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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2019 2:31:39 GMT -5
I have to disagree with you as well. For me, if the trailer already spoils everything in the film then there's no incentive to even see it. Plus a lot of twists or plot developments that might work really great when built into the story can come off looking silly in a trailer, to the point where it does itself an injustice. A good example of this is Spider Ham in the new Spiderman Into the Spider-Verse movie. I recall seeing that and going "really? a talking pig? That's fucking stupid." But when you see it in the film itself it works perfectly. I almost wrote that film off entirely due to the lame trailer/commercials but luckily people on reddit talked it up so much I decided to give it a chance. (Im glad I did because it ended up fantastic.) Yes, we look at it differently. I don't find spoilers to be big deal. But you know what's better to keep intrigue? Not see trailers, read reviews, (usually detailed) wiki synopsis, you get the drift. I dont do the latter two either, for a movie I intend to see. As long as they're spoiler free i dont see anything wrong with checking out reviews--or just seeing the Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb scores of a film first to gauge if it's any good or not.
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Post by Beach Boys Fan on Feb 23, 2019 2:50:57 GMT -5
There isn't anything wrong, yes. Just giving 3rd option. I'd seen many films like this, it's kinda fun to not know even little about the film.
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Post by Beach Boys Fan on Mar 7, 2019 18:54:17 GMT -5
Paul Beatles playlist jam:
1. "Martha" 2. "Yesterday" 3. "I Saw Her" 4. "Oh Darling" 5. "Getting Better" 6. "Penny Lane" 7. "Eleanor Rigby" (this is such good song, gee) 8. "All Together" 9. "Your Mother Should Know" 10. MMT 11. "Get Back"
If made John playlist, it would be songs sequenced like: 1. "And Your Bird" 2. "I'm Happy Just" 3. "Mr. Kite" (top 5 in Sgt.) 4. "This Boy" 5. "I Should've Known" 6. "Not A 2nd Time" 7. "When I Get Home" 8. "Polythene Pam" 9. "Mean Mr. Mustard" 10. "Bad To"
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Post by bygone on Mar 8, 2019 10:26:03 GMT -5
So, Beatles' fans, what are YOUR ten favorite Beatles' songs? I'll start...
This is a nice challenge! My list in no particular order:
- You never give me your money - I am the walrus - Strawberry fields forever - A day in the life - While my guitar gently weeps - Rocky Raccoon - Let it be - Across the universe - Tomorrow never knows - In my life
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Post by kds on Mar 8, 2019 10:34:48 GMT -5
So, Beatles' fans, what are YOUR ten favorite Beatles' songs? I'll start...
In no particular order:
01 I Saw Her Standing There 02 Across The Universe 03 I Should've Known Better 04 She Loves You 05 Carry That Weight 06 With A Little Help From My Friends 07 I Feel Fine 08 She's A Woman 09 P.S. I Love You 10 And Your Bird Can Sing
1. Strawberry Fields Forever 2. A Day in the Life 3. Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End 4. While My Guitar Gently Weeps 5. The Night Before 6. It's Only Love 7. And Your Bird Can Sing 8. If I Fell 9. And I Love Her 10. In My Life (My top 4 are solid, but 5-10 could be different if you ask me tomorrow)
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Post by The Cap'n on Mar 8, 2019 10:38:09 GMT -5
Tough task, so here are 15 of mine. My top 10 might come from these. But I'd be curious if you made me do a blind do-over tomorrow how it would turn out.
