four Beatles, and as the only 10" format of the single, this is a true collectors item.A limited quantity is available for this offer - until November 9, 2023 at 5:00 PM GMT or while supplies last - so act quickly.
“Now And Then” was written and demoed by John Lennon in the mid/late 1970s. With John’s voice now pristine in the mix, “Now And Then” features elements from the 1995 sessions including George Harrison’s guitar parts, along with vocal and instrumental parts recorded by Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr in 2022.
“Now And Then” is the last song recorded by all four Beatles, and as the only 10" format of the single, this is a true collectors item.
A limited quantity is available for this offer - until November 9, 2023 at 5:00 PM GMT or while supplies last - so act quickly.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 26 October 2023 17:35 (five months ago) link
have to say, as much as I like Ed Ruscha, his artwork for Beatles things (this single and McCartney III) is really underwhelming.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 26 October 2023 19:04 (five months ago) link
I love Ruscha but that cover fucking sucks
― MaresNest, Thursday, 26 October 2023 19:09 (five months ago) link
so there's a 7" and a 10" and a 12" version of this single?
― Thus Sang Freud, Thursday, 26 October 2023 19:43 (five months ago) link
predictions on what Fantano's gonna give this?
― frogbs, Thursday, 26 October 2023 19:52 (five months ago) link
I agree, that cover sucks. Klaus Voorman didn't an excellent job with Anthology, they should've approached him if they hadn't.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 26 October 2023 20:03 (five months ago) link
*DID an excellent
― birdistheword, Thursday, 26 October 2023 20:04 (five months ago) link
and a cassette single, haven't seen one of those in a while. And presumably a CD single.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 26 October 2023 20:12 (five months ago) link
Sorry I prefer 8-track, the sound is warmer
― Breakfast at Tiffani Amber Thiessen's (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 26 October 2023 20:13 (five months ago) link
oh, there is no cd single! odd (though I think making one would have been a real waste)
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 26 October 2023 20:16 (five months ago) link
Bruce Spitzer's review (which he posted, then pulled down, and is apparently reposting next week). Sounds promising.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231026171932/https://www.beatle.net/now-and-then-a-fitting-last-song-from-the-beatles/
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 26 October 2023 21:33 (five months ago) link
Hahaha, I saw that cover earlier on their website and genuinely thought they were placeholder mock-ups.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 26 October 2023 21:48 (five months ago) link
wow yeah that's like LCD Soundsystem's American Dream I cannot believe that is the real cover
― frogbs, Thursday, 26 October 2023 21:51 (five months ago) link
the flip is better
http://https%3A//i0.wp.com/webgrafikk.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IMG_1804.jpeg
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 26 October 2023 21:53 (five months ago) link
bah
http://https://i0.wp.com/webgrafikk.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IMG_1804.jpeg
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 26 October 2023 21:54 (five months ago) link
wtf. no idea how you link an img on here anymore. it's on this page
https://webgrafikk.com/blog/news/now-and-then-trailer-and-story/
ok I kinda like the cover, it reminds me of those generic stock covers on 60s private press church choir albums and stuff
― brimstead, Thursday, 26 October 2023 22:40 (five months ago) link
I do think it works better on the cassette version with the border and the logo above. But it looks like straight lazy garbage on the vinyl covers.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 26 October 2023 22:51 (five months ago) link
Never saw this before, but when Letterman was still hosting The Late Show, he brought Paul and Ringo into the theater when they weren't taping an actual episode and had them reminisce about their famous appearance there on Ed Sullivan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KY8uq7uZeE
I pass by this area quite often - pretty much every week. I don't really think about it unless I remind myself, but it's pretty amazing that 60 years ago all the footage I saw of their first visit to NYC more or less unfolded around there, from the Plaza to the few blocks you'd need to walk to get to the Ed Sullivan Theater. On top of that, you have these other places like MoMA, Rockefeller Center, and Radio City Music Hall all within a few blocks, and of course the Dakota isn't that far either (a brief cab ride away if traffic isn't bad). Before I really knew Manhattan (or lived around here), I just figured it was all spread out more since the city was so big, but it's pretty amazing how 90% of what I knew about the city as a kid is packed into a pretty small area.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 04:10 (four months ago) link
(Guess this actually aired when Paul was on Letterman around 2009)
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 04:13 (four months ago) link
One of the first Beatles albs I owned, took it to parties and played between Never Mind The Bollocks and This Year's Model---Lennon was a born screamer--Paulie not so much, but he hung in there, while George and Ringo smoked all of this 27 minute epic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatles_VI
― dow, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 05:26 (four months ago) link
Larry Williams' "Bad Boy" was thee anthem---Lennon: "Aw BUYYYYYYY evah rock 'n' roll book on tha mag-a-zine, stand."
― dow, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 05:30 (four months ago) link
Also Yesterday and Today: even without the butcher block cover, it was some fucken tasty chopnserve, pieces shaken up together like that.
― dow, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 05:33 (four months ago) link
It's Beatles Night!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QagEV5zujw
― MaresNest, Sunday, 28 January 2024 13:41 (two months ago) link
😳😀
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 29 January 2024 03:20 (one month ago) link
I only watched a tiny bit though