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Post by webm@ster on Jul 22, 2013 10:58:14 GMT -5
Picking even 50 tracks to ponder and revisit out of a body work as complete as The Beatles amassed during their unrivaled career is no straightforward task. Like a kid in a sweet-shop trying to decide which sugary delights their hard-earned pocket money should go on, they all seem as tantalizing and attention grabbing as each other. Countless worthy options are finally left behind for those that, at least this time, have made the final cut. www.live4ever.uk.com/2013/07/live4evers-essential-listening-the-50-beatles-tracks/ |
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Post by Bruno on Jul 22, 2013 11:22:08 GMT -5
Good list, nice one putting the Abbey Road medley at #1. I've also always thought that the lines 'And in the end, the love you take, is equal to love the you make' should've been the last words by the Beatles. Anyway in Noel's own words, true perfection has to be imperfect.  |
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Post by jordan71421 on Jul 22, 2013 11:29:57 GMT -5
Good list, nice one putting the Abbey Road medley at #1. I've also always thought that the lines 'And in the end, the love you take, is equal to love the you make' should've been the last words by the Beatles. Anyway in Noel's own words, true perfection has to be imperfect. It's always a toss up for me what I think is the best Beatles song, A Day In the Life or the Abbey Road Medley. Both are so amazing  |
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Post by Bruno on Jul 22, 2013 11:38:15 GMT -5
Good list, nice one putting the Abbey Road medley at #1. I've also always thought that the lines 'And in the end, the love you take, is equal to love the you make' should've been the last words by the Beatles. Anyway in Noel's own words, true perfection has to be imperfect. It's always a toss up for me what I think is the best Beatles song, A Day In the Life or the Abbey Road Medley. Both are so amazing I heard someone once say that the best Beatles song is the last one you've heard. They're all such quality tunes, it's really hard to pick just one.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2013 11:52:04 GMT -5
The Abbey Road medley blows my mind every time. Great list Webby! |
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Post by webm@ster on Jul 22, 2013 14:14:35 GMT -5
The Abbey Road medley blows my mind every time. Great list Webby! it's our editor Dave ( member: Elias )who took the time to put it together, cheers |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2013 14:23:25 GMT -5
The Abbey Road medley blows my mind every time. Great list Webby! it's our editor Dave ( member: Elias )who took the time to put it together, cheers Right, well thanks to Dave then, I certainly wouldn't like to have to try and pick only 50 Beatles tunes to go into a best-of list... Spoiled for choice as you said originally... |
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Post by marqueemoon on Jul 22, 2013 14:51:11 GMT -5
Lovely list, good to see some underrated tunes (at least by critics) like Penny Lane and Hello Goodbye high up the list! my top three would probably be the same, maybe switching Penny Lane with Strawberry Fields Forever!
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Post by Sternumman on Jul 22, 2013 20:55:26 GMT -5
The Abbey Road medley blows my mind every time. Great list Webby! If its one song thats my favorite if not Id go with Norwegian Wood. |
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Post by Gergely on Jul 23, 2013 11:42:19 GMT -5
Great job, nice to see She Said, She Said up in the top 10 - one of my personal favourites. I can't stop wondering how deep the back catalogue is - I'm regularly listening to The Beatles since I was 13 or so, and still find songs I can fall in love with.
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Post by yeayeayeah on Jul 24, 2013 0:00:45 GMT -5
good list, 50 songs is too small for a band like the beatles. Songs that sping to my mind that I would include are, Ive Just Seen a Face, Hey Bulldog, Ill be BAck and Girl. Theres actually only a few beatles songs I dont like so its a bit hard for me. I wouldnt have included Eight Days a Week or Tell Me What You See, both are rather dull.
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Post by webm@ster on Jul 24, 2013 9:47:22 GMT -5
thanks for all your input guys!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2013 11:04:46 GMT -5
I am always amazed by how music fans revel in the ridiculousness of the past and pass it off as masterpiece work. 'Tomorrow Never Knows', 'Norwegian Wood', and 'I Am The Walrus' would all be berated if released by an artist today, even Oasis.
I love the Beatles, and this list is a great representation of their great, great catalogue..... but I think The Beatles get the 'rose colored glasses' point of view far to often. That said....
can't argue the Abbey Road Medley at all.
