SHITTY BANDS FUURR REALL
creed
nickleback
hinder
three days grace
apocolipto
korn
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Anonymous2009-05-02 6:46
>>8
God you're an asshole. Is that some kind of troll? Jumping into a thread, saying something shitty, not contributing, then just going about your miserable way. I wonder if anyone's tried to classify trolls yet.
>>10
I'm not the pasta chef here, but I did write that originally, and I gotta tell ya; I'm getting a big kick out of it...
It's another great example of the sociology of BB culture, and society as a whole. Somebody creates something, not necessarily even that interesting or clever, and it resonates in the mind of someone else who then turns it to his own purpose. The original post was in /book/, Stupid Character Names, >>14. It seems like the pasta chef, assuming it's still just one, hasn't really decided what he's doing yet. I could easily interpret it's use here as an appropriate condemnation of this entire negative thread. Often, the perpetrator turns the original statement on its head achieving a kind of ironic revenge. Unfortunately, as it began as a negative statement, it's use can only be negative. It also illustrates the challenge of trying to be original. Too many of those who can't think much on their own take the thoughts of others, warp them to their own purposes, and use them to sew discord. Trolls, Sprites, Brownies, Gremlins; all lower forms of life whose only joy comes from mischief. My original statement is proof that I too can be an asshole, but at least I'm and original asshole. And this has taught me to be more circumspect.
And insert any commercial, bubble gum, boy band name here.
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Anonymous2009-05-03 1:10
Saving Abel
Fall Out Boy
Flyleaf
blink 182
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Anonymous2009-05-07 12:56
xcreed
nickleback
hinder
three days grace
apocolipto
korn
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Anonymous2009-05-08 3:53
RAdiohead thousand times
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Parabola2009-05-25 22:22
ok i cant belive some one said zeppelin where shit!,there one of my favourite bands ever and im only 16.they also had one of the greatest drummers of all time.john henry bonham R.I.P but Jimmy page is one of the greatest guitarist of all times and many great players today have taken inspiration from him so any band that you love today might of been inpired by jimmy and because of him they might not have been what they are.My favourite band now are TOOL.in my opinion are one of the greatest progressive metal bands ever.i worship the drummer DANNY CAREY because he has inspired me so much over my 4 years of drumming.the singer MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN has one of the greatest vocal abilities that i have ever heard in my life
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Anonymous2009-05-26 0:27
Hedley
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Anonymous2009-05-26 23:03
The shittiest bands I've heard are led zeppelin, the beatles, pink floyd, tool, metallica, pantera, iron maiden, sublime, red hot chili peppers, etc. They all suck ass. Jonas brothers, and 3 days grace, is where its at. Lol
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parabola2009-05-26 23:43
17!
Just shoot yourself in the head right now lol
Parabola
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Anonymous2009-06-14 8:39
18 DONT FEED THE TROLLS YOU DUMB FUCK
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Anonymous2009-06-15 12:10
lol, 19 is right.
Obviously he was just trollin to fuck with you.
Those Bands have been a musical influence in my life since i was 7.
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Anonymous2009-06-23 21:05
21 was here. 20 is a loser
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Anonymous2009-06-24 0:27
No. They're not fucking emo. None of the shit you could name is emo. Rise Against used to be alright, though. They suck now.
Anything marketed with the ignorant genre label of post-grunge. Examples: the aforementioned Nickleback, Creed, Hinder, Three Days Grace, Godsmack, Buckcherry, or the like. Most have degenerated into mindless cock rock, and all should be hurled off the biggest cliff one could find by their leather pants.
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Anonymous2009-07-23 2:11
Jack Johnson is a queer.
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HR!h3LO0EXTAQ2009-07-23 3:48
Led Zeppelin.
There. I said it,
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BLUBBERTITS2009-07-24 15:46
U2
Bullet For My Valentine (and all other metalcore bands)
Three Days Grace
Joe Cock(er)
All sluts like Lady Gaga and Britney Spears
Guns n Roses, Poison, all that crap
Simple Minds
Simple Plan
Shitknot
....
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this is all fagshit right here.
I don't know of any gay bands because I gave up on radio years ago, oh, except the cribs, I looked up the cribs recently and they sucked donkey dick.
I fucking love Led Zeppelin, What the fuck man how you gonna say they are a shit band.
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Anonymous2010-03-20 21:50
You are so Totally *IGNORANT*!
As The All Music Guide says in their excellent Beatles biography "That it's difficult to summarize their career without restating cliches that have already been digested by tens of millions of rock fans, to start with the obvious,they were the greatest and most influential act of the rock era and introduced more innovations into popular music than any other rock band of the 20th century."
"Moreover they were among the few artists of *any* discipline that were simultaneously the best at what they did *and* the most popular at what they did." THey also say as singers John Lennon and Paul McCartney were among the best and most expressive in rock.
Also on an excellent site,The Evolution of Rock Bass Playing McCartney Style by Dennnis Alstrand,Stanley Clarke,Sting,Will Lee,Billy Sheehan,George Martin and John Lennon are quoted saying what a great,melodic and influential bass player Paul has always been'
And Wilco's John Stirratt was asked in Bass Player which bass players have had the most impact on his playing and the first thing he said was, Paul McCartney is one of the greatest bass players of all time,if you listen to what he was tracking live in the studio it's unbelievable." "With his tone and musicality he was a huge influence,he covered all of his harmonic responsibilities really well but his baselines were absolutely melodic and inventive."
And in an online 1977 Eric Clapton interview,Eric Clapton In His Own Words he says that there was always this guitar game between John and George,and he said partly because John was a pretty good guitar player himself.He played live with John as a member of John's 1969 Plastic Ono Band.
And there is a great online article by musician and song writer Peter Cross,The Beatles Are The Most Creative Band Of All Time and he says that many musicians besides him recognize Paul as one of the best bass guitar players ever.He too says that John and Paul are the greatest song composers and that to say that John and Paul are among 2 of the greatest singers in rock and roll is to state the obvious,and that John,Paul and George were all excellent guitarists and that George is underrated by people not educated about music but that ERic Clapton knew better,he also says that both John and Paul played great leads as well as innovative rhythm tracks.
John Lennon co-wrote,sang and played guitar on one of David Bowie's first hits Fame in 1975 and David invited John to play guitar on his version of John's beautiful Beatles song Across The Universe.Brain May,Ozzy Osbourne,and Liam Gallagher and many more call The Beatles The Greatest Band Ever.
Also on MusicRadar Tom Petty,Joe Perry and Richie Sambora in What The Beatles Mean To Me all say how cool and great they thought The Beatles were when they first saw them on The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964 when they were just teen boys,Richie was only 5.Tom Petty said he thought they were really really great.
Robin Zander of Cheap Trick said he's probably one of the biggest Beatles fans on the planet.Brad Whitford of Aerosmith said that a lot of that Beatles influence comes from Steven Tyler's collaborartion with Mark Hudson both whom are absolute Beatles freaks and he said I guess the goal is to try and emulate probably some of the best music of the last 50 years which has to be The Beatles.
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Anonymous2010-03-20 21:54
And in an online 1977 Eric Clapton interview,Eric Clapton In His Own Words he says that there was always this guitar game between John and George,and he said partly because John was a pretty good guitar player himself.He played live with John as a member of John's 1969 Plastic Ono Band.
And there is a great online article by musician and song writer Peter Cross,The Beatles Are The Most Creative Band Of All Time and he says that many musicians besides him recognize Paul as one of the best bass guitar players ever.He too says that John and Paul are the greatest song composers and that to say that John and Paul are among 2 of the greatest singers in rock and roll is to state the obvious,and that John,Paul and George were all excellent guitarists and that George is underrated by people not educated about music but that ERic Clapton knew better,he also says that both John and Paul played great leads as well as innovative rhythm tracks.
John Lennon co-wrote,sang and played guitar on one of David Bowie's first hits Fame in 1975 and David invited John to play guitar on his version of John's beautiful Beatles song Across The Universe.Brain May,Ozzy Osbourne,and Liam Gallagher and many more call The Beatles The Greatest Band Ever.
Also on MusicRadar Tom Petty,Joe Perry and Richie Sambora in What The Beatles Mean To Me all say how cool and great they thought The Beatles were when they first saw them on The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964 when they were just teen boys,Richie was only 5.Tom Petty said he thought they were really really great.
Robin Zander of Cheap Trick said he's probably one of the biggest Beatles fans on the planet.Brad Whitford of Aerosmith said that a lot of that Beatles influence comes from Steven Tyler's collaborartion with Mark Hudson both whom are absolute Beatles freaks and he said I guess the goal is to try and emulate probably some of the best music of the last 50 years which has to be The Beatles.
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Anonymous2010-03-20 21:57
Also in an excellent Beatles book Ticket To Ride by Denny Somach where so many other well known popular respected rock musicians and artists are interviewed about The Beatles praising them including Jimmy Page,Brian Wilson who says he's always loved The Beatles. And Brian Wilson called John & Paul the greatest song writers of the 20th century on a 1995 Nightline Beatles tribute show,(which had on music artists from every type of music,a young black jazz musician,a middle aged black opera singer,Steve Winwood,Meatloaf,and classical violnist Isak Perleman,who said he plays his children Bach,Beethoven Mozart and The Beatles)and he played With A Little Help From My Friends on the piano and he said he just loves this song. He also said that Sgt.Pepper is the greatest album he ever heard and The All Music Guide says in their Beach Boys biography,that Brian had a nerveous breakdown after he heard it. Brian also said that when he first heard The Beatles brilliant 1965 folk rock album Rubber Soul he was blown away by it.He said all of the songs flowed together and it was pop music but folk rock at the same time and he couldn't believe they did this so great,this inspired him to make Pet Sounds.
John Lodge and Justin of The Moody Blues are interviewed in this book and Bill Wyman and Ron Wood says how The Rolling Stones became good friends with The Beatles in 1963 after John and Paul wrote 1 of their first hits,the Rock n Roll song,I Wanna Be You're Man.
Ron Wood was asked what his favorite Beatles songs and he said there are so many apart from the obvious like Strawberry Fields I Want To Hold Your Hand is one he said he used to like a lot ,and he said he really loved We Can Work It Out.He also says that The Beatles used to have a radio show every Friday where they played live and spoke and he would never miss an episode. He said infact whoever has the rights to those shows should dig them up,because they are incredible.
Justin Hayward says that the album he always really loved ,and he said it was when they started experimenting with chord structures ,was A Hard Day's Night.He says they began to move away from the standard 3 chord thing and just went into more interesting structures .He said A Hard Day's Night was the album for him and their song If I Fell was the song.He said it started in a different key to how it ended up,and it's a beautifully worked out song and that there are some songs on that album that were very emotinal and evocative. He said that for everybody just starting to write songs as he was,it was a real turn on and eye opener.
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Anonymous2010-03-20 21:59
Justin Hayward says in this book that the album he always really loved ,and he said it was when they started experimenting with chord structures ,was A Hard Day's Night.He says they began to move away from the standard 3 chord thing and just went into more interesting structures .He said A Hard Day's Night was the album for him and their song If I Fell was the song.He said it started in a different key to how it ended up,and it's a beautifully worked out song and that there are some songs on that album that were very emotinal and evocative. He said that for everybody just starting to weite songs as he was,it was a real turn on and eye opener.
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Anonymous2010-03-20 21:59
I recently read an online article that had an interview with Ernie Isley of The Isley Brothers about a recent tribute to Jimi Hendrix,in which he says that Jimi played for The Isley Brothers & lived with them & that they & he were fans of The Fab Four from the moment they all watched them on The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964. I always thought that Jimi was only a later period Beatles fan,I knew he played Sgt.Pepper live the weekend it came out,& he played Day Tripper live also,& several people on different message boards said that when he was asked where the direction of music was going,he said ask The Beatles.
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Anonymous2010-03-20 22:00
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Bob Dylan talks of Beatles friendship
Legend admits: 'I'm in awe of McCartney'
May 16, 2007
Bob Dylan has spoken in depth about his longstanding friendship with The Beatles and his particular bond with George Harrison.
Talking to Rolling Stone magazine, Dylan talked freely about Harrison’s struggle to find his voice within the songwriting collective of John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
"George got stuck with being the Beatle that had to fight to get songs on records because of Lennon and McCartney. Well, who wouldn’t get stuck?" he asked.
Dylan highlighted the writing talents of Harrison, saying: "If George had had his own group and was writing his own songs back then, he’d have been probably just as big as anybody."
Speaking against popular belief, the singer also denounced any rumours of competitiveness towards Lennon and McCartney, asserting, "They were fantastic singers. Lennon, to this day, it’s hard to find a better singer than Lennon was, or than McCartney was and still is."
Nodding his cap to McCartney in particular, Dylan concluded: "I’m in awe of McCartney. He’s about the only one that I am in awe of. He can do it all. And he’s never let up... He’s just so damn effortless.
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Anonymous2010-03-20 22:01
The Beatles revolutionized popular and rock music and were very innovative,prolific and creative,more than any other group. And their great timeless songs are the most covered in music history by everyone from jazz musicians,classical,Motown,rock,pop and even heavy metal recording and playing their great timeless music.
Many academic musicologists and music scholars have done serious studies,analyses and praise of their great timeless music,like university of Penn gradutate musicologist Alan W.Pollack who did an extensive 11 year detailed analysis of every Beatles song.He says he hadn't even listened to The Beatles in 20 years until they came out on CD for the first time in 1987.
And university of Michigan music professor and musician Walter Everett who wrote the 2 volume,The Beatles As Musicians:The Quarry Men Through Rubber Soul and The Beatles As Musicians:Revolver Through Anthology.And British musicologist and classical composer and music professor (who is dead now)Willifred Mellers 1973 book,Twilight Of The Gods:The Music Of The Beatles,and he also wrote about Beethoven,Mozart and Bob Dylan.
And award winning music professor Dr.Glen Gass who has been teaching a course on what brilliant composers The Beatles were and a rock music course at Indiana University School Of Music since 1982.Dr.Gary Kendal's Beatles course is the most requested at North Western university ,university of California also has one and Oxford university had a recent Beatles course.
How many serious music scholars and award winning music professors are teaching and writing serious academic works studying and prasing what "brilliant" composers The Rolling Stones or any other rock band were?
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Anonymous2010-03-20 22:01
The Beatles wrote, played and recorded so many great critically acclaimed, popular songs and albums of all different styles of music and wrote about 50 or more years worth of mostly great music in just an 8 year recording career.
When The Beatles were playing live in 63,64, 65& 66 they had very limited primitive sound systems at the time,only 100 watt amplifiers,(and George Harrison says in the excellent video series,The Beatles Anthology that special 100 watt amplifiers were made for their August 1965 Shea Stadium concetts,and he said they went up from the only 30 watts before!) no feedback monitors so they couldn't even hear themselves play and sing(yet they amazingly managed to sing and play in sync and in tune with each other anyway!) plus all of the screaming from the crowds.
In their January 1969 live rooftop concert they sounded great, the sound systems had improved some by then ,although still pretty primitive compared to today's, and there were no screaming crowds anymore.
When I was a teenager I met 3 people who saw The Beatles in concert, 2 saw them in 1966 and 1 saw them in 1964, they all told me they could see and hear them and that they were great.
On the site Artist Facts in The Rolling Stones section a guy Steve from Canada said he saw The Beatles in concert in 1966 and The Rolling Stones in 1996(and the sound systems by then were a million tines better!) and he said they both were great but he said The Beatles were The *GREATEST* Band ever!
And former Kiss guitarist Bob Kulick who produced the heavy metal tribute Beatles album,Butchering The Beatles, said he saw The Beatles at Shea Stadium in 1966 and he said he only heard them in bits and pieces but he could hear parts of Baby's In Black and Paperback Writer and he said they sounded amazing. He also calls them the *GREATEST* band ever.
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Anonymous2010-03-20 22:07
On the site Artist Facts in The Rolling Stones section a guy Steve from Canada said he saw The Beatles in concert in 1966 and The Rolling Stones in 1996(and the sound systems by then were a million tines better!) and he said they both were great but he said The Beatles were The *GREATEST* Band ever!
And former Kiss guitarist Bob Kulick who produced the heavy metal tribute Beatles album,Butchering The Beatles, said he saw The Beatles at Shea Stadium in 1966 and he said he only heard them in bits and pieces but he could hear parts of Baby's In Black and Paperback Writer and he said they sounded amazing. He also calls them the *GREATEST* band ever.
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Anonymous2010-03-20 22:09
Also, classical composer Leonard Bernstein called John and Paul the greatest composers of the 20th century so did Elton John on a 1991 CBS Morning news show,he was asked who he musically admires and he said you can talk about your Rogers and Hammerstein but for the quanity of quality songs that Lennon and McCartney wrote in that short period of time,he said he thinks they were the greatest song writers of the 20th century.Brian Wilson said this too on a 1995 Nightline Beatles tribute show.The Beatles are in the Vocal Hall of Fame and John & Paul are in The Song Writing Hall of Fame(no members of The Who or Led Zeppelin are in them so far) and they were awarded about 20 prestigious Ivor Nevello awards as great singers and song writers in just a remarkable 8 year recording career,John and Paul won the first one in early 1964!
They also won an Oscar for their film score of their Let It Be Film in 1970.
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Anonymous2010-03-20 22:10
As The Rolling Stone Album Guide said,not liking The Beatles is as perverse as not liking the sun. And Ozzy Osbourne said not loving The Beatles is like not loving oxogen. And a guy who runs Keno's Classic Rock n Roll Site and who runs a Rolling Stones and John Lennon fan site says damn The Beatles were one great group and he said in his great review of The Beatles 1962-1966 Red album, that if you don't love or at least like The Beatles and their music then you are not a true rock fan and more than likely will never get it.And Billy Joel said you can't like music and dislike The Beatles.
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Anonymous2010-03-20 22:12
Also there is an online interview with Roger Daltry,Roger's Journey With The Who in The Sun and he was asked if The Who had screaming girls at a certain point,and he said after Can't Explain they did he said it was the era of screaming teen girls and every band had them on their way up.He said it was fun at first but the trouble for a performer when you are that young and inexperienced is that you start to judge your performances on the amount they scream,he said it's nonsense which is why Lennon gave up. He also said that The Who's manager turned their image overnight from scruffy rockers to Mods.
If you still insist the false ludicrous claim that The early Beatles were ever a "boy band" then you are just further proving your stupidity.When The Beatles played live in 1963,64,65 & 66 they only had 100 watt amplifiers,no feedback monitors so they couldn't hear themselves sing and play,plus the screaming crowds and that's why they gave up touring.
George Harrison says in The Beatles Anthology video series,that for their August 1965 Shea Stadium concerts, special 100 watt amplifiers were made and that they went up from only 30 watts before. Given how limited and primitive the sound systems were then,it's amazing they sounded as good as they did live.
And a guy said on a message board in September, said that he too once wrongly believed that the early Beatles were a boy band like The Back Street Boys,until he got out of 7th grade.The Beatles started out playing 8 hours a night in the sleazy strip clubs of Hamburg Germany,taking speed pills to stay awake,wearing tight black leather jackets and pants,smoking and cursing on stage,and had sex with so many young women groupies including the strippers in those clubs,they were successful there. They also played successfully in the Liverpool Cavern Club for years.
Even many fans of The Rolling Stones who are also Beatles fans, said on several Rolling Stones message boards,and Beatles fans said this on Beatles fan boards,that THe Beatles cleaned up image was a total fake one created by their manager,and that they know that The Beatles were just as wild as The Stones with sex and drugs in their personal lives and were friends who hung out together.
There used to be an online interview with Charlie Watts from a 1973 Magazine called,Zig Zag called,The Drinking Man's Rolling Stone. He says that The Beatles and The Rolling Stones were good friends,and that they were a lot alike as people. He also said what made The Beatles so great is that they made one great album and one great single after the next.
And I don't want to be on bad terms with anyone on here, and I'm not trying to bother anybody ,but I really am just trying to debunk this totally inaccurate ridiculous unfortunately common myth that The Beatles were ever a boy band,they were a great *ROCK n ROLL* band from the start!
John and George especially hated Beatle Mania,and George says in The Anthology series,that it took a toll on their nervous systems,they had no life either trapped in hotel rooms most of the time. They wanted to be popular & successful as every band does,but they didn't want or ask for the hysteria.John says in his 1975 Tomorrow Show interview that the screaming wasn't doing the music any good,and that things would break down and nobody would know.
The Beatles sound great on their live roof top January 1969 concert in The Let It Be Film, and the sound systems had improved by then,(although still very limited compared to today's) and there were no more screaming crowds.
Paul was playing guitar and writing songs at 14 and he started soon after his beloved nurse and midwife mother Mary died of breast cancer,and he wrote the beautiful song Let It Be after he had a real seeming dream where he saw her alive again and she told him to just accept things as they are.He says in his authorized biography,that when he woke up he thought how great it was to see her alive again.
