Posted on 08/05/2023 8:19:14 AM PDT by shadowlands1960
Most of them are ok, but none are what I would consider as my favorite Beatles song.
The LSD use is beginning to influence their music at this point. This turned off many of their older fans. However, I love the later years of The Beatles. Not because of the drugs but because they began showing how talented they were musically.
“Here, There and Everywhere” is such a good song although very mellow.
Harrison was really hitting his stride in this period.
IIRC that was also the time John Lennon made his “more popular than Jesus” remark.
They became a production band at this point. Nothing wrong with that, but they were recording songs they could never replicate live - and had no intention of playing anyway.
Some bands made it a point to sound the same live as on a recording (like Skynyrd). For the Beatles and George Martin, it wasn't even a thought.
A lot of people aren’t aware that that up until Sgt. Pepper, Beatles albums had a UK version and a US version. Some of the songs were the same on both versions, while other songs appeared on two different albums either US or UK.
The Beatles demanded that, beginning with Pepper, both UK and US releases had to have the same songs.
Eleanor Rigby or Here There and Everywhere.
George is getting the hang of writing music at this point. This is a very important development because he would go on to write “Something” and “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”, two of the best songs in the Beatles catalog IMO.
George also wrote “It Don’t Come Easy”, which of course, Ringo ended up doing and having a big hit with it.
Yes, once the Beatles took hands on control they ended the nonsense of 12 song US vs 14 song UK albums. Capitol did that deliberately so they could cobble together those single compilation albums like ‘Yesterday and Today.’ They still were able to cobble together ‘Hey Jude’ in the end because there were several singles that didn’t appear on any album... those are now all on ‘Past Masters 1 and 2.’
me too!
I have no problem putting ‘While My Guitar..’ in the top three Beatles songs... ‘Something’ also...
Definitely the last album before the cheese slipped off their crackers.
Drugs are bad. I mean I get it, a little bit of recreational pharmaceuticals might get the ole creative juices flowing, but at some point it becomes a huge liability.
Tomorrow Never Knows, easily.
Rubber Soul and Revolver...by far their best work.
Eleanor Rigby
Tax Man
And Your Bird Can Sing
Drive My Car
You Won’t See Me
In My Life
If I Needed Someone
Yellow Submarine has a special place in my heart because when I was a freshman in high school some students sung a parody in a talent show about a nearby town full of hippy strangeness. The chorus will always be "We all live in a town called Yellow Springs" to me.
Marianne *could* sing
She *was* green (17)
She *could* swing (the police raid on Keith's house)
And she was eventually "broken"
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