Means I don´t have one.

At this point 'in my life' (see what I did there), I wouldn't care too much if I never heard another Beatles song, or read anything about them, ever again.

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.

slartabartfast
I Wanna Hold Your Hand.
 
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.

The Beatles sound has never fascinated me  .
In the 70th I thought the Stones created the music (rock-) revolution of the 60 th,
I liked the rock sound of the Stones much more then the Beatles pop.
Many years later I met people like Tony Sheridan and others who
lifed in the music scene in that time (the 60th). All of them told me
that the real music revolution was more or less the beatles -
there way to compose, record, sing, performan on stage and fire
was the beginning of the todays pop business.
And it´s not true that the Beatles started as an overhyped bubblegum band,
they learned the real hard way:
They played for years for very little money 3-5 hours every night in the
darkest, smallest,moisty cellar club in Hamburg St. Pauli before they got
recognized of the bigger music clubs.
I am not a Beatles fan , but this has to be said, OK ?
 
 
 

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!

jbow
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

I can hardly believe someone hate Imagine, other than me. Just hate it. Only A Northern Song kinda stinks too. Sounds like they didn't know what they wanted to do with or even how fast to play it.

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.

I like all of their old songs , my favorite band