John was writing deep heavy poetry when he was a kid,and he started writing his own songs at age 17 not long after he met Paul and was impressed that was writing his own songs. Paul wrote the very pretty song,I'll Follow The Sun at age 16. They didn't know at this age they would make it big and they weren't making a penny from it then.
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Anonymous2010-03-20 22:15
Also there is an online interview with Roger Daltry,Roger's Journey With The Who in The Sun and he was asked if The Who had screaming girls at a certain point,and he said after Can't Explain they did he said it was the sceaming teen girl era every band had them on their way up.He said it was fun at first but the trouble for a performer when you are that young and inexperienced is that you start to judge your performances on the amount they scream,he said it's nonsense which is why Lennon gave up. He also said that The Who's manager turned their image overnight from scruffy rockers to Mods.
If you still insist the false ludicrous claim that The early Beatles were ever a "boy band" then you are just further proving the title of this topic,your stupidity.When The Beatles played live in 1963,64,65 & 66 they only had 100 watt amplifiers,no feedback monitors so they couldn't hear themselves sing and play,plus the screaming crowds and that's why they gave up touring.
George Harrison says in The Beatles Anthology video series,that for their August 1965 Shea Stadium concerts, special 100 watt amplifiers were made and that they went up from only 30 watts before. Given how limited and primitive the sound systems were then,it's amazing they sounded as good as they did live.
Former Kiss guitarist Bob Kulick who produced the heavy metal album Butchering The Beatles, said he saw The Beatles in concert in 1966 and he said he could hear parts of Baby's In Black & Paperback Writer and they sounded amazing.
A guy Steve from Canada said on Artist Facts,that he saw The Beatles live in 1966 and The Stones in 1996(and the sound systems by then were a zillion times better!) and he said don't get me wrong,The Stones were great but they were no match for The Beatles and he called The Beatles The Greatest Band Of All Time.
And a guy said on a message board in September, said that he too once wrongly believed that the early Beatles were a boy band like The Back Street Boys,until he got out of 7th grade.The Beatles started out playing 8 hours a night in the sleazy strip clubs of Hamburg Germany,taking speed pills to stay awake,wearing tight black leather jackets and pants,smoking and cursing on stage,and had sex with so many young women groupies including the strippers in those clubs,they were successful there. They also played successfully in the Liverpool Cavern Club for years.
Even many fans of The Rolling Stones who are also Beatles fans, said on several Rolling Stones message boards,and Beatles fans said this on Beatles fan boards,that THe Beatles cleaned up image was a total fake one created by their manager,and that they know that The Beatles were just as wild as The Stones with sex and drugs in their personal lives and were friends who hung out together.
There used to be an online interview with Charlie Watts from a 1973 Magazine called,Zig Zag called,The Drinking Man's Rolling Stone. He says that The Beatles and The Rolling Stones were good friends,and that they were a lot alike as people. He also said what made The Beatles so great is that they made one great album and one great single after the next.
And I don't want to be on bad terms with anyone on here, and I'm not trying to bother anybody ,but I really am just trying to debunk this totally inaccurate ridiculous unfortunately common myth that The Beatles were ever a boy band,they were a great *ROCK n ROLL* band from the start!
John and George especially hated Beatle Mania,and George says in The Anthology series,that it took a toll on their nervous systems,they had no life either trapped in hotel rooms most of the time. They wanted to be popular & successful as every band does,but they didn't want or ask for the hysteria.John says in his 1975 Tomorrow Show interview that the screaming wasn't doing the music any good,and that things would break down and nobody would know.
The Beatles sound great on their live roof top January 1969 concert in The Let It Be Film, and the sound systems had improved by then,(although still very limited compared to today's) and there were no more screaming crowds.
Paul was playing guitar and writing songs at 14 and he started soon after his beloved nurse and midwife mother Mary died of breast cancer,and he wrote the beautiful song Let It Be after he had a real seeming dream where he saw her alive again and she told him to just accept things as they are.He says in his authorized biography,that when he woke up he thought how great it was to see her alive again.
John was writing deep heavy poetry when he was a kid,and he started writing his own songs at age 17 not long after he met Paul and was impressed that was writing his own songs. Paul wrote the very pretty song,I'll Follow The Sun at age 16. They didn't know at this age they would make it big and they weren't making a penny from it then.
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Anonymous2010-03-20 22:17
And a guy said on a message board in September, said that he too once wrongly believed that the early Beatles were a boy band like The Back Street Boys,until he got out of 7th grade.The Beatles started out playing 8 hours a night in the sleazy strip clubs of Hamburg Germany for 2 years,taking speed pills to stay awake,wearing tight black leather jackets and pants,smoking and cursing on stage,and had sex with so many young women groupies including the strippers in those clubs,they were successful there. They also played successfully in the Liverpool Cavern Club for years.
Even many fans of The Rolling Stones who are also Beatles fans, said on several Rolling Stones message boards,and Beatles fans said this on Beatles fan boards,that THe Beatles cleaned up image was a total fake one created by their manager,and that they know that The Beatles were just as wild as The Stones with sex and drugs in their personal lives and were friends who hung out together.
There used to be an online interview with Charlie Watts from a 1973 Magazine called,Zig Zag called,The Drinking Man's Rolling Stone. He says that The Beatles and The Rolling Stones were good friends,and that they were a lot alike as people. He also said what made The Beatles so great is that they made one great album and one great single after the next.
And I don't want to be on bad terms with anyone on here, and I'm not trying to bother anybody ,but I really am just trying to debunk this totally inaccurate ridiculous unfortunately common myth that The Beatles were ever a boy band,they were a great *ROCK n ROLL* band from the start!
John and George especially hated Beatle Mania,and George says in The Anthology series,that it took a toll on their nervous systems,they had no life either trapped in hotel rooms most of the time. They wanted to be popular & successful as every band does,but they didn't want or ask for the hysteria.John says in his 1975 Tomorrow Show interview that the screaming wasn't doing the music any good,and that things would break down and nobody would know.
The Beatles sound great on their live roof top January 1969 concert in The Let It Be Film, and the sound systems had improved by then,(although still very limited compared to today's) and there were no more screaming crowds.
Paul was playing guitar and writing songs at 14 and he started soon after his beloved nurse and midwife mother Mary died of breast cancer,and he wrote the beautiful song Let It Be after he had a real seeming dream where he saw her alive again and she told him to just accept things as they are.He says in his authorized biography,that when he woke up he thought how great it was to see her alive again.
John was writing deep heavy poetry when he was a kid,and he started writing his own songs at age 17 not long after he met Paul and was impressed that was writing his own songs. Paul wrote the very pretty song,I'll Follow The Sun at age 16. They didn't know at this age they would make it big and they weren't making a penny from it then.
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Anonymous2010-03-20 22:20
And I don't want to be on bad terms with anyone on here, and I'm not trying to bother anybody ,but I really am just trying to debunk this totally inaccurate ridiculous unfortunately common myth that The Beatles were ever a boy band,they were a great *ROCK n ROLL* band from the start!
John and George especially hated Beatle Mania,and George says in The Anthology series,that it took a toll on their nervous systems,they had no life either trapped in hotel rooms most of the time. They wanted to be popular & successful as every band does,but they didn't want or ask for the hysteria.John says in his 1975 Tomorrow Show interview that the screaming wasn't doing the music any good,and that things would break down and nobody would know.
The Beatles sound great on their live roof top January 1969 concert in The Let It Be Film, and the sound systems had improved by then,(although still very limited compared to today's) and there were no more screaming crowds.
Paul was playing guitar and writing songs at 14 and he started soon after his beloved nurse and midwife mother Mary died of breast cancer,and he wrote the beautiful song Let It Be after he had a real seeming dream where he saw her alive again and she told him to just accept things as they are.He says in his authorized biography,that when he woke up he thought how great it was to see her alive again.
John was writing deep heavy poetry when he was a kid,and he started writing his own songs at age 17 not long after he met Paul and was impressed that was writing his own songs. Paul wrote the very pretty song,I'll Follow The Sun at age 16. They didn't know at this age they would make it big and they weren't making a penny from it then.
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Anonymous2010-03-20 22:24
John was writing deep heavy poetry when he was a kid,and he started writing his own songs at age 17 not long after he met Paul and was impressed that was writing his own songs. Paul wrote the very pretty song,I'll Follow The Sun at age 16. They didn't know at this age they would make it big and they weren't making a penny from it then.
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Anonymous2010-03-20 22:27
On Last FM. The Rolling Stones only had 80 members of their fan group in 2007, The Beatles had over 2,000 which is now over 11,000 and the average age of fans is 22 more guys than girls and they are from all over the world!
In 2006,2007 and 2008 The Beatles were the # 1 most listened music artists on Last.FM and they are very popular on YouTube and Rate Your Music where many male and female fans in their teens and 20's call them The Greatest Rock Band Ever!
The Beatles are still rightfully regarded by most people,most rock critics,and many other music and rock artists as The most creative,innovative,and prolific rock band ever!
The Beatles wrote *plenty* of great rock songs including hard rock on The White Album and Abbey Road and as many have rightfully pointed out Paul invented heavy metal with his 1968 song Helter Skelter and people have also said John's I Want You She's So Heavy on Abbey road was also one of the first heavy metal songs.
Even in their early days they wrote some great rockers that were very rocky for the times, as The All Music Guide said,in their very good review of Past Masters Volume 1 that they proved they could rock really really hard,with John's I Feel Fine from late 1964 which featured the very recorded feedback guitar on a rock song,and Paul's great blues rocker,She's A Woman also from late 1964,and what they called the peerless I'm Down which is Paul's screaming rocker from mid 1965 which they performed even harder rocking, and screaming in August 1965 at Shea Stadium.
Also John's You Can't Do That from early 1964,is a great rock song, so is Day Dripper,Paperback Writer, And You're Bird Can Sing, She Said She Said,Taxman,Oh Darling,Hey Bulldog etc!
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Anonymous2010-03-20 22:28
Even in their early days they wrote some great rockers that were very rocky for the times, as The All Music Guide said,in their very good review of Past Masters Volume 1 that they proved they could rock really really hard,with John's I Feel Fine from late 1964 which featured the very recorded feedback guitar on a rock song,and Paul's great blues rocker,She's A Woman also from late 1964,and what they called the peerless I'm Down which is Paul's screaming rocker from mid 1965 which they performed even harder rocking, and screaming in August 1965 at Shea Stadium.
Also John's You Can't Do That from early 1964,is a great rock song, so is Day Dripper,Paperback Writer, And You're Bird Can Sing, She Said She Said,Taxman,Oh Darling,Hey Bulldog etc!
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Anonymous2010-03-20 22:29
To those who listed Led Zeppelin you are totally right! I'm not saying they aren't very good musicians because that would be ignorant to deny it,but it doesn't matter because it just means they played their very sh*tty sounding "music" very well!
They are one of the few bands or artists that I can't stand to listen to for even a half of a second,I have to get up off of my chair and turn them off immediately before I smash my 3 year old very good stereo receiver into a million pieces!They make Van Halen sound like a fantastic band and actually some of their songs from the late 70's-early 80's are kind of good and I don't have to turn the radio station.
I'm not alone in this either I have found many people even many heavy metal fans who hate them too,many of these people have said they hate Robert Plant's often screaching and screaming "vocals",banging around noise with no creative artistic quality,no beautiful melodies and harmonies,some say that a lot of Robert Plant's lyrics are simple like a teen boy wrote them,and that they ripped off many blues riffs from old blues songs.
Rolling Stone was right about not liking Led Zeppelin in the first place,you should have stuck to it!
There is an online interview with John Mendelssohn in rockcritics.com in which he was asked if his feelings about Led Zeppelin 2 had changed,(he gave a bad review to their first album that was published in his college newspaer and Rolling Stone too) and he said certainly not and that he hates it more confidently than he did at the time.He said all that infernal screaching! All of that showing off on the guitar! And he also said all of those interminable versions of Joan Biaz songs! And not a trace of the things he adores(this is what I hate about them too!)melody,vocal harmony,expressive musicianship and intelligence or at least wit.That is everything The Beatles had,even though their early lyrics were simple their chords, and their arrangements,were not,and they always had beautiful melodies and harmonies and creative quality in their music even in a lot of their rock songs
He said that he always believed that for an act to be ultra-delux,it need not only sound terrific but look terrific too as Elvis,The Beatles and the early Who all did.
I have had the misfortune to hear at least 8 or more Led Zeppelin songs,and I don't judge bands based on only hearing a few bad songs,and even if I ever heard any Led Zeppelin songs I liked it wouldn't change my strong dislike of them because out of those 8 or more songs,2 are just OK but the others are so dreadful! Their songs Black Dog,Whole Lotta Love and Rock and Roll are unbearably terrible,in rock and roll they just have banging around noise with no creative quality (as they do in most of their "music" I have heard,) and Robert Plant screams like a retarted monkey.If this what rock and roll is all about we are all in big trouble!
Cream,The Doors,The Who,Jimi Hendrix Band Company all had good songs,they are a million times better than Led Zeppelin & The Beatles are a Zillion times better!
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Anonymous2010-03-20 22:30
There is an online interview with John Mendelssohn in rockcritics.com in which he was asked if his feelings about Led Zeppelin 2 had changed,(he gave a bad review to their first album that was published in his college newspaer and Rolling Stone too) and he said certainly not and that he hates it more confidently than he did at the time.He said all that infernal screaching! All of that showing off on the guitar! And he also said all of those interminable versions of Joan Biaz songs! And not a trace of the things he adores(this is what I hate about them too!)melody,vocal harmony,expressive musicianship and intelligence or at least wit.That is everything The Beatles had,even though their early lyrics were simple their chords, and their arrangements,were not,and they always had beautiful melodies and harmonies and creative quality in their music even in a lot of their rock songs
He said that he always believed that for an act to be ultra-delux,it need not only sound terrific but look terrific too as Elvis,The Beatles and the early Who all did.
I have had the misfortune to hear at least 8 or more Led Zeppelin songs,and I don't judge bands based on only hearing a few bad songs,and even if I ever heard any Led Zeppelin songs I liked it wouldn't change my strong dislike of them because out of those 8 or more songs,2 are just OK but the others are so dreadful! Their songs Black Dog,Whole Lotta Love and Rock and Roll are unbearably terrible,in rock and roll they just have banging around noise with no creative quality (as they do in most of their "music" I have heard,) and Robert Plant screams like a retarted monkey.If this what rock and roll is all about we are all in big trouble!
Cream,The Doors,The Who,Jimi Hendrix Band Company all had good songs,they are a million times better than Led Zeppelin & The Beatles are a Zillion times better!
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Anonymous2010-03-20 22:33
Cream,The Doors,The Who,Jimi Hendrix Band Company all had good songs,they are a million times better than Led Zeppelin & The Beatles are a Zillion times better!
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Anonymous2010-03-20 22:36
The Boston Globe has an online article from March 2009,called I Confess I Don’t Like… written by all of their music critics and Luke O’Neil wrote that when people talk of classic bands they don’t like they’re really speaking in coded language.He said for example “I don’t like The Beatles.” is the same as saying,”I’m a liar” he said but when I say I don’t like Led Zeppelin there’s no subtext.
He then says a lot of it has to do with Robert Plant’s fiendish helium-powered caterwauling. He says he tends to prefer bands with vocalists not police sirens in tight pants.He also said the lyrics which run the gamut unimaginative doggerel to too-imaginative fantasy goofs don’t help.
He then says sure they inspired a lot of great bands,but should we not then hold them accountable for the thousands of downright awful imitators they’ve inspired? Rememner that whole hair metal thing in the 80’s? He says who do you think put the bustle in those dudes hedgerow? And grunge? He says that was basically goateed Led Zeppelin on Smack.
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Anonymous2010-03-20 22:38
And George Martin himself said in an online interview I found around 2002 said that he has worked with many different music artists but that he has never known or worked with anyone as brilliant as The Beatles!
He says in his biography All You Need Is Ears refutes that he was the one who had most to do with The Beatles music. He admits most of the ideas came from them.
And if anyone ever reads the excellent book,The Beatles Recording Sessions by Mark Lewisohn which is a very detailed music diary of of every recording session in their amazing only 8 year career, which has interviews with their recording engineers,tape operators,George Martin quotes,and a very good interview with Paul in the beginning,they would see how truly creative,and innovative especially John and Paul were in the recording studio and that most of these great musicial ideas came from them.
George Martin was also once inerviewed on a rock station Beatles program and he said what is clearly obvious and true, John Lennon and Paul McCartney were incredibly talented people(and he said it like he still couldn't belive it.), they both were extrodinarily talented song composers and great singers.And notice how Ringo working with George Martin for 8 years didn't turn him into a brilliant song writer like John and Paul,and George Martin has produced many other music artists but non of them have had as much critical acclaim,success or popularity as The Beatles.
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Anonymous2010-03-20 22:39
Pete Townsend along with John Bonham, John Paul Jones and David Gilmore played on 2 songs on the last Wings album Back To The Egg that came out in 1979 . They also all played with Paul and Wings in the last Wings concerts in December 1979.
Pete Townsend also along with Phil Collins who is also a big Beatles fan since he was 13 in the concert scene in the Beatles film A Hard Day's Night, played on Paul's 1986 album Press To Play.
And I have found over 50 former Beatles haters on different message boards who are now big Beatles fans,many call them The Greatest Rock Band Ever and most say they now think they were brilliant song writers. I didn't communicate with these people, but they said in their posts that they hadn't even heard most of their songs and albums,and had inaccurate misperceptions of them like the ridiculous one that they ever were a "boy band." Which besides knowing even most of their music and knowing their history knows is totally false.
Last year a musician posted on some message board about the new John Lennon biography, and he said watch The Beatles Anthology video series and learn how truly immensely talented this band was.
Most people don't hate The Beatles in the first place and people don't usually go from hating a band to loving them, so it just goes to show how great and timeless their music really is/was!
I once found a post a few years ago of a 35 year old musician in Jamaica who said on his blog that when he was younger and a big Who fan he used to think The Beatles were overrated, but that he did a 300 degree turn around and he said he now truly believes that The Beatles were the greatest rock band ever.
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Anonymous2010-03-20 22:41
Most people don't hate The Beatles in the first place and people don't usually go from hating a band to loving them, so it just goes to show how great and timeless their music really is/was!
I once found a post a few years ago of a 35 year old musician in Jamaica who said on his blog that when he was younger and a big Who fan he used to think The Beatles were overrated, but that he did a 300 degree turn around and he said he now truly believes that The Beatles were the greatest rock band ever.
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Anonymous2010-03-20 22:43
Not only did The Beatles give The Rolling Stones one of their first hits with their rock n roll song I Wanna Be Your Man,and they wrote it right in front of them and Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were impressed and like wow how can you write a song just like that and it motivated them to start writing their own songs.
And as I already said The Rolling Stones were good friends with and fans of The Beatles.
Mick Jagger was at 4 Beatles recording sessions and Keith Richards was at 2 of them with him.Also Mick Jagger was such a big Beatles fan that in May 1967 when The Beatles were redording their song Baby You're A Rich Man he came there and stood on the sidelines to watch and listen to them recording it. His name is also on the tape box and he likely sang at the end verses.
Also Mick Jagger said that Keith Richards loved The Beatles and loved their beautiful melodies and harmonies and that Keith and Brian Jones tried to equal them but he said Brian couldn't sing good enough!Charlie is obviously envious with sour grapes,The Beatles remastered albums sold much more 40 years after their break up than The Rolling Stones remastered albums and they are still together! The Beatles have the best selling album of the last decade with their CD 1.
And Brian Jones played the saxaphone on the strange Beatles song, You Know My Name Look Up The Number and he and Mick Jagger's girlfriend at the time Marriane Faithful contributed sound effects on the song Yellow Submarine.
As this guy Sal66 who has also posted on sites debunking ignorant cr*p about The Beatles has rightfully pointed out, The Beatles wrote,played and recorded I Feel Fine (which The All Music Guide says has brilliant,active ,difficult guitar leads and riffs) in the Fall of 1964 which was the first use of feedback guitar on a pop rock record and it also had a prominent guitar riff throughout this very good song almost a year *before* The Rolling Stones's Satisfaction came out.
And on John's great Norwegian Wood recorded in the Fall of 1965,George Harrison was the first to play a sitar on a pop rock song and it was released on their great album Rubber Soul in December and then in May 1966 The Rolling Stones song Paint It Black came out with Brian Jones playing a sitar!
And in Paul McCartney's authorized biography Many Years From Now, Mick Jagger's former girlfriend singer Marriane Faithful says that she and Mick used to go over to Paul's house a lot and hang out in his music room. She said he never went to see them at their house they always went to visit him because he was Paul McCartney.She also said that Mick was intimidated by Paul but that Paul was totally oblivious to this.
