Hi,
 
I don't listen to the early stuff that much, but just heard a month ago (again) and in its entirety, the album with them in Munich was before the fame days, and the mistakes, freshness and obvious care to a lot of their music, was already present, and if you ask me, I would say it is/was a bit weird that someone did not grab them sooner. 
 
I much prefer anything from beyond the Sgt Pepper's album. For anything Beatles before that, I like the Christmas Shows way better, as you can hear their personalities, which the songs, obviously, do not show as much or as well. The later material is more "personal" and consequently "interesting" for me. Before that, it felt just like another song, and all of them were nicely done for my tastes ... and listen for Ringo's drum fills ... really nice!

This fred knows what it's like to be dead.

drewfx1
This fred knows what it's like to be dead.

The thing that makes the Beatles better than they really were, was the fact that they took the music business by storm, and blew it up and apart. Even Elvis did not have the pull and strength that the Beatles pulled off, and then went out and got it done with the Rolling Stones, and other bands ... as, until that time, the music business was way too controlled and not a true sensor of the feelings and public sentiments on music at the time. 
 
As their fame went worldwide, that was rare, since no single entity, anywhere, had really been a huge seller or personality the world over, and that is something that some bands and performers have duplicated, but not quite won over. Pink Floyd and Michael Jackson, would be in this group by now.
 
It's dead in that they are old/dead/gone, but not "old" as they are really a part of the history of the media in the 20th century, since they helped explode it the world over. I think that makes them more important, although that's not necessarily to say that the music got better as was the case with PF and MJ.
 
This is how I see it, being that I saw the commotion in Brazil, and then I saw it here in America as well, and then got to experience the California scene in the 70's.
 
Quite a time, I tell you!

Its easy for me : Octopus's Garden is hands down the absolute worst.
 
And Hey Bull Dog ?  I always liked that one.
 
While My Guitar gently Weeps has a preachy quality that I don't like very much.
 
But hey, everybody has an opinion, eh?
 
Cheers,
 
Bert

Old Brown Shoe.

IDK, I absolutely HATE Imagine by Lennon. As far as Beatles, I guess A Day in The Life would be one I can do without.
 
Imagine that!
 
J

BassDaddy
Old Brown Shoe.

I actually really like the Bass track on that song.

Revolution #9

michaelhanson

BassDaddy
Old Brown Shoe.

I actually really like the Bass track on that song.

there are some great early takes of that track-- one of them in the anthology discs

BassDaddy
Old Brown Shoe.

Based on a joke in one of the Christmas shows I imagine that this song was done as a joke, sometimes in the same vein as several others they did, which I think were done for the fun of it, because ... they could!

Means I don´t have one.

slartabartfast
 
People tend to forget that the early Beatles was an overhyped bubblegum band. Riches made from the insane following of female tweens, allowed them to experiment and produce the interesting stuff that some love to have.

What would be the alternative? To start as an unknown jazz trio? :o) :o) Why did the insane teens choose them to follow? They were not hyped when they set the foundation of their popularity in Liverpool.
 
Hype in the early 60's, the means of creating it, was something else than hype today. It was mainly radio play and magazines, which both were in their infancy regarding so called "teen culture". The key thing, IMO, is that when they started serious recording, they already had hundreds (thousands?) of hours of sweaty club gigs in the pocket,
they were already a solid stage act. They had spent more hours on the stage than many bands today during their whole existance.  By then Paul, John and George were already a symbiotic creative animal. By the time of "Please please me" they were not just any band, and "A hard days night" was in a league of it's own among the pop albums of those days. "Please, please me", "With the Beatles" and "A Hard days night" were published within 15 months
and were, except for a few songs, all composed by the band itself, which was something unheard of those days.
To me, that sounds like talent and hard work, not hype.

Kalle Rantaaho

slartabartfast
 
People tend to forget that the early Beatles was an overhyped bubblegum band. Riches made from the insane following of female tweens, allowed them to experiment and produce the interesting stuff that some love to have.

What would be the alternative? To start as an unknown jazz trio? :o) :o) Why did the insane teens choose them to follow? They were not hyped when they set the foundation of their popularity in Liverpool.
 
Hype in the early 60's, the means of creating it, was something else than hype today. It was mainly radio play and magazines, which both were in their infancy regarding so called "teen culture". The key thing, IMO, is that when they started serious recording, they already had hundreds (thousands?) of hours of sweaty club gigs in the pocket,
they were already a solid stage act. They had spent more hours on the stage than many bands today during their whole existance.  By then Paul, John and George were already a symbiotic creative animal. By the time of "Please please me" they were not just any band, and "A hard days night" was in a league of it's own among the pop albums of those days. "Please, please me", "With the Beatles" and "A Hard days night" were published within 15 months
and were, except for a few songs, all composed by the band itself, which was something unheard of those days.
To me, that sounds like talent and hard work, not hype.

+1
Well said.

Soundwise
Revolution #9. Probably because this record is a part of my favorite Beatles' album.

You can walk down the street, turn on a cassette player, and record it for a few hours ... as you walk through the park and what not.
 
The result will be the same, with a few edits here and there ... and I really thought it was valuable in the sense that ... here was reality ... but we wanted a "song" that was not a "reality", because it distorted it many times.
 
There was a bootleg by the Bonzo Dog Band (the band that played silently in the Magical Mystery Tour, btw), that had a satire of Revolution #9 ... and one of the passersby was saying ... "look, I'm a Beatle recording a taxy going by ... ohh and a dog just ... " and it fades out. This also, continued and blended into "We're Normal" ... whose line was taken from the play "Marat/Sade" which was the big hit in London for several years, and probably was one of the "events" that helped usher a lot of anti-establishment sentiments ... of which Revolution #9, is a major one!
 
It's not a "song" per se, but as a piece that tries to put the band on par with reality, as opposed to them being a "star" that had to "perform" and "create" great music ... yeah ... it makes perfect sense, even though everyone hates it!
 
You, or I, would have done the same thing when we're tired of people telling us what to do, in music or otherwise!

Moshkito

Soundwise
Revolution #9. Probably because this record is a part of my favorite Beatles' album.

You can walk down the street, turn on a cassette player, and record it for a few hours ... as you walk through the park and what not.
 
The result will be the same, with a few edits here and there ... and I really thought it was valuable in the sense that ... here was reality ... but we wanted a "song" that was not a "reality", because it distorted it many times.
 
There was a bootleg by the Bonzo Dog Band (the band that played silently in the Magical Mystery Tour, btw), that had a satire of Revolution #9 ... and one of the passersby was saying ... "look, I'm a Beatle recording a taxy going by ... ohh and a dog just ... " and it fades out. This also, continued and blended into "We're Normal" ... whose line was taken from the play "Marat/Sade" which was the big hit in London for several years, and probably was one of the "events" that helped usher a lot of anti-establishment sentiments ... of which Revolution #9, is a major one!
 
It's not a "song" per se, but as a piece that tries to put the band on par with reality, as opposed to them being a "star" that had to "perform" and "create" great music ... yeah ... it makes perfect sense, even though everyone hates it!
 
You, or I, would have done the same thing when we're tired of people telling us what to do, in music or otherwise!

And the Jefferson Airplane took the same drugs and put out A Small Package of Value Will Come to You, Shortly well before John joined the revolution.