Beatlemania is back....

clivex said:
Good stuff DO

I know lists are silly but what would be your top five?
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I simply couldn't list a top five because if I did someone would mention another song I'd overlooked which should be in there. I don't have a collection of albums I can refer to. It was my older brother who had them all.

I had the '1' album in the car for a while and my 22yo daughter often asked me to put it on. We'd talk about the songs and we'd find ourselves saying, 'Oohh,that's brilliant too, isn't it!'

Hey Jude was a big fav of mine and Eleanor Rigby. When I was learning keyboard (never got past the beginners stage) I had a Beatles songbook and Yesterday has a beautiful melody from a playing point of view.
 
clivex said:
Interesting list EC. In my life would be very close to my top five

Others that i cant believe i didnt include were Norweigan Wood (achingly beatiful and timeless), im still sleeping, Something (harrisons masterpiece) and ticket to ride (love the sluggish tempo). List goes on doesnt it
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I think Frank Sinatra was once quoted as saying 'Something' was the most beautiful song ever written.
 
Yes ec1. They released nearly 200 tracks too. Suprising isnt it? In seven years..........

DO. Yes Sinatra did say that and he wasnt naturally one to get carried away. it is extraordinary that alongside two genuine geniuses in lennon mccarthy there was also this huge talent in the very same group
 
George wrote some great songs on his own and continued to do so after the Beatles split..purely as an individual writer compared to the other two ...he has the strongest songs imo..the other two needed each other..McCartney more so than Lennon

we never gonna see owt like em again thats for sure
 
I've been a huge Beatles fan for just about as long as I can remember (and I don't remember them - I'd be in the early 20's Oasis bracket). I still ocasionally dig out the Star Club tapes to hear some raw, unpolished rock 'n roll. Live At the Hollywood Bowl is also an incredible album, encapsulating Beatlemania in 40 minutes for me. CD required.

Revolver is the finest recording, by any band or composer ever. Rubber Soul is the second finest.

My top 5 is ever changing, but for arguments sake, lets say that it goes something like this:

Cant Buy Me Love
And Your Bird Can Sing
Paperback Writer
Tomorrow Never Knows
The Long & Winding Road

Honourable mentions would go to You Can't Do That, This Boy, All My Loving, Eight Days A Week, I Feel Fine, Daytripper, In My Life, Rain, Get Back & Hey Jude.

No doubt I've forgotten ten others. :D
 
More of a Stones fan than a Beatles but watching the programme covering their recording career showed what a great band they were at the time. Listening to the Johnny Walker special last weekend on McCartney's career, where tracks were played back to back for the duration, showed up how poor lyrically he was on his own without Lennon. Reinforced by the latest single release a few months ago, which was truly dreadful.
 
I've just come across this, I think it goes a small way to proving my point about age and taste in music:

OASIS VOTED BEST SONG OF ALL TIME (PLUS TWO MORE IN THE TOP FIVE!)

2 September 2009
'Live Forever' has been voted the 'Best Song Of All Time' by the listeners of XFM. The station joined forces with radio stations from around the world including KROQ (in LA) and Triple J (Sydney) to compile the chart.

'Don't Look Back In Anger' came third in the poll with 'Wonderwall' coming in fourth.

The Best 10 Songs Of All Time, according to the poll, are:

1) Live Forever – Oasis
2) Mr Brightside – The Killers
3) Don’t Look Back In Anger – Oasis
4) Wonderwall – Oasis
5) Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
6) I Am The Resurrection - The Stone Roses
7) Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
8) There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths
9) Bitter Sweet Symphony – Verve
10) Plug In Baby - Muse
 
Whilst I do like Oasis (early stuff and bits of 'Shoulders of Giants' only, to be honest), I have never understood the fascination with Don't Look Back In Anger.

It is undoubtedly one of the biggest dirges Noel Gallagher has ever written. Truly, abysmally appalling on every imaginable level - apart from the nicked intro to "Imagine".
 