Paul also says in this book that he turned Mick on to pot in his music room and he said which is funny because a lot of people would assume it was the other way around.
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Anonymous2010-03-20 22:50
Jackie that was a total ignorant comment!
Not only did The Beatles give The Rolling Stones one of their first hits with their rock n roll song I Wanna Be Your Man,and they wrote it right in front of them and Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were impressed and like wow how can you write a song just like that and it motivated them to start writing their own songs.
And as I already said The Rolling Stones were good friends with and fans of The Beatles.
Mick Jagger was at 4 Beatles recording sessions and Keith Richards was at 2 of them with him.Also Mick Jagger was such a big Beatles fan that in May 1967 when The Beatles were redording their song Baby You're A Rich Man he came there and stood on the sidelines to watch and listen to them recording it. His name is also on the tape box and he likely sang at the end verses.
Also Mick Jagger said that Keith Richards loved The Beatles and loved their beautiful melodies and harmonies and that Keith and Brian Jones tried to equal them but he said Brian couldn't sing good enough!Charlie is obviously envious with sour grapes,The Beatles remastered albums sold much more 40 years after their break up than The Rolling Stones remastered albums and they are still together! The Beatles have the best selling album of the last decade with their CD 1.
And Brian Jones played the saxaphone on the strange Beatles song, You Know My Name Look Up The Number and he and Mick Jagger's girlfriend at the time Marriane Faithful contributed sound effects on the song Yellow Submarine.
As this guy Sal66 who has also posted on sites debunking ignorant cr*p about The Beatles has rightfully pointed out, The Beatles wrote,played and recorded I Feel Fine (which The All Music Guide says has brilliant,active ,difficult guitar leads and riffs) in the Fall of 1964 which was the first use of feedback guitar on a pop rock record and it also had a prominent guitar riff throughout this very good song almost a year *before* The Rolling Stones's Satisfaction came out.
And on John's great Norwegian Wood recorded in the Fall of 1965,George Harrison was the first to play a sitar on a pop rock song and it was released on their great album Rubber Soul in December and then in May 1966 The Rolling Stones song Paint It Black came out with Brian Jones playing a sitar!
And in Paul McCartney's authorized biography Many Years From Now, Mick Jagger's former girlfriend singer Marriane Faithful says that she and Mick used to go over to Paul's house a lot and hang out in his music room. She said he never went to see them at their house they always went to visit him because he was Paul McCartney.She also said that Mick was intimidated by Paul but that Paul was totally oblivious to this.
Paul also says in this book that he turned Mick on to pot in his music room and he said which is funny because a lot of people would assume it was the other way around.
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Anonymous2010-03-20 22:52
And Brian Jones played the saxaphone on the strange Beatles song, You Know My Name Look Up The Number and he and Mick Jagger's girlfriend at the time Marriane Faithful contributed sound effects on the song Yellow Submarine.
As this guy Sal66 who has also posted on sites debunking ignorant cr*p about The Beatles has rightfully pointed out, The Beatles wrote,played and recorded I Feel Fine (which The All Music Guide says has brilliant,active ,difficult guitar leads and riffs) in the Fall of 1964 which was the first use of feedback guitar on a pop rock record and it also had a prominent guitar riff throughout this very good song almost a year *before* The Rolling Stones's Satisfaction came out.
And on John's great Norwegian Wood recorded in the Fall of 1965,George Harrison was the first to play a sitar on a pop rock song and it was released on their great album Rubber Soul in December and then in May 1966 The Rolling Stones song Paint It Black came out with Brian Jones playing a sitar!
And in Paul McCartney's authorized biography Many Years From Now, Mick Jagger's former girlfriend singer Marriane Faithful says that she and Mick used to go over to Paul's house a lot and hang out in his music room. She said he never went to see them at their house they always went to visit him because he was Paul McCartney.She also said that Mick was intimidated by Paul but that Paul was totally oblivious to this.
Paul also says in this book that he turned Mick on to pot in his music room and he said which is funny because a lot of people would assume it was the other way around.
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Anonymous2010-03-20 22:55
Paul also says in this book that he turned Mick on to pot in his music room and he said which is funny because a lot of people would assume it was the other way around.
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Anonymous2010-03-20 22:58
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Syd Birrell discovers Beatles in 2009
Posted By WERNER BERGEN , EXAMINER ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
For most of Syd Birrell's music life it has been about "learning about Bach and how to direct an orchestra," he says.
Sure he knew and heard about the Beatles but it wasn't until a year ago that the director of The Peterborough Singers "discovered" the Fab Four.
Now he's a convert to the extent that the Peterborough Singers will present a concert of Beatles music on Saturday, Feb. 27 at Calvary Church, Lansdowne St. W.
The Singers will be presenting 25 songs in two hours in various combinations including the 100-
MUSIC:Performed by Cosima Grunsky
voice choirs, various smaller ensembles, duets, and solos, Birrell, said in anExaminerinterview.
The choir will also be joined by a full band of musicians: Andrew Affleck -bass guitar, Barry Haggarty -guitar, Curtis Cronkwright -drums, Paul Grecco -keyboard, Rob Bulger - guitar, Doug Sutherland -trumpet, Marlowe Bork -trumpet and Steve McCracken sax/clarinet.
"They're all Beatles nuts," said Birrell. In fact Haggarty recorded an album at Abbey Road, the same studio the Beatles used.
Master of ceremonies will be Mike Melnik, of Kruz-FM, who is also a Beatles nut, said Birrell, who will share Beatles stories with the audience. There will be some special guests who will also share Beatles stories.
Birrell explained a friend in New York City was trying out a new piano in his home overlooking Central Park.
"He put music in front of me...Strawberry Fields,"said Birre
ll. The view included The Dakota where John Lennon had lived and the original strawberry fields of Central Park.
"I got really interested. I find their music incredible. These guys are the Shuberts of the 20th century," said Birrell. "They have really great melodies. They are the greatest composers of the 20th century."
Birrell said he searched the internet for Beatles information listened to their albums like Revolver, Sgt. Pepper and the White Album for three months.
"I found their music incredible," he said
The Singers are known for performing classical music and Birrell said in years to come the music of the Beatles will be considered the classical music of the century.
Birrell said the Singers are not trying to replicate the Beatles but we're "celebrating what the songs mean to us."
He said some of the music had to be changed because the audience wouldn't be able to sing along in the keys the songs were originally written in....including Hey Jude.
There will be displays of memorabilia and even trivia opportunities
(Why is Feb. 7, 1964 important?).
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Concert facts
What: Come Together! The Music of the Beatles
Who: The Peterborough Singers
When: Saturday, Feb. 27 at 2 p.m.
Where: Calvary Church, Lansdowne St. W., with guest MC Mike Melnik, of KRUZ-FM.
Tickets: $28 (adult and senior) and $10 (students). Tickets available at Titles Bookstore, Emmaus Family Books, Graingers Cleaners, Pammett's Flower Shop in Peterborough, Happenstance Books & Yarns (Lakefield) or call 705-745- 1820 or email singers@peterboroughsingers.com.
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Beatles in 1964
January 20: Meet The Beatles LP. (Capitol Records) is released in the U.S. It hits the #1 spot on Billboard chart and stays for eleven weeks.)
January 27: MGM Records releases My Bonnie/The Saints single.
January 30: Vee Jay Records re-releases Please Please Me/From Me to You in the US.
February 1: I Want To Hold Your Hand makes #1 on the U.S. charts selling 2,000,000 records. She Loves You sells 1,000,000 copies in the U.S.
February 3: MGM Records releases The Beatles with Tony Sheridan LP (recorded for Bert Kaempfert in Germany and originally marketed as Die Beat Brothers und Tony Sheridan)
February 5: The Beatles return from Paris.
February 7: The Beatles arrive at Kennedy Airport in New York, aboard Pan Am's Yankee Clipper, flight 101, greeted by some 3,000 screaming fans. New York pop radio stations play Beatles records practically around the clock for days.
February 9: The Beatles make their first appearance on CBS television's Ed Sullivan Show in New York. The network claims some 50,000 applied for 728 available studio seats. They open with All my Loving, followed by Till there was You and She Loves You and close with I Saw her Standing There and I Want to Hold your Hand.
February 11: The Beatles make their first live concert appearance in the U.S. at the Coliseum in Washington, D.C., drawing an audience of 20,000 fans.
February 12: The band gives two concert performances at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
February 16: The Beatles make their second appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show at the Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, performing She Loves You, All My Loving, This Boy, I Saw her Standing There, From Me to You and I
For most of Syd Birrell's music life it has been about "learning about Bach and how to direct an orchestra," he says.
Sure he knew and heard about the Beatles but it wasn't until a year ago that the director of The Peterborough Singers "discovered" the Fab Four.
Now he's a convert to the extent that the Peterborough Singers will present a concert of Beatles music on Saturday, Feb. 27 at Calvary Church, Lansdowne St. W.
The Singers will be presenting 25 songs in two hours in various combinations including the 100-
MUSIC:Performed by Cosima Grunsky
voice choirs, various smaller ensembles, duets, and solos, Birrell, said in anExaminerinterview.
The choir will also be joined by a full band of musicians: Andrew Affleck -bass guitar, Barry Haggarty -guitar, Curtis Cronkwright -drums, Paul Grecco -keyboard, Rob Bulger - guitar, Doug Sutherland -trumpet, Marlowe Bork -trumpet and Steve McCracken sax/clarinet.
"They're all Beatles nuts," said Birrell. In fact Haggarty recorded an album at Abbey Road, the same studio the Beatles used.
Master of ceremonies will be Mike Melnik, of Kruz-FM, who is also a Beatles nut, said Birrell, who will share Beatles stories with the audience. There will be some special guests who will also share Beatles stories.
Birrell explained a friend in New York City was trying out a new piano in his home overlooking Central Park.
"He put music in front of me...Strawberry Fields,"said Birre
ll. The view included The Dakota where John Lennon had lived and the original strawberry fields of Central Park.
"I got really interested. I find their music incredible. These guys are the Shuberts of the 20th century," said Birrell. "They have really great melodies. They are the greatest composers of the 20th century."
Birrell said he searched the internet for Beatles information listened to their albums like Revolver, Sgt. Pepper and the White Album for three months.
"I found their music incredible," he said
The Singers are known for performing classical music and Birrell said in years to come the music of the Beatles will be considered the classical music of the century.
Birrell said the Singers are not trying to replicate the Beatles but we're "celebrating what the songs mean to us."
He said some of the music had to be changed because the audience wouldn't be able to sing along in the keys the songs were originally written in....including Hey Jude.
There will be displays of memorabilia and even trivia opportunities
(Why is Feb. 7, 1964 important?).
- - -
Concert facts
What: Come Together! The Music of the Beatles
Who: The Peterborough Singers
When: Saturday, Feb. 27 at 2 p.m.
Where: Calvary Church, Lansdowne St. W., with guest MC Mike Melnik, of KRUZ-FM.
Tickets: $28 (adult and senior) and $10 (students). Tickets available at Titles Bookstore, Emmaus Family Books, Graingers Cleaners, Pammett's Flower Shop in Peterborough, Happenstance Books & Yarns (Lakefield) or call 705-745- 1820 or email singers@peterboroughsingers.com.
- - -
Beatles in 1964
January 20: Meet The Beatles LP. (Capitol Records) is released in the U.S. It hits the #1 spot on Billboard chart and stays for eleven weeks.)
January 27: MGM Records releases My Bonnie/The Saints single.
January 30: Vee Jay Records re-releases Please Please Me/From Me to You in the US.
February 1: I Want To Hold Your Hand makes #1 on the U.S. charts selling 2,000,000 records. She Loves You sells 1,000,000 copies in the U.S.
February 3: MGM Records releases The Beatles with Tony Sheridan LP (recorded for Bert Kaempfert in Germany and originally marketed as Die Beat Brothers und Tony Sheridan)
February 5: The Beatles return from Paris.
February 7: The Beatles arrive at Kennedy Airport in New York, aboard Pan Am's Yankee Clipper, flight 101, greeted by some 3,000 screaming fans. New York pop radio stations play Beatles records practically around the clock for days.
February 9: The Beatles make their first appearance on CBS television's Ed Sullivan Show in New York. The network claims some 50,000 applied for 728 available studio seats. They open with All my Loving, followed by Till there was You and She Loves You and close with I Saw her Standing There and I Want to Hold your Hand.
February 11: The Beatles make their first live concert appearance in the U.S. at the Coliseum in Washington, D.C., drawing an audience of 20,000 fans.
February 12: The band gives two concert performances at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
February 16: The Beatles make their second appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show at the Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, performing She Loves You, All My Loving, This Boy, I Saw her Standing There, From Me to You and I
voice choirs, various smaller ensembles, duets, and solos, Birrell, said in anExaminerinterview.
The choir will also be joined by a full band of musicians: Andrew Affleck -bass guitar, Barry Haggarty -guitar, Curtis Cronkwright -drums, Paul Grecco -keyboard, Rob Bulger - guitar, Doug Sutherland -trumpet, Marlowe Bork -trumpet and Steve McCracken sax/clarinet.
"They're all Beatles nuts," said Birrell. In fact Haggarty recorded an album at Abbey Road, the same studio the Beatles used.
Master of ceremonies will be Mike Melnik, of Kruz-FM, who is also a Beatles nut, said Birrell, who will share Beatles stories with the audience. There will be some special guests who will also share Beatles stories.
Birrell explained a friend in New York City was trying out a new piano in his home overlooking Central Park.
"He put music in front of me...Strawberry Fields,"said Birre
ll. The view included The Dakota where John Lennon had lived and the original strawberry fields of Central Park.
"I got really interested. I find their music incredible. These guys are the Shuberts of the 20th century," said Birrell. "They have really great melodies. They are the greatest composers of the 20th century."
Birrell said he searched the internet for Beatles information listened to their albums like Revolver, Sgt. Pepper and the White Album for three months.
"I found their music incredible," he said
The Singers are known for performing classical music and Birrell said in years to come the music of the Beatles will be considered the classical music of the century.
Birrell said the Singers are not trying to replicate the Beatles but we're "celebrating what the songs mean to us."
He said some of the music had to be changed because the audience wouldn't be able to sing along in the keys the songs were originally written in....including Hey Jude.
There will be displays of memorabilia and even trivia opportunities
(Why is Feb. 7, 1964 important?).
- - -
Concert facts
What: Come Together! The Music of the Beatles
Who: The Peterborough Singers
When: Saturday, Feb. 27 at 2 p.m.
Where: Calvary Church, Lansdowne St. W., with guest MC Mike Melnik, of KRUZ-FM.
Tickets: $28 (adult and senior) and $10 (students). Tickets available at Titles Bookstore, Emmaus Family Books, Graingers Cleaners, Pammett's Flower Shop in Peterborough, Happenstance Books & Yarns (Lakefield) or call 705-745- 1820 or email singers@peterboroughsingers.com.
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Beatles in 1964
January 20: Meet The Beatles LP. (Capitol Records) is released in the U.S. It hits the #1 spot on Billboard chart and stays for eleven weeks.)
January 27: MGM Records releases My Bonnie/The Saints single.
January 30: Vee Jay Records re-releases Please Please Me/From Me to You in the US.
February 1: I Want To Hold Your Hand makes #1 on the U.S. charts selling 2,000,000 records. She Loves You sells 1,000,000 copies in the U.S.
February 3: MGM Records releases The Beatles with Tony Sheridan LP (recorded for Bert Kaempfert in Germany and originally marketed as Die Beat Brothers und Tony Sheridan)
February 5: The Beatles return from Paris.
February 7: The Beatles arrive at Kennedy Airport in New York, aboard Pan Am's Yankee Clipper, flight 101, greeted by some 3,000 screaming fans. New York pop radio stations play Beatles records practically around the clock for days.
February 9: The Beatles make their first appearance on CBS television's Ed Sullivan Show in New York. The network claims some 50,000 applied for 728 available studio seats. They open with All my Loving, followed by Till there was You and She Loves You and close with I Saw her Standing There and I Want to Hold your Hand.
February 11: The Beatles make their first live concert appearance in the U.S. at the Coliseum in Washington, D.C., drawing an audience of 20,000 fans.
February 12: The band gives two concert performances at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
February 16: The Beatles make their second appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show at the Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, performing She Loves You, All My Loving, This Boy, I Saw her Standing There, From Me to You and I
Master of ceremonies will be Mike Melnik, of Kruz-FM, who is also a Beatles nut, said Birrell, who will share Beatles stories with the audience. There will be some special guests who will also share Beatles stories.
Birrell explained a friend in New York City was trying out a new piano in his home overlooking Central Park.
"He put music in front of me...Strawberry Fields,"said Birre
ll. The view included The Dakota where John Lennon had lived and the original strawberry fields of Central Park.
"I got really interested. I find their music incredible. These guys are the Shuberts of the 20th century," said Birrell. "They have really great melodies. They are the greatest composers of the 20th century."
Birrell said he searched the internet for Beatles information listened to their albums like Revolver, Sgt. Pepper and the White Album for three months.
"I found their music incredible," he said
The Singers are known for performing classical music and Birrell said in years to come the music of the Beatles will be considered the classical music of the century.
Birrell said the Singers are not trying to replicate the Beatles but we're "celebrating what the songs mean to us."
He said some of the music had to be changed because the audience wouldn't be able to sing along in the keys the songs were originally written in....including Hey Jude.
There will be displays of memorabilia and even trivia opportunities
(Why is Feb. 7, 1964 important?).
- - -
Concert facts
What: Come Together! The Music of the Beatles
Who: The Peterborough Singers
When: Saturday, Feb. 27 at 2 p.m.
Where: Calvary Church, Lansdowne St. W., with guest MC Mike Melnik, of KRUZ-FM.
Tickets: $28 (adult and senior) and $10 (students). Tickets available at Titles Bookstore, Emmaus Family Books, Graingers Cleaners, Pammett's Flower Shop in Peterborough, Happenstance Books & Yarns (Lakefield) or call 705-745- 1820 or email singers@peterboroughsingers.com.
- - -
Beatles in 1964
January 20: Meet The Beatles LP. (Capitol Records) is released in the U.S. It hits the #1 spot on Billboard chart and stays for eleven weeks.)
January 27: MGM Records releases My Bonnie/The Saints single.
January 30: Vee Jay Records re-releases Please Please Me/From Me to You in the US.
February 1: I Want To Hold Your Hand makes #1 on the U.S. charts selling 2,000,000 records. She Loves You sells 1,000,000 copies in the U.S.
February 3: MGM Records releases The Beatles with Tony Sheridan LP (recorded for Bert Kaempfert in Germany and originally marketed as Die Beat Brothers und Tony Sheridan)
February 5: The Beatles return from Paris.
February 7: The Beatles arrive at Kennedy Airport in New York, aboard Pan Am's Yankee Clipper, flight 101, greeted by some 3,000 screaming fans. New York pop radio stations play Beatles records practically around the clock for days.
February 9: The Beatles make their first appearance on CBS television's Ed Sullivan Show in New York. The network claims some 50,000 applied for 728 available studio seats. They open with All my Loving, followed by Till there was You and She Loves You and close with I Saw her Standing There and I Want to Hold your Hand.
February 11: The Beatles make their first live concert appearance in the U.S. at the Coliseum in Washington, D.C., drawing an audience of 20,000 fans.
February 12: The band gives two concert performances at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
February 16: The Beatles make their second appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show at the Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, performing She Loves You, All My Loving, This Boy, I Saw her Standing There, From Me to You and I
Birrell said he searched the internet for Beatles information listened to their albums like Revolver, Sgt. Pepper and the White Album for three months.
"I found their music incredible," he said
The Singers are known for performing classical music and Birrell said in years to come the music of the Beatles will be considered the classical music of the century.
Birrell said the Singers are not trying to replicate the Beatles but we're "celebrating what the songs mean to us."
He said some of the music had to be changed because the audience wouldn't be able to sing along in the keys the songs were originally written in....including Hey Jude.
There will be displays of memorabilia and even trivia opportunities
(Why is Feb. 7, 1964 important?).
- - -
Concert facts
What: Come Together! The Music of the Beatles
Who: The Peterborough Singers
When: Saturday, Feb. 27 at 2 p.m.
Where: Calvary Church, Lansdowne St. W., with guest MC Mike Melnik, of KRUZ-FM.
Tickets: $28 (adult and senior) and $10 (students). Tickets available at Titles Bookstore, Emmaus Family Books, Graingers Cleaners, Pammett's Flower Shop in Peterborough, Happenstance Books & Yarns (Lakefield) or call 705-745- 1820 or email singers@peterboroughsingers.com.
