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Posted: November 20 2007 at 21:09

Something

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

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Posted: November 20 2007 at 12:04

She Said She Said. Fantastic music, amazing lyrics, psychedelia!

I just found out that McCartney doesn't play on this song...

Edited by A B Negative - November 20 2007 at 12:07

"The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time."

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Posted: November 06 2007 at 04:10

In My Life - Deep, Deep song!

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Posted: November 06 2007 at 03:26

Oh! Darling
Let It Be
I Me Mine
Don't Let Me Down
Come Together
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Eleanor Rigby
Helter Skelter

-music is like pornography...

sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more...

-sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue...

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Posted: November 06 2007 at 02:47

Of course, there are also some songs I don't like. For example:
When I'm 64
A quite annoying pop-tune by McCartney. Without this song Sgt. Pepper would be perfect! Well, not quite...

When I'm 64 is a great 20's feeling tune about not being useless when we grow old from the perspective of a child. Great song!

With A Little Help From My Friends
Way too repetitive (!)

I do not see where it is too repetitive? Great Ringo tune!

Yellow Submarine

Happy happy, joy joy... What is this?? A song for CHILDREN?!

It would be great if we were all aloud to use our imaginations like children. Happy and carefree, brings right there!

>Octopus's Garden
Instead of describing this song with a million words, I'll point out that the song sucks by saying:
RINGO STARR

Instead of decribing this song with a million words, I'll point out why this song is awsome by saying:
RINGO STARR

Edited by reality - November 06 2007 at 02:56

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Posted: November 05 2007 at 18:46

Tomorrow Never Knows is one of most innovative songs I ever heard considering when it came out.

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Posted: November 05 2007 at 17:04

The whole of the Revolver album. I bought it for my daughter for her 4th birthday (along with Zep 4) and she has impeccable musical taste at 19.

My very favourite has to be "Tomorrow Never Knows". This song stands alone as the only bonafide psychedelic Beatles track. "Strawberry Fields", "Lucy in the Sky..", were trippy, but trippy pop songs. There may be an argument to be made that "I Am The Walrus" is the epitome of psychedelia, but to me it sounds more prog than anything, what with it's symphonic sting arrangement, time sig changes, and fast and slow movements.

"Tomorrow Never Knows" jumps on a trancy groove from the very start and rides it all the way to the end, Ringo managing to hold a shuffling rhythm that seems always to be trying to catch up with, or even, hold back the rest of the band. This is an illusion that is played to great effect, giving the rhythm a floating, dream-like quality. The lyrics are dark, dealing with the nature of consciousness and death, quoting from "The Tibetan Book of the Dead".

Ageless piece of trip fodder. Play this track at the end of some sweaty rave and see the delight in the eyes of tired young ravers. They may not know what it is, but they just know it's cool as f*ck.

Perception is truth, ergo opinion is fact.

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Posted: October 31 2007 at 22:29

Just to be contrarian, consider:

From Me To You

Please Please Me

etc.

It was this early stuff that rewrote all the rules.

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Posted: October 31 2007 at 14:03

Strawberry Fields Smile

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Posted: October 30 2007 at 22:43

I forgot Hey Bulldog and Taxman

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Posted: October 30 2007 at 22:38

Paperback Writer

Rain

And Your Bird Can Sing

Helter Skelter

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Posted: October 30 2007 at 22:19

The Word

I Want You (She's So Heavy)

Run For Your Life

With a Little Help From My Friends

Helter Skelter

who hiccuped endlessly trying to giggle but wound up with a sob

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Posted: October 30 2007 at 22:09

The only song from Beatles that makes me crazy

Eleanor Rigby

years ahead from its era...

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Posted: October 20 2007 at 17:01

jimmy_row wrote:

Moogtron III wrote:

jimmy_row wrote:

HERE COMES THE SUN

I can always count on George's tunes, but John and Paul just don't do it for me many times (obviously I'm in the minority). IMO their albums would've been much better if George was given at least equal space with John and Paul.

Too bad we will never know how the albums would have sounded if that would the case, eh?

I like the music of Lennon and McCartney a lot, but there are quite some brilliant Harrisongs in the late '60's / early '70's.

there sure were, his solo album "All Things Must Pass" is proof of his songwriting ability, he even carries the double LP length witout too many clunkers...IMO that album is the best solo material of any Beatle.

I even believe that many rock critics share that view, that All Things Must Pass is the best solo album ever made by an ex-Beatle.

I was even a bit of a Harrison fan when I was a small kid, asking my older brothers if they could buy the single What Is Life for me (I didn't have any pocket money yet

) . I also loved his song Bangla Desh. I still do by the way.

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Posted: October 20 2007 at 15:28

Moogtron III wrote:

jimmy_row wrote:

HERE COMES THE SUN

Too bad we will never know how the albums would have sounded if that would the case, eh?

I like the music of Lennon and McCartney a lot, but there are quite some brilliant Harrisongs in the late '60's / early '70's.

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Posted: October 20 2007 at 14:24

jimmy_row wrote:

HERE COMES THE SUN

Too bad we will never know how the albums would have sounded if that would the case, eh?

I like the music of Lennon and McCartney a lot, but there are quite some brilliant Harrisongs in the late '60's / early '70's.

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Posted: October 20 2007 at 11:23

Mission Impossible!!!
I'll try anyway:
Julia
Blackbird
She's Leaving Home
Eleanor Rigby
Happiness Is A Warm Gun (for it p***es off the NRA)
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
Helter Skelter
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
and so many more!

"We've got to get in to get out"

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Posted: October 20 2007 at 01:16

HERE COMES THE SUN

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