Help! - Side B - Round 3

Help! - Side B - Round 3

Poll ended at 14 Nov 2020, 3:01pm

"Act Naturally"
3
20%
"It's Only Love"
2
13%
"You Like Me Too Much"
7
47%
"Tell Me What You See"
1
7%
"I've Just Seen a Face"
2
13%
 
Total votes: 15

Wolter
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Re: Help! - Side B - Round 3

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Heston wrote:
13 Nov 2020, 8:27pm
Flex wrote:
13 Nov 2020, 7:53pm
PROTECT ACT NATURALLY BRIGADE
I'm not looking after the interests of Billy Ray Cyrus fans.
Confusing those two sounds might be why you confuse Shakin’ Stevens with Elvis.
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Re: Help! - Side B - Round 3

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Flex wrote:
13 Nov 2020, 10:16pm
My two fave albums :cool:
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Re: Help! - Side B - Round 3

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Dr. Medulla wrote:
13 Nov 2020, 10:27pm
Flex wrote:
13 Nov 2020, 10:16pm
My two fave albums :cool:
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Everyone else: “Cake or Pie?”
Flex: “plain white bread please.”
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Re: Help! - Side B - Round 3

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Dr. Medulla wrote:
13 Nov 2020, 10:02pm
Heston wrote:
13 Nov 2020, 9:40pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
13 Nov 2020, 9:08pm
I'll be honest: Nothing on Side B is especially appealing to me (within a Beatles context, of course; not popular music more generally). And the album as a whole is mostly a shrug for me. There's some historic importance, with a turn to more folkish/mature concerns, but it's at best a warm-up for the next leap forward of Rubber Soul.
Hard disagree, I think side one is excellent. Side two is patchy but they were on an insane schedule. I actually think Rubber Soul has its share of average songs too.
Beatles For Sale and Help! sound like transition pieces, somewhere between the teeny bop band they were and the genre-pushing artists they were going to be. It's not that the songs are bad—just to be clear, c'mon, it's the fucking Beatles—but there's so little that stands out to me, unlike with PPM and AHDN or RS and R, because the material is neither that beautiful pop nor that really developed songwriting. It suffers in comparison with what bookends.
Disagree. Loads of absolutely brilliant songs with some filler, like most of their career.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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Re: Help! - Side B - Round 3

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An observation: 2 people voted out I've Just Seen a Face
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Re: Help! - Side B - Round 3

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tepista wrote:
13 Nov 2020, 10:50pm
An observation: 2 people voted out I've Just Seen a Face
That's nothing, 12 people never voted out Act Naturally.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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Re: Help! - Side B - Round 3

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Wolter wrote:
13 Nov 2020, 10:26pm
Heston wrote:
13 Nov 2020, 8:27pm
Flex wrote:
13 Nov 2020, 7:53pm
PROTECT ACT NATURALLY BRIGADE
I'm not looking after the interests of Billy Ray Cyrus fans.
Confusing those two sounds might be why you confuse Shakin’ Stevens with Elvis.
I just googled "Billy Ray Cyrus genre" and "Buck Owens genre", both came up with the big heading, COUNTRY MUSIC. So forgive me for missing some of the finer points, but it all sounds like Country to me.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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Re: Help! - Side B - Round 3

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Heston wrote:
13 Nov 2020, 11:08pm
Wolter wrote:
13 Nov 2020, 10:26pm
Heston wrote:
13 Nov 2020, 8:27pm
Flex wrote:
13 Nov 2020, 7:53pm
PROTECT ACT NATURALLY BRIGADE
I'm not looking after the interests of Billy Ray Cyrus fans.
Confusing those two sounds might be why you confuse Shakin’ Stevens with Elvis.
I just googled "Billy Ray Cyrus genre" and "Buck Owens genre", both came up with the big heading, COUNTRY MUSIC. So forgive me for missing some of the finer points, but it all sounds like Country to me.
Both Led Zeppelin and the La’s are rock music, so yeah they must share a huge fanbase.
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