- - -
Beatles in 1964
January 20: Meet The Beatles LP. (Capitol Records) is released in the U.S. It hits the #1 spot on Billboard chart and stays for eleven weeks.)
January 27: MGM Records releases My Bonnie/The Saints single.
January 30: Vee Jay Records re-releases Please Please Me/From Me to You in the US.
February 1: I Want To Hold Your Hand makes #1 on the U.S. charts selling 2,000,000 records. She Loves You sells 1,000,000 copies in the U.S.
February 3: MGM Records releases The Beatles with Tony Sheridan LP (recorded for Bert Kaempfert in Germany and originally marketed as Die Beat Brothers und Tony Sheridan)
February 5: The Beatles return from Paris.
February 7: The Beatles arrive at Kennedy Airport in New York, aboard Pan Am's Yankee Clipper, flight 101, greeted by some 3,000 screaming fans. New York pop radio stations play Beatles records practically around the clock for days.
February 9: The Beatles make their first appearance on CBS television's Ed Sullivan Show in New York. The network claims some 50,000 applied for 728 available studio seats. They open with All my Loving, followed by Till there was You and She Loves You and close with I Saw her Standing There and I Want to Hold your Hand.
February 11: The Beatles make their first live concert appearance in the U.S. at the Coliseum in Washington, D.C., drawing an audience of 20,000 fans.
February 12: The band gives two concert performances at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
February 16: The Beatles make their second appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show at the Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, performing She Loves You, All My Loving, This Boy, I Saw her Standing There, From Me to You and I
He said some of the music had to be changed because the audience wouldn't be able to sing along in the keys the songs were originally written in....including Hey Jude.
There will be displays of memorabilia and even trivia opportunities
(Why is Feb. 7, 1964 important?).
- - -
Concert facts
What: Come Together! The Music of the Beatles
Who: The Peterborough Singers
When: Saturday, Feb. 27 at 2 p.m.
Where: Calvary Church, Lansdowne St. W., with guest MC Mike Melnik, of KRUZ-FM.
Tickets: $28 (adult and senior) and $10 (students). Tickets available at Titles Bookstore, Emmaus Family Books, Graingers Cleaners, Pammett's Flower Shop in Peterborough, Happenstance Books & Yarns (Lakefield) or call 705-745- 1820 or email singers@peterboroughsingers.com.
- - -
Beatles in 1964
January 20: Meet The Beatles LP. (Capitol Records) is released in the U.S. It hits the #1 spot on Billboard chart and stays for eleven weeks.)
January 27: MGM Records releases My Bonnie/The Saints single.
January 30: Vee Jay Records re-releases Please Please Me/From Me to You in the US.
February 1: I Want To Hold Your Hand makes #1 on the U.S. charts selling 2,000,000 records. She Loves You sells 1,000,000 copies in the U.S.
February 3: MGM Records releases The Beatles with Tony Sheridan LP (recorded for Bert Kaempfert in Germany and originally marketed as Die Beat Brothers und Tony Sheridan)
February 5: The Beatles return from Paris.
February 7: The Beatles arrive at Kennedy Airport in New York, aboard Pan Am's Yankee Clipper, flight 101, greeted by some 3,000 screaming fans. New York pop radio stations play Beatles records practically around the clock for days.
February 9: The Beatles make their first appearance on CBS television's Ed Sullivan Show in New York. The network claims some 50,000 applied for 728 available studio seats. They open with All my Loving, followed by Till there was You and She Loves You and close with I Saw her Standing There and I Want to Hold your Hand.
February 11: The Beatles make their first live concert appearance in the U.S. at the Coliseum in Washington, D.C., drawing an audience of 20,000 fans.
February 12: The band gives two concert performances at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
February 16: The Beatles make their second appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show at the Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, performing She Loves You, All My Loving, This Boy, I Saw her Standing There, From Me to You and I
Where: Calvary Church, Lansdowne St. W., with guest MC Mike Melnik, of KRUZ-FM.
Tickets: $28 (adult and senior) and $10 (students). Tickets available at Titles Bookstore, Emmaus Family Books, Graingers Cleaners, Pammett's Flower Shop in Peterborough, Happenstance Books & Yarns (Lakefield) or call 705-745- 1820 or email singers@peterboroughsingers.com.
- - -
Beatles in 1964
January 20: Meet The Beatles LP. (Capitol Records) is released in the U.S. It hits the #1 spot on Billboard chart and stays for eleven weeks.)
January 27: MGM Records releases My Bonnie/The Saints single.
January 30: Vee Jay Records re-releases Please Please Me/From Me to You in the US.
February 1: I Want To Hold Your Hand makes #1 on the U.S. charts selling 2,000,000 records. She Loves You sells 1,000,000 copies in the U.S.
February 3: MGM Records releases The Beatles with Tony Sheridan LP (recorded for Bert Kaempfert in Germany and originally marketed as Die Beat Brothers und Tony Sheridan)
February 5: The Beatles return from Paris.
February 7: The Beatles arrive at Kennedy Airport in New York, aboard Pan Am's Yankee Clipper, flight 101, greeted by some 3,000 screaming fans. New York pop radio stations play Beatles records practically around the clock for days.
February 9: The Beatles make their first appearance on CBS television's Ed Sullivan Show in New York. The network claims some 50,000 applied for 728 available studio seats. They open with All my Loving, followed by Till there was You and She Loves You and close with I Saw her Standing There and I Want to Hold your Hand.
February 11: The Beatles make their first live concert appearance in the U.S. at the Coliseum in Washington, D.C., drawing an audience of 20,000 fans.
February 12: The band gives two concert performances at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
February 16: The Beatles make their second appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show at the Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, performing She Loves You, All My Loving, This Boy, I Saw her Standing There, From Me to You and I
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In 1962, an unknown group from Liverpool entered Abbey Road Studios to record their debut single. During the next eight years they created what is arguably regarded as the greatest collection of studio recordings of the 20th century. This special charts The Beatles' extraordinary journey in the studio from "Please Please Me" to "Abbey Road" and reflects on how they developed as musicians, matured as songwriters and created a body of work that sounds as fresh in 2009 as the time it was recorded. Narrated entirely by John, Paul, George, Ringo and Sir George Martin, the documentary features over 60 classic songs, rare footage and photos from The Beatles' archives and never heard before out-takes of studio chat from the "Abbey Road" recording sessions.
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The Beatles on Record
Premieres Wednesday November 25 at 10/9c
About the Show
In 1962, an unknown group from Liverpool entered Abbey Road Studios to record their debut single. During the next eight years they created what is arguably regarded as the greatest collection of studio recordings of the 20th century. This special charts The Beatles' extraordinary journey in the studio from "Please Please Me" to "Abbey Road" and reflects on how they developed as musicians, matured as songwriters and created a body of work that sounds as fresh in 2009 as the time it was recorded. Narrated entirely by John, Paul, George, Ringo and Sir George Martin, the documentary features over 60 classic songs, rare footage and photos from The Beatles' archives and never heard before out-takes of studio chat from the "Abbey Road" recording sessions.
» Schedule
The Beatles Timeline
Related Videos and Speeches
» John Lennon: Most Outspoken Beatle
» Lennon and McCartney on The Beatles
» Paul McCartney on "Paul is Dead"
» Dick Gregory on Lennon and McCartney
» Tom Brokaw: 1960s Musical Revolution
» Ask Steve: 60s Music
» Judith Crist on "Let it Be"
The Beatles on Bio.com
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The Beatles: Here, There And Everywhere
Posted on Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 at 10:14 am by Fake
The Beatles: Here, There And Everywhere is a new 3-part radio special, celebrating the best-selling group of the 21st Century in America. The series will air on a huge list of radio station across the US starting this Friday.
The series features The Beatles’ digitally remastered recordings and exclusive new interviews with a variety of artists and producers as they reveal the influence of The Beatles on their individual careers. Listeners will be treated to stories from Brian Wilson, Tom Petty, Dave Grohl, Slash, Jeff Lynne, Ann Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Peter Asher, Jackson Browne, Bob Seger, T-Bone Burnett, Cameron Crowe, Mika, Mark Ronson, Susan Werner, Rick Rubin and Joe Boyd.
Each of the three 48-minute installments of The Beatles: Here, There And Everywhere takes a different thematic approach.
Part One: Meet The Beatles!
Interviews recorded exclusively for this series reveal the impact made by The Beatles’ recordings throughout their career. We hear Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys, Tom Petty, film director Cameron Crowe and Ann & Nancy Wilson of Heart talking about their first-hand experience of The Beatles’ phenomenal 1964 breakthrough in the United States. Dave Grohl, Mark Ronson and Slash discuss the enduring influence of The Beatles’ albums, including Rubber Soul, Revolver and Abbey Road.
Part Two: Ask Me Why
The interviews focus on the various elements within the group that combined to make The Beatles so musically powerful: their strengths as performers – both instrumentally and vocally – plus the brilliance of John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison as songwriters.
Part Three: The Beatles On The Record
We hear how The Beatles’ music was captured on record with the help of innovative arrangements and adventurous production by George Martin. Some of today’s leading record producers – Peter Asher, Joe Boyd, T-Bone Burnett, Jeff Lynne, Mark Ronson and Rick Rubin – marvel at the dazzling creativity evident in recordings made more than 40 years ago.
Here are the radio stations that will be broadcasting the special. Check your local listings for more info :
KEZA Fayetteville, AR
KGOR Omaha, NE
KJOY Modesto, CA
KMGL Oklahoma City, OK
WARM York, PA
WBBQ Augusta, GA
WBEB Philadelphia, PA
WDOK Cleveland, OH
WHBC Canton, OH
WKQC Charlotte, NC
WLDB Milwaukee, WI
WLRQ Melbourne, FL
WLS Chicago, IL
WLTJ Pittsburgh, PA
WLZW Utica-Rome, NY
WMGQ Somerset, NJ
WMGV Greenville, NC
WRNQ Poughkeepsie, NY
WRVE Albany, NY
WTGB Washington, DC
WYYY Syracuse, NY
KCFX Kansas City, MO
KIHT St. Louis, MO
KIXA Victor Valley, CA
KKFM Colorado Springs, CO
KKPT Little Rock, AR
KKRW Houston, TX
KKSF San Francisco, CA
KKZX Spokane, WA
KSEG Sacramento, CA
KSLX Phoenix, AZ
KTSO Tulsa, OK
KTYD Santa Barbara, CA
KUFX San Jose, CA
KVRV Santa Rosa, CA
WAFX Norfolk, VA
WAOR South Bend, IN
WBLM Portland, ME
WCSX Detroit, MI
WEGR Memphis, TN
WEZX Wilkes-Barre, PA
WFBQ Indianapolis, IN
WGRF Buffalo, NY
WIBA Madison, WI
WILZ Saginaw, MI
WIMZ Knoxville, TN
WKBU New Orleans, LA
WKGR West Palm Beach, FL
WKLH Milwaukee, WI
WKLR Richmond, VA
WLAV Grand Rapids, MI
WMGK Philadelphia, PA
WMMQ Lansing, MI
WMOS New London, CT
WMXJ Miami, FL
WMXT Florence, SC
WNRQ Nashville, TN
WPLR New Haven, CT
WRFX Charlotte, NC
WROQ Greenville, SC
WRXK Ft. Myers, FL
WSFL Greenville, NC
WTUE Dayton, OH
WWFX Worcester, MA
WXKE Fort Wayne, IN
WZRR Birmingham, AL
WZXL Atlantic City, NJ
XHPRS San Diego, CA
KOZZ Reno, NV
WZLX Boston, MA
KBOO Portland, OR
KCPR San Luis Obispo, CA
KCSC Chico, CA
KCUR Kansas City, MO
KGLT Bozeman, MT
KPFA Berkley, CA
KSYM San Antonio, TX
KUCR Riverside, CA
KUOM Minneapolis, MN
KUPS Tacoma, WA
KVMR Nevada City, CA
KXCI Tucson, AZ
KZSC Santa Rosa
WBER Penfield
WBWC Berea, OH
WCWP Long Island
WDCE Richmond, VA
WDUB Granville, OH
WHSN Bangor, ME
WIUX Bloomington, IN
WKDU Philadelphia, PA
WMBR Cambridge, MA
WMUH Allentown, PA
WPRB Princeton, NJ
WRAS Atlanta, GA
WRFL Lexington, KY
WSCA Portsmouth, NH
KAMP Tucson, AZ
KBLF Red Bluff, CA
KBTB Vail, CO
KCLC St. Louis, MO
KCSC Chico, CA
KEJL Hobbs, NM
KFGL Abilene, TX
KIQX Durango, CO
KLNN Taos, NM
KPFK Los Angeles, CA
KPFT Houston, TX
KRCL Salt Lake City, UT
WFUV New York, NY
WOCM Ocean City, MD
WRLT Nashville, TN
WRNR Baltimore, MD
WRNX Springfield, MA
WRSI Northampton, MA
KSLU Hammond, LA
KSPN Aspen, CO
KTMC McAlester, OK
KUSF San Francisco, CA
KXFM Santa Maria, CA
KYBB Sioux Falls, SD
KYNZ Ardmore, PA
KYSL Breckenridge, CO
WAFN Arab, AL
WAPS Akron, OH
WBWC Cleveland, OH
WBZD Williamsport, PA
WCDW Binghamton, NY
WDIY Allentown, PA
WDNS Bowling Green, KY
WERU Portland, ME
WFMU Hoboken, NJ
WHCL Clinton, NY
WHRV Norfolk, VA
WINN Columbus, IN
WKZB Meridian, MS
WKZE Sharon, CT
WMBR Cambridge, MA
WMHX Harrisburg/York, PA
WMHX York, PA
WMNF Tampa, FL
WMWV Conway, NH
WNCW Spindale, NC
WNHU West Haven, CT
WNKU Cincinnati, OH
WORT Madison, WI
WPHD Elmira, NY
WPRK Winter Park, FL
WPVM Asheville, NC
WQEL Sandusky, OH
WRHQ Savannah, GA
WRPI Troy, NY
WRUR Rochester, NY
WSHK Gray, TN
WSKZ Chattanooga TN
WTMD Baltimore, MD
WUMB Boston, MA
WUTC Chattanooga, TN
WVBO Appleton, WI
WVUA Cottondale, AL
WYCE Grand Rapids. MI
WYMS Milwaukee, WI
KCEZ Chico, CA
KCMO Kansas City, MO
KFGL Abilene, TX
KFRC San Francisco, CA
KGOR Omaha, NE
KIOA Des Moines, IA
KITI Centralia, WA
KKNX Eugene, OR
KLFM Great Falls, MT
KLOU St. Louis, MO
KLTH Portland, OR
KLUV Dallas, TX
KMJ Fresno, CA
KODJ Salt Lake City, UT
KOLW Tri-Cites, WA
KONO San Antonio, TX
KOZY Grand Rapids, MI
KPUR Amarillo, TX
KRNO Reno, NV
KRPL Pullman, WA
KTTH Seattle, WA
WBBG Youngstown, NY
WCDW Binghamton, NY
WEAT West Palm Beach, FL
WFAS Westchester, NY
WGRR Cincinnati, OH
WIXV Savannah, GA
WJAS Pittsburgh, PA
WJLT Evansville, IN
WKNY Kingston, NY
WKXS Wilmington, DE
WLDE Fort Wayne, IN
WMFG Minneapolis, MN
WOCL Orlando, FL
WODB Columbus, OH
WOGL Philadelphia, PA
WPYX Albany, NY
WQXZ Hawkinsville, GA
WRBQ Tampa, FL
WROR Boston, MA
WTHZ Lexington, NC
WTPA Harrisburg, PA
WXKE Fort Wayne, IN
KACV Amarillo, TX
KBAC Santa Fe, NM
KDNK Carbondale, CO
KGSR Austin, TX
KLRR Bend, OR
KMTN Jackson Hole, WY
KOZT Fort Bragg, CA
KPND Spokane, WA
KTAO Taos, NM
KTBG Kansas City, MO
KTHX Reno, NV
KVSF Santa Fe, NM
KYSL Frisco, CO
WBJB Monmouth, NJ
WCBE Columbus, OH
WCLZ Portland, ME
WCNR Charlottesville, VA
WDST Woodstock, NY
WFIV Knoxville, TN
WTTS Indianapolis, IN
WWMM Birmingham, AL
WXPK Westchester, NY
WZEW Mobile, AL
WZGC Atlanta, GA
The series features The Beatles’ digitally remastered recordings and exclusive new interviews with a variety of artists and producers as they reveal the influence of The Beatles on their individual careers. Listeners will be treated to stories from Brian Wilson, Tom Petty, Dave Grohl, Slash, Jeff Lynne, Ann Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Peter Asher, Jackson Browne, Bob Seger, T-Bone Burnett, Cameron Crowe, Mika, Mark Ronson, Susan Werner, Rick Rubin and Joe Boyd.
Each of the three 48-minute installments of The Beatles: Here, There And Everywhere takes a different thematic approach.
Part One: Meet The Beatles!
Interviews recorded exclusively for this series reveal the impact made by The Beatles’ recordings throughout their career. We hear Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys, Tom Petty, film director Cameron Crowe and Ann & Nancy Wilson of Heart talking about their first-hand experience of The Beatles’ phenomenal 1964 breakthrough in the United States. Dave Grohl, Mark Ronson and Slash discuss the enduring influence of The Beatles’ albums, including Rubber Soul, Revolver and Abbey Road.
Part Two: Ask Me Why
The interviews focus on the various elements within the group that combined to make The Beatles so musically powerful: their strengths as performers – both instrumentally and vocally – plus the brilliance of John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison as songwriters.
Part Three: The Beatles On The Record
We hear how The Beatles’ music was captured on record with the help of innovative arrangements and adventurous production by George Martin. Some of today’s leading record producers – Peter Asher, Joe Boyd, T-Bone Burnett, Jeff Lynne, Mark Ronson and Rick Rubin – marvel at the dazzling creativity evident in recordings made more than 40 years ago.
Here are the radio stations that will be broadcasting the special. Check your local listings for more info :
KEZA Fayetteville, AR
KGOR Omaha, NE
KJOY Modesto, CA
KMGL Oklahoma City, OK
WARM York, PA
WBBQ Augusta, GA
WBEB Philadelphia, PA
WDOK Cleveland, OH
WHBC Canton, OH
WKQC Charlotte, NC
WLDB Milwaukee, WI
WLRQ Melbourne, FL
WLS Chicago, IL
WLTJ Pittsburgh, PA
WLZW Utica-Rome, NY
WMGQ Somerset, NJ
WMGV Greenville, NC
WRNQ Poughkeepsie, NY
WRVE Albany, NY
WTGB Washington, DC
WYYY Syracuse, NY
KCFX Kansas City, MO
KIHT St. Louis, MO
KIXA Victor Valley, CA
KKFM Colorado Springs, CO
KKPT Little Rock, AR
KKRW Houston, TX
KKSF San Francisco, CA
KKZX Spokane, WA
KSEG Sacramento, CA
KSLX Phoenix, AZ
KTSO Tulsa, OK
KTYD Santa Barbara, CA
KUFX San Jose, CA
KVRV Santa Rosa, CA
WAFX Norfolk, VA
WAOR South Bend, IN
WBLM Portland, ME
WCSX Detroit, MI
WEGR Memphis, TN
WEZX Wilkes-Barre, PA
WFBQ Indianapolis, IN
WGRF Buffalo, NY
WIBA Madison, WI
WILZ Saginaw, MI
WIMZ Knoxville, TN
WKBU New Orleans, LA
WKGR West Palm Beach, FL
WKLH Milwaukee, WI
WKLR Richmond, VA
WLAV Grand Rapids, MI
WMGK Philadelphia, PA
WMMQ Lansing, MI
WMOS New London, CT
WMXJ Miami, FL
WMXT Florence, SC
WNRQ Nashville, TN
WPLR New Haven, CT
WRFX Charlotte, NC
WROQ Greenville, SC
WRXK Ft. Myers, FL
WSFL Greenville, NC
WTUE Dayton, OH
WWFX Worcester, MA
WXKE Fort Wayne, IN
WZRR Birmingham, AL
WZXL Atlantic City, NJ
XHPRS San Diego, CA
KOZZ Reno, NV
WZLX Boston, MA
KBOO Portland, OR
KCPR San Luis Obispo, CA
KCSC Chico, CA
KCUR Kansas City, MO
KGLT Bozeman, MT
KPFA Berkley, CA
KSYM San Antonio, TX
KUCR Riverside, CA
KUOM Minneapolis, MN
KUPS Tacoma, WA
KVMR Nevada City, CA
KXCI Tucson, AZ
KZSC Santa Rosa
WBER Penfield
WBWC Berea, OH
WCWP Long Island
WDCE Richmond, VA
WDUB Granville, OH
WHSN Bangor, ME
WIUX Bloomington, IN
WKDU Philadelphia, PA
WMBR Cambridge, MA
WMUH Allentown, PA
WPRB Princeton, NJ
WRAS Atlanta, GA
WRFL Lexington, KY
WSCA Portsmouth, NH
KAMP Tucson, AZ
KBLF Red Bluff, CA
KBTB Vail, CO
KCLC St. Louis, MO
KCSC Chico, CA
KEJL Hobbs, NM
KFGL Abilene, TX
KIQX Durango, CO
KLNN Taos, NM
KPFK Los Angeles, CA
KPFT Houston, TX
KRCL Salt Lake City, UT
WFUV New York, NY
WOCM Ocean City, MD
WRLT Nashville, TN
WRNR Baltimore, MD
WRNX Springfield, MA
WRSI Northampton, MA
KSLU Hammond, LA
KSPN Aspen, CO
KTMC McAlester, OK
KUSF San Francisco, CA
KXFM Santa Maria, CA
KYBB Sioux Falls, SD
KYNZ Ardmore, PA
KYSL Breckenridge, CO
WAFN Arab, AL
WAPS Akron, OH
WBWC Cleveland, OH
WBZD Williamsport, PA
WCDW Binghamton, NY
WDIY Allentown, PA
WDNS Bowling Green, KY
WERU Portland, ME
WFMU Hoboken, NJ
WHCL Clinton, NY
WHRV Norfolk, VA
WINN Columbus, IN
WKZB Meridian, MS
WKZE Sharon, CT
WMBR Cambridge, MA
WMHX Harrisburg/York, PA
WMHX York, PA
WMNF Tampa, FL
WMWV Conway, NH
WNCW Spindale, NC
WNHU West Haven, CT
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The interviews focus on the various elements within the group that combined to make The Beatles so musically powerful: their strengths as performers – both instrumentally and vocally – plus the brilliance of John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison as songwriters.
