The Beatles Threadology

Post by **The_Hutter** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:47 am

The Beatles are one of the best band if not the best band of of all time
They has a huge impact on music, oo as in my tread people comparing them to Paul Simon. Here how i see that, The Beatles changes music as in the albums.
Paul Simon and Simon & Garfunkel, change music in the meaning for the lyrics, as i dont think the beatles song though awesome, are as meaningful as most of the song that Paul Simon wrote at that time.
They are both Equal, very great, and so different!

Post by **JewelSong** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:58 am

I have often said that if I was stranded on an island and could only bring 10 albums, the Beatles "Abbey Road" would be one of them. The last 15 minutes of that album is pure genius.

(LOVED the article about the McCartney divorce...what a mess that is!)

Post by **Jnyusa** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:24 am

Jewel, I forgot that you're in England! The scandal mongering must be ten times worse over there, like the OJ trial was here.

Without having (or wanting) any clue who punched whom in that one, I gotta say that only a very naive person would take on Paul McCarney in the press.

You don't tug on Superman's cape, and all that.

Jn

Post by **yovargas** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:46 pm

I just heard Revolution 9 for the first time - proof that the drugs and art shouldn't always mix.

Post by **axordil** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:03 pm

Well, you shoot for the fences, you whiff now and then.

But it was so very avant-garde back in the day, don't ya know.

Now, "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey"...THAT's the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup of art and drugs.

Post by **Jnyusa** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:22 pm

And Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is the bag of Skittles.

Jn

Post by **Whistler** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:26 pm

Oh, no!

Those letters...they spell LSD!

Man, this is incredible. Why didn't I think of that before?

We'll have to hear that song in a whole new light, after this!

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:01 am

Whistler, have you ever really looked at your hand? I mean really looked at it?

Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:18 am

Tries very hard not to say anything about comparative experience with music and drugs.

Fails.

Post by **Whistler** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:43 am

(Looks at hand)

Whoaaaa! I have a tattoo that says, Keep On Truckin'!

That is like, so...heavy, man. I think maybe that happened in Tijuana. I mean, if I ever went to Tijuana which I maybe did but I can't, like, remember. You know?

It's like I'm, like, suddenly connected to the wholeness of the universe and stuff.

Post by **Holbytla** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:53 am

*sigh*
older people

John Lennon, while never denying that the song itself was inspired by the countless acid trips he had taken, quickly explained that the title, in fact, had been mere coincidence. It was taken, verbatim, from the name John's four-year-old son Julian had given to a drawing he made at school (shown below), Lennon claimed; Lennon himself had no idea that the title formed the abbreviation LSD until it was pointed out to him by someone else after the album's release.

Source page for this now deunked urban legend.
Can dress em up but can't take em nowheres. *shakes head*

Post by **Jnyusa** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 1:31 am

Whatever happened to Julian Lennon's musical career?

Jn

Post by **Holbytla** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 2:44 am

He had that one big album shortly after his dad died, then that was pretty much it.
The 80's went out and so did he.

Post by **axordil** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 3:03 am

He put out a handful of albums in the 90s too.

Rumor has it that Yoko had some talks with various labels to discourage them from working with him (and push Sean's perpetually burgeoning career).

Post by **Jnyusa** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 3:11 am

Sean has a career too?

I've never heard either of them on the radio. Oh, maybe Julian ... I remember when launched his career and might have heard his single once or twice back then ... but he never made the charts, iirc.

Funny that, when you think about it. You'd think his records would sell just because he's John Lennon's son. It's not like he was any worse than the rest of the nonsense out there. I mean, if Jessica Simpson can have a career, who can't?

Jn

Post by **Holbytla** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 3:14 am

He did sell and was popular for a time.
His voice had his dad's sound, but certainly he did not have his dad's songwriting ability.
I think there was also a certain amount of sentimentality that went into purchasing his records.
I could take him in small doses.

Post by **axordil** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 3:16 am

Julian had a half-dozen or so singles that charted in 1984-1989.

Sean has had a couple of false starts, but he has an album named Friendly Fire out now, as in beginning of October.

Post by **baby tuckoo** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 5:16 am

*baby tuckoo sees hand as new. Puts it in his mouth.*

Post by **yovargas** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 3:21 pm

Here's a video from Sean Lennon's new album. Haven't heard/seen it yet so now opinions from me:

Dead Meat

He's also doing a small tour so apparently he's not doing too bad for himself.

Post by **PrinceAlarming** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 1:24 am

Abbey Road... Rubber soul is one of my favorites as well.

Do you remember what you were doing in the eighties? Well, I was being conceived. Regardless of what they were to people in the heydays, I still find them to be refreshing.

They still have songs with enough musical edge to go up against todays giants. (Radiohead, and the like).

Besides, didn't Elanor Rigby make the top 10 in its day?

A song with voices and strings?

Wow

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