As I said above, TNK is my favourite Beatles song and there's no longer any doubt about it. It's great on its own, but it also works so perfectly as a dividing point between Beatles' eras but also the moment when youth culture in the 60s started to splinter. It was an invitation and a challenge to their fans—you ready to go to strange new places? (McKinney's book deals with this well.)Kory wrote:*whew*Dr. Medulla wrote:Is there a sitar in there? Okay, that one definitely works, too.Kory wrote:What about Tomorrow Never Knows?Dr. Medulla wrote:Not a sound I especially like—it grates on me—but the larger point is that George's sitar songs are pretty weak as songs. For Beatles songs with a sitar, only "Norwegian Wood" works.Kory wrote:
Why don't you like sitars?
The Beatles song you're thinking about right now thread
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Re: The Beatles song you're thinking about right now thread
"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
Re: The Beatles song you're thinking about right now thread
As does Mad Men.Dr. Medulla wrote:As I said above, TNK is my favourite Beatles song and there's no longer any doubt about it. It's great on its own, but it also works so perfectly as a dividing point between Beatles' eras but also the moment when youth culture in the 60s started to splinter. It was an invitation and a challenge to their fans—you ready to go to strange new places? (McKinney's book deals with this well.)Kory wrote:*whew*Dr. Medulla wrote:Is there a sitar in there? Okay, that one definitely works, too.Kory wrote:What about Tomorrow Never Knows?Dr. Medulla wrote: Not a sound I especially like—it grates on me—but the larger point is that George's sitar songs are pretty weak as songs. For Beatles songs with a sitar, only "Norwegian Wood" works.
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That's what I played for my class after they admitted that none of them had ever heard TMK. Mad Men used it so damned perfectly to illustrate that "The 60s" had really begun. Don turning it off halfway thru nailed it on the head.Kory wrote:As does Mad Men.Dr. Medulla wrote:As I said above, TNK is my favourite Beatles song and there's no longer any doubt about it. It's great on its own, but it also works so perfectly as a dividing point between Beatles' eras but also the moment when youth culture in the 60s started to splinter. It was an invitation and a challenge to their fans—you ready to go to strange new places? (McKinney's book deals with this well.)Kory wrote:*whew*Dr. Medulla wrote:Is there a sitar in there? Okay, that one definitely works, too.Kory wrote:
What about Tomorrow Never Knows?
"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
Re: The Beatles song you're thinking about right now thread
I loved how earlier in the episode he stopped somebody by saying "I KNOW what the Beatles sound like."Dr. Medulla wrote:That's what I played for my class after they admitted that none of them had ever heard TMK. Mad Men used it so damned perfectly to illustrate that "The 60s" had really begun. Don turning it off halfway thru nailed it on the head.Kory wrote:As does Mad Men.Dr. Medulla wrote:As I said above, TNK is my favourite Beatles song and there's no longer any doubt about it. It's great on its own, but it also works so perfectly as a dividing point between Beatles' eras but also the moment when youth culture in the 60s started to splinter. It was an invitation and a challenge to their fans—you ready to go to strange new places? (McKinney's book deals with this well.)Kory wrote:*whew*Dr. Medulla wrote:
Is there a sitar in there? Okay, that one definitely works, too.
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Re: The Beatles song you're thinking about right now thread
Exactly. It's set up so well. Not only do the Beatles confound what a Beatles record sounds like, the confidence of knowing what the world around them means is about to go out the window. When the series began, what grabbed me was that the audience knows that everything they think they know is going to get challenged over the course of the decade, and that symbolizes where it kicks into high gear. Not for nothing that Don's life gets thrown into a blender for the rest of the way.Kory wrote:I loved how earlier in the episode he stopped somebody by saying "I KNOW what the Beatles sound like."Dr. Medulla wrote:That's what I played for my class after they admitted that none of them had ever heard TMK. Mad Men used it so damned perfectly to illustrate that "The 60s" had really begun. Don turning it off halfway thru nailed it on the head.Kory wrote:As does Mad Men.Dr. Medulla wrote:As I said above, TNK is my favourite Beatles song and there's no longer any doubt about it. It's great on its own, but it also works so perfectly as a dividing point between Beatles' eras but also the moment when youth culture in the 60s started to splinter. It was an invitation and a challenge to their fans—you ready to go to strange new places? (McKinney's book deals with this well.)Kory wrote:
*whew*
"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
Re: The Beatles song you're thinking about right now thread
I'm with Tep.tepista wrote:the pre-facial hair stuff was best, nerds.
With the Beatles
Please Please Me
Revolver
Hard Day's Night
Rubber Soul
White Album
MMT
Pepper
Help!
Beatles For Sale
Abbey Road
Let it Be
Re: The Beatles song you're thinking about right now thread
I'm very interested in both of your reasoning. I love that stuff too, but it's rare-ish to hear this opinion.Inder wrote:I'm with Tep.tepista wrote:the pre-facial hair stuff was best, nerds.
With the Beatles
Please Please Me
Revolver
Hard Day's Night
Rubber Soul
White Album
MMT
Pepper
Help!