Part Three: The Beatles On The Record
We hear how The Beatles’ music was captured on record with the help of innovative arrangements and adventurous production by George Martin. Some of today’s leading record producers – Peter Asher, Joe Boyd, T-Bone Burnett, Jeff Lynne, Mark Ronson and Rick Rubin – marvel at the dazzling creativity evident in recordings made more than 40 years ago.
Here are the radio stations that will be broadcasting the special. Check your local listings for more info :
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Sorry, I really didn't mean to get more than one of the same posts,I really wish there was an edit button on here!
Name:
Anonymous2010-03-20 23:41
You know your music - so do we. THE ALLMUSIC BLOG
She's a Woman
The Beatles
Composed By
John Lennon/Paul McCartney
Song Review by Richie Unterberger
"She's a Woman" was one of the hardest-rocking early Beatles originals, and although it was the B-side to "I Feel Fine," it was almost as big a hit in its own right, reaching number four on the American charts. Sung and primarily written by Paul McCartney, it's a belter that illustrates how the Beatles could be bluesy without writing conventional blues songs that stuck to normal blues progressions. Right from the start, the track has a brash, almost harsh edge, with choppy guitar chords that are more like barks than power chords. McCartney, too often unfairly pegged as a sweet balladeer, demonstrates that he was also one of the best white rock hard singers of all time with his shrill yet rich, even ballsy, vocal. Certainly his vocal style here betrays a strong trace of Little Richard, but it's unfair to accuse him of imitating or lifting wholesale from his idol. In its confidence and assertiveness, McCartney's high-octane style is most assuredly his own. The basic, R&B-derived melody is effectively counterpointed with one of the briefer Beatle bridges on record, in which the Beatles detour into some non- blues chords and melodies for just a few bars before returning to the main thrust of the tune. McCartney, while devoting most of the words to celebration and praise of his woman, throws in a couple of phrases as evidence that he's starting to think in more sophisticated terms, particularly the line "turns me on when I get lonely" (a very, very early use of "turn me on" slang). There's also the declaration that his love doesn't buy him presents, even though she's no peasan.
Peasant's an unusual word to use in a pop song no matter what the era, and McCartney's value of true love over money (as previously also stated in "Can't Buy Me Love") is eternally hip. George Harrison executes a crafty blues-rock solo with a touch of country influence that's, as was his wont, just right for the song at hand. The ending is uncommonly unimaginative for a Beatles track, with McCartney repeating the title phrase several times over a fade; a more basic alternate take exists (on bootleg) in which he extends this section by improvising on that title line for a few minutes. He'd have to wait until "Hey Jude," however, to take that approach to the multi-extended fade onto an official single. As a rabble-rousing rocker, "She's a Woman" was a natural for the Beatles' live shows; a 1965 version was recorded for their The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl album, and it was still part of their set on their final world tour in 1966. The most famous, or notorious, cover of "She's a Woman" was done by Jeff Beck in the mid-'70s, employing a voicebox on his guitar to sing-play the lyrics. That version was an FM radio favorite for a while, and subsequently sometimes scorned (as were Peter Frampton's voicebox-heavy tracks) as an example of mid-'70s hard rock excess.
Appears On
Year
Album
Length
Label
1964 Beatles '65
2:57 Capitol
AMG Track Picks
No Reply, I'll Follow the Sun, I Feel Fine
196Z Beatles in Italy EMI
1977 Live at the Hollywood Bowl 2:47 Capitol
1984 The Compleat Beatles [Video] MGM
1988 Past Masters, Vol. 1
3:03 Capitol
AMG Track Picks
She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand, I Feel Fine, I'm Down
1988 Past Masters, Vols. 1 & 2 Capitol
1988 The Beatles Box Set [1988] 3:03 Capitol
1988 Ultra Rare Trax, Vol. 1 The Swingin' Pig
1989 Documents, Vol. 2 6:31 Oh Boy
1989 Five Nights in a Judo Arena Swingin' Pig
1989 Hold Me Tight 6:34 Condor
1989 Ultra Rare Trax, Vol. 6 6:32 The Swingin' Pig
1989 Unsurpassed Masters, Vol. 2 (1964-1965) Yellow Dog
1991 British Rock: 1st Wave [video] RCA
1991 I Feel Fine/She's a Woman Capitol
1992 Ready Steady Go!, Vol. 3 [Video] Pioneer
1992 The Beatles Box Set [1992] Capitol
1993 Artifacts, 1958-1970 6:32 Big Music
1993 Compact Disc Singles Collection 3:01 Capitol
1994 Artifacts II 1960-1969 3:19 Big Music
1994 Complete BBC Sessions Great Dane
1994 Live at the BBC 3:14 Apple/Capitol
AMG Track Picks
I'll Be on My Way, Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your Arms)
1996 Anthology 2
2:54 Apple/Capitol
AMG Track Picks
Yes It Is, If You've Got Trouble, That Means a Lot, I'm Looking Through You, Strawberry Fields Forever
1996 Anthology Video, Vol. 5 Apple
1998 Live in Japan 2:52 Walrus
1999 CD Singles Collection
3:01 EMI
AMG Track Picks
We Can Work It Out, Paperback Writer, Strawberry Fields Forever, Don't Let Me Down, I Am the Walrus, I'm Down, Ticket to Ride, She's a Woman, Revolution, All You Need Is Love
1999 EP Boxset 3:05 EMI
2001 Beatles Story CTA
2003 Around the World Import
2004 The Capitol Albums, Vol. 1 3:01 Capitol
AMG Track Picks
I Want to Hold Your Hand, It Won't Be Long, I Wanna Be Your Man, Roll Over Beethoven, You Can't Do That, She Loves You, I'll Cry Instead, Things We Said Today, And I Love Her, No Reply, I'm a Loser, She's a Woman, I Feel Fine
2009 The Beatles: Stereo Box Set Capitol
Budokan Concert VAP Inport
Concerts 1964-66 [DVD]
Unauthorised Live, Vol. 1 Joker
Name:
Anonymous2010-03-20 23:42
"She's a Woman" was one of the hardest-rocking early Beatles originals, and although it was the B-side to "I Feel Fine," it was almost as big a hit in its own right, reaching number four on the American charts. Sung and primarily written by Paul McCartney, it's a belter that illustrates how the Beatles could be bluesy without writing conventional blues songs that stuck to normal blues progressions. Right from the start, the track has a brash, almost harsh edge, with choppy guitar chords that are more like barks than power chords. McCartney, too often unfairly pegged as a sweet balladeer, demonstrates that he was also one of the best white rock hard singers of all time with his shrill yet rich, even ballsy, vocal. Certainly his vocal style here betrays a strong trace of Little Richard, but it's unfair to accuse him of imitating or lifting wholesale from his idol. In its confidence and assertiveness, McCartney's high-octane style is most assuredly his own. The basic, R&B-derived melody is effectively counterpointed with one of the briefer Beatle bridges on record, in which the Beatles detour into some non- blues chords and melodies for just a few bars before returning to the main thrust of the tune. McCartney, while devoting most of the words to celebration and praise of his woman, throws in a couple of phrases as evidence that he's starting to think in more sophisticated terms, particularly the line "turns me on when I get lonely" (a very, very early use of "turn me on" slang). There's also the declaration that his love doesn't buy him presents, even though she's no peasant. Peasant's an unusual word to use in a pop song no matter what the era, and McCartney's value of true love over money (as previously also stated in "Can't Buy Me Love") is eternally hip. George Harrison executes a crafty blues-rock solo with a touch of country influence that's, as was his wont, just right for the song at hand. The ending is uncommonly unimaginative for a Beatles track, with McCartney repeating the title phrase several times over a fade; a more basic alternate take exists (on bootleg) in which he extends this section by improvising on that title line for a few minutes. He'd have to wait until "Hey Jude," however, to take that approach to the multi-extended fade onto an official single. As a rabble-rousing rocker, "She's a Woman" was a natural for the Beatles' live shows; a 1965 version was recorded for their The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl album, and it was still part of their set on their final world tour in 1966. The most famous, or notorious, cover of "She's a Woman" was done by Jeff Beck in the mid-'70s, employing a voicebox on his guitar to sing-play the lyrics. That version was an FM radio favorite for a while, and subsequently sometimes scorned (as were Peter Frampton's voicebox-heavy tracks) as an example of mid-'70s hard rock excess.
Appears On
Year
Album
Length
Label
1964 Beatles '65
2:57 Capitol
AMG Track Picks
No Reply, I'll Follow the Sun, I Feel Fine
196Z Beatles in Italy EMI
1977 Live at the Hollywood Bowl 2:47 Capitol
1984 The Compleat Beatles [Video] MGM
1988 Past Masters, Vol. 1
3:03 Capitol
AMG Track Picks
She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand, I Feel Fine, I'm Down
1988 Past Masters, Vols. 1 & 2 Capitol
1988 The Beatles Box Set [1988] 3:03 Capitol
1988 Ultra Rare Trax, Vol. 1 The Swingin' Pig
1989 Documents, Vol. 2 6:31 Oh Boy
1989 Five Nights in a Judo Arena Swingin' Pig
1989 Hold Me Tight 6:34 Condor
1989 Ultra Rare Trax, Vol. 6 6:32 The Swingin' Pig
1989 Unsurpassed Masters, Vol. 2 (1964-1965) Yellow Dog
1991 British Rock: 1st Wave [video] RCA
1991 I Feel Fine/She's a Woman Capitol
1992 Ready Steady Go!, Vol. 3 [Video] Pioneer
1992 The Beatles Box Set [1992] Capitol
1993 Artifacts, 1958-1970 6:32 Big Music
1993 Compact Disc Singles Collection 3:01 Capitol
1994 Artifacts II 1960-1969 3:19 Big Music
1994 Complete BBC Sessions Great Dane
1994 Live at the BBC 3:14 Apple/Capitol
AMG Track Picks
I'll Be on My Way, Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your Arms)
1996 Anthology 2
2:54 Apple/Capitol
AMG Track Picks
Yes It Is, If You've Got Trouble, That Means a Lot, I'm Looking Through You, Strawberry Fields Forever
1996 Anthology Video, Vol. 5 Apple
1998 Live in Japan 2:52 Walrus
1999 CD Singles Collection
3:01 EMI
AMG Track Picks
We Can Work It Out, Paperback Writer, Strawberry Fields Forever, Don't Let Me Down, I Am the Walrus, I'm Down, Ticket to Ride, She's a Woman, Revolution, All You Need Is Love
1999 EP Boxset 3:05 EMI
2001 Beatles Story CTA
2003 Around the World Import
2004 The Capitol Albums, Vol. 1 3:01 Capitol
AMG Track Picks
I Want to Hold Your Hand, It Won't Be Long, I Wanna Be Your Man, Roll Over Beethoven, You Can't Do That, She Loves You, I'll Cry Instead, Things We Said Today, And I Love Her, No Reply, I'm a Loser, She's a Woman, I Feel Fine
2009 The Beatles: Stereo Box Set Capitol
Budokan Concert VAP Inport
Concerts 1964-66 [DVD]
Unauthorised Live, Vol. 1 Joker
Name:
Anonymous2010-03-20 23:45
You know your music - so do we. THE ALLMUSIC BLOG
She's a Woman
Appears On
Year
Album
Length
Label
1964 Beatles '65
2:57 Capitol
AMG Track Picks
No Reply, I'll Follow the Sun, I Feel Fine
196Z Beatles in Italy EMI
1977 Live at the Hollywood Bowl 2:47 Capitol
1984 The Compleat Beatles [Video] MGM
1988 Past Masters, Vol. 1
3:03 Capitol
AMG Track Picks
She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand, I Feel Fine, I'm Down
1988 Past Masters, Vols. 1 & 2 Capitol
1988 The Beatles Box Set [1988] 3:03 Capitol
1988 Ultra Rare Trax, Vol. 1 The Swingin' Pig
1989 Documents, Vol. 2 6:31 Oh Boy
1989 Five Nights in a Judo Arena Swingin' Pig
1989 Hold Me Tight 6:34 Condor
1989 Ultra Rare Trax, Vol. 6 6:32 The Swingin' Pig
1989 Unsurpassed Masters, Vol. 2 (1964-1965) Yellow Dog
1991 British Rock: 1st Wave [video] RCA
1991 I Feel Fine/She's a Woman Capitol
1992 Ready Steady Go!, Vol. 3 [Video] Pioneer
1992 The Beatles Box Set [1992] Capitol
1993 Artifacts, 1958-1970 6:32 Big Music
1993 Compact Disc Singles Collection 3:01 Capitol
1994 Artifacts II 1960-1969 3:19 Big Music
1994 Complete BBC Sessions Great Dane
1994 Live at the BBC 3:14 Apple/Capitol
AMG Track Picks
I'll Be on My Way, Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your Arms)
1996 Anthology 2
2:54 Apple/Capitol
AMG Track Picks
Yes It Is, If You've Got Trouble, That Means a Lot, I'm Looking Through You, Strawberry Fields Forever
1996 Anthology Video, Vol. 5 Apple
1998 Live in Japan 2:52 Walrus
1999 CD Singles Collection
3:01 EMI
AMG Track Picks
We Can Work It Out, Paperback Writer, Strawberry Fields Forever, Don't Let Me Down, I Am the Walrus, I'm Down, Ticket to Ride, She's a Woman, Revolution, All You Need Is Love
1999 EP Boxset 3:05 EMI
2001 Beatles Story CTA
2003 Around the World Import
2004 The Capitol Albums, Vol. 1 3:01 Capitol
AMG Track Picks
I Want to Hold Your Hand, It Won't Be Long, I Wanna Be Your Man, Roll Over Beethoven, You Can't Do That, She Loves You, I'll Cry Instead, Things We Said Today, And I Love Her, No Reply, I'm a Loser, She's a Woman, I Feel Fine
2009 The Beatles: Stereo Box Set Capitol
Budokan Concert VAP Inport
Concerts 1964-66 [DVD]
Unauthorised Live, Vol. 1 Joker
Name:
Anonymous2010-03-20 23:48
Label
1964 Beatles '65
2:57 Capitol
AMG Track Picks
No Reply, I'll Follow the Sun, I Feel Fine
196Z Beatles in Italy EMI
1977 Live at the Hollywood Bowl 2:47 Capitol
1984 The Compleat Beatles [Video] MGM
1988 Past Masters, Vol. 1
3:03 Capitol
AMG Track Picks
She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand, I Feel Fine, I'm Down
1988 Past Masters, Vols. 1 & 2 Capitol
1988 The Beatles Box Set [1988] 3:03 Capitol
1988 Ultra Rare Trax, Vol. 1 The Swingin' Pig
1989 Documents, Vol. 2 6:31 Oh Boy
1989 Five Nights in a Judo Arena Swingin' Pig
1989 Hold Me Tight 6:34 Condor
1989 Ultra Rare Trax, Vol. 6 6:32 The Swingin' Pig
1989 Unsurpassed Masters, Vol. 2 (1964-1965) Yellow Dog
1991 British Rock: 1st Wave [video] RCA
1991 I Feel Fine/She's a Woman Capitol
1992 Ready Steady Go!, Vol. 3 [Video] Pioneer
1992 The Beatles Box Set [1992] Capitol
1993 Artifacts, 1958-1970 6:32 Big Music
1993 Compact Disc Singles Collection 3:01 Capitol
1994 Artifacts II 1960-1969 3:19 Big Music
1994 Complete BBC Sessions Great Dane
1994 Live at the BBC 3:14 Apple/Capitol
AMG Track Picks
I'll Be on My Way, Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your Arms)
1996 Anthology 2
2:54 Apple/Capitol
AMG Track Picks
Yes It Is, If You've Got Trouble, That Means a Lot, I'm Looking Through You, Strawberry Fields Forever
1996 Anthology Video, Vol. 5 Apple
1998 Live in Japan 2:52 Walrus
1999 CD Singles Collection
3:01 EMI
AMG Track Picks
We Can Work It Out, Paperback Writer, Strawberry Fields Forever, Don't Let Me Down, I Am the Walrus, I'm Down, Ticket to Ride, She's a Woman, Revolution, All You Need Is Love
1999 EP Boxset 3:05 EMI
2001 Beatles Story CTA
2003 Around the World Import
2004 The Capitol Albums, Vol. 1 3:01 Capitol
AMG Track Picks
I Want to Hold Your Hand, It Won't Be Long, I Wanna Be Your Man, Roll Over Beethoven, You Can't Do That, She Loves You, I'll Cry Instead, Things We Said Today, And I Love Her, No Reply, I'm a Loser, She's a Woman, I Feel Fine
2009 The Beatles: Stereo Box Set Capitol
Budokan Concert VAP Inport
Concerts 1964-66 [DVD]
Unauthorised Live, Vol. 1 Joker
Name:
Anonymous2010-03-20 23:49
1984 The Compleat Beatles [Video] MGM
1988 Past Masters, Vol. 1
3:03 Capitol
AMG Track Picks
She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand, I Feel Fine, I'm Down
1988 Past Masters, Vols. 1 & 2 Capitol
1988 The Beatles Box Set [1988] 3:03 Capitol
1988 Ultra Rare Trax, Vol. 1 The Swingin' Pig
1989 Documents, Vol. 2 6:31 Oh Boy
1989 Five Nights in a Judo Arena Swingin' Pig
1989 Hold Me Tight 6:34 Condor
1989 Ultra Rare Trax, Vol. 6 6:32 The Swingin' Pig
1989 Unsurpassed Masters, Vol. 2 (1964-1965) Yellow Dog
1991 British Rock: 1st Wave [video] RCA
1991 I Feel Fine/She's a Woman Capitol
1992 Ready Steady Go!, Vol. 3 [Video] Pioneer
1992 The Beatles Box Set [1992] Capitol
1993 Artifacts, 1958-1970 6:32 Big Music
1993 Compact Disc Singles Collection 3:01 Capitol
1994 Artifacts II 1960-1969 3:19 Big Music
1994 Complete BBC Sessions Great Dane
1994 Live at the BBC 3:14 Apple/Capitol
AMG Track Picks
I'll Be on My Way, Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your Arms)
1996 Anthology 2
2:54 Apple/Capitol
AMG Track Picks
Yes It Is, If You've Got Trouble, That Means a Lot, I'm Looking Through You, Strawberry Fields Forever
1996 Anthology Video, Vol. 5 Apple
1998 Live in Japan 2:52 Walrus
1999 CD Singles Collection
3:01 EMI
AMG Track Picks
We Can Work It Out, Paperback Writer, Strawberry Fields Forever, Don't Let Me Down, I Am the Walrus, I'm Down, Ticket to Ride, She's a Woman, Revolution, All You Need Is Love
1999 EP Boxset 3:05 EMI
2001 Beatles Story CTA
2003 Around the World Import
2004 The Capitol Albums, Vol. 1 3:01 Capitol
AMG Track Picks
I Want to Hold Your Hand, It Won
't Be Long, I Wanna Be Your Man, Roll Over Beethoven, You Can't Do That, She Loves You, I'll Cry Instead, Things We Said Today, And I Love Her, No Reply, I'm a Loser, She's a Woman, I Feel Fine
2009 The Beatles: Stereo Box Set Capitol
Budokan Concert VAP Inport
Concerts 1964-66 [DVD]
Unauthorised Live, Vol. 1 Joker
Name:
Anonymous2010-03-20 23:51
1988 The Beatles Box Set [1988] 3:03 Capitol
1988 Ultra Rare Trax, Vol. 1 The Swingin' Pig
1989 Documents, Vol. 2 6:31 Oh Boy
1989 Five Nights in a Judo Arena Swingin' Pig
1989 Hold Me Tight 6:34 Condor
1989 Ultra Rare Trax, Vol. 6 6:32 The Swingin' Pig
1989 Unsurpassed Masters, Vol. 2 (1964-1965) Yellow Dog
1991 British Rock: 1st Wave [video] RCA
1991 I Feel Fine/She's a Woman Capitol
1992 Ready Steady Go!, Vol. 3 [Video] Pioneer
1992 The Beatles Box Set [1992] Capitol
1993 Artifacts, 1958-1970 6:32 Big Music
1993 Compact Disc Singles Collection 3:01 Capitol
1994 Artifacts II 1960-1969 3:19 Big Music
1994 Complete BBC Sessions Great Dane
1994 Live at the BBC 3:14 Apple/Capitol
AMG Track Picks
I'll Be on My Way, Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your Arms)
1996 Anthology 2
2:54 Apple/Capitol
AMG Track Picks
Yes It Is, If You've Got Trouble, That Means a Lot, I'm Looking Through You, Strawberry Fields Forever
1996 Anthology Video, Vol. 5 Apple
1998 Live in Japan 2:52 Walrus
1999 CD Singles Collection
3:01 EMI
AMG Track Picks
We Can Work It Out, Paperback Writer, Strawberry Fields Forever, Don't Let Me Down, I Am the Walrus, I'm Down, Ticket to Ride, She's a Woman, Revolution, All You Need Is Love
1999 EP Boxset 3:05 EMI
2001 Beatles Story CTA
2003 Around the World Import
2004 The Capitol Albums, Vol. 1 3:01 Capitol
AMG Track Picks
I Want to Hold Your Hand, It Won't Be Long, I Wanna Be Your Man, Roll Over Beethoven, You Can't Do That, She Loves You, I'll Cry Instead, Things We Said Today, And I Love Her, No Reply, I'm a Loser, She's a Woman, I Feel Fine
