Official **The Beatles** Thread

[Piffstopher Walken]

No Argument, the greatest group of all time


Drop your top ten beatles songs here

1)Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
2)With a Little Help From My Friends
3)Here Comes the Sun
4)Happiness is a warm gun
5)Lucy In The Sky with Diamonds
6)I Am The Walrus
7)I'm Only Sleeping
8)Eleanor Rigby
9)Tomorrow Never Knows
10)Hello, Goodbye


I know some of them are more of the popular ones, but I didn't ask for strictly the obscure ones, and I like the poppy ones :king:

[Zayus]

No particular order

If I Needed Someone
Julia
Cry Baby Cry
She's Leaving Home
Tomorrow Never Knows
Two of Us
Something
She Said She Said
And Your Bird Can Sing
Lovely Rita

[Copper Scroll]

Eleanor Rigby
Julia
Girl
Dear Prudence
Michelle
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Come Together
The Long And Winding Road
Because/You Never Give Me Your Money/Sun King/Mean Mr. Mustard/Polythene Pam/She Came In Through The Bathroom Window

...and my favorite...

A Day In The Life

[Piffstopher Walken]

I'm gonna start posting video's in here too, just for the hell of it, I been watching a couple recently

I Am The Walrus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqOKvonLrH8

Hey Jude (lol check out at like 1:58 between paul and john)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXG83p2nkHw


Let it Be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oZYqAeIdYk

[Piffstopher Walken]

Super Collabo

A Little Help From My Friends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2ytL-GlzMA

they start going nuts at the end

Think they just rename it
"I get high with a little help from my friends"

[Tetris v2.0]

Can someone up a clear version of Across The Universe? I know there was a good version on one of their remastered compilations but its impossible to find a decent link on p2p

[Piffstopher Walken]

i'll find it at work tomorrow or rip it off one of my mom's cd's lol

[gussto b]

Fixing A Hole
Helter Skeltor
And Your Bird Can Sing
She's Leaving Home
Sexy Sadie
The Ballad Of John & Yoko
Glass Onion
I AM The Walrus
Norwegian Wood
Yer Blues
Hey Jude
Something

2 many fav beatles songs to name. Love Carry That Weight.

[THE 101]

Blackbird
A Day In The Life
I'm Only Sleeping
Tomorrow Never Knows
Dear Prudence
Come Together
Glass Onion
Within You, Without You
Shes So Heavy
Nowhere Man

[gussto b]

Some other favs

Lady Madonna
Ticket To Ride
Penny Lane
Day Tripper
We Can Work It Out
The Fool On The Hill
Don't Let Me Down

[infamous003]

Blackbird
Norwegian Wood
Rocky Raccoon

[eckohed]

Let It Be
A Day in the Life
Eleanor Rigby
I'm Only Sleeping
Lovely Rite
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Don't Let Me Down
Something
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Twist n Shout

tryin to sum up the Beatles in ten songs is fucckin impossible. Those are some of my favorites

[AskariSTL//So]

Overrated

[pl2584]

Let it Be :smoker:

[eckohed]

Overrated
stupid

[Bruce Tea]

Could never REALLY get into the beatles. . . . . couple of tracks I like, but over all never really felt much of their music.

This was made worse by the over hyping and over playing of many tracks.

[AskariSTL//So]

stupid
White people never seem to understand challenges to this notion, its like talking to Christians or other religious folk, they just get this dull sheen over their eyes and snort indignantly like angry goats. Listen to something DECENT like Bo Diddley or the Allman Brothers to help bring your blood sugar level down egghead. I dont want you injuring yourself thinking about how *deep* it is the Beatles co-opted so many different peoples sounds and marketed them succesfully to the mainstream public.

[eckohed]

White people never seem to understand challenges to this notion, its like talking to Christians or other religious folk, they just get this dull sheen over their eyes and snort indignantly like angry goats. Listen to something DECENT like Bo Diddley or the Allman Brothers to help bring your blood sugar level down egghead. I dont want you injuring yourself thinking about how *deep* it is the Beatles co-opted so many different peoples sounds and marketed them succesfully to the mainstream public.
I understand the Beatles were derivative of a lot of artists, I never said anything about that. We all know about their covers of the Isleys and Chuck Berry etc and their inspiration for Sgt Peppers comin from Frank Zappa and blah blah blah.

I also listen to pretty much everything I can get my hands on, including Bo Diddly and Allman Bros. both of which I have a lot of respect for.

All I'm saying is it's virtually impossible to overrated a band that amasses so much quality material in a decade. The work they did was groundbreaking on basically every level, and influenced a ton of artists in every genre. From my perspective I don't know of any band with that volume of quality material or of any band I enjoy listening to more. Feel me?