Beatles For Sale
Abbey Road
Let it Be
"Suck our Earth dick, Martians!" —Doc
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Wolter
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Re: The Beatles song you're thinking about right now thread
They prefer the Beatles to be a Carl Perkins cover band.Kory wrote:I'm very interested in both of your reasoning. I love that stuff too, but it's rare-ish to hear this opinion.Inder wrote:I'm with Tep.tepista wrote:the pre-facial hair stuff was best, nerds.
With the Beatles
Please Please Me
Revolver
Hard Day's Night
Rubber Soul
White Album
MMT
Pepper
Help!
Beatles For Sale
Abbey Road
Let it Be
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
Re: The Beatles song you're thinking about right now thread
Don't forget Chuck Berry.Wolter wrote:They prefer the Beatles to be a Carl Perkins cover band.Kory wrote:I'm very interested in both of your reasoning. I love that stuff too, but it's rare-ish to hear this opinion.Inder wrote:I'm with Tep.tepista wrote:the pre-facial hair stuff was best, nerds.
With the Beatles
Please Please Me
Revolver
Hard Day's Night
Rubber Soul
White Album
MMT
Pepper
Help!
Beatles For Sale
Abbey Road
Let it Be
"Suck our Earth dick, Martians!" —Doc
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Wolter
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Re: The Beatles song you're thinking about right now thread
I think I read somewhere that Perkins was the artist the Beatles performed the most covers by, but I might be imagining that.Kory wrote:Don't forget Chuck Berry.Wolter wrote:They prefer the Beatles to be a Carl Perkins cover band.Kory wrote:I'm very interested in both of your reasoning. I love that stuff too, but it's rare-ish to hear this opinion.Inder wrote:I'm with Tep.tepista wrote:the pre-facial hair stuff was best, nerds.
With the Beatles
Please Please Me
Revolver
Hard Day's Night
Rubber Soul
White Album
MMT
Pepper
Help!
Beatles For Sale
Abbey Road
Let it Be
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
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Flex
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Re: The Beatles song you're thinking about right now thread
Actually... this sounds like the trolley I should be riding.Wolter wrote:They prefer the Beatles to be a Carl Perkins cover band.Kory wrote:I'm very interested in both of your reasoning. I love that stuff too, but it's rare-ish to hear this opinion.Inder wrote:I'm with Tep.tepista wrote:the pre-facial hair stuff was best, nerds.
With the Beatles
Please Please Me
Revolver
Hard Day's Night
Rubber Soul
White Album
MMT
Pepper
Help!
Beatles For Sale
Abbey Road
Let it Be
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Re: The Beatles song you're thinking about right now thread
I'm sure it's true. They did two of his songs on Beatles For Sale alone.Wolter wrote:I think I read somewhere that Perkins was the artist the Beatles performed the most covers by, but I might be imagining that.Kory wrote:Don't forget Chuck Berry.Wolter wrote:They prefer the Beatles to be a Carl Perkins cover band.Kory wrote:I'm very interested in both of your reasoning. I love that stuff too, but it's rare-ish to hear this opinion.Inder wrote:
I'm with Tep.
With the Beatles
Please Please Me
Revolver
Hard Day's Night
Rubber Soul
White Album
MMT
Pepper
Help!
Beatles For Sale
Abbey Road
Let it Be
"Suck our Earth dick, Martians!" —Doc
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Wolter
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Re: The Beatles song you're thinking about right now thread
Yeah. Come to think of it...Flex wrote:Actually... this sounds like the trolley I should be riding.Wolter wrote:They prefer the Beatles to be a Carl Perkins cover band.Kory wrote:I'm very interested in both of your reasoning. I love that stuff too, but it's rare-ish to hear this opinion.Inder wrote:I'm with Tep.tepista wrote:the pre-facial hair stuff was best, nerds.
With the Beatles
Please Please Me
Revolver
Hard Day's Night
Rubber Soul
White Album
MMT
Pepper
Help!
Beatles For Sale
Abbey Road
Let it Be
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
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Heston
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Re: The Beatles song you're thinking about right now thread
1. A Hard Day's Night
2. Revolver
3. Rubber Soul
4. Help!
5. Pepper
6. Abbey Road
7. Beatles for Sale
8. Let It Be
9. With the Beatles
10. Please Please Me
11. White Album
12. Yellow Submarine
2. Revolver
3. Rubber Soul
4. Help!
5. Pepper
6. Abbey Road
7. Beatles for Sale
8. Let It Be
9. With the Beatles
10. Please Please Me
11. White Album
12. Yellow Submarine
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
Re: The Beatles song you're thinking about right now thread
RevolverKory wrote:So what are you guys' top albums if you dislike Pepper's so much?
Revolver
Revolver
Revolver
Revolver
Abbey Road
Rubber Soul
Help
White Album
Got a Rake? Sure!
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IMCT: Inane Middle-Class Twats - Dr. M
" *sigh* it's right when they throw the penis pump out the window." -Hoy