The Beatles

The Beatles
I absolutely love this band. I got into them a couple of months ago and from what I've heard I absolutely adore them. I've only heard three of their albums, but luckily my music teacher at school has all their albums and says I can borrow them after I go back after exam leave :D

What do you think of them? What is your favourite song by them? Mine is 'Hello Goodbye'.

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I absolutely love this band. I got into them a couple of months ago and from what I've heard I absolutely adore them. I've only heard three of their albums, but luckily my music teacher at school has all their albums and says I can borrow them after I go back after exam leave :D

What do you think of them? What is your favourite song by them? Mine is 'Hello Goodbye'.

I was 14 when the Beatles emerged on the scene, came to the States and the impact they had was indescribable. I have never seen a phenomenon like them since. As a kid, I loved all their songs; they seemed an integral part of my existence as well as of all my friends. When all is said and done, for some reason, I like this song best.

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

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I absolutely love this band. I got into them a couple of months ago and from what I've heard I absolutely adore them. I've only heard three of their albums, but luckily my music teacher at school has all their albums and says I can borrow them after I go back after exam leave :D

What do you think of them? What is your favourite song by them? Mine is 'Hello Goodbye'.doesn't everybody like The beatles? Even if it's just for a few songs.
WGS_Chris, you should maybe give the recent Julie taymor film, Across the Universe a try. As I was saying to someone on these boards a while ago, The Beatles were great songwriters, but they weren't necessarily the best singers, and so there's plenty of room for a better cover version. Across the Universe is a mixed bag, but there's some really nice, moving moments in it.

My favourite album of theirs is Revolver, and my favourite track is 'Tomorrow Never Knows'. Howard Goodall did a great documentary about the band, and his segment on the song is wonderful. (It's here, if you're interested: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ffZQWDDQwWM; 2.29 in)

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I absolutely love this band. I got into them a couple of months ago and from what I've heard I absolutely adore them. I've only heard three of their albums, but luckily my music teacher at school has all their albums and says I can borrow them after I go back after exam leave :D

What do you think of them? What is your favourite song by them? Mine is 'Hello Goodbye'.doesn't everybody like The beatles? Even if it's just for a few songs.
WGS_Chris, you should maybe give the recent Julie taymor film, Across the Universe a try. As I was saying to someone on these boards a while ago, The Beatles were great songwriters, but they weren't necessarily the best singers, and so there's plenty of room for a better cover version. Across the Universe is a mixed bag, but there's some really nice, moving moments in it.

My favourite album of theirs is Revolver, and my favourite track is 'Tomorrow Never Knows'. Howard Goodall did a great documentary about the band, and his segment on the song is wonderful. (It's here, if you're interested: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ffZQWDDQwWM; 2.29 in)

That was terrific! I forgot how fantastic that song is.

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That was terrific! I forgot how fantastic that song is.Yes, and Howard really gets it. Someone - I think it's Jerry Garcia - talks about walking down a street in San Francisco, hearing Tomorrow Never Knows on the radio, and just thinking "Everything's changed now; I've just become redundant"

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I absolutely love this band. I got into them a couple of months ago and from what I've heard I absolutely adore them. I've only heard three of their albums, but luckily my music teacher at school has all their albums and says I can borrow them after I go back after exam leave :D

What do you think of them? What is your favourite song by them? Mine is 'Hello Goodbye'.doesn't everybody like The beatles? Even if it's just for a few songs.
WGS_Chris, you should maybe give the recent Julie taymor film, Across the Universe a try. As I was saying to someone on these boards a while ago, The Beatles were great songwriters, but they weren't necessarily the best singers, and so there's plenty of room for a better cover version. Across the Universe is a mixed bag, but there's some really nice, moving moments in it.

My favourite album of theirs is Revolver, and my favourite track is 'Tomorrow Never Knows'. Howard Goodall did a great documentary about the band, and his segment on the song is wonderful. (It's here, if you're interested: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ffZQWDDQwWM; 2.29 in)

I have never thought of watching Across the Universe - I doesn't really appeal to me, but I might give it a try now. Thanks.

