I have their later EllPees, plus the blue & red double compilations. Not listened to any of them recently.
This evening I watched the old VHS Beatles Anthology, part 5. Lots of stuff from Rubber Soul & Revolver on it. Couldn't help noticing the drive & energy in the drums, bass & guitar parts, yet how little distortion there was in any of it. You could tell the amps were being driven, but not pushed into the kind of overload that other bands would indulge in, the following year and later on.
Note to self: Rubber Soul & Revolver would be worthwhile additions to the record collection.
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The outlook of the greatest popular music ever recorded!
'In My Life' could be Lennon's greatest song - a remarkable lyric for a 25 year old to write. Norwegian Wood showed a strong Dylan influence, Harrison's gorgeous If I Needed Someone, McCartney sounding quite rock and roll on Drive My Car.
Just a great record....
There's a great bootleg called Revolving which has different versions of the songs at various stages of completion. iirc about five takes of And Your Bird Can Sing with different guitars on.
The best Beatles stuff has so much energy it's crazy. Listen to their covers of eariler rock and roll stuff compared to the originals and the Beatles versions are absolutely blasting, sort of like how the Ramones would do covers of surf rock tunes. It's not so obvious from our vantage point fifty years on just how hard the Beatles rocked, but they did. Partly I think it originated in their Hamburg days, when they did a lot of amphetamines to stay alert and entertaining through multiple sets a day with very little rest.
The fantastic recordings help a lot of course, they just leap out of the speakers.
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I've only got the Red and Blue compilations and Revolver on CD, but we did have a vinyl copy of Sgt Pepper when I was a kid and that's embedded in my brain even though I haven't heard it for 25 years. Also since I was born in their heyday I like to think I was taking in their songs during my preschool years without even realising it.
That said, I do have mixed feelings about the Beatles. I like them, but not enough to buy all their albums, and I actively dislike almost all their post-Beatles work.
However, they have an iconic status which no-one will ever match again. That's partly because nothing like them had ever happened before and frankly there was really very little competition at the time - the music business, and popular music history, is so much "bigger" now, no one band could ever stand out in the same way. And ignoring all that, the musical journey they went on in a mere decade and the sheer brilliance of their songwriting throughout - even if I don't like all of it - I don't think anyone else is comparable.
Quite. They split 45 years ago and we're still talking about them.
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I'm going to have to read that book I think, it seems like it's become the go-to Beatles history in very short order.
For sure, Hamburg sounds like it was f'n hardcore. I think they had a slightly easier time of it on their later trips- better conditions and not quite the same ridiculous work schedule, plus the advantage of knowing what they were getting in to- but it was intense in a way very few bands today can comprehend.
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