daryl1968


Craig - do you have the Mono masters?

Stereo - I know the Mono's "showcase what the band was really trying to accomplish," but I've always been a fan of stereo - go figure!  I wonder if you can pick up the extra CD from the Mono masters set (called "Mono Masters") separately?

Don't Look Back in Anger.

arse

craigb

daryl1968


arse

That must be on the album I don't have...  (I'm assuming it's mono, ya?)

It was pulled back. It stunk.

daryl1968


arse

 

 
 

"I'll be back again"

"If I fell in love with you"

Does Badfinger count? After all, Rolling Stone said their first album was the best album The Beatles ever did.

57Gregy


Does Badfinger count? After all, Rolling Stone said their first album was the best album The Beatles ever did.

It always seemed to me they were to be much bigger over there than they were here.

I never figured out why.

I think I'll go with I Feel Fine.  

Rain


I'm a Believer.

Or Strawberry Fields Forever.

I do believe I'm a believer was the Monkees


My faves
Strawberry Fields
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Her Majesty
I be da walrus

marcos69


"I'll be back again"

"If I fell in love with you"

It was strange reading your choices- before I read it I was
trying to decide between these two and "And I Love Her" which Pat
Matheny did on his solo "What's It All About"...and an amazing arrangement.
If one hasn't heard and likes guitar...jump.
 
Bapu "If I Fell" is mine because it's one of those tunes that pops in my head and
seems to stay all day, often and I sure don't mind.

space_cowboy
Wow! I think the Beatles influenced a generation. The summer of love was partially their doing. They had a huge impact on Psychedelia (John and George - circa SP/MMT++). Whether you like their music or not, it is impossible to decouple the impact they had on society. I know you are big into prog (as am I). But when Sgt Peppers came out, it sparked fundamental changes to music and culture

 
I disagree.
 
You have to go look at theater, film, and other arts, that were already in place and much more symbiotic with the psychedelic thing than any of these folks were. And it could even go back as fas as Kerouac and many others, who were already getting ripped and talking about it. Must see film is that one about Ken Kesey and his big trip.
 
It was thought, for a long time, that Ionesco was too ripped to write a play, and he was being weird, and they locked him up as "surrealistic" when he seemed like he was too ripped to know better. And the even better example is Godard, whose famous celestial scene on the cup of coffee, was such a magnificent example of pure psychedelia ... that got left behind ... in favor of "The Beatles".
 
There is also Richard Lester, and one such Spike Milligan, whose writing was extremely psychedelic and weird, but made an impression. So he makes the Beatles in 2 movies, and the Goons had already done all that in your mind with radio ... but the Beatles get the credit and the Goons don't.
 
Sorry ... over rated. It's just that the Beatles fame helped blow it out of proportion with a bigger fart!
 
Ohhh .. yeah ... we forgot ... Frank Zappa was more psychedelic in those days than the Beatles ... but it doesn't count!
 
Sorry ... just mop boys that did good and helped bust the control of the music business by folks that did not believe in the "public" having the ability to create music and other arts. This is/was the ultimate in the 20th century to see the control of all the "arts" taken away from a handful of folks ... and "psychedelia" was as good a terma s **** or crap or anything else.
 
Lastly ... we really need to look at that cover ... and realize what it was about ... or the whole psychedelia thing is just another SF joke with flowers in your hair so you can learn that there is something going on over there.
 
We haven't even discussed Tokyo or Rome ... like they didn't exist! C'mon ... let's put on some Stravinsky, like Rite of Spring, or Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, and ... that is not psychedelic for you? ... Carl's at least the story goes that the priests are drunk, but drunk or stoned ... the feeling is the same. Very off the wall psychedelic.
 
I just find it sad that we think that one little thing ... is more important than any other. But the Beatles being the progenitors of psychedelia is oneof the worst jokes ever, and even John Lennon said that more than once!
 
(BTW, make sure to check out on Wiki the 10 worst business decisions ever made ... two of them were the Beatles and the Rolling Stones ... when people didn't believe that rock music amounted to much more than just kids master______ in the street with a few guitars! Those morons are long dead now, but the music lives on!)

craigb

space_cowboy

Rain


I'm a Believer.

Or Strawberry Fields Forever.

I do believe I'm a believer was the Monkees 

Neil Diamond actually.

Neil wrote it, but the Monkees sang it.  

I love that song - and Peasant Valley Sundae.