Yeah that line works to brilliant effect, Lennon was bang on.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑01 Sep 2017, 5:49pmSimilarly, when Paul said that the "movement on your shoulder" was a bit of a placeholder line, that it was weak (something about sounding like there was a parrot) and he'd fix it later, John said it was perfect. John had a better ear for imperfections that nevertheless worked.Marky Dread wrote: ↑01 Sep 2017, 5:37pmI like the fact that Macca swears after hitting the wrong key at the end of the song and Lennon insisted it stayed on the track just buried in the mix.
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Didn't he tell Paul it was the best line in the song or something to that effect?Marky Dread wrote: ↑01 Sep 2017, 6:22pmYeah that line works to brilliant effect, Lennon was bang on.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑01 Sep 2017, 5:49pmSimilarly, when Paul said that the "movement on your shoulder" was a bit of a placeholder line, that it was weak (something about sounding like there was a parrot) and he'd fix it later, John said it was perfect. John had a better ear for imperfections that nevertheless worked.Marky Dread wrote: ↑01 Sep 2017, 5:37pmI like the fact that Macca swears after hitting the wrong key at the end of the song and Lennon insisted it stayed on the track just buried in the mix.
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Yes, I remember reading that..Kory wrote: ↑02 Sep 2017, 10:55pmDidn't he tell Paul it was the best line in the song or something to that effect?Marky Dread wrote: ↑01 Sep 2017, 6:22pmYeah that line works to brilliant effect, Lennon was bang on.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑01 Sep 2017, 5:49pmSimilarly, when Paul said that the "movement on your shoulder" was a bit of a placeholder line, that it was weak (something about sounding like there was a parrot) and he'd fix it later, John said it was perfect. John had a better ear for imperfections that nevertheless worked.Marky Dread wrote: ↑01 Sep 2017, 5:37pmI like the fact that Macca swears after hitting the wrong key at the end of the song and Lennon insisted it stayed on the track just buried in the mix.
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A student yesterday told me all Beatles songs sound the same. I was flabbergasted.
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Started watching this on Netflix this morning. I lasted a half hour. No actual Beatles music and interviews were all with people at best tangentially involved with the band (have you ever wondered what the elderly members of the Merseybeats think of Pepper? You're in luck!). Total garbage.
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"Ah, George. He was all about the guitar." - the man who shone Brian Epstein's shoes, 2014, in a documentary with a lot of the same still pictures used again and again.
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After exchanging a few emails with a Beatles author, I was pointed to this clip.
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People want everything to stay the same.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑12 Oct 2017, 8:04amAfter exchanging a few emails with a Beatles author, I was pointed to this clip.
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I love the one kid who is totally turned on, everybody else is a square but he totally gets it. It's like the whole 60's thing, all these baby boomers like to think that they were all cool and hippy but in reality it was a small amount of people who really got it. It's like millions and millions of people claim they went Woodstock, yeah right
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That's one part of the argument of the book, Magic Circles, that by '66 or so, what the Beatles wanted and what the fans wanted went increasingly in different directions. The Beatles encouraged more experimentation, love, peace, and liberty, while some fans wanted Beatlemania to stay and others wanted confrontation and violent revolution. So, other than that honeymoon period, the story of the Beatles is four young men increasingly at odds with, alienated from the youth culture they helped create. The Beatles as being the spirit of the 60s is a retroactive myth to make the Boomers feel nobler.coffeepotman wrote: ↑13 Oct 2017, 8:18amI love the one kid who is totally turned on, everybody else is a square but he totally gets it. It's like the whole 60's thing, all these baby boomers like to think that they were all cool and hippy but in reality it was a small amount of people who really got it. It's like millions and millions of people claim they went Woodstock, yeah right
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They weren't even really the biggest band in the world anymore by the mid-60s right? Who was it by then?Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑13 Oct 2017, 9:00amThat's one part of the argument of the book, Magic Circles, that by '66 or so, what the Beatles wanted and what the fans wanted went increasingly in different directions. The Beatles encouraged more experimentation, love, peace, and liberty, while some fans wanted Beatlemania to stay and others wanted confrontation and violent revolution. So, other than that honeymoon period, the story of the Beatles is four young men increasingly at odds with, alienated from the youth culture they helped create. The Beatles as being the spirit of the 60s is a retroactive myth to make the Boomers feel nobler.coffeepotman wrote: ↑13 Oct 2017, 8:18amI love the one kid who is totally turned on, everybody else is a square but he totally gets it. It's like the whole 60's thing, all these baby boomers like to think that they were all cool and hippy but in reality it was a small amount of people who really got it. It's like millions and millions of people claim they went Woodstock, yeah right
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I think they were still the biggest band in as much as they were still regarded as setting standards (tho the Beatles saw the Beach Boys and Dylan as inspiration/competitors). If the rock scene was diversifying, no one was yet big enough to be bigger than the Beatles.Kory wrote: ↑13 Oct 2017, 1:57pmThey weren't even really the biggest band in the world anymore by the mid-60s right? Who was it by then?Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑13 Oct 2017, 9:00amThat's one part of the argument of the book, Magic Circles, that by '66 or so, what the Beatles wanted and what the fans wanted went increasingly in different directions. The Beatles encouraged more experimentation, love, peace, and liberty, while some fans wanted Beatlemania to stay and others wanted confrontation and violent revolution. So, other than that honeymoon period, the story of the Beatles is four young men increasingly at odds with, alienated from the youth culture they helped create. The Beatles as being the spirit of the 60s is a retroactive myth to make the Boomers feel nobler.coffeepotman wrote: ↑13 Oct 2017, 8:18amI love the one kid who is totally turned on, everybody else is a square but he totally gets it. It's like the whole 60's thing, all these baby boomers like to think that they were all cool and hippy but in reality it was a small amount of people who really got it. It's like millions and millions of people claim they went Woodstock, yeah right
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I guess I was thinking about how people really seemed to not like them much anymore by that time. but history would have you believe that Beatlemania lasted forever. People think the Beatles were huge in America right off too, but they had the Dave Clark Five to compete with and that gets glossed over as well.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑13 Oct 2017, 2:03pmI think they were still the biggest band in as much as they were still regarded as setting standards (tho the Beatles saw the Beach Boys and Dylan as inspiration/competitors). If the rock scene was diversifying, no one was yet big enough to be bigger than the Beatles.Kory wrote: ↑13 Oct 2017, 1:57pmThey weren't even really the biggest band in the world anymore by the mid-60s right? Who was it by then?Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑13 Oct 2017, 9:00amThat's one part of the argument of the book, Magic Circles, that by '66 or so, what the Beatles wanted and what the fans wanted went increasingly in different directions. The Beatles encouraged more experimentation, love, peace, and liberty, while some fans wanted Beatlemania to stay and others wanted confrontation and violent revolution. So, other than that honeymoon period, the story of the Beatles is four young men increasingly at odds with, alienated from the youth culture they helped create. The Beatles as being the spirit of the 60s is a retroactive myth to make the Boomers feel nobler.coffeepotman wrote: ↑13 Oct 2017, 8:18amI love the one kid who is totally turned on, everybody else is a square but he totally gets it. It's like the whole 60's thing, all these baby boomers like to think that they were all cool and hippy but in reality it was a small amount of people who really got it. It's like millions and millions of people claim they went Woodstock, yeah right
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So with the satellite channel, this has totally been the Summer of the Beatles for me. I must have heard "You Know My Name" and "Only a Northern Song" and "All Together Now" like 20 times each, and fucking rad songs like "I Call Your Name" and "She's a Woman" like twice each.
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