The Beatles

Non-Phish General
#1

I searched, and was astounded to see that there isn’t a thread for these lads already. Before the OhKeePa came around, I was spending the majority of my time at a Beatles related board called “The Beatgear Cavern.” Cool place, lots of knowledge floating around. So I’m one of those Beatle guys who knows just about everything. However, their unbreeziness toward Phish over there led me to not post as much and begin my life here.

So anyway, back to the point. I’m listening to some Beatles right now. The album HELP to be specific. I just can’t get over it. Everything little thing in every Beatles song is perfect. They know exactly where harmonies go, exactly where little guitar fills go, every word and note is brilliant. It’s always baffled me that they could just sit down and scribble out a song and have it be so fucking incredible.

I don’t really know what I’m getting at here. But The Beatles definitely deserve their own thread here on the Oh Kee Pa, so here it is. What are some of your favorite Beatle songs or whatever? Tell me what you see.

-Daniel

#2

I recently pulled out sargent peppers, and I just love the beginning of that album…its just so unexplainably good.
I’d like to hear example of their unbreeziness towards phish…what kind of reasons did they give?

#3

definitely my second favorite Beatles album after Abbey Road. I’m particularly fond of “Lovely Rita!!”

#4

favorite album: White Album

songs:

Rocky Racoon
Long and Winding Road
Dear Prudence
In My Life
For No One
I’ve Got A Feeling
Day In The Life
Nowhere Man
Blackbird
Only A Northern Song
I’m Only Sleeping
Fixing A Hole
Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
Something
Yer Blues
shit this list could go on all day, i think i’ll make a sandwich now.

#5

magical mystery tour might be my favorite album though. Abbey Road is up there too.

#6

Revolver - my favorite album

but that’s just right now, it changes pretty regularily just because, as you said UB40, it’s all SOOOO good and so perfectly done.

The Beatles were one of my first real loves in music. I remember growing up and throwing on my mom’s records…she had (gave them to me recently!!!) Help, Sgt. Peppers, Magical Mystery, White Album, and Abbey Road. not a bad way to get into The Beatles when you’re 13-14 years old.

good thread!

#7

I mean, how can you not feel inspired after hearing “yes, I admit its getting better, a little better, all the time (can’t get no worse)”
I can’t say I’ve heard Revolver before

#8

^ WHAT??? that’s criminal. it’s a work of genius. get it…NOW!!!

#9

[steps up on soap box]

I am not a big Beatles fan

[dodges tomato thrown by UB40]

No seriou… [dodges anchor tosses by G3000]

Abbey Road, Sgt. Pepper, and Revolver are my favorites.

The rest it is not that I don’t like it… I just never have an urge to listen to it. My old roomate was huge into the Beatles… I’ve given every album its fair shot… Just not for me.

#10

I definitely don’t listen to them very often, but once in a while they really hit the spot…great vocals, and simple, fun, inspiring songs

#11

my sophomore year in college i’d get baked with 2 other buddies and listen to Rubber Soul A LOT. I would almost call it a “phase.” You can tell they were trying to get out of the poppy love songs and into the more creative stuff, but it’s still apparent that Rubber Soul is a love album. That would obviously change with Revolver, which, coincidentally, is probably one of my least-favorite Beatles’ albums.

#12

Well, I guess it wasn’t really unbreeziness, it was more like they just didn’t give Phish credit for being talented musicians. Mind you, this was a group of people who most of which dont think Jerry was a good guitar player. So that gets bothersome.

Back to the Beatles though. A lot of the cool shit was also put in by George Martin. I guess it was lucky that he happened to conduct a full orchestra and could make all kinds of backup recordings for Beatles songs. If you pay attention, a lot of the middle stuff has those little horn sections or strings or something. It’s genius mixing as well as performing.

Right now I’m listening to “Flying” on MMT. What a fucking classic.

#13

i can respect that will, cuz in a way i think the beatles can be an aquired taste at times. Help! on i love, but the previous albums, the all pop driven albums, i don’t care much for…once they became top-notch musicians (which they obviously weren’t at first) they stretched all limits and really pioneered psychedelic rock.

it’s interesting how The Beatles formula for success worked though, not like most bands these days. they became insanely famous overnight with pop-hits…one after another. then, went away from the mainstream and started creating new, innovative music…

as opposed to most bands (Aerosmith, U2, Metallica, etc.) who build a fan-base, become popular, then sell-out.

#14

throws tomato at Will and follows it with a cold Anchor Steam

all is forgiven

#15

it took me awhile to appreciate the earlier Beatles stuff. it was just too squeaky-clean for me. the bass-player for my last band was a Beatles fanatic and force-fed me much of the earlier catalouge. we started playing lots of Beatles songs, which accelerated my apperciation exponetially. my favorites to play were Hey Bulldog, Taxman and Tomorrow Never Knows. The latter was the best because i was able to bring what little phish influence into the ‘jam’ segment as i was capable of.

a funny side note to this: the other two guys in my band absolutely HATED phish, and i was strongly discouraged from trying to cover anything from them. so, i fooled them into thinking i wrote Bug. i taught them how “i wanted it played” step by step and they loved it. after we had a semi-decent grasp of this song, and it was clearly going to be a mainstay, i popped in Farmhouse and put on track 3. dirty lookes ensued, as i laughed and shook my fists in Sweet Victory.

#16

^ great move man…that’s as solid as it gets.

tomorrow never knows is something i’ve wanted my band to play too, i think it’ll happen soon. i saw The Dead play it a couple years ago and their rendition was just insane.

#17

^^ Isn’t that how Mike Gordon got the boys to play bluegrass? I think some Max Creek tune.

Great minds think alike I suppose!

#18

the beatles rock.

PS. STOP POSTING SO MUCH WHILE I’M GONE AT SCHOOL. i have too much to read.

#19

the beatles were my favorite band when i was like 8. i listened to them non stop. i have since calmed own, but still appreciate everything they ever did.

#20

learn to read faster or quit school, 1 of the 2!