[heavy_mental]

i have 2 of their albums sgt peppers n abbey road

wts the best next 2 was thinking of getting rubber soul n revolver

[oyoyoy]

White people never seem to understand challenges to this notion, its like talking to Christians or other religious folk, they just get this dull sheen over their eyes and snort indignantly like angry goats. Listen to something DECENT like Bo Diddley or the Allman Brothers to help bring your blood sugar level down egghead. I dont want you injuring yourself thinking about how *deep* it is the Beatles co-opted so many different peoples sounds and marketed them succesfully to the mainstream public.

Derivative? Are you kidding me?

Every single 60s band started as a derivative of 50's rock and roll and the Beatles were no different. What set them apart was 1965+ where they started making more than pop songs. And mind you, those pop songs were still good!

1. Bo Diddley (born December 30, 1928) aka "The Originator", is an influential American rock and roll singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is often cited as a key figure in the transition of blues into rock and roll, by introducing more insistent, driving rhythms and a hard edged guitar sound. He is also remembered for his characteristic rectangular-shaped guitar.

OF COURSE HE'S DIFFERENT, HE STARTED THE WHOLE THING!

2. The Allman Brothers Band is a band from Macon, Georgia, labeled by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as "the principal architects of Southern rock."
Principal architects of Southern rock.

Do you get what I'm trying to say here? Those examples you used were completely irrelevant.
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If there's anything I hate most it's people who think they know all but in reality know nothing.

[AskariSTL//So]

Derivative? Are you kidding me?

Every single 60s band started as a derivative of 50's rock and roll and the Beatles were no different. What set them apart was 1965+ where they started making more than pop songs. And mind you, those pop songs were still good!

1. Bo Diddley (born December 30, 1928) aka "The Originator", is an influential American rock and roll singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is often cited as a key figure in the transition of blues into rock and roll, by introducing more insistent, driving rhythms and a hard edged guitar sound. He is also remembered for his characteristic rectangular-shaped guitar.

OF COURSE HE'S DIFFERENT, HE STARTED THE WHOLE THING!

2. The Allman Brothers Band is a band from Macon, Georgia, labeled by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as "the principal architects of Southern rock."
Principal architects of Southern rock.

Do you get what I'm trying to say here? Those examples you used were completely irrelevant.
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If there's anything I hate most it's people who think they know all but in reality know nothing.
You missed what I was really saying altogether. Those werent examples to prove a point at all, I was being ignorant. Stop taking yourself so ****ing seriously its sick

[AskariSTL//So]

I understand the Beatles were derivative of a lot of artists, I never said anything about that. We all know about their covers of the Isleys and Chuck Berry etc and their inspiration for Sgt Peppers comin from Frank Zappa and blah blah blah.
I also listen to pretty much everything I can get my hands on, including Bo Diddly and Allman Bros. both of which I have a lot of respect for.
All I'm saying is it's virtually impossible to overrated a band that amasses so much quality material in a decade. The work they did was groundbreaking on basically every level, and influenced a ton of artists in every genre. From my perspective I don't know of any band with that volume of quality material or of any band I enjoy listening to more. Feel me?
I do feel you, Im just ****ing with you partly. I feel like the Beatles were one of the ultimate pop rock bands, but beyond that I never saw fit to over recognize them. I feel much the same about Hendrix and others who accomplishments stand alone without the need to be granted the weird cult-like unchallengability that white Americans give certain artists, for reasons beyond their actually musical talents and achievments. The Beatles just have a very large following of fans who just love them irrationally, and thats great but it gets on my damned nerves to hear people make serious postulations that they are the best that American rock music has to offer. The volume of their good music is very big I agree, but again its like difference between like Rakim and 2pac. 2pac made alot of good songs, he was a well rounded artist without particularly excelling in any one field. But on the level of being an MC, 2pac could never touch Ra. So the Beatles made a string of consistently impressive releases, but to me there is something missing when compared to some of the musicans people talk about less often.

[eckohed]

i have 2 of their albums sgt peppers n abbey road
wts the best next 2 was thinking of getting rubber soul n revolver
Get em both, those are my favorite 4...to me it goes Sgt. Pepper > Revolver > Rubber Soul > Abbey Rd

[Clem]

Don't really care for 'em at all. Though I really like, um, Strawberry Fields Forever.

[Zayus]

The Beatles just have a very large following of fans who just love them irrationally, and thats great but it gets on my damned nerves to hear people make serious postulations that they are the best that American rock music has to offer..

?

[oyoyoy]

You see? He tells me to stop taking myself seriously and doesn't know the first thing about what he's talking about. :thumbsdow

[Copper Scroll]

If you like em, you like em. If you don't, you don't. Neither opinion is better than the other. Personally, I like em, but I find some of Paul's songs annoying and corny--so I can certainly understand how somebody might not like them at all. I'll continue to pull out Revolver and Abbey Road every once and a while. Other people won't. Life goes on.