You Never Give Me Your Money I'm So Tired Martha My Dear I'll Follow the Sun A Hard Day's Night Any Time At All Penny Lane Day Tripper Lady Madonna In My Life
The Ballad of John and Yoko Got To Get You Into My Life Getting Better Good Morning Good Morning
A Day in the Life
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2019 21:13:05 GMT -5
I have been really digging into George Harrison’s solo career for the first time. Such fantastic stuff. Really love this gem. Maybe wrong thread but it sounds like a beatles song anyway-
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Post by kirkk on Dec 30, 2019 21:46:30 GMT -5
I have been really digging into George Harrison’s solo career for the first time. Such fantastic stuff. Really love this gem. Maybe wrong thread but it sounds like a beatles song anyway- Agreed, I’ve always enjoyed that tune; the album it’s from (George’s self-titled 1977 album) is very underrated. You always (rightly) hear about All Things Must Pass and Cloud 9 but George Harrison is lovely record that warrants more attention. Just a nice, laid-back, very upbeat and happy album (unusual for George, who could be very cranky!)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2019 23:46:40 GMT -5
I have been really digging into George Harrison’s solo career for the first time. Such fantastic stuff. Really love this gem. Maybe wrong thread but it sounds like a beatles song anyway- Agreed, I’ve always enjoyed that tune; the album it’s from (George’s self-titled 1977 album) is very underrated. You always (rightly) hear about All Things Must Pass and Cloud 9 but George Harrison is lovely record that warrants more attention. Just a nice, laid-back, very upbeat and happy album (unusual for George, who could be very cranky!) Absolutely I’ve been really enjoying this album! Many of the songs feel like beatles songs. even more so than all things must pass (which I love but feels more like a ‘George’ album). I can hear John influences on loves comes to everyone. Paul influences on not guilty and soft-hearted Hana. Really seems like he was feeling that classic beatles vibe. I really like this album a lot.
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Post by B.E. on Dec 31, 2019 23:46:49 GMT -5
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Post by petsite on Jan 3, 2020 20:26:44 GMT -5
I have to say that one of my fave books is LIFTING LATCHES by John Wynn. It is an annotated look at John Barrett's tape log put together in the early 80s. Barrett was such a rock star in how he put Abbey Road's library in order.
Check it out if you have the time!
Here is my fave page from Barrett's log. The two reels assembled in 1976 that gave us the Anthology series only 19 short years later!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2020 7:08:02 GMT -5
So after some more diving into the solo works of the beatles members, particularly late 70s/early 80s stuff, I had the audacity to make a playlist of a beatles ‘reunion’ album from an alternate reality. I’ve been enjoying listening to it so I thought I’d share. Yes I realize this is borderline sacrilegious.
The basic idea is the beatles reunite, some old tensions/competitiveness come about and things get weird, then George distributes mushrooms and side 2 is a return to form of perfect excellence from the beatles in an abbey road-esque suite
The Beatles - “Love Comes To Everyone” - 70s/80s playlist:
Side 1 1. Love Comes to Everyone (George) 2. Coming Up (Paul) 3. Not Guilty (George) 4. Cleanup Time (John) 5. Temporary Secretary (Paul) 6. Bad Boy (Ringo) 7. Give Me Something (John/Yoko) 8. Soft-Hearted Hana (George)
Side 2 9. Be What You See (Link) (Paul) 10. Just Like Starting Over (John) 11. Here Comes The Moon (George) 12. Pipes Of Peace (Paul) 13. Watching The Wheels (John) 14. #9 Dream (John) 15. Tug Of War (Paul)
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Post by jk on Mar 13, 2020 17:37:44 GMT -5
I think some people can be a little sensitive on the topic, maybe because it grates a bit when you hear people saying stuff like ‘the Beach Boys were a great vocal group but didn’t play their own instruments like the Beatles did’ 🙄 You could twist that around and say ‘the Beatles were a great group who played their own instruments but they couldn't sing a cappella harmonies onstage like the Beach Boys did’. It's all so relative. Being of a generation that grew up with their music (and being a lover of US stuff at the time), Beatlemania was a terrible reality at my grammar school. Favourite song? "The Word".Ooohh, Mr or Ms Deleted, you have impeccable taste! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Word_(song)
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Post by jh055 on Mar 19, 2020 8:12:41 GMT -5
The best of them was George in my opinion. Nice to see you Cassandra!
