TartanJon Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Nice story but the music was shite. He should have chucked it and looked after his kid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Endell Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Neil young was feckin honkin' in the 80s..WTF was that all about ?????Aye, it took it him until the last few months of the decade to finally come up with something decent - Freedom - that was the first Young album I bought and then started checking out his back catalogue (conveniently skipping the rest of his '80s output). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonnyTJS Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 TBH for a Ringo track (as almost every Beatles album had to have one, which always had a element of kids appeal/comedy to it) that was actually written by Ringo, Octopus's Garden is something of a guilty pleasure Beatles track, as It's not in same league as what the other 3 were capable of writing, and it is just a re-work "Yellow Submarine" Yellow Submarine is a work of genius though. It's like a song that's been around for centuries. 5 year old kids nowadays will sing it having no idea who wrote it or when. What a thing to have come up with... Well, call me the-guy-that-knows-what-he's-talking-about, but I like my pop groups to avoid cluttering their albums with tracks pitched at the playlist of Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart's Junior Choice. They should've palmed it off onto Freddy and the Dreamers. Re: the Beatles generally, familiarity probably does them no favours. During the '70s, every show on daytime Radio 1 would play a daily Beatles track. This thread was opened by one of our Polish cousins and pop culture behind the former Iron Curtain had a very different trajectory to that in the lick-spittle kapitalist West. Thirty years of musical evolution had to be swallowed whole post-1989. As you lads both know, the music of protest in the East was largely long-haired Jazz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Re: the Beatles generally, familiarity probably does them no favours. During the '70s, every show on daytime Radio 1 would play a daily Beatles track. This thread was opened by one of our Polish cousins and pop culture behind the former Iron Curtain had a very different trajectory to that in the lick-spittle kapitalist West. Thirty years of musical evolution had to be swallowed whole post-1989. As you lads both know, the music of protest in the East was largely long-haired Jazz. On that subject this is worth a look.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonnyTJS Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Fascinating. Cheers for that. On my first day in Czechoslovakia in the summer of 1991 I came across a group in a town square playing late '70s punk. Felt right at home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Probably true of most bands / artists with a fairly extensive back catalogue - e.g. Bob Dylan and Neil Young. This is very true but I'd much rather listen to Young or Dylan any day of the week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Endell Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 (edited) This is very true but I'd much rather listen to Young or Dylan any day of the week.Even a week of repeat listens of Self Portrait and Everybody's Rockin' ? Edited October 20, 2015 by Charlie Endell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Well, call me the-guy-that-knows-what-he's-talking-about, but I like my pop groups to avoid cluttering their albums with tracks pitched at the playlist of Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart's Junior Choice. They should've palmed it off onto Freddy and the Dreamers. Hardly say cluttered.... Ringo never really got more than one track per album.... Help! : Act Naturally - actually a really good cover Rubber Soul : What Goes On - Probably the poorest "Ringo Track" Revolver : Yellow Submarine - Probably known by more Beatles and non-Beatles fans than 90% of the rest of the album. Sgt Pepper : With a little help from my friends - Arguably Ringo's signature tune and one of the best songs on the album The Beatles : Don't Pass Me By & Good Night - Is DPMB any worse than Bungalow Bill, Ob-La-Di, Honey Pie? And Good Night is a beautiful song that I do not think Lennon (who wrote it) would have sang it a 10th as good (the song was a lullaby for his son Julian) Abbey Road : Octopus's Garden - Probably better than most the stuff McCartney contributed to the album, and even Lennon had stopped caring by this stage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Abbey Road : Octopus's Garden - Probably better than most the stuff McCartney contributed to the album. You're having a laugh there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 You're having a laugh there! Give you Weight of the World and The End, but do not care for Maxwell or Oh Darling! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Pretty much all of side 2 is down to Paul and George Martin though. It's arguably the high point of the Beatles' recorded output... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottincarlisle Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 I've always liked this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dandydunn Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 After. Reincarnation???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Reincarnation????I was waiting on you saying it first. :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney Rubble Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 All Things Must Pass is the total wasted opportunity in the Beatles canon. Lennon and McCartney lost the plot by not recording that one. Fuds. Apart from that they were pretty damn good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stewart_Aberdeen Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 Anyone watch the countdown programme the other night? Disappointing number 1 but not really surprising. Disgraceful lack of In My Life though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonnyTJS Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 Anyone watch the countdown programme the other night? Disappointing number 1 but not really surprising. Disgraceful lack of In My Life though! It only included no. 1 singles, no? (I've just watched the last 20 minutes of the repeat). 'In My Life' wasn't a single. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stewart_Aberdeen Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 It only included no. 1 singles, no? (I've just watched the last 20 minutes of the repeat). 'In My Life' wasn't a single. That would explain it then! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoonTheSlope Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 It only included no. 1 singles, no? (I've just watched the last 20 minutes of the repeat). 'In My Life' wasn't a single. Penny Lane never reached number one they said Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 All Things Must Pass is the total wasted opportunity in the Beatles canon. Lennon and McCartney lost the plot by not recording that one. Fuds. Apart from that they were pretty damn good. that could apply to dozen or so songs on All Things Must Pass (never mind the title track) as the album is effectively 4/5 years worth of songs that George never got a chance to put on a Beatles album. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonnyTJS Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 Penny Lane never reached number one they said Did in the US (they said). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoonTheSlope Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 Did in the US (they said). They were shite anyway. I said Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robroysboy Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 If there is anyone who love The Beatles? Which album or song is your favourite one? Paperback writer, love that song! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney Rubble Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 Oh and while I'm on about Lennon and McCartney being fuds, what the f*ck were they thinking about not releasing Hey Bulldog as a single? It's one of their best ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stocky Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 Penny Lane never reached number one they said was a double A Side withStrawberry Fields, was the first song in 12 that didnt get to number 1, 11 before that did, and 7 after it did... Think Englebert's Release Me kept it off the top spot...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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