Thanks for the link, I love Howard Goodall, have you seen his Musical Big Bangs series? It was fantastic. I think I'll watch all of the documentary.

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Thanks for the link, I love Howard Goodall, have you seen his Musical Big Bangs series? It was fantastic. I think I'll watch all of the documentary.That was the one with inventions and revolutions in music, wasn't it? Yes. He's always good, Goodall.

Here are the Lyrics to Tomorrow Never Knows:

Turn off your mind, relax and float down stream,
It is not dying, it is not dying

Lay down all thought, surrender to the void,
Is it shining? Is it shining?

That you may see the meaning of within
It is being, it is being

Love is all and love is everyone
Is it knowing? Is it knowing?

That ignorance and hate may mourn the dead
It is believing, it is believing

But listen to the colour of your dreams
Is it not living, is it not living

Or play the game "Existence" to the end
Of the beginning, of the beginning

I have read The Tibetan Book of the Dead twice; the second reading was an interpretation by Robert Thurman. It's as cryptic and oblique as any piece of mystic literature. In short, it's how to prepare to die or cross over to the other side successfully. I can't believe there's any way to remember that whole process on your death bed. I'll just have to make it up as I go along.

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Thanks for the link, I love Howard Goodall, have you seen his Musical Big Bangs series? It was fantastic. I think I'll watch all of the documentary.That was the one with inventions and revolutions in music, wasn't it? Yes. He's always good, Goodall.

Yeah - he did 6 I think, they were on something like 'the invention of notation', 'tonal idioms', 'the piano' and I can't remember the rest. My piano teacher lent them to me :D I remember on one of them (she had taped them off the TV) she had the piano sketch by Morecambe and Wise, it was the first time I'd seen it, and I've loved it ever since.

'Ah, Mr. Preview, how are you?' :lol:

That ignorance and hate may mourn the dead
It is believing, it is believing

.never go that bit...But then I'm not a Tibetan Buddhist

That ignorance and hate may mourn the dead
It is believing, it is believing

.never go that bit...But then I'm not a Tibetan Buddhist

I can understand 'ignorance' because to Tibetan Buddhists, death is a delusion. But the hate part is obscure to me.

my favourite's The White Album.

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I hate the Beatles. Yes, they were one of the most important bands, and yes they have some good songs. However you also have hordes of people who pretend that they are the only band who have ever mattered, that no one else made "alternative" music back then, and generally being doucebags. Annoying fans of many bands have made me feel the same about them, or close... such as with Metallica and Nirvana for instance(of course Metallica has the added bonus of having Lars Ulrich as a member).

What the members, or rather John Lennon and Paul McCartney, did after they split up also shape my opinion of their former band.

Man, how could I miss a thread about the Beatles!, but I didn't catch up with all the posts from the past couple of weeks and didn't look at this board until now ...

I wouldn't know where to start listing my favorite songs, the list varies according to my mood. Right now this one has a top position:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ32e5vuWCc

I unearthed my "Magical Mystery Tour" album 2 weeks back, and listening to "I'm the Walrus" (which I love a lot, too, so hilarious) I suddenly knew for the first time why the music of the crazy organ playing scene in Fellini's "Casanova" sounded so familiar to me at first hearing: Nino Rota must have been inspired by the ending of the "Walrus"! Funny I never made the connection before, despite knowing both of the musics well enough ...

Robin, I love the song you choose, and what's more, I had never heard it before! :D

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My favourite album of theirs is Revolver, and my favourite track is 'Tomorrow Never Knows'. Howard Goodall did a great documentary about the band, and his segment on the song is wonderful. (It's here, if you're interested: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ffZQWDDQwWM; 2.29 in)

That was a damn interesting link, thanks a lot, Centaur! Although at times Goodall is exaggerating a little bit :) - and instead of with John Cage he could have started with Musique concrète, but never mind.

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