My favorite Beatles album has to be either Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, Rubber Soul or The Whjte Album

[QUOTE=sportsfan4427]My favorite Beatles album has to be either Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, Rubber Soul or The Whjte Album[/QUOTE]

Welcome to the forums. The White Album and Rubber Soul might be my favorites. I love them all though. My favorite pretty much changes daily.

I really like the harmonies they had on their vocals and the backing vocals!

[QUOTE=Walrus Gumboot]
So I got "McCartney" today in an altered state of judgement and later was very upset with myself for not getting Harrison's "brainwashed" instead[/QUOTE]

I love "McCartney". It was on the turntable for weeks at a time when I discovered it.

McCartney > or = Brainwashed. I really like them both, though I think Paul might have the edge.

[QUOTE=clown_phobia]I really like the harmonies they had on their vocals and the backing vocals![/QUOTE]

Heck, who doesn't? I still say CSNY has the best harmonies, though.

I recommend everyone read "With A Little Help From My Friends: The Making Of Sgt. Pepper", if you haven't yet. Not only does it detail the Sgt. Pepper sessions, which is especially interesting to me because I love reading about recording studio techniques they used, but it's a great story as well. I'm only a few chapters in and I've already learned a lot about the Beatles I didn'nt know.

With that said, I'm going cd shopping tomorrow and I'd like to hear what Beatles albums you think I should get next. I own Sgt. Peppers, Abbey Road, Revolver, MMT, and the White Album.

I'm thinking Rubber Soul, Let It Be, or maybe Help!. I don't know anything about Help!, but I've heard a little about the others. Any suggestions?

^Those were the 3 I was going to recommend looking for.

I'd say rubber soul to get next - **** good.

[QUOTE=magicbus]I recommend everyone read "With A Little Help From My Friends: The Making Of Sgt. Pepper", if you haven't yet. Not only does it detail the Sgt. Pepper sessions, which is especially interesting to me because I love reading about recording studio techniques they used, but it's a great story as well. I'm only a few chapters in and I've already learned a lot about the Beatles I didn'nt know.

With that said, I'm going cd shopping tomorrow and I'd like to hear what Beatles albums you think I should get next. I own Sgt. Peppers, Abbey Road, Revolver, MMT, and the White Album.

I'm thinking Rubber Soul, Let It Be, or maybe Help!. I don't know anything about Help!, but I've heard a little about the others. Any suggestions?[/QUOTE]

Has anyone here ever seen the making of Sgt. Pepper, movie I believe it was made 20 years after Sgt. Pepper was released.

[QUOTE=magicbus]I recommend everyone read "With A Little Help From My Friends: The Making Of Sgt. Pepper", if you haven't yet. Not only does it detail the Sgt. Pepper sessions, which is especially interesting to me because I love reading about recording studio techniques they used, but it's a great story as well. I'm only a few chapters in and I've already learned a lot about the Beatles I didn'nt know.

With that said, I'm going cd shopping tomorrow and I'd like to hear what Beatles albums you think I should get next. I own Sgt. Peppers, Abbey Road, Revolver, MMT, and the White Album.

I'm thinking Rubber Soul, Let It Be, or maybe Help!. I don't know anything about Help!, but I've heard a little about the others. Any suggestions?[/QUOTE]


Help! Is usually lumped in with their poppier days, but I really like it. It even dips into the bluegrass a little. It is the perfect segway into the rather gradual change from Beatles for Sale-era to Revolver-era

[QUOTE=Walrus Gumboot]Help! Is usually lumped in with their poppier days, but I really like it. It even dips into the bluegrass a little. It is the perfect segway into the rather gradual change from Beatles for Sale-era to Revolver-era[/QUOTE]

I love Help. It's a really short album though. They mastered pop with Help. Definitely get Rubber Soul. It was the first Beatles cd I got, so it has special significance. Norwegian Wood and In My Life are two of Lennon's masterpieces. It's kind of a bridge between Help and Revolver. Speaking of that, I once listened to Help, Rubber Soul, and Revolver all in a row when I was bored one day. It was really interesting to see how they evolved.

[QUOTE=Livewired]*Random Fact:Ringo got the most fan mail out of any of the Beatles. :)[/QUOTE]

and another little fact, the beatles also made movie montages popular. oh and incase you havent seen a beatles movie, they all kinda suck. :D


PS:

no disrespect to the band, because they made great music.

[QUOTE=imnotamusician]and another little fact, the beatles also made movie montages popular. oh and incase you havent seen a beatles movie, they all kinda suck. :D


PS:

no disrespect to the band, because they made great music.[/QUOTE]

I've only seen A Hard Days Night and I liked it...if your watching the beatles movie to see 5 star drama performances then your not gonna like it. But if your looking for fun movies there great.

[QUOTE=imnotamusician]and another little fact, the beatles also made movie montages popular. oh and incase you havent seen a beatles movie, they all kinda suck. :D


PS:

no disrespect to the band, because they made great music.[/QUOTE]

The Beatles movies are amazing. They are hilarious. I love them, I need to see them again.

[QUOTE=robo2448]I love Help. It's a really short album though. They mastered pop with Help. Definitely get Rubber Soul. It was the first Beatles cd I got, so it has special significance. Norwegian Wood and In My Life are two of Lennon's masterpieces. It's kind of a bridge between Help and Revolver. Speaking of that, I once listened to Help, Rubber Soul, and Revolver all in a row when I was bored one day. It was really interesting to see how they evolved.[/QUOTE]
I read somewhere that John did that really often up until Sgt. Peppers came out, and then it was just too many albums to listen to. But he liked to listen to all their albums in chronological order and notice changes in the style.