2009 The Beatles: Stereo Box Set Capitol
Budokan Concert VAP Inport
Concerts 1964-66 [DVD]
Unauthorised Live, Vol. 1 Joker
Name:
Anonymous2010-03-20 23:52
1989 Ultra Rare Trax, Vol. 6 6:32 The Swingin' Pig
1989 Unsurpassed Masters, Vol. 2 (1964-1965) Yellow Dog
1991 British Rock: 1st Wave [video] RCA
1991 I Feel Fine/She's a Woman Capitol
1992 Ready Steady Go!, Vol. 3 [Video] Pioneer
1992 The Beatles Box Set [1992] Capitol
1993 Artifacts, 1958-1970 6:32 Big Music
1993 Compact Disc Singles Collection 3:01 Capitol
1994 Artifacts II 1960-1969 3:19 Big Music
1994 Complete BBC Sessions Great Dane
1994 Live at the BBC 3:14 Apple/Capitol
AMG Track Picks
I'll Be on My Way, Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your Arms)
1996 Anthology 2
2:54 Apple/Capitol
AMG Track Picks
Yes It Is, If You've Got Trouble, That Means a Lot, I'm Looking Through You, Strawberry Fields Forever
1996 Anthology Video, Vol. 5 Apple
1998 Live in Japan 2:52 Walrus
1999 CD Singles Collection
3:01 EMI
AMG Track Picks
We Can Work It Out, Paperback Writer, Strawberry Fields Forever, Don't Let Me Down, I Am the Walrus, I'm Down, Ticket to Ride, She's a Woman, Revolution, All You Need Is Love
1999 EP Boxset 3:05 EMI
2001 Beatles Story CTA
2003 Around the World Import
2004 The Capitol Albums, Vol. 1 3:01 Capitol
AMG Track Picks
I Want to Hold Your Hand, It Won't Be Long, I Wanna Be Your Man, Roll Over Beethoven, You Can't Do That, She Loves You, I'll Cry Instead, Things We Said Today, And I Love Her, No Reply, I'm a Loser, She's a Woman, I Feel Fine
2009 The Beatles: Stereo Box Set Capitol
Budokan Concert VAP Inport
Concerts 1964-66 [DVD]
Unauthorised Live, Vol. 1 Joker
Name:
Anonymous2010-03-20 23:53
1992 Ready Steady Go!, Vol. 3 [Video] Pioneer
1992 The Beatles Box Set [1992] Capitol
1993 Artifacts, 1958-1970 6:32 Big Music
1993 Compact Disc Singles Collection 3:01 Capitol
1994 Artifacts II 1960-1969 3:19 Big Music
1994 Complete BBC Sessions Great Dane
1994 Live at the BBC 3:14 Apple/Capitol
AMG Track Picks
I'll Be on My Way, Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your Arms)
1996 Anthology 2
2:54 Apple/Capitol
AMG Track Picks
Yes It Is, If You've Got Trouble, That Means a Lot, I'm Looking Through You, Strawberry Fields Forever
1996 Anthology Video, Vol. 5 Apple
1998 Live in Japan 2:52 Walrus
1999 CD Singles Collection
3:01 EMI
AMG Track Picks
We Can Work It Out, Paperback Writer, Strawberry Fields Forever, Don't Let Me Down, I Am the Walrus, I'm Down, Ticket to Ride, She's a Woman, Revolution, All You Need Is Love
1999 EP Boxset 3:05 EMI
2001 Beatles Story CTA
2003 Around the World Import
2004 The Capitol Albums, Vol. 1 3:01 Capitol
AMG Track Picks
I Want to Hold Your Hand, It Won't Be Long, I Wanna Be Your Man, Roll Over Beethoven, You Can't Do That, She Loves You, I'll Cry Instead, Things We Said Today, And I Love Her, No Reply, I'm a Loser, She's a Woman, I Feel Fine
2009 The Beatles: Stereo Box Set Capitol
Budokan Concert VAP Inport
Concerts 1964-66 [DVD]
Unauthorised Live, Vol. 1 Joker
Name:
Anonymous2010-03-20 23:55
1994 Artifacts II 1960-1969 3:19 Big Music
1994 Complete BBC Sessions Great Dane
1994 Live at the BBC 3:14 Apple/Capitol
AMG Track Picks
I'll Be on My Way, Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your Arms)
1996 Anthology 2
2:54 Apple/Capitol
AMG Track Picks
Yes It Is, If You've Got Trouble, That Means a Lot, I'm Looking Through You, Strawberry Fields Forever
1996 Anthology Video, Vol. 5 Apple
1998 Live in Japan 2:52 Walrus
1999 CD Singles Collection
3:01 EMI
AMG Track Picks
We Can Work It Out, Paperback Writer, Strawberry Fields Forever, Don't Let Me Down, I Am the Walrus, I'm Down, Ticket to Ride, She's a Woman, Revolution, All You Need Is Love
1999 EP Boxset 3:05 EMI
2001 Beatles Story CTA
2003 Around the World Import
2004 The Capitol Albums, Vol. 1 3:01 Capitol
AMG Track Picks
I Want to Hold Your Hand, It Won't Be Long, I Wanna Be Your Man, Roll Over Beethoven, You Can't Do That, She Loves You, I'll Cry Instead, Things We Said Today, And I Love Her, No Reply, I'm a Loser, She's a Woman, I Feel Fine
2009 The Beatles: Stereo Box Set Capitol
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Concerts 1964-66 [DVD]
Unauthorised Live, Vol. 1 Joker
Name:
Anonymous2010-03-20 23:56
1996 Anthology 2
2:54 Apple/Capitol
AMG Track Picks
Yes It Is, If You've Got Trouble, That Means a Lot, I'm Looking Through You, Strawberry Fields Forever
1996 Anthology Video, Vol. 5 Apple
1998 Live in Japan 2:52 Walrus
1999 CD Singles Collection
3:01 EMI
AMG Track Picks
We Can Work It Out, Paperback Writer, Strawberry Fields Forever, Don't Let Me Down, I Am the Walrus, I'm Down, Ticket to Ride, She's a Woman, Revolution, All You Need Is Love
1999 EP Boxset 3:05 EMI
2001 Beatles Story CTA
2003 Around the World Import
2004 The Capitol Albums, Vol. 1 3:01 Capitol
AMG Track Picks
I Want to Hold Your Hand, It Won't Be Long, I Wanna Be Your Man, Roll Over Beethoven, You Can't Do That, She Loves You, I'll Cry Instead, Things We Said Today, And I Love Her, No Reply, I'm a Loser, She's a Woman, I Feel Fine
2009 The Beatles: Stereo Box Set Capitol
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Concerts 1964-66 [DVD]
Unauthorised Live, Vol. 1 Joker
Name:
Anonymous2010-03-20 23:57
1999 CD Singles Collection
3:01 EMI
AMG Track Picks
We Can Work It Out, Paperback Writer, Strawberry Fields Forever, Don't Let Me Down, I Am the Walrus, I'm Down, Ticket to Ride, She's a Woman, Revolution, All You Need Is Love
1999 EP Boxset 3:05 EMI
2001 Beatles Story CTA
2003 Around the World Import
2004 The Capitol Albums, Vol. 1 3:01 Capitol
AMG Track Picks
I Want to Hold Your Hand, It Won't Be Long, I Wanna Be Your Man, Roll Over Beethoven, You Can't Do That, She Loves You, I'll Cry Instead, Things We Said Today, And I Love Her, No Reply, I'm a Loser, She's a Woman, I Feel Fine
2009 The Beatles: Stereo Box Set Capitol
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Anonymous2010-03-20 23:59
2003 Around the World Import
2004 The Capitol Albums, Vol. 1 3:01 Capitol
AMG Track Picks
I Want to Hold Your Hand, It Won't Be Long, I Wanna Be Your Man, Roll Over Beethoven, You Can't Do That, She Loves You, I'll Cry Instead, Things We Said Today, And I Love Her, No Reply, I'm a Loser, She's a Woman, I Feel Fine
2009 The Beatles: Stereo Box Set Capitol
Budokan Concert VAP Inport
Concerts 1964-66 [DVD]
Unauthorised Live, Vol. 1 Joker
Name:
Anonymous2010-03-21 0:01
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Concerts 1964-66 [DVD]
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Anonymous2010-03-21 0:10
You know your music - so do we. THE ALLMUSIC BLOG
I'm Down
The Beatles
Composed By Other Links
John Lennon/Paul McCartney All Performers that have performed this Title
Song Review by Richie Unterberger
"I'm Down," the B-side of "Help!," was one of the most frantic rockers in the entire Beatles catalog. The very first line — sung a cappella by the principal writer, Paul McCartney — was about as larynx-twisting an upper-register, non-falsetto vocal as was possible in rock music. Critics have often noted that the vocal and the song itself are very much in the Little Richard style, and some see it as little more than a rewrite of Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally." It's true there are some similarities between "I'm Down" and "Long Tall Sally," but it's not just a blatant copy. For one thing, there are the great call-and-response vocals between McCartney and the other Beatles, as well as the sudden jerky shifts in tempo in which the instruments periodically stop altogether. George Harrison lets loose with one of his patented bluesy, slightly disheveled, growling guitar solos, and then it's back to a final verse where McCartney really climbs the high notes for emphasis. That done with, it's time for one of the group's more crazed and elongated fadeouts, kicked off by a hair-raising McCartney scream, then settling into more vocal trades between him and the group as well as some wild organ playing by John Lennon. Although The Beatles Recording Sessions tells listeners that seven takes were completed at the session, the song has a wonderfully loose, almost jammy feel. Listen to the part where McCartney starts the final verse, for instance, and his first line is answered with a lazy, almost diffident guitar sliding slowly up the low notes. Not that it hurts the song any, but there's a contradiction between the mood of the lyrics — ostensibly a guy down in the dumps about being dumped — and the delivery. McCartney does not sound down in the dumps; he sounds like he's having the time of his life, with an energy that's incredibly infectious.
"I'm Down" was a great live favorite of the Beatles' mid-'60s shows, as seen in the famous footage of their 1965 Shea Stadium concert, which closed with an especially wild performance of the song. There have not been many covers of "I'm Down"; indeed, for years it was surprisingly hard to hear, as it didn't get issued on a Beatles LP until the mid-'70s. There were a couple of surprising attempts, however, one a live version (recorded in 1966, released in the 1980s) by the 13th Floor Elevators, with Roky Erickson contributing a demented lead vocal that was grating where McCartney's was uplifting. Even more surprisingly, Yes, a group not known for rock-'em-sock-'em party tunes, did "I'm Down" in concert.
Name:
Anonymous2010-03-21 0:10
"I'm Down," the B-side of "Help!," was one of the most frantic rockers in the entire Beatles catalog. The very first line — sung a cappella by the principal writer, Paul McCartney — was about as larynx-twisting an upper-register, non-falsetto vocal as was possible in rock music. Critics have often noted that the vocal and the song itself are very much in the Little Richard style, and some see it as little more than a rewrite of Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally." It's true there are some similarities between "I'm Down" and "Long Tall Sally," but it's not just a blatant copy. For one thing, there are the great call-and-response vocals between McCartney and the other Beatles, as well as the sudden jerky shifts in tempo in which the instruments periodically stop altogether. George Harrison lets loose with one of his patented bluesy, slightly disheveled, growling guitar solos, and then it's back to a final verse where McCartney really climbs the high notes for emphasis. That done with, it's time for one of the group's more crazed and elongated fadeouts, kicked off by a hair-raising McCartney scream, then settling into more vocal trades between him and the group as well as some wild organ playing by John Lennon. Although The Beatles Recording Sessions tells listeners that seven takes were completed at the session, the song has a wonderfully loose, almost jammy feel. Listen to the part where McCartney starts the final verse, for instance, and his first line is answered with a lazy, almost diffident guitar sliding slowly up the low notes. Not that it hurts the song any, but there's a contradiction between the mood of the lyrics — ostensibly a guy down in the dumps about being dumped — and the delivery. McCartney does not sound down in the dumps; he sounds like he's having the time of his life, with an energy that's incredibly infectious.
"I'm Down" was a great live favorite of the Beatles' mid-'60s shows, as seen in the famous footage of their 1965 Shea Stadium concert, which closed with an especially wild performance of the song. There have not been many covers of "I'm Down"; indeed, for years it was surprisingly hard to hear, as it didn't get issued on a Beatles LP until the mid-'70s. There were a couple of surprising attempts, however, one a live version (recorded in 1966, released in the 1980s) by the 13th Floor Elevators, with Roky Erickson contributing a demented lead vocal that was grating where McCartney's was uplifting. Even more surprisingly, Yes, a group not known for rock-'em-sock-'em party tunes, did "I'm Down" in concert.
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You Can't Do That
The Beatles
Composed By Other Links
John Lennon/Paul McCartney All Performers that have performed this Title
Song Review by Richie Unterberger
As the B-side to "Can't Buy Me Love," "You Can't Do That" was a worthy companion to the more well-known hit, particularly as it was also one of the Beatles' grittiest and hardest-rocking early originals. The track was introduced by a ringing, circular George Harrison guitar lick that marked the first time he played 12-string electric guitar on a Beatles recording — an innovation that would figure strongly not just in the Beatles' mid-'60s records, but also in the development of folk-rock. Rhythmically the song has a funkier, more soulful beat than anything else the Beatles had previously done, perhaps sparked by increased exposure to American soul music as the group began to tour the U.S. John Lennon, in fact, specifically cited Wilson Pickett as an inspiration for the song, although since Pickett had barely begun to record under his own name when "You Can't Do That" was written in early 1964, one wonders if Lennon was influenced by Pickett only in hindsight. The song had no shortage of dynamite hooks, particularly the insistent stuttering beats at the end of each verse and bridge, the thrilling soulful responsive harmonies that answer Lennon's lead vocal, and the dramatic rising harmony vocals that accompany Lennon on the bridge.
Lennon lets loose with one of his all-time great screams to launch the instrumental break, in which he makes his debut as a lead guitarist on a Beatles record, with crunchy, frenetic riffing that suits the tune well. Listen also for the very end, in which a reprise of the principal 12-string guitar riff suddenly slows to a crawl for the last three notes. Lyrically this is one of the toughest Lennon- McCartney songs, principally written by Lennon , and verging almost on misogyny in its threats to leave a girl if she so much as talks to another guy. There's an underlying note of insecurity, however, in his laments that others will laugh in his face if they see her acting the way she does. "You Can't Do That" was honored with a most unusual cover version by Nilsson a few years later on his debut album, in which he did not so much sing "You Can't Do That" as use its main motifs for the body of a track which interwove brief phrases from other Beatles classics like "Can't Buy Me Love," "Day Tripper," "You're Going to Lose That Girl," and "Drive My Car."
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You Can't Do That
The Beatles
Composed By Other Links
John Lennon/Paul McCartney All Performers that have performed this Title
Song Review by Richie Unterberger
Lennon lets loose with one of his all-time great screams to launch the instrumental break, in which he makes his debut as a lead guitarist on a Beatles record, with crunchy, frenetic riffing that suits the tune well. Listen also for the very end, in which a reprise of the principal 12-string guitar riff suddenly slows to a crawl for the last three notes. Lyrically this is one of the toughest Lennon- McCartney songs, principally written by Lennon , and verging almost on misogyny in its threats to leave a girl if she so much as talks to another guy. There's an underlying note of insecurity, however, in his laments that others will laugh in his face if they see her acting the way she does. "You Can't Do That" was honored with a most unusual cover version by Nilsson a few years later on his debut album, in which he did not so much sing "You Can't Do That" as use its main motifs for the body of a track which interwove brief phrases from other Beatles classics like "Can't Buy Me Love," "Day Tripper," "You're Going to Lose That Girl," and "Drive My Car."
Name:
Anonymous2010-03-21 0:21
Lennon lets loose with one of his all-time great screams to launch the instrumental break, in which he makes his debut as a lead guitarist on a Beatles record, with crunchy, frenetic riffing that suits the tune well. Listen also for the very end, in which a reprise of the principal 12-string guitar riff suddenly slows to a crawl for the last three notes. Lyrically this is one of the toughest Lennon- McCartney songs, principally written by Lennon , and verging almost on misogyny in its threats to leave a girl if she so much as talks to another guy. There's an underlying note of insecurity, however, in his laments that others will laugh in his face if they see her acting the way she does. "You Can't Do That" was honored with a most unusual cover version by Nilsson a few years later on his debut album, in which he did not so much sing "You Can't Do That" as use its main motifs for the body of a track which interwove brief phrases from other Beatles classics like "Can't Buy Me Love," "Day Tripper," "You're Going to Lose That Girl," and "Drive My Car."
Name:
Anonymous2010-03-21 0:26
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Revolution
The Beatles
Composed By Other Links
John Lennon/Paul McCartney All Performers that have performed this Title
Song Review
by Richie Unterberger
As the B-side of "Hey Jude," "Revolution" formed one-half of a worthy contender for the best rock single of all time. As with another contender, "Penny Lane"/ "Strawberry Fields Forever," each side represented one of the best and most characteristic songwriting efforts by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, respectively (even if they were billed to Lennon- McCartney jointly, out of contractual custom). "Revolution" was, of course, quite different in tone from "Hey Jude," one of the group's best ballads. In contrast, "Revolution" was one of their greatest, most furious rockers, also featuring some of Lennon's most challenging, fiery lyrics. It must first be noted that two entirely different arrangements of "Revolution" were recorded and released. A slow one with doo wop-inspired harmonies, officially titled "Revolution 1," appeared on The Beatles (popularly known as the White Album); the faster and, most would agree, superior version appeared on the B-side of the "Hey Jude" single. The song described here will be the single version, simply entitled "Revolution." Leading off with a startling machine-gun fuzz guitar riff and a scream, the heart immediately starts pounding before Lennon goes into the first verse. (Trivia note: An obscure 1954 recording by bluesman Pee Wee Crayton, "Do Unto Others," has an opening riff that sounds almost identical to the riff that opens "Revolution." Coincidence, or not?) Combining one of his throatiest vocals and the consistently buzzing, fuzzy guitars, you have one of the most down-and-dirty Beatles tracks ever.