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Post by Bruno on Jul 24, 2013 11:33:21 GMT -5
I am always amazed by how music fans revel in the ridiculousness of the past and pass it off as masterpiece work. 'Tomorrow Never Knows', 'Norwegian Wood', and 'I Am The Walrus' would all be berated if released by an artist today, even Oasis. That was a different age, people hadn't heard anything like it before that's why it was such a big thing. People are way too uptight nowadays, that's why such music wouldn't go down well today. Bring back the hippies! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2013 11:35:50 GMT -5
I am always amazed by how music fans revel in the ridiculousness of the past and pass it off as masterpiece work. 'Tomorrow Never Knows', 'Norwegian Wood', and 'I Am The Walrus' would all be berated if released by an artist today, even Oasis. I love the Beatles, and this list is a great representation of their great, great catalogue..... but I think The Beatles get the 'rose colored glasses' point of view far to often. That said.... can't argue the Abbey Road Medley at all. I'm possibly wrong but wasn't Norwegian Wood the first time a sitar had been used on a western pop song? Tomorrow Never Knows was a pioneering experiment in building layers of tape loops, and the engineers also innovated by running the vocal through a Leslie speaker cabinet. I'm not calling either songs masterpieces, but they were inventive at the time. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2013 11:39:56 GMT -5
I am always amazed by how music fans revel in the ridiculousness of the past and pass it off as masterpiece work. 'Tomorrow Never Knows', 'Norwegian Wood', and 'I Am The Walrus' would all be berated if released by an artist today, even Oasis. I love the Beatles, and this list is a great representation of their great, great catalogue..... but I think The Beatles get the 'rose colored glasses' point of view far to often. That said.... can't argue the Abbey Road Medley at all. Yeh, I kind of agree. I'd have been quite disappointed if Noel had written a song like Norwegian Wood or something like Hello Goodbye which is so poor it's astonishing that it ever got on the Blue Album. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2013 12:00:20 GMT -5
I am always amazed by how music fans revel in the ridiculousness of the past and pass it off as masterpiece work. 'Tomorrow Never Knows', 'Norwegian Wood', and 'I Am The Walrus' would all be berated if released by an artist today, even Oasis. I love the Beatles, and this list is a great representation of their great, great catalogue..... but I think The Beatles get the 'rose colored glasses' point of view far to often. That said.... can't argue the Abbey Road Medley at all. I'm possibly wrong but wasn't Norwegian Wood the first time a sitar had been used on a western pop song? Tomorrow Never Knows was a pioneering experiment in building layers of tape loops, and the engineers also innovated by running the vocal through a Leslie speaker cabinet. I'm not calling either songs masterpieces, but they were inventive at the time. I'm all for innovation, but that doesn't make the song a great song, does it? The songs in question I don't think we're made any better by their innovation. I equate these similar to To Be Where There's Life.... I get the sentiment of no guitars on the record, but the live version are MILES better than the album cut. Innovation doesn't always mean better. |
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Post by Teotihuacan on Jul 24, 2013 13:00:49 GMT -5
Really, there are people who seriously don't rate Tomorrow Never Knows? It still sounds unhinged 40 years later like a madman has been set loose at the studio controls and set the dials to channel space rock from Mars or something, it must have been absolutely mindblowing in '66, especially to the teenybopper fans of She Loves You.
Reason #276 why The Beatles were so great, they could do both mainstream pop and 12 bar rock and roll and were able to meld it with the avant garde scene to make Strawberry Fields & I am the walrus which sound like nothing that had come before and were massively influential, not least on Oasis since they performed the latter as their final tune for a good 3-4 years of their touring career.
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Post by marqueemoon on Jul 24, 2013 13:30:30 GMT -5
I am always amazed by how music fans revel in the ridiculousness of the past and pass it off as masterpiece work. 'Tomorrow Never Knows', 'Norwegian Wood', and 'I Am The Walrus' would all be berated if released by an artist today, even Oasis. I love the Beatles, and this list is a great representation of their great, great catalogue..... but I think The Beatles get the 'rose colored glasses' point of view far to often. That said.... can't argue the Abbey Road Medley at all. That's quite ironic considering Noel scored TWO hits with second rate rip-offs of Tomorrow Never Knows. The Chemical Brothers built their entire sound around that one tune, it was absolutely way ahead of its time. |
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