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Post by jk on Mar 19, 2020 8:31:52 GMT -5
The best of them was George in my opinion. Nice to see you Cassandra! H'mm. Have you tried her blog, jh055? Google "the carbon freeze eclectic essays" and it should get you there. While I'm here... Folks, remember the opera being rehearsed when Paul's grandad inadvertently appears onstage in AHDN? I was asked to identify this work at another forum and lo and behold I found the answer. It's from the opening duet in the Finale of Act One of Johann's Strauss's operetta Die Fledermaus: This is where the AHDN excerpt begins: Die dir einst dein Herz erfreut, [Which once delighted your heart,] Gibt der Wein dir Tröstung schon [Wine will soon give you consolation] Durch Vergessenheit! [By forgetting!] Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, [Happy is the person who forgets,] Was doch nicht zu ändern ist. [What can't be altered anyway.] Kling, kling, sing, sing, sing [Ting-a-ling, sing, sing, sing,] Trink mit mir, sing mit mir, [Drink with me, sing with me,] Lalala, lalala, etc. [la la la, etc.]And now this. I've always been fascinated by this kind of obscure stuff (with grateful thanks to BBF): [Veteran session guitarist Vic] Flick and friends do not appear on one cue which has been baffling fans for decades--a brief rock-and-roll clip heard when Ringo flips on a portable radio while riding on a train. “That’s not me,” Flick states. So who is it? Notes Giles Martin, “My instinct says it’s not The Beatles, but more likely the session players my dad would have gotten in for the soundtrack recording.” The track is indeed driven by [ace session drummer Clem] Cattini and likely [bassist Alan] Weighell, the drummer tells Studio Daily. “That’s definitely me," Cattini says. "The guitars, I think, were ‘Big Jim’ Sullivan and Jimmy Page. They did a lot of the rock stuff together in those days, particularly on these kinds of sessions.” Bassist Herbie Flowers, who played on many such recordings, though not these, before playing for the likes of David Bowie, Lou Reed and, later, George Harrison, conjectures the 37-second cue may have simply been a library track recorded by Martin (or another producer). [In other words, he didn't know.] Source: www.studiodaily.com/2014/08/beatlemania-in-black-white-restoring-a-hard-days-night-in-4k/ Interestingly perhaps, I got in touch with George Martin's studio a decade or so ago to enquire and was told that Sir George couldn't remember anything about it!
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Post by jk on Mar 20, 2020 10:17:57 GMT -5
I was reminded of this track a day or two ago. I have a bit of a love-hate thing with "A Day In The Life". It's that last chord... I find it depressing! Zappa's equally long final chord in the Sgt. Pepper parody We're Only in It for the Money doesn't have that effect on me at all. Anyway...
The bit in the concentric run-out groove reminds me of the last segment of Pink Floyd's "Bike"...
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Post by jk on May 8, 2020 4:44:15 GMT -5
Maybe this is common knowledge but "Bungalow Bill" could well be the closest The Beatles got to emulating Spike Milligan of The Goon Show, Q5, and other Python-influencing stuff.
I reckon it's the childish (or childlike) lyric combined with the bassoon at the end that does it. Spike's own "Tower Bridge" ends with a comical dialogue between him and a bassoon (I love that spontaneous chuckle at 1:14):
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Post by Beach Boys Fan on May 8, 2020 16:48:48 GMT -5
Spike Milligan fan. In grandparents' house used to be children's book "English cup of tea"/"Cup of English tea". Maybe it's still there, it's really cool in its absurdity & psychedelicness, enjoyed limericks way back when. Besides, look at illustrations by A. Bondarenko, such beautifully bizarre imagery. I wished as kid to be in that planet with pictured strange-looking cute people. It's Spike's book "Silly verses for kids", Spike's humor paints him marvellous chap, "Goon Show" got jolly good funny skits. Book face: Link to illustrations, pages: polny-shkaf.livejournal.com/18941.html
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Post by Ham Burgerstand on May 8, 2020 17:51:08 GMT -5
Maybe this is common knowledge but "Bungalow Bill" could well be the closest The Beatles got to emulating Spike Milligan of The Goon Show, Q5, and other Python-influencing stuff. I reckon it's the childish (or childlike) lyric combined with the bassoon at the end that does it. Spike's own "Tower Bridge" ends with a comical dialogue between him and a bassoon (I love that spontaneous chuckle at 1:14): Is that Spike song a George Martin production? It's the Parlophone label, and I know he made some records with the Goons before signing the Beatles. Likewise, even though Martin was absent for a lot of the white album sessions, I'll bet he was present when a bassoon part was required.