In "Revolution," Lennon seems to be questioning, quite reasonably, the validity of changing the world through violent means. He was setting himself up for criticism from all sides here, particularly in the turbulent year of 1968: the establishment was angered by anyone talking about "Revolution" in any context, while some of the left viewed refusal to overthrow society by any means necessary as a cowardly sellout. Lennon is quite emphatic, however, that when it comes to violence, you can count him out. (Typically, he would sit on the fence on this issue over the years, and in "Revolution 1," qualify his observation by immediately singing the word "in" after declaring that he could be counted out.) Characteristically, optimism prevails in the Beatles' world, even when taking on one of the most explosive subjects possible, as on the uplifting chorus (helped greatly by harmony vocals), when the group urgently and repeatedly reassures listeners that everything's going to be all right. Those reassurances become sing-shouts in the final refrain, though the loud guitar figures in the background imply that everything might not be all right, as does a final near-hysterical repetition of the phrase by Lennon. "Revolution," incidentally, was one of the few Beatles tracks to feature a contribution from an outside rock session musician, Nicky Hopkins, who adds ebullient keyboards to the performance.
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Anonymous2010-03-21 0:30
Song Review
by Richie Unterberger
As the B-side of "Hey Jude," "Revolution" formed one-half of a worthy contender for the best rock single of all time. As with another contender, "Penny Lane"/ "Strawberry Fields Forever," each side represented one of the best and most characteristic songwriting efforts by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, respectively (even if they were billed to Lennon- McCartney jointly, out of contractual custom). "Revolution" was, of course, quite different in tone from "Hey Jude," one of the group's best ballads. In contrast, "Revolution" was one of their greatest, most furious rockers, also featuring some of Lennon's most challenging, fiery lyrics. It must first be noted that two entirely different arrangements of "Revolution" were recorded and released. A slow one with doo wop-inspired harmonies, officially titled "Revolution 1," appeared on The Beatles (popularly known as the White Album); the faster and, most would agree, superior version appeared on the B-side of the "Hey Jude" single. The song described here will be the single version, simply entitled "Revolution." Leading off with a startling machine-gun fuzz guitar riff and a scream, the heart immediately starts pounding before Lennon goes into the first verse. (Trivia note: An obscure 1954 recording by bluesman Pee Wee Crayton, "Do Unto Others," has an opening riff that sounds almost identical to the riff that opens "Revolution." Coincidence, or not?) Combining one of his throatiest vocals and the consistently buzzing, fuzzy guitars, you have one of the most down-and-dirty Beatles tracks ever.
In "Revolution," Lennon seems to be questioning, quite reasonably, the validity of changing the world through violent means. He was setting himself up for criticism from all sides here, particularly in the turbulent year of 1968: the establishment was angered by anyone talking about "Revolution" in any context, while some of the left viewed refusal to overthrow society by any means necessary as a cowardly sellout. Lennon is quite emphatic, however, that when it comes to violence, you can count him out. (Typically, he would sit on the fence on this issue over the years, and in "Revolution 1," qualify his observation by immediately singing the word "in" after declaring that he could be counted out.) Characteristically, optimism prevails in the Beatles' world, even when taking on one of the most explosive subjects possible, as on the uplifting chorus (helped greatly by harmony vocals), when the group urgently and repeatedly reassures listeners that everything's going to be all right. Those reassurances become sing-shouts in the final refrain, though the loud guitar figures in the background imply that everything might not be all right, as does a final near-hysterical repetition of the phrase by Lennon. "Revolution," incidentally, was one of the few Beatles tracks to feature a contribution from an outside rock session musician, Nicky Hopkins, who adds ebullient keyboards to the performance.
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Anonymous2010-03-21 0:34
In "Revolution," Lennon seems to be questioning, quite reasonably, the validity of changing the world through violent means. He was setting himself up for criticism from all sides here, particularly in the turbulent year of 1968: the establishment was angered by anyone talking about "Revolution" in any context, while some of the left viewed refusal to overthrow society by any means necessary as a cowardly sellout. Lennon is quite emphatic, however, that when it comes to violence, you can count him out. (Typically, he would sit on the fence on this issue over the years, and in "Revolution 1," qualify his observation by immediately singing the word "in" after declaring that he could be counted out.) Characteristically, optimism prevails in the Beatles' world, even when taking on one of the most explosive subjects possible, as on the uplifting chorus (helped greatly by harmony vocals), when the group urgently and repeatedly reassures listeners that everything's going to be all right. Those reassurances become sing-shouts in the final refrain, though the loud guitar figures in the background imply that everything might not be all right, as does a final near-hysterical repetition of the phrase by Lennon. "Revolution," incidentally, was one of the few Beatles tracks to feature a contribution from an outside rock session musician, Nicky Hopkins, who adds ebullient keyboards to the performance.
Name:
Anonymous2010-03-21 0:36
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Abbey Road
The Beatles
Artist
The Beatles
Album
Abbey Road
Rating *****
Release Date
Sep 26, 1969
Label
Capitol
Genre Styles
Pop/Rock
Album Rock
Rock & Roll
Pop/Rock
British Psychedelia
Psychedelic
Sunshine Pop
Prog-Rock/ Art Rock
AM Pop
Hard Rock
The last Beatles album to be recorded (although Let It Be was the last to be released), Abbey Road was a fitting swan song for the group, echoing some of the faux-conceptual forms of Sgt. Pepper, but featuring stronger compositions and more rock-oriented ensemble work. The group was still pushing forward in all facets of its art, whether devising some of the greatest harmonies to be heard on any rock record (especially on "Because"), constructing a medley of songs/vignettes that covered much of side two, adding subtle touches of Moog synthesizer, or crafting furious guitar-heavy rock ("The End," "I Want You (She's So Heavy)," "Come Together"). George Harrison also blossomed into a major songwriter, contributing the buoyant "Here Comes the Sun" and the supremely melodic ballad "Something," the latter of which became the first Harrison-penned Beatles hit. Whether Abbey Road is the Beatles' best work is debatable, but it's certainly the most immaculately produced (with the possible exception of Sgt. Pepper) and most tightly constructed.
Tracks
Title
Composer
Time
1 Come Together Lennon, McCartney 04:20
2 Something Harrison 03:02
3 Maxwell's Silver Hammer Lennon, McCartney 03:27
4 Oh! Darling Lennon, McCartney 03:26
5 Octopus's Garden Starkey, Starr 02:51
6 I Want You (She's So Heavy) Lennon, McCartney 07:47
7 Here Comes the Sun Harrison 03:05
8 Because Lennon, McCartney 02:45
9 You Never Give Me Your Money Lennon, McCartney 04:02
10 Sun King Lennon, McCartney 02:26
11 Mean Mr. Mustard Lennon, McCartney 01:06
12 Polythene Pam Lennon, McCartney 01:12
13 She Came in Through the Bathroom Window Lennon, McCartney 01:57
14 Golden Slumbers Lennon, McCartney 01:31
15 Carry That Weight Lennon, McCartney 01:36
16 The End Lennon, McCartney 02:19
17 Her Majesty Lennon, McCartney 00:23
Name:
Anonymous2010-03-21 0:38
Abbey Road
Rating *****
Release Date
Sep 26, 1969
Label
Capitol
Genre Styles
Pop/Rock
Album Rock
Rock & Roll
Pop/Rock
British Psychedelia
Psychedelic
Sunshine Pop
Prog-Rock/ Art Rock
AM Pop
Hard Rock
The last Beatles album to be recorded (although Let It Be was the last to be released), Abbey Road was a fitting swan song for the group, echoing some of the faux-conceptual forms of Sgt. Pepper, but featuring stronger compositions and more rock-oriented ensemble work. The group was still pushing forward in all facets of its art, whether devising some of the greatest harmonies to be heard on any rock record (especially on "Because"), constructing a medley of songs/vignettes that covered much of side two, adding subtle touches of Moog synthesizer, or crafting furious guitar-heavy rock ("The End," "I Want You (She's So Heavy)," "Come Together"). George Harrison also blossomed into a major songwriter, contributing the buoyant "Here Comes the Sun" and the supremely melodic ballad "Something," the latter of which became the first Harrison-penned Beatles hit. Whether Abbey Road is the Beatles' best work is debatable, but it's certainly the most immaculately produced (with the possible exception of Sgt. Pepper) and most tightly constructed.
Tracks
Title
Composer
Time
1 Come Together Lennon, McCartney 04:20
2 Something Harrison 03:02
3 Maxwell's Silver Hammer Lennon, McCartney 03:27
4 Oh! Darling Lennon, McCartney 03:26
5 Octopus's Garden Starkey, Starr 02:51
6 I Want You (She's So Heavy) Lennon, McCartney 07:47
7 Here Comes the Sun Harrison 03:05
8 Because Lennon, McCartney 02:45
9 You Never Give Me Your Money Lennon, McCartney 04:02
10 Sun King Lennon, McCartney 02:26
11 Mean Mr. Mustard Lennon, McCartney 01:06
12 Polythene Pam Lennon, McCartney 01:12
13 She Came in Through the Bathroom Window Lennon, McCartney 01:57
14 Golden Slumbers Lennon, McCartney 01:31
15 Carry That Weight Lennon, McCartney 01:36
16 The End Lennon, McCartney 02:19
17 Her Majesty Lennon, McCartney 00:23
Name:
Anonymous2010-03-21 0:39
Genre Styles
Pop/Rock
Album Rock
Rock & Roll
Pop/Rock
British Psychedelia
Psychedelic
Sunshine Pop
Prog-Rock/ Art Rock
AM Pop
Hard Rock
The last Beatles album to be recorded (although Let It Be was the last to be released), Abbey Road was a fitting swan song for the group, echoing some of the faux-conceptual forms of Sgt. Pepper, but featuring stronger compositions and more rock-oriented ensemble work. The group was still pushing forward in all facets of its art, whether devising some of the greatest harmonies to be heard on any rock record (especially on "Because"), constructing a medley of songs/vignettes that covered much of side two, adding subtle touches of Moog synthesizer, or crafting furious guitar-heavy rock ("The End," "I Want You (She's So Heavy)," "Come Together"). George Harrison also blossomed into a major songwriter, contributing the buoyant "Here Comes the Sun" and the supremely melodic ballad "Something," the latter of which became the first Harrison-penned Beatles hit. Whether Abbey Road is the Beatles' best work is debatable, but it's certainly the most immaculately produced (with the possible exception of Sgt. Pepper) and most tightly constructed.
Tracks
Title
Composer
Time
1 Come Together Lennon, McCartney 04:20
2 Something Harrison 03:02
3 Maxwell's Silver Hammer Lennon, McCartney 03:27
4 Oh! Darling Lennon, McCartney 03:26
5 Octopus's Garden Starkey, Starr 02:51
6 I Want You (She's So Heavy) Lennon, McCartney 07:47
7 Here Comes the Sun Harrison 03:05
8 Because Lennon, McCartney 02:45
9 You Never Give Me Your Money Lennon, McCartney 04:02
10 Sun King Lennon, McCartney 02:26
11 Mean Mr. Mustard Lennon, McCartney 01:06
12 Polythene Pam Lennon, McCartney 01:12
13 She Came in Through the Bathroom Window Lennon, McCartney 01:57
14 Golden Slumbers Lennon, McCartney 01:31
15 Carry That Weight Lennon, McCartney 01:36
16 The End Lennon, McCartney 02:19
17 Her Majesty Lennon, McCartney 00:23
The last Beatles album to be recorded (although Let It Be was the last to be released), Abbey Road was a fitting swan song for the group, echoing some of the faux-conceptual forms of Sgt. Pepper, but featuring stronger compositions and more rock-oriented ensemble work. The group was still pushing forward in all facets of its art, whether devising some of the greatest harmonies to be heard on any rock record (especially on "Because"), constructing a medley of songs/vignettes that covered much of side two, adding subtle touches of Moog synthesizer, or crafting furious guitar-heavy rock ("The End," "I Want You (She's So Heavy)," "Come Together"). George Harrison also blossomed into a major songwriter, contributing the buoyant "Here Comes the Sun" and the supremely melodic ballad "Something," the latter of which became the first Harrison-penned Beatles hit. Whether Abbey Road is the Beatles' best work is debatable, but it's certainly the most immaculately produced (with the possible exception of Sgt. Pepper) and most tightly constructed.
Tracks
Title
Composer
Time
1 Come Together Lennon, McCartney 04:20
2 Something Harrison 03:02
3 Maxwell's Silver Hammer Lennon, McCartney 03:27
4 Oh! Darling Lennon, McCartney 03:26
5 Octopus's Garden Starkey, Starr 02:51
6 I Want You (She's So Heavy) Lennon, McCartney 07:47
7 Here Comes the Sun Harrison 03:05
8 Because Lennon, McCartney 02:45
9 You Never Give Me Your Money Lennon, McCartney 04:02
10 Sun King Lennon, McCartney 02:26
11 Mean Mr. Mustard Lennon, McCartney 01:06
12 Polythene Pam Lennon, McCartney 01:12
13 She Came in Through the Bathroom Window Lennon, McCartney 01:57
14 Golden Slumbers Lennon, McCartney 01:31
15 Carry That Weight Lennon, McCartney 01:36
16 The End Lennon, McCartney 02:19
17 Her Majesty Lennon, McCartney 00:23
The last Beatles album to be recorded (although Let It Be was the last to be released), Abbey Road was a fitting swan song for the group, echoing some of the faux-conceptual forms of Sgt. Pepper, but featuring stronger compositions and more rock-oriented ensemble work. The group was still pushing forward in all facets of its art, whether devising some of the greatest harmonies to be heard on any rock record (especially on "Because"), constructing a medley of songs/vignettes that covered much of side two, adding subtle touches of Moog synthesizer, or crafting furious guitar-heavy rock ("The End," "I Want You (She's So Heavy)," "Come Together"). George Harrison also blossomed into a major songwriter, contributing the buoyant "Here Comes the Sun" and the supremely melodic ballad "Something," the latter of which became the first Harrison-penned Beatles hit. Whether Abbey Road is the Beatles' best work is debatable, but it's certainly the most immaculately produced (with the possible exception of Sgt. Pepper) and most tightly constructed.
Tracks
Title
Composer
Time
1 Come Together Lennon, McCartney 04:20
2 Something Harrison 03:02
3 Maxwell's Silver Hammer Lennon, McCartney 03:27
4 Oh! Darling Lennon, McCartney 03:26
5 Octopus's Garden Starkey, Starr 02:51
6 I Want You (She's So Heavy) Lennon, McCartney 07:47
7 Here Comes the Sun Harrison 03:05
8 Because Lennon, McCartney 02:45
9 You Never Give Me Your Money Lennon, McCartney 04:02
10 Sun King Lennon, McCartney 02:26
11 Mean Mr. Mustard Lennon, McCartney 01:06
12 Polythene Pam Lennon, McCartney 01:12
13 She Came in Through the Bathroom Window Lennon, McCartney 01:57
14 Golden Slumbers Lennon, McCartney 01:31
15 Carry That Weight Lennon, McCartney 01:36
16 The End Lennon, McCartney 02:19
17 Her Majesty Lennon, McCartney 00:23
Name:
Anonymous2010-03-21 0:41
The last Beatles album to be recorded (although Let It Be was the last to be released), Abbey Road was a fitting swan song for the group, echoing some of the faux-conceptual forms of Sgt. Pepper, but featuring stronger compositions and more rock-oriented ensemble work. The group was still pushing forward in all facets of its art, whether devising some of the greatest harmonies to be heard on any rock record (especially on "Because"), constructing a medley of songs/vignettes that covered much of side two, adding subtle touches of Moog synthesizer, or crafting furious guitar-heavy rock ("The End," "I Want You (She's So Heavy)," "Come Together"). George Harrison also blossomed into a major songwriter, contributing the buoyant "Here Comes the Sun" and the supremely melodic ballad "Something," the latter of which became the first Harrison-penned Beatles hit. Whether Abbey Road is the Beatles' best work is debatable, but it's certainly the most immaculately produced (with the possible exception of Sgt. Pepper) and most tightly constructed.
Tracks
Title
Composer
Time
1 Come Together Lennon, McCartney 04:20
2 Something Harrison 03:02
3 Maxwell's Silver Hammer Lennon, McCartney 03:27
4 Oh! Darling Lennon, McCartney 03:26
5 Octopus's Garden Starkey, Starr 02:51
6 I Want You (She's So Heavy) Lennon, McCartney 07:47
7 Here Comes the Sun Harrison 03:05
8 Because Lennon, McCartney 02:45
9 You Never Give Me Your Money Lennon, McCartney 04:02
10 Sun King Lennon, McCartney 02:26
11 Mean Mr. Mustard Lennon, McCartney 01:06
12 Polythene Pam Lennon, McCartney 01:12
13 She Came in Through the Bathroom Window Lennon, McCartney 01:57
14 Golden Slumbers Lennon, McCartney 01:31
15 Carry That Weight Lennon, McCartney 01:36
16 The End Lennon, McCartney 02:19
17 Her Majesty Lennon, McCartney 00:23
Name:
Anonymous2010-03-21 0:43
Tracks
Title
Composer
Time
1 Come Together Lennon, McCartney 04:20
2 Something Harrison 03:02
3 Maxwell's Silver Hammer Lennon, McCartney 03:27
4 Oh! Darling Lennon, McCartney 03:26
5 Octopus's Garden Starkey, Starr 02:51
6 I Want You (She's So Heavy) Lennon, McCartney 07:47
7 Here Comes the Sun Harrison 03:05
8 Because Lennon, McCartney 02:45
9 You Never Give Me Your Money Lennon, McCartney 04:02
10 Sun King Lennon, McCartney 02:26
11 Mean Mr. Mustard Lennon, McCartney 01:06
12 Polythene Pam Lennon, McCartney 01:12
13 She Came in Through the Bathroom Window Lennon, McCartney 01:57
14 Golden Slumbers Lennon, McCartney 01:31
15 Carry That Weight Lennon, McCartney 01:36
16 The End Lennon, McCartney 02:19
17 Her Majesty Lennon, McCartney 00:23
Name:
Anonymous2010-03-21 0:45
4 Oh! Darling Lennon, McCartney 03:26
5 Octopus's Garden Starkey, Starr 02:51
6 I Want You (She's So Heavy) Lennon, McCartney 07:47
7 Here Comes the Sun Harrison 03:05
8 Because Lennon, McCartney 02:45
9 You Never Give Me Your Money Lennon, McCartney 04:02
10 Sun King Lennon, McCartney 02:26
11 Mean Mr. Mustard Lennon, McCartney 01:06
12 Polythene Pam Lennon, McCartney 01:12
13 She Came in Through the Bathroom Window Lennon, McCartney 01:57
14 Golden Slumbers Lennon, McCartney 01:31
15 Carry That Weight Lennon, McCartney 01:36
16 The End Lennon, McCartney 02:19
17 Her Majesty Lennon, McCartney 00:23
Name:
Anonymous2010-03-21 0:47
With the Beatles
The Beatles
Artist
The Beatles
Album
With the Beatles
Rating
Release Date
Nov 22, 1963
Label
Capitol Records
Time
32:24
Type
Enhanced
Genre Styles
Pop/Rock
Contemporary Pop/ Rock
Merseybeat
British Invasion
Rock & Roll
AM Pop
Early Pop/Rock
Moods Themes
Lively
Gleeful
Exciting
Warm
Bright
Yearning
Energetic
Raucous
Fun
Bittersweet
Playful
Sweet
Rollicking
Rousing
Poignant
Witty
Cheerful
Acerbic
Exuberant
Earnest
Whimsical
Affection/ Fondness
Playful
Summertime
Spring
Hanging Out
Party Time
AMG Album ID
R 1503
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
With the Beatles is a sequel of the highest order — one that betters the original by developing its own tone and adding depth. While it may share several similarities with its predecessor — there is an equal ratio of covers-to-originals, a familiar blend of girl group, Motown, R&B, pop, and rock, and a show tune that interrupts the flow of the album — With the Beatles is a better record that not only rocks harder, it's considerably more sophisticated. They could deliver rock & roll straight ("I Wanna Be Your Man") or twist it around with a little Latin lilt ("Little Child," one of their most underrated early rockers); Lennon and McCartney wrote sweet ballads (the achingly gorgeous "All I've Got to Do") and sprightly pop/rockers ("All My Loving") with equal aplomb; and the propulsive rockers ("It Won't Be Long") were as richly melodic as slower songs ("Not a Second Time"). Even George Harrison's first recorded song, "Don't Bother Me," is a standout, with its wonderfully foreboding minor-key melody. Since the Beatles covered so much ground with their originals, their covers pale slightly in comparison, particularly since they rely on familiar hits (only "Devil in Her Heart" qualifies as a forgotten gem). But for every "Roll Over Beethoven," a surprisingly stiff reading of the Chuck Berry standard, there is a sublime moment, such as Lennon's soaring interpretation of "You Really Got a Hold on Me," and the group always turns in thoroughly enjoyable performances. Still, the heart of With the Beatles lies not in the covers, but the originals, where it was clear that, even at this early stage, the Beatles were rapidly maturing and changing, turning into expert craftsmen and musical innovators.
