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jimidom 
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 Posted: October 09 2008 at 11:02 |
 febus wrote:
What's wrong with an album featuring three #1 MacCartney songs, a great Lennon Across The Universe, some nice rockers like One after 909 and an extraordinary MCCartney vocal performance on I've got a Feeling, a great duo with Lennon.???  |
The answer is absolutely nothing. Let It Be is an excellent album, although it did suffer a little bit when Phil Spector got a hold of it. The "Naked" version is great as well, but I still prefer the original.
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"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - HST
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febus
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Posted: October 08 2008 at 23:17 |
....And i think this album appreciation has also suffered because it was released just at the time of their break-up and a lot of people felt ''betrayed' and were disappointed' by that as the Fab four were part of their daily lives, so a certain resentment against the Beatles at the time has to be taken in consideration and LET IT BE paid the price and still is. ( was considered as a rushed album even if it was recorded BEFORE Abbey road!)
What's wrong with an album featuring three #1 MacCartney songs, a great Lennon Across The Universe, some nice rockers like One after 909 and an extraordinary MCCartney vocal performance on I've got a Feeling, a great duo with Lennon.???
Edited by febus - October 08 2008 at 23:19
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Posted: October 08 2008 at 23:03 |
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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!
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...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell"
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febus
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Posted: October 08 2008 at 22:52 |
Finnforest wrote:
"Let it Be" is criminally underrated, containing some of their best material. Especially the new version that drops the strings. I'll grab that disc every time over Abbey Road.
And I LOVE that rooftop concert!
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Completely agree  .....great songs on it....just happen to be released after the icon Abbey Road, so that was a hard act to follow, but taken on its own merits, i don't see anything bad on LET IT BE!
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Finnforest
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Posted: October 08 2008 at 22:40 |
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"Let it Be" is criminally underrated, containing some of their best material. Especially the new version that drops the strings. I'll grab that disc every time over Abbey Road.
And I LOVE that rooftop concert!
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...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell"
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Posted: October 08 2008 at 19:06 |
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they knew how to crystallize a song down its most relevant parts and leave out the extra fat, making music that seemed to arrive preordained ..funny cause their early days were closer to punk rock shows than the master songsmiths we see later
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Posted: October 08 2008 at 17:20 |
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Every album has at least 2 or 3 famous songs? A bit more than that, I would say.
I would also say that "Revolver" was more prog than Sgt Pepper. Apart from being a year earlier, it has "Tomorrow Never Knows".
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Hawkwise
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Posted: October 08 2008 at 14:49 |
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Yep Love the Beatles but never Really liked Sgt. Pepper very Much
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febus
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Posted: October 08 2008 at 13:56 |
Love them to death.  .....because of them we have the chance to be on PA now!
I Like their beginnings, love everything starting with Rubber Soul/Revolver!
and to have the 2 best ever songwriters in the same band was a godsend! I don't know of any other Lennon/McCartney combo working that well!! |
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Posted: October 08 2008 at 13:54 |
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Never a fan.
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Posted: October 08 2008 at 13:48 |
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Love 'em, even a lot of the early stuff. Abbey Road is my favorite as well.
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alanerc
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Posted: October 08 2008 at 13:45 |
So, I've read and heard that Sgt. Pepper's is 'the first' prog rock album. Whatever, I'm making this thread to talk about the Betales, what you like, dislike, their aportations to music, etc. I see their albums as a compilation of great pieces, every album has at least 2 o 3 very famous songs everywhere, they were pioneers of rock music... well, I can't express my love for them, I'll only say that 'Abbey Road' is, to date, y favorite Beatles album  So, what about you?
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