Beatles video unearthed after 44 years

[AYHJA]

OK, I just finished listening to Please Please Me...

If I didn't know who the Beatles were, I would have probably guessed they'd be a legend someday...This isn't as much of a cohesive album as I would have thought, but after reading their history a little, I can see that's not what it was anyway...The songs have great rhythms, and are surprisingly soulful...

Favorite Tracks: P.S. I Love You, Do You Want To Know A Secret

I'm on to Disc #2, With The Beatles

[NotFunny]

So the journey begins :)
There are many excellent Beatles books around but if you can get hold of it, this is pretty good companion reading while you're listening.........UNCLE JOE'S RECORD GUIDE - The BEATLES.....by legendary rock jock Joe Benson.
I don't think he's updated it beyond 2001 but all the relevant albums are there.

Here's Joe's homepage....

http://unclejoe.com/recBeatles.htm

[Fapper]

ok, you started the journey, hope you keep the track, great surprises are waiting for you

[AYHJA]

OK..! Finished listening to Disc 2, 'With The Beatles'...

A more 'rock n roll' album, this one seemed to have more of a theme than the first album...I think its a good album, the melody they infused with the rock, good shit man...Still, I just didn't expect this much soul...Its surprising to hear it...And when I say 'soul', I mean the shit you hear when you listen to Sam Cooke singing a song...Not quite on that level because of the nature of what's being sung, but its there, definitely...

Favorite Tracks: It Won't Be Long, Money

[NotFunny]

Liverpool's , a major seaport, they got American soul/blues and R@B from sailors at the docks. Also their manager owned a record store, he specialized in imports so they were heavily immersed in American music.
On the first two records they covered Chuck Berry, The Marvelettes, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Isley Brothers and Barrett Strong..... Bert Bacharach and Goffin and King songs too!

Good ears K :)

[Fapper]

Keep Listening!!!

[AYHJA]

Indeed, I just forgot to post my review...

I finished Album #3, "A Hard Day's Night" on the weekend...Most of all I noticed a somewhat 'new' sound, more elements in the music...More rhythm, more harmony..."If I Fell," for example...Great, great song man...Signature sound for me so far...I do wonder if there had been a great deal of traveling for this album...I hear what sounds almost tropical/latin elements in some songs, fused with some other things...Fantastic album overall...On to #4...

Favorite Tracks: A Hard Day's Night, If I Fell, When I Get Home, I'll Be Back

[Fapper]

As i told you this album has all Lennon & McCartney songs, at that time that was something quite rare (the music industry was full of songwriters that wrote music for other artists to sing). Keep it on!

[raum]

The Beatles are so ingrained into me, I pretty much use them as a standard of other music. I love their less emotional and more whacky stuff most. Bet you guessed that. But to me, the Best Beatles songs are not the most intricate, but the most intimate. By now, hearing any song by the Fab Four (of the Apocalypse) invokes powerful memories of a life FULL of the magic they embodied, but never claimed to be the source of. Their music is a scrap book of some of the most awesome and odd moments of my peculiar existence. That to me is their allure. That Rocky Raccoon was playing from a open window when I almost died in a sword fight over a girl.... and the air was full of the smell of green apples.

Everyone should almost die in a swordfight over a girl. Seriously. The wounds heal.

Or when I was sitting in Strawberry fields in Berkeley, Ca and watched a family of four disappear into a giant tree overlooking strawberry creek. Then and there, I understood the Tao which I had been trying to wrap my mind around for about eight months at that time, and the stone I tossed into the creek made no ripples.
(and that was totally sober)

Or when "Glass Onion" was playing when I was in my first internet chat. I thought, Damn those people must have thought I was nuts from what I am posting. heh. Then I saw that they (in AOL) were posting EVEN MORE nonsense than I.

To me, their best love song is "Honeypie." That song intoxicates me to this day. I always felt my life was complete when my incredibly hot babysitter (like 20 years older than me, but still - HAWT!) used to sing it to me when I was in the bath at the ripe old age of six. I knew then I would lead a life that could be as grand and spectacular as I chose to make it. And it could still never get better than that. That song followed me through my life, as did much of the Beatles music.

How many times we almost flew off the side of a cliff in Marin county hugging impossible curves as we sang "woncha please come home, du-dudu-du-du."...

As I think back to that time when even death couldn't have taken away the pleasure of a midnight daytrip to a hot spring resort,.. I know people will wonder why I am smiling like this all day.

The Beatles can change your life if you let them.

[blixa]

One of my favorite things about the beatles was their ability to take the living piss out of themselves and all those around them, always looking for a laugh.

Its something thats hard to find in the music world these days.

And i can still trip out on the dichotomy of lennon and Mcartney

some of my favorite songs.
In My life
A day in the life
Day tripper
Get back
You'll be mine (from anthology 1)
with a little help from my friends