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    Posted: October 03 2009 at 14:02
Originally posted by Rank1 Rank1 wrote:

 The Beatles were great songwriters but when they added experimental things like avant tape techniques, odd meters, Indian Instruments, feedback, and backward music to their songwriting is when they pushed the limits of pop music and changed how rock musicians thought of songwriting. Not only that they did more in eight years than most bands did in 30 to 40 years.


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I absolutely love The Beatles! They have some of the best vocal melodies I've ever heard, and we all owe a lot of debt to them. They are actually one of my favorite bands ever! Abbey Road has got to be my favorite of theirs, but everything from Rubber Soul onward is excellent.Clap

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HugConsider the Beatles thoroughly appreciated Clap
 
Right now I'm going through a huge Beatles revival (just like the rest of the western world after the release of Beatles RockBand Disapprove). They've been getting more plays from me lately, as I had somewhat abandoned them a number of years ago.
 
The Beatles, who I consider the greatest band of all time, were probably the first band I was really into, at the age of 6 or 7. Actually, the first albums I ever bought were a Beatles album and Ozzy's Diary of a Madman (the combination of the two is probably responsible for all my musical tastes afterward).
 
Abbey Road arguably my favorite album of all time, and Sgt. Pepper and the White Album aren't far behind. I love The Beatles.
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Points: 3126 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2009 at 10:38
Another tale from Toddler. When I was a kid my neighbour called me over and said: You have got to hear the new Beatles single! It was just released ....Paperback Writer/Rain. He played the 45 on a 3 channel stereo. It was Paperback Writer. He focused my attention on the bass guitar. He asked me: What exactly is different on this record about Paul's bass? Then he played Rain and asked me again if I could hear a difference in the bass compared to Beatles material that had been released before? What I heard was a driving and daring sound in that bass which was aggressive and mystifying to me. How did he come up with that sound? As a kid I was impressed and couldn't think of any bass player that sounded like that. It was groundbreaking for the times we were living in.
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Great fan also.
 
My first proper rock band to hear about... i was 8-9 years old.




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I am a great fan, I just got their 2009 remixes stereo box. From this box I have already listened to Abbey Road, Magical Mistery Tour (such melodies, one of my favorites) and Let it Be, and I love all these albums, just hard to pick one. Going through this rediscovering  journey I would say Abbey Road is probably the best ot those 3, a more experimental,diverse and deeper album. There is just «Something in the way she moves»


I also used to love the White Album.
The magical mistery tour will go on and I'll be back on this thread as I relive their magic...It won't be, for sure, a long and winding road or a hard days night, if it takes very long I'll just have to let it be and be patient before I get back to penny lane and strawberry fields. I am sure bungallow bill will give me some help and that when I say hello you won't say goodbye and we'll all come together even if we don't make a revolution.


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 The Beatles were great songwriters but when they added experimental things like avant tape techniques, odd meters, Indian Instruments, feedback, and backward music to their songwriting is when they pushed the limits of pop music and changed how rock musicians thought of songwriting. Not only that they did more in eight years than most bands did in 30 to 40 years.
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I am warming more and more to The Beatles. I will probably be a fan when I am getting old if the thaw continues at this rate. The remasters (relasesed 9. September) are supposed to be great and I may grab some of those albums. I am actually listening to For Sale (not the remaster, I have to add) now and that album is not bad at all. Very charming, in fact.  

Yes, The Beatles is a superb band. I really appreciate them. Their best song ? Something....... and that is not even written by Lennon/McCartney. 
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The first band I liked as a band, not just songs here and there.

I was probably 11 or 12. Still favourites and immensely important to me Approve
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I grew up hearing them on the radio and one of the first songs that I can remember as a child is I Want to Hold Your Hand. The first LP record I ever bought was Help and I still suffer from Beatlemania.HeartHug
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I loved everything, however my favorite period was when the Beatles first started hanging about with Bob Dylan. The particular style that I am making reference to began on BEATLES FOR SALE. Then continued on HELP.....progressed further on RUBBER SOUL.......and then started to fade slightly on REVOLVER.
The usage of acoustic guitar became less on REVOLVER. The folk style that I am making reference to turned up again on THE WHITE ALBUM. But only selective tracks.
They certainly didn't approach writing this way on SP or Magical Mystery Tour. So this was a magical but short lived period for the Beatles.
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I found that The Beatles had an appeal,for everyone, on mostly all their post Rubber Soul LP,s McCartney and his showtunes like "When I'm 64" or "Honey Pie" Harrison and his mystic Psych genre and Lennon w/ hard rock. And Ringo?
  If they would have just all came to the conclusion Let's stop bickering and just make music and money it would have been better?
 But they changed music in general not just rock, and today even though people won't admit it they are influenced heavily by them, but that is my opinion.
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I've got all their latter stuff, but when you get earlier than Rubber Soul, I lose interest.  Still good music, though.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Hum they're... Amazing. My favourite albums are Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's. Revolver, yeah Smile
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I love them, they're my favourite band ever.

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The Beatles were the reason I started getting into prog in the '70's.  They were and still are my "favorite" band.  I was raised in a musical family (classical music and jazz and, later, rock and folk were heard in our house all the time).  In fact, it was my bebop jazz-trumpeter dad who introduced the Beatles to all of us, in 1969.  The experience of hearing each one of their albums was an adventure for me.  You never knew what style you would hear, what guitar or keyboard sound, what sound effects, what harmonies.  Their eclectic approach to rock perfectly suited my eclectic musical upbringing.  For some of the same reasons I liked the Beatles, I also took to progressive rock.

Once in a while I'll look at a YouTube video of the Beatles and other bands, and I always read the comments.  What surprises me (and yet doesn't surprise me) is how many twenty-year-olds and teenagers leave comments, saying things like "I can't believe this was recorded forty years ago," or "'I Am the Walrus' is pretty bizarre.  It's still ahead of its time."  Tomorrow Never Knows is repeatedly referred to as the first electronica/acid house or trance song.  I think that's quite an accomplishment for a band who, three years earlier, produced "Love Me Do" (which I also like, lol).


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The Beatles were so HUGE and so significant that they've almost taken on a mythical quality but when you put on an album like Revolver or Rubber Soul and just let it drift into your subconscious you suddenly realize what immense talent they had and what extraordinary rebels they were.  They changed everything.  And bear in mind that they did most of their very best work on 4-track recording machines.  4 tracks!
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Originally posted by NaturalScience NaturalScience wrote:

Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Thanks Febus, I think you're the first LIB fan I've met!!  It's the boys at their simplest, song-based best.  No frills, just classic, Across the Univ, title track, LaWR, Two of Us, all of it!


Count another fan here, absolutely love that album.
 
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Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Thanks Febus, I think you're the first LIB fan I've met!!  It's the boys at their simplest, song-based best.  No frills, just classic, Across the Univ, title track, LaWR, Two of Us, all of it!


Count another fan here, absolutely love that album.
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