The Beatles appreciation thread

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?

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.

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. 

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.


Paulo


Edited by pmendes - September 16 2009 at 06:40

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.

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.

-Jeff