Tracks
Title
Composer
Time
1 It Won't Be Long Lennon, McCartney 2:13
2 All I've Got to Do Lennon, McCartney 2:02
3 All My Loving Lennon, McCartney 2:07
4 Don't Bother Me Harrison 2:28
5 Little Child Lennon, McCartney 1:46
6 Till There Was You Willson 2:13
7 Please Mister Postman Bateman, Dobbins, Garrett ... 2:34
Composed by: Bateman, Dobbins, Garrett, Gorman, Holland
8 Roll Over Beethoven Berry 2:45
9 Hold Me Tight Lennon, McCartney 2:31
10 You've Really Got a Hold on Me Robinson 3:01
11 I Wanna Be Your Man Lennon, McCartney 1:59
12 Devil in Her Heart Drapkin, Dropkin 2:26
13 Not a Second Time Lennon, McCartney 2:06
14 Money (That's What I Want) Bradford, Gordy 2:51
15 With the Beatles Mini-Documentary [Multimedia]
Name:
Anonymous2010-03-21 0:48
Release Date
Nov 22, 1963
Label
Capitol Records
Time
32:24
Type
Enhanced
Genre Styles
Pop/Rock
Contemporary Pop/ Rock
Merseybeat
British Invasion
Rock & Roll
AM Pop
Early Pop/Rock
Moods Themes
Lively
Gleeful
Exciting
Warm
Bright
Yearning
Energetic
Raucous
Fun
Bittersweet
Playful
Sweet
Rollicking
Rousing
Poignant
Witty
Cheerful
Acerbic
Exuberant
Earnest
Whimsical
Affection/ Fondness
Playful
Summertime
Spring
Hanging Out
Party Time
AMG Album ID
R 1503
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
With the Beatles is a sequel of the highest order — one that betters the original by developing its own tone and adding depth. While it may share several similarities with its predecessor — there is an equal ratio of covers-to-originals, a familiar blend of girl group, Motown, R&B, pop, and rock, and a show tune that interrupts the flow of the album — With the Beatles is a better record that not only rocks harder, it's considerably more sophisticated. They could deliver rock & roll straight ("I Wanna Be Your Man") or twist it around with a little Latin lilt ("Little Child," one of their most underrated early rockers); Lennon and McCartney wrote sweet ballads (the achingly gorgeous "All I've Got to Do") and sprightly pop/rockers ("All My Loving") with equal aplomb; and the propulsive rockers ("It Won't Be Long") were as richly melodic as slower songs ("Not a Second Time"). Even George Harrison's first recorded song, "Don't Bother Me," is a standout, with its wonderfully foreboding minor-key melody. Since the Beatles covered so much ground with their originals, their covers pale slightly in comparison, particularly since they rely on familiar hits (only "Devil in Her Heart" qualifies as a forgotten gem). But for every "Roll Over Beethoven," a surprisingly stiff reading of the Chuck Berry standard, there is a sublime moment, such as Lennon's soaring interpretation of "You Really Got a Hold on Me," and the group always turns in thoroughly enjoyable performances. Still, the heart of With the Beatles lies not in the covers, but the originals, where it was clear that, even at this early stage, the Beatles were rapidly maturing and changing, turning into expert craftsmen and musical innovators.
Tracks
Title
Composer
Time
1 It Won't Be Long Lennon, McCartney 2:13
2 All I've Got to Do Lennon, McCartney 2:02
3 All My Loving Lennon, McCartney 2:07
4 Don't Bother Me Harrison 2:28
5 Little Child Lennon, McCartney 1:46
6 Till There Was You Willson 2:13
7 Please Mister Postman Bateman, Dobbins, Garrett ... 2:34
Composed by: Bateman, Dobbins, Garrett, Gorman, Holland
8 Roll Over Beethoven Berry 2:45
9 Hold Me Tight Lennon, McCartney 2:31
10 You've Really Got a Hold on Me Robinson 3:01
11 I Wanna Be Your Man Lennon, McCartney 1:59
12 Devil in Her Heart Drapkin, Dropkin 2:26
13 Not a Second Time Lennon, McCartney 2:06
14 Money (That's What I Want) Bradford, Gordy 2:51
15 With the Beatles Mini-Documentary [Multimedia]
indicates Track Pick
indicates a click-through to a song review
Releases Other Editions
Year
Type
Label
Catalog #
1987 CD Capitol Records C2-46436
2006 LP Parlophone Records 1206
1987 CS Capitol Records C4J-46436
2007 CD Toshiba EMI 51112
2004 LP EMI Music Distribution TOJP60132
Edition
Stereo
Name:
Anonymous2010-03-21 0:49
32:24
Type
Enhanced
Genre Styles
Pop/Rock
Contemporary Pop/ Rock
Merseybeat
British Invasion
Rock & Roll
AM Pop
Early Pop/Rock
Moods Themes
Lively
Gleeful
Exciting
Warm
Bright
Yearning
Energetic
Raucous
Fun
Bittersweet
Playful
Sweet
Rollicking
Rousing
Poignant
Witty
Cheerful
Acerbic
Exuberant
Earnest
Whimsical
Affection/ Fondness
Playful
Summertime
Spring
Hanging Out
Party Time
AMG Album ID
R 1503
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
With the Beatles is a sequel of the highest order — one that betters the original by developing its own tone and adding depth. While it may share several similarities with its predecessor — there is an equal ratio of covers-to-originals, a familiar blend of girl group, Motown, R&B, pop, and rock, and a show tune that interrupts the flow of the album — With the Beatles is a better record that not only rocks harder, it's considerably more sophisticated. They could deliver rock & roll straight ("I Wanna Be Your Man") or twist it around with a little Latin lilt ("Little Child," one of their most underrated early rockers); Lennon and McCartney wrote sweet ballads (the achingly gorgeous "All I've Got to Do") and sprightly pop/rockers ("All My Loving") with equal aplomb; and the propulsive rockers ("It Won't Be Long") were as richly melodic as slower songs ("Not a Second Time"). Even George Harrison's first recorded song, "Don't Bother Me," is a standout, with its wonderfully foreboding minor-key melody. Since the Beatles covered so much ground with their originals, their covers pale slightly in comparison, particularly since they rely on familiar hits (only "Devil in Her Heart" qualifies as a forgotten gem). But for every "Roll Over Beethoven," a surprisingly stiff reading of the Chuck Berry standard, there is a sublime moment, such as Lennon's soaring interpretation of "You Really Got a Hold on Me," and the group always turns in thoroughly enjoyable performances. Still, the heart of With the Beatles lies not in the covers, but the originals, where it was clear that, even at this early stage, the Beatles were rapidly maturing and changing, turning into expert craftsmen and musical innovators.
Tracks
Title
Composer
Time
1 It Won't Be Long Lennon, McCartney 2:13
2 All I've Got to Do Lennon, McCartney 2:02
3 All My Loving Lennon, McCartney 2:07
4 Don't Bother Me Harrison 2:28
5 Little Child Lennon, McCartney 1:46
6 Till There Was You Willson 2:13
7 Please Mister Postman Bateman, Dobbins, Garrett ... 2:34
Composed by: Bateman, Dobbins, Garrett, Gorman, Holland
8 Roll Over Beethoven Berry 2:45
9 Hold Me Tight Lennon, McCartney 2:31
10 You've Really Got a Hold on Me Robinson 3:01
11 I Wanna Be Your Man Lennon, McCartney 1:59
12 Devil in Her Heart Drapkin, Dropkin 2:26
13 Not a Second Time Lennon, McCartney 2:06
14 Money (That's What I Want) Bradford, Gordy 2:51
15 With the Beatles Mini-Documentary [Multimedia]
Name:
Anonymous2010-03-21 0:50
Rock & Roll
AM Pop
Early Pop/Rock
Moods Themes
Lively
Gleeful
Exciting
Warm
Bright
Yearning
Energetic
Raucous
Fun
Bittersweet
Playful
Sweet
Rollicking
Rousing
Poignant
Witty
Cheerful
Acerbic
Exuberant
Earnest
Whimsical
Affection/ Fondness
Playful
Summertime
Spring
Hanging Out
Party Time
AMG Album ID
R 1503
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
With the Beatles is a sequel of the highest order — one that betters the original by developing its own tone and adding depth. While it may share several similarities with its predecessor — there is an equal ratio of covers-to-originals, a familiar blend of girl group, Motown, R&B, pop, and rock, and a show tune that interrupts the flow of the album — With the Beatles is a better record that not only rocks harder, it's considerably more sophisticated. They could deliver rock & roll straight ("I Wanna Be Your Man") or twist it around with a little Latin lilt ("Little Child," one of their most underrated early rockers); Lennon and McCartney wrote sweet ballads (the achingly gorgeous "All I've Got to Do") and sprightly pop/rockers ("All My Loving") with equal aplomb; and the propulsive rockers ("It Won't Be Long") were as richly melodic as slower songs ("Not a Second Time"). Even George Harrison's first recorded song, "Don't Bother Me," is a standout, with its wonderfully foreboding minor-key melody. Since the Beatles covered so much ground with their originals, their covers pale slightly in comparison, particularly since they rely on familiar hits (only "Devil in Her Heart" qualifies as a forgotten gem). But for every "Roll Over Beethoven," a surprisingly stiff reading of the Chuck Berry standard, there is a sublime moment, such as Lennon's soaring interpretation of "You Really Got a Hold on Me," and the group always turns in thoroughly enjoyable performances. Still, the heart of With the Beatles lies not in the covers, but the originals, where it was clear that, even at this early stage, the Beatles were rapidly maturing and changing, turning into expert craftsmen and musical innovators.
Tracks
Title
Composer
Time
1 It Won't Be Long Lennon, McCartney 2:13
2 All I've Got to Do Lennon, McCartney 2:02
3 All My Loving Lennon, McCartney 2:07
4 Don't Bother Me Harrison 2:28
5 Little Child Lennon, McCartney 1:46
6 Till There Was You Willson 2:13
7 Please Mister Postman Bateman, Dobbins, Garrett ... 2:34
Composed by: Bateman, Dobbins, Garrett, Gorman, Holland
8 Roll Over Beethoven Berry 2:45
9 Hold Me Tight Lennon, McCartney 2:31
10 You've Really Got a Hold on Me Robinson 3:01
11 I Wanna Be Your Man Lennon, McCartney 1:59
12 Devil in Her Heart Drapkin, Dropkin 2:26
13 Not a Second Time Lennon, McCartney 2:06
14 Money (That's What I Want) Bradford, Gordy 2:51
15 With the Beatles Mini-Documentary [Multimedia]
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Anonymous2010-03-21 0:51
Fun
Bittersweet
Playful
Sweet
Rollicking
Rousing
Poignant
Witty
Cheerful
Acerbic
Exuberant
Earnest
Whimsical
Affection/ Fondness
Playful
Summertime
Spring
Hanging Out
Party Time
AMG Album ID
R 1503
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
With the Beatles is a sequel of the highest order — one that betters the original by developing its own tone and adding depth. While it may share several similarities with its predecessor — there is an equal ratio of covers-to-originals, a familiar blend of girl group, Motown, R&B, pop, and rock, and a show tune that interrupts the flow of the album — With the Beatles is a better record that not only rocks harder, it's considerably more sophisticated. They could deliver rock & roll straight ("I Wanna Be Your Man") or twist it around with a little Latin lilt ("Little Child," one of their most underrated early rockers); Lennon and McCartney wrote sweet ballads (the achingly gorgeous "All I've Got to Do") and sprightly pop/rockers ("All My Loving") with equal aplomb; and the propulsive rockers ("It Won't Be Long") were as richly melodic as slower songs ("Not a Second Time"). Even George Harrison's first recorded song, "Don't Bother Me," is a standout, with its wonderfully foreboding minor-key melody. Since the Beatles covered so much ground with their originals, their covers pale slightly in comparison, particularly since they rely on familiar hits (only "Devil in Her Heart" qualifies as a forgotten gem). But for every "Roll Over Beethoven," a surprisingly stiff reading of the Chuck Berry standard, there is a sublime moment, such as Lennon's soaring interpretation of "You Really Got a Hold on Me," and the group always turns in thoroughly enjoyable performances. Still, the heart of With the Beatles lies not in the covers, but the originals, where it was clear that, even at this early stage, the Beatles were rapidly maturing and changing, turning into expert craftsmen and musical innovators.
Tracks
Title
Composer
Time
1 It Won't Be Long Lennon, McCartney 2:13
2 All I've Got to Do Lennon, McCartney 2:02
3 All My Loving Lennon, McCartney 2:07
4 Don't Bother Me Harrison 2:28
5 Little Child Lennon, McCartney 1:46
6 Till There Was You Willson 2:13
7 Please Mister Postman Bateman, Dobbins, Garrett ... 2:34
Composed by: Bateman, Dobbins, Garrett, Gorman, Holland
8 Roll Over Beethoven Berry 2:45
9 Hold Me Tight Lennon, McCartney 2:31
10 You've Really Got a Hold on Me Robinson 3:01
11 I Wanna Be Your Man Lennon, McCartney 1:59
12 Devil in Her Heart Drapkin, Dropkin 2:26
13 Not a Second Time Lennon, McCartney 2:06
14 Money (That's What I Want) Bradford, Gordy 2:51
15 With the Beatles Mini-Documentary [Multimedia]
Name:
Anonymous2010-03-21 0:53
Playful
Summertime
Spring
Hanging Out
Party Time
AMG Album ID
R 1503
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
With the Beatles is a sequel of the highest order — one that betters the original by developing its own tone and adding depth. While it may share several similarities with its predecessor — there is an equal ratio of covers-to-originals, a familiar blend of girl group, Motown, R&B, pop, and rock, and a show tune that interrupts the flow of the album — With the Beatles is a better record that not only rocks harder, it's considerably more sophisticated. They could deliver rock & roll straight ("I Wanna Be Your Man") or twist it around with a little Latin lilt ("Little Child," one of their most underrated early rockers); Lennon and McCartney wrote sweet ballads (the achingly gorgeous "All I've Got to Do") and sprightly pop/rockers ("All My Loving") with equal aplomb; and the propulsive rockers ("It Won't Be Long") were as richly melodic as slower songs ("Not a Second Time"). Even George Harrison's first recorded song, "Don't Bother Me," is a standout, with its wonderfully foreboding minor-key melody. Since the Beatles covered so much ground with their originals, their covers pale slightly in comparison, particularly since they rely on familiar hits (only "Devil in Her Heart" qualifies as a forgotten gem). But for every "Roll Over Beethoven," a surprisingly stiff reading of the Chuck Berry standard, there is a sublime moment, such as Lennon's soaring interpretation of "You Really Got a Hold on Me," and the group always turns in thoroughly enjoyable performances. Still, the heart of With the Beatles lies not in the covers, but the originals, where it was clear that, even at this early stage, the Beatles were rapidly maturing and changing, turning into expert craftsmen and musical innovators.
Tracks
Title
Composer
Time
1 It Won't Be Long Lennon, McCartney 2:13
2 All I've Got to Do Lennon, McCartney 2:02
3 All My Loving Lennon, McCartney 2:07
4 Don't Bother Me Harrison 2:28
5 Little Child Lennon, McCartney 1:46
6 Till There Was You Willson 2:13
7 Please Mister Postman Bateman, Dobbins, Garrett ... 2:34
Composed by: Bateman, Dobbins, Garrett, Gorman, Holland
8 Roll Over Beethoven Berry 2:45
9 Hold Me Tight Lennon, McCartney 2:31
10 You've Really Got a Hold on Me Robinson 3:01
11 I Wanna Be Your Man Lennon, McCartney 1:59
12 Devil in Her Heart Drapkin, Dropkin 2:26
13 Not a Second Time Lennon, McCartney 2:06
14 Money (That's What I Want) Bradford, Gordy 2:51
15 With the Beatles Mini-Documentary [Multimedia]
Name:
Anonymous2010-03-21 0:54
With the Beatles is a sequel of the highest order — one that betters the original by developing its own tone and adding depth. While it may share several similarities with its predecessor — there is an equal ratio of covers-to-originals, a familiar blend of girl group, Motown, R&B, pop, and rock, and a show tune that interrupts the flow of the album — With the Beatles is a better record that not only rocks harder, it's considerably more sophisticated. They could deliver rock & roll straight ("I Wanna Be Your Man") or twist it around with a little Latin lilt ("Little Child," one of their most underrated early rockers); Lennon and McCartney wrote sweet ballads (the achingly gorgeous "All I've Got to Do") and sprightly pop/rockers ("All My Loving") with equal aplomb; and the propulsive rockers ("It Won't Be Long") were as richly melodic as slower songs ("Not a Second Time"). Even George Harrison's first recorded song, "Don't Bother Me," is a standout, with its wonderfully foreboding minor-key melody. Since the Beatles covered so much ground with their originals, their covers pale slightly in comparison, particularly since they rely on familiar hits (only "Devil in Her Heart" qualifies as a forgotten gem). But for every "Roll Over Beethoven," a surprisingly stiff reading of the Chuck Berry standard, there is a sublime moment, such as Lennon's soaring interpretation of "You Really Got a Hold on Me," and the group always turns in thoroughly enjoyable performances. Still, the heart of With the Beatles lies not in the covers, but the originals, where it was clear that, even at this early stage, the Beatles were rapidly maturing and changing, turning into expert craftsmen and musical innovators.
Tracks
Title
Composer
Time
1 It Won't Be Long Lennon, McCartney 2:13
2 All I've Got to Do Lennon, McCartney 2:02
3 All My Loving Lennon, McCartney 2:07
4 Don't Bother Me Harrison 2:28
5 Little Child Lennon, McCartney 1:46
6 Till There Was You Willson 2:13
7 Please Mister Postman Bateman, Dobbins, Garrett ... 2:34
Composed by: Bateman, Dobbins, Garrett, Gorman, Holland
8 Roll Over Beethoven Berry 2:45
9 Hold Me Tight Lennon, McCartney 2:31
10 You've Really Got a Hold on Me Robinson 3:01
11 I Wanna Be Your Man Lennon, McCartney 1:59
12 Devil in Her Heart Drapkin, Dropkin 2:26
13 Not a Second Time Lennon, McCartney 2:06
14 Money (That's What I Want) Bradford, Gordy 2:51
15 With the Beatles Mini-Documentary [Multimedia]
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Anonymous2010-03-21 0:56
And The Beach Boys version of Rock and Roll Music is not rocking at all but The Beatles version is and John's great rock vocal is almost as great as his rocking vocal on Money and his incredible Twist and Shout rocking vocal which he sang with a bad sore throat from a bad cold!
Also, The Beatles not only wrote so many great timeless rock songs,but so many beautiful acoustic ballads,even as early as on their great early 1964 A Hard Day's Night album,John's beautiful If I Fell, I'll Be Back and Paul's beautiful And I Love Her and Things We Said Today.
Paul McCartney says in his authorized biography Many Years From Now, that 12 years after his beloved mother Mary who was a nurse and a midwife died when Paul was only 14 and his brother only 12 from breast cancer within a month of being diagnosed,he had a realistic vivid dream where he saw his mother alive again and she told him to just accept things as they are.
Some people including Paul himself say he subconciously wrote Yesterday 3 years before he wrote Let It Be also about his mother's death.Especialy when he sings the words,why she had to go I don't know she wouldn't say, and how he sings I said something wrong and he longs for yesterday when she was still living and all of his troubles seemed so far away,and he's not half the man he used to be, and wants to find a place to hide away,and how there is a shadow hanging over him and yesterday came suddenly. Like Let It Be it's a sad song especially for an extremely talented,great looking, very successful 22 year old rock artist to write.
He said when he woke up from this dream(where he saw his dead mother Mary )he thought how wonderful it was to see her again,and that's what he wrote the beautiful song Let It Be About,it's his dead mother Mary who comes to him in his times of trouble in his hours of darknes speaking words of wisdom Let Be.
John Lennon's beautiful song Julia on The Beatles great rock album,The White album is about his mother Julia who gave him away at 5 to be raised by her older sister,and just when John was getting close to her she was killed in a hit and run car accident by a drunk off duty cop while she crossed the street in front of the house John lived in,he was at her boyfriend's house waiting for her.
Also John Lennon wrote the lyrics to the great song A Day In The Life while he was reading the coroner's report in the news paper of Tara Brown's death who was a Guiness heir and a good friend of theirs(Paul met him first in a London club and he was closest to him,and he introcuded him to John,George, and Mick Jagger,Keith Richards and Brian Jones met him through them and became friends with him too) who was killed at the age of 21 in his sports car crash in December 1966,his girlfriend was in the car and had minor injuries.He would have inherited 1 million $ if he had lived to be 25.