For the first time on a Beatles record, every song seemed connected in some way, however small. It didn't feel right to listen to just one song at a time; it felt right to listen to the whole album , front to back, every song. Part 1: Prelude to Pepper The most popular group in the history of popular music made many masterpieces. George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr created...
And, in the end... With the release of Abbey Road , the Beatles ceased to be a band. They became, forever more, an idea: the go-to example, the archetype, of the rock'n'roll group. How do we remember the Beatles? How do we pay tribute? Abbey Road (1969) In the United States, Abbey Road has sold more copies than any of the Beatles' studio albums. Worldwide, only Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band...
The psychedelic trilogy -- Revolver , Sgt. Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour -- stands as the artistic peak of a band that had retreated into the studio and found untold riches there. Revolver (1966) When they released their seventh album in August of 1966, the Beatles were distinctly restless. The rosy patina of Beatlemania was dulled, but its attendant expectations still weighed them down. Though their...
In 20 years, we've seen Revolver replace Sgt. Peppers as The Beatles' greatest statement. How long before it gets replaced? If you grew up in the '80s, you were told Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band was the Beatles' best album. One reason for this was the "It Was 20 Years Ago Today" nostalgia factor when the album celebrated its 20th anniversary in 1987. But other more intangible factors...
This battered item is my copy of the V&A guide to the landmark Aubrey Beardsley exhibition held at the museum from May to September 1966. That exhibition introduced Beardsley to a new public and made his work very trendy for a while, helped by the Beardsley-styled sleeve of the Beatles’ Revolver album which was released [...]
TrackLists : 1. Please Please Me 2. With The Beatles 3. A Hard Day’s Night 4. Beatles For Sale 5. Help! 6. Rubber Soul 7. Revolver 8. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 9. The Beatles (The White Album) – 2 CD 10. Yellow Submarine 11. Abbey Road 12. Let It Be 13. Magical Mystery Tour 14. Past Masters – 2 CD Download : Rapidshare: http://rapidshare.com/files/284718208/Beatles2009.part1.rar...
For the soundtrack to an ebullient, modishly Technicolor pop musical, Help! opens with a sequence of songs that are remarkably ambivalent, if not downright moody. The title song is famous for the way it juxtaposes its bright guitars and Wall of Sound harmonies with John Lennon's autobiographical, claustrophobic lyrics: "When I was younger, so much younger than today...." But really, the whole...
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The Record Guys : The story goes like this. After shifts at the plant here in Canada, this employee would amuse himself by creating totally unique coloured Vinyl Lps. Using Original plates, he would add the coloured dye to the bin and create all sorts of appealing looking records. Thankfully for us all, he had access to the catalogue for THE BEATLES and wanted to do something special with them. Now,...
punctilious \puhnk-TIL-ee-uhs\ , adjective: Strictly attentive to the details of form in action or conduct; precise; exact in the smallest particulars.. Origin: Punctilious derives from Late Latin punctillum, "a little point," from Latin punctum, "a point," from pungere, "to prick." cocktail weenie A person obsessed with the minutiae of bartending practices and traditions,...
Like many, I've been getting back into The Beatles in a big way since the release of their remastered catalog last month. I've been picking up their masterpieces one at a time and the first one I got, REVOLVER , did not disappoint. With an absoultely mind-boggling range of genius songs including "Taxman," "Eleanor Rigby," "Yellow Submarine," "Got to Get You Into My...
October 18, 2009. Things couldn't have been more perfectly designed...seeing one of the legendary (and a favorite) post punk bands performing in Allston, MA at a tiny venue called Great Scott. Echo And The Bunnymen, in an extremely rare, intimate one-off return to playing a small room, not unlike their earliest days of performing in the clubs of Liverpool. Little did I know that a freakish snow storm...
Another Sunday Stealing . 1. Is there anybody you just wish would fall off the planet? Right now it's Glenn Beck. Somehow more irritating to me even than Rush Limbaugh. 2. How do you flush the toilet in public? Very well, thank you. Well, some of them flush automatically, others with a handle which I push with my hand. What, am I supposed to use, my feet? 3. Do you wear your seatbelt in the car? Yes,...
No, not a 'modern life is rubbish' rant, but I was wondering if there are any albums everyone agrees are great. Given that music is so personal, there'll always be someone who doesn't like, for instance, Revolver, or Hunky Dory, or Dark Side Of The Moon, or Thriller, or Nevermind. If it just comes down to taste, then you can't argue the true merits of anything, because someone can simply say: 'Well,...
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Yellow Submarine - The Beatles (Apple 1969, George Martin) Yellow Submarine is hardly a review you get excited by, it's without doubt the least revered and most certainly the least loved Beatles album, and quite frankly for good reason. It's a throwaway album, a soundtrack comprising two recycled singles, and seven instrumental tracks from the Yellow Submarine motion picture. Therefore we can be rather...
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