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Post by jk on May 9, 2020 6:54:53 GMT -5
Maybe this is common knowledge but "Bungalow Bill" could well be the closest The Beatles got to emulating Spike Milligan of The Goon Show, Q5, and other Python-influencing stuff. I reckon it's the childish (or childlike) lyric combined with the bassoon at the end that does it. Spike's own "Tower Bridge" ends with a comical dialogue between him and a bassoon (I love that spontaneous chuckle at 1:14): Is that Spike song a George Martin production? It's the Parlophone label, and I know he made some records with the Goons before signing the Beatles. Likewise, even though Martin was absent for a lot of the white album sessions, I'll bet he was present when a bassoon part was required.
It would seem to have been Johnny Scott: www.45cat.com/record/r5543But who knows? Maybe Sir George had a hand in it...
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Post by jk on May 14, 2020 6:40:25 GMT -5
Most folks must be familiar with The Beatles' version of "Boys". I remember once seeing them in a BBC "special" where Ringo sang his heart out on this one--only they forgot to turn his mic on. This is how The Shirelles did it three years earlier, in 1960, on the flip of their first US #1, "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow". I heard this for the first time last week (!) in the stunning movie Don't Look Away, when the hero moves from East to West Germany: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boys_(The_Shirelles_song)
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Post by highllama on Dec 27, 2020 5:33:57 GMT -5
Attention Beach Boys fans. Admitting to liking or even loving The Beatles doesn't make you any less a Beach Boys fan. In my time on BB related forums, I've noticed a sort of inferiority complex some fans display whenever the Beatles are brought up. Both are great bands with great catalogs. The Beatles tended to be better managed though and to this day, their brand is managed far better. An inevitable, though unhelpful comparison, I think. The Beach Boys relied, largely, on one person (Brian) to write, arrange, and produce. The Beatles had three great songwriters, and another person (George Martin) to arrange and produce. The Beatles were able to work as a team in a way none of their peers were. Zappa did do it all, basically, and fortunately never had Brian's personal issues or that difficult band/family dynamic to deal with. One thing I've always admired about the Beatles was their sense of taste. Out of all the 60s bands, they alone avoided a lot of the cliches of the time. Their album artwork is always just a bit more stylish--they were never going to pose on cars, didn't rely on stock photos, etc. While there is Beatles for Sale and With the Beatles, they avoided a lot of those types of album titles, too. Their catalog is not a string of albums called Something Else, 12 x 4, etc. Just compare the US albums by Capitol to what the band themselves put together, and the covers and titles tell you everything. It's also hard to imagine the Beach Boys, Kinks, or Who making a movie as fun and stylish as A Hard Day's Night. The only Beatles album I have trouble with is Let it Be, since it never feels like a real Beatle album, with all the Phil Spector meddling. I like a lot of John's solo stuff, and I love McCartney/wings. He has a rare gift for melody coupled with a great work ethic, not to mention a rare ability to absorb influence.
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Post by jk on Jun 18, 2022 4:35:18 GMT -5
Paul's 80th is getting serious coverage on BBC 2 tonight. This is one of my favourite Macca songs from an almost flawless album. Many happy returns to you, sir (or should that be Sir?): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_(song)
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