"Ahhh, Bach!"
Posted on 07/29/2016 12:41:59 PM PDT by Mariner
Yep it was a Uke. Probably the best uke song next to Pete Townshend's "Blue, Red and Gray".
"Ahhh, Bach!"
Beatles and MASH. Lemme double check that this is a conservative forum.
Jesus Christ on a raft, that makes me feel old.
“You wanna feel old? Today my daughter
came up to me and asked if it was true
Paul McCartney was in a group before Wings.”
Conservatives can’t like the Beatles? lol
Someone’s politics are too narrow, methinks.
Yeah, we're old geezers lamenting the loss of Sinatra and his era.
But if you could get a kid to listen to Revolver all the way through (unlikely), they would probably take an MP3 of the 3 or 4 songs they like to their next party to play them and be the cool dude.
Or do they even have parties anymore?
If you believe the 60s were an assault on western civ, it’s a little hard to take, but I realize people get addicted to the pop culture and can’t imagine life without it.
Actually, I just hate John Lennon with a passion. What a sick bastard he was.
A lot of good art is produced by questionable people.
Rubber Soul and Revolver...their best work.By far!
Then you are in fact damning him with well-deserved faint praise.
Though I personally wouldn’t smear Irving Berlin et al. by lumping them in with your darling Paul.
Well you can have it. I shouldn’t have commented. Just the mere mention of the Beatles makes me wretch. Pardon me.
Lennon was really in to experimental stuff. Tape loops, cut-ups. A fair amount of William Burroughs influence.
He had a basement studio where he made all sorts of sound collages.
Revolution #9 being the song placed on a Beatle album.
He did like the stripped down rock n roll, as you are saying, compared to McCartney’s clever rock pop.
The examples on Abbey Road are Lennon Yer Blues, McCartney the side two medley.
Solo this came out even more with McCartney crafting songs, Uncle Albert and Band on the Run being good examples. Then compare to Cold Turkey by Lennon as an example and the entire Rock n Roll album.
So, as far as commercial product, I agree Lennon became more purist for straightforward rock/blues and McCartney produced more crafted pop rock.
This is all after Sgt Pepper as Lennon was doing the studio craft songs all over the place, Mr Kite, Tomorrow Never Knows etc...
But as far as avant garde or artistic or experimental, Lennon was very in to that.
As was Harrison for a while.
These guys were trendy as as much as anything.
They took off And Your Bird Can Sing, Dr Robert and I’m only Sleeping from British Revolver and put them in Yesterday and Today.
All three Lennon songs excised and all three great songs.
To me almost all of Sgt Pepper is filler.
I think it’s ironic that Sgt Pepper gets the hype but to my mind it is the weakest album they ever put out.
“He wanted straight ahead rock and roll.”
That was certainly his preference.
But not all “artiness” came from McCartney.
As I pointed out to Borges, this was a dynamic that began after Sgt Pepper.
The White Album showed this movement in many Lennon songs, yet he was still doing the cute stuff with Bungalow Bill and Happiness is a Warm Gun etc...
And McCartney did the rockiness straightforward song Helter Skelter.
Let It Be was an attempt to get back to the rock n roll roots of playing live and direct.
He’s regarded by a great many musicians as a world class pop songwriter.
Can't agree about Lennon.IMO George was the only one who did anything post Beatles that was worth anything.But The Beatles were an example of something that's greater than the sum of its parts.Except,possibly,for Ringo they all contributed enormously,at one time or another,both as writers and performers.
The best album that came out in 1967 was The Who Sell Out. Superior to Sgt Pepper in every way.
Agree 1000%.And for 100 bonus points at whom was it directed?
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