So I went to four stores looking for these cd's. The first two didn't have any of them, the third had Rubber Soul and Help!, but they were both $19 (no thank you), and I found Rubber Soul for $17 at the fourth. I was hesitant to pay that much, considering how the first two stores I stopped at sell cd's for $12, but I wasn't about to leave with nothing.

In the end, I ended up with Rubber Soul, and no Help! or Let It Be.


AND, yesterday my internet was out, so I was reading that Sgt. Pepper book all day, and I finished it. It really was an amazing book, what they did with some of the songs was way ahead of their time, George Martin was a genius. I suggest everyone read it.

[QUOTE=clown_phobia]I really like the harmonies they had on their vocals and the backing vocals![/QUOTE]

Yeah they kicked ***. Queen's are my favorite though, somehow they managed to get this cool sci-fi sound to it.

And to whomever said the Beatles movies sucked, shame on you. A Hard Day's Night is considered one of the greatest films ever made. Help is pretty funny (its fricken hilarious if you're a James Bond fan like myself). Yellow Submarine is classic (my favorite movie). I don't really care what your opinion is about MMT, because except for the music I don't care for that film at all.

And Let it Be is good, except it isn't a film with a story, its a documentary.

I haven't seen any of the Beatles movies in years.

The MMT is hilarious. It's so pointless that it's funny. Help is my favorite movie though. And Rubber Soul is a lot better than Help and Let it Be, so you made the right choice IMO.

I love them all, even MMT

Isn't MMT just a black and white film of them travelling around the country?

I don't understand why everyone bashes Let It Be.

I really really like that album a lot. :(

I love the first 4 tracks. The only songs I don't like are Maggie May, Dig It, and One After 909 and some are just a matter of having listened to most of the other tracks on Beatles 1(Let It Be, The Long and Winding Rd., Get Back) and getting sick of them. For You Blue and I've Got a Feeling are in the pile I like along with the first 4 tracks.

NP- Ringo Starr- Eye To Eye

I love The Beatles
I'm new to the forums.
one of my fav Beatles songs is Ticket to Ride, I like all their stuff not just their early stuff or late. I can some of their songs on guitar, I wish I knew how to play One after 909, the version of the song thats on Anthology CD #1. I don't really care for the version on Let it be.
I can't stand this new music.

[QUOTE=imnotamusician]and another little fact, the beatles also made movie montages popular. oh and incase you havent seen a beatles movie, they all kinda suck. :D


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no disrespect to the band, because they made great music.[/QUOTE]

The Beatles movies are all great certainly some of the best movies of the 60's.
A Hard Day's Night is a classic, Help is sooo funny is one of my favorite movies of all time. Yellow Submarine is great, Magical Mystery Tour is so weird and crazy, I love it and I can't understand people who say it's supid. And Let It Be is a great documentary I watch pretty much every week.
And besides this they all have fantastic music.

I think this is one of the things that makes The Beatles the greatest the fact that had great songs and great movies.

[QUOTE=gerbs4me]I love The Beatles
I'm new to the forums.
one of my fav Beatles songs is Ticket to Ride, I like all their stuff not just their early stuff or late. I can some of their songs on guitar, I wish I knew how to play One after 909, the version of the song thats on Anthology CD #1. I don't really care for the version on Let it be.
I can't stand this new music.[/QUOTE]
Welcome to the forum! You picked a good thread to make your first post in.

I like Let It Be, but I find the production to be just awful. That's why I prefer Let It Be...Naked.

Do any of you have that tab book called Fingerpicking Beatles?

[QUOTE=DeusExMachina]I haven't seen any of the Beatles movies in years.[/QUOTE]


The beatles made films!!!, never knew that

[QUOTE=Slug]Do any of you have that tab book called Fingerpicking Beatles?[/QUOTE]
No, but a friend of mine has a ton of Beatles music books. I might be able to get hold of it. Why do you ask?

[quote]and another little fact, the beatles also made movie montages popular. oh and incase you havent seen a beatles movie, they all kinda suck.[/quote]

As bad as Elvis movies? ;)

Elvis had movies?

Actually, he had quite a few movies.

The only one I saw was Blue Hawaii or something like that.

It sucked.

[QUOTE=DeusExMachina]Elvis had movies?[/QUOTE]


Dozens upon dozens. He was literally forced to make them against his will, and they severly damaged his home life as well as his reputation

...Elvis enjoyed making the movies. At least thats what it says in my beatles anthology book.

Anyways here's a great link I found that has the beatles commenting on every released song in their catalogue. [url]http://www.geocities.com/~beatleboy1/dbsongs.html[/url]

Wow. That's a really cool site.

its sounds like the song is in 12 bar, I wonder where I could find that fingerpicking the Beatles book

Which song are you talking about?

[QUOTE=gerbs4me]its sounds like the song is in 12 bar, I wonder where I could find that fingerpicking the Beatles book[/QUOTE]

I got it at a guitar shop.

How's the book?

This thread's kind of dead so i'm going to change topic.

What's everyone's favorite George Harrison Beatles song? Mine's got to be While My Guitar Gently Weeps.