[NZA!]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM7tdWRkBp0

beatles + nine inch nails = good

[RAYDOGG]

John Lennon-Watching The Wheels & Free As A Bird is one of the GOAT song of all time, a lot people sleep on these classics

[king_k4life]

Come Together and Some of there other Tracks are top 20 all time

[AskariSTL//So]

You see? He tells me to stop taking myself seriously and doesn't know the first thing about what he's talking about. :thumbsdow
Well I guess I'm not a hypocrite then?

[oyoyoy]

So I've been listening to Sgt. Peppers/White Album/Abbey Road again.....

utter genius

best band in the history of the world people :D

[dat boy rh]

i ain' t going to argue with that.

[oyoyoy]

tell me this isnt better than everything hip-hop has done combined.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YXG83p2nkHw

[TRIPLE M]

crack
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9WuJ3EvNh-0

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BJqNxKdgyqM

[lyra_us]

just finished watching the entire anthology on youtube. Don't know if there will ever be another group with the power that the Beatles had. Whether you like them or hate them, you can't deny their impact.

[Free Agent]

beatles are great. some of my favorites are:

eleanor rigby
a day in the life
glass onion
hey bulldog
come together

there's so much ill sh1t

[lyra_us]

I saw a funny video about the Beatles the other day on Youtube. I'll find it in a bit. Anyway, they show a clip from the **** Clark Show and he's interviewing a bunch of teenagers about the Beatles. This was before Sgt Pepper dropped and they had been out of the limelight for a while. Everyone was claiming they were all washed up. He asked some of the teenagers what they though of the Beatles, and they were saying "they went out with the twist", "they are no better than the Monkees", etc. Then he played their new single "Strawberry Fields" and afterwards they were all just sitting there with their jaws open. No other group was able to progress and reinvent themselves in as short a period of time as the Beatles did. They literally moved popular music forward.

[Jordan23_]

I saw a funny video about the Beatles the other day on Youtube. I'll find it in a bit. Anyway, they show a clip from the **** Clark Show and he's interviewing a bunch of teenagers about the Beatles. This was before Sgt Pepper dropped and they had been out of the limelight for a while. Everyone was claiming they were all washed up. He asked some of the teenagers what they though of the Beatles, and they were saying "they went out with the twist", "they are no better than the Monkees", etc. Then he played their new single "Strawberry Fields" and afterwards they were all just sitting there with their jaws open. No other group was able to progress and reinvent themselves in as short a period of time as the Beatles did. They literally moved popular music forward.
I wanna see it!

[lyra_us]

I wanna see it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GYTfhlgcI0&feature=related

[Jordan23_]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GYTfhlgcI0&feature=related
wow :laugh:

people saying "sgt. pepper is the greatest album ever" over and over again makes people think they are overrated :smh:

[NOTaFreeEmailAccount]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GYTfhlgcI0&feature=related

Haha, I been looking for that clip for years. I think I saw it like 15 years ago on that Beatles Anthology ABC documentary.

Amazing that they were "washed up" because they hadn't released anything in 7-8 months. Yeah, that's right. Back then artists actually used to release an album every 6 months on average, with non-album singles in between. My how times have changed, where artists now work on 2-3 year album cycles.

In between the time most bands take between albums now, the Beatles did Rubber Soul, Revolver, and Sgt. Pepper. In the time it's taking Dre to release Detox the Beatles' whole career took place.

[lyra_us]

Haha, I been looking for that clip for years. I think I saw it like 15 years ago on that Beatles Anthology ABC documentary.

Amazing that they were "washed up" because they hadn't released anything in 7-8 months. Yeah, that's right. Back then artists actually used to release an album every 6 months on average, with non-album singles in between. My how times have changed, where artists now work on 2-3 year album cycles.

In between the time most bands take between albums now, the Beatles did Rubber Soul, Revolver, and Sgt. Pepper. In the time it's taking Dre to release Detox the Beatles' whole career took place.

exactly. Songs like "Hey Jude", "Strawberry Fields", and "All you need is Love", all massive singles and classics, didn't appear on proper Beatles albums (Strawberry Fields was later put on Magical Mystery Tour but that was well after it was already released). They were all released as singles.

I remember Lennon talking about the massive pressure put on them by their record label to keep pumping out new singles and albums every 3 or 4 months. Hard to believe they were able to create so many classic songs throughout all that.

I also agree with the poster who says that it's easy to overrate Sgt. Pepper. I personally think Magical Mystery Tour and The White Album are far superior albums. Pepper came first though and was seen as a kind of turning point in popular music.