Grasshopper said:
It is undoubtedly one of the biggest dirges Noel Gallagher has ever written. Truly, abysmally appalling on every imaginable level - apart from the nicked intro to "Imagine".
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I never understood the fascination with Wonderwall either. I have always thought they were trying to be 'Paul Weller' and failing badly.
 
I dont mind Oasis at all, but both songs have cringeworthy lyrics too. Sylvesters "you make me feel might real" was more incisive
 
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Gearoid said:
I've just come across this, I think it goes a small way to proving my point about age and taste in music:
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Same goes for just about everything. Ever watched those marathon yawns on C4 'The 100 Geratest ...'? Far too many modern ....s reflecting the age of the people polled for it to be meaningful.
 
Gearoid said:
I've just come across this, I think it goes a small way to proving my point about age and taste in music:

OASIS VOTED BEST SONG OF ALL TIME (PLUS TWO MORE IN THE TOP FIVE!)

2 September 2009
'Live Forever' has been voted the 'Best Song Of All Time' by the listeners of XFM. The station joined forces with radio stations from around the world including KROQ (in LA) and Triple J (Sydney) to compile the chart.

'Don't Look Back In Anger' came third in the poll with 'Wonderwall' coming in fourth.

The Best 10 Songs Of All Time, according to the poll, are:

1) Live Forever – Oasis
2) Mr Brightside – The Killers
3) Don’t Look Back In Anger – Oasis
4) Wonderwall – Oasis
5) Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
6) I Am The Resurrection - The Stone Roses
7) Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
8) There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths
9) Bitter Sweet Symphony – Verve
10) Plug In Baby - Muse
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the problem with a poll like that is that its clear that no one above the age of 30 years of age took part...which makes it meaningless really.

it was the same a few years ago when they did the top 100 albums..Radiohead had Ok Computer & The Bends in the top 6..laughable...you do that same poll now and you would get a different result

recentness rather than greatness always rules in these type of polls

not one Bob Dylan/Beatles song in that list tells you something

did you know that Bitter Sweet Symphony is a direct copy of Andrew Oldhams version of a Stones record from 1965?...Jagger and Richards sued them and won all the royalties
 
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I knew all about the Stones thing before the single was even released (it wasn't exactly kept quiet, and the credits on the single ended up ridiculously convoluted because of it), but that's the first time I've ever actually heard the original Oldham orchestral version. Very interesting!

Don't think it was Jagger and Richards themselves who actually sued btw, but the publisher of their 60s catalogue.

Anyhoo, Bitter Sweet Symphony wouldn't make it in to my top 10 Verve songs let alone an all time top 10!
 
EC1 said:
it was the same a few years ago when they did the top 100 albums..Radiohead had Ok Computer & The Bends in the top 6..laughable...you do that same poll now and you would get a different result
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Ok Computer is one of those albums that will stick like Pet Sounds and What's Going On.

Smells Like Teen Spirit is one of the weakest songs on Nevermind. The people voting in that poll were just voting for the most obvious songs rather than the best.
 
Lets get it on will always be Marvins masterpiece.

for me anyway

Just getting back to the post that said that Paul couldnt write lyrics. Just listen to For No one. Beautiful.....

Im drifting thru youtube and the Beatles at the moment ( i need to get out more).

I suppose the fact that that you can never make up your mind which is the most brilliant piece of work says it all

They were the absolute giants of 20th century music (apologies to Bird, coltrane miles, the stones gershwin and so on)
 
clivex said:
Lets get it on will always be Marvins masterpiece.

for me anyway

Just getting back to the post that said that Paul couldnt write lyrics. Just listen to For No one. Beautiful.....

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Says Lennon/McCartney on all the places on the web I have found. Lennon.....
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No.Always understood it was Pauls song completely. The credits were generally unrelaible anyway. In fact Lennon cited it as Pauls best song in an old interview in the Times
 
I was checking out Magical Mystery Tour album the other day..some great tracks on that album

all this has definately got me looking and listening again..I don't own all the Beatles CD's..I know..its wrong:)...the 3 that are missing that i seem to be drawn to...are..MM Tour..Help (always loved some of the songs on that)...and Revolver...which I actually believed I owned until I checked the other night
 
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