Posted on 08/05/2016 5:35:44 AM PDT by Mariner
In the spring of 1966, riding high on the artistic success of ‘Rubber Soul,’ the Beatles went into the studio to begin crafting what would become their greatest record.
It is spring 1966, and the Beatles are ensconced in London’s EMI Studios, where they have embarked upon their latest manipulation of time. The Christmas season just passed had seen the release of the band’s sixth album, Rubber Soul, a game-changer of a disc that wedded American rhythm and blues to English folk music, as if the two genres were meant to go together all along. The Beatles, as the popsmiths-cum-pied pipers for teenyboppers, the lovable lads behind A Hard Day’s Night, were no more. Their middle-career era of high-toned, big boy art had commenced.
Rubber Soul continued to dominate the charts that spring. It featured organic sounds sourced from the streets of the city and countryside fields where one might have pictured John Clare wandering, but the Beatles, being the Beatles, were now moving entirely beyond Rubber Soul’s rustic-tinged soundscapes, as if such a masterwork were a mere digression in their journey towards something bigger, something better, something more “next,” if you will.
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huge fan of Zeppelin III...ranks right after Physical Graffiti on my list...
should also add trying to pigeon hole the mighty Led Zeppelin as a “guitar band” is more than wrong...
Thank You, Misty Mountain Hop, Trampled Underfoot, Carouselambra and of course Kasmir prove that assertion wrong..
if its electric guitar you are referencing I’d also throw in half of Zeppelin III, Battle of Evermore, Going to California, The Rain Song plus a bunch on Physical Graffiti...
I go back and forth on this, but I might give a slight edge to Rubber Soul. Tremendous quality throughout, and works as a whole. Revolver and the White Album have lots of quality, but feel disjointed. Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road are well put-together albums, but their song quality is a little more uneven. I’ll probably change my mind on this tomorrow.
And I won’t even attempt to rank among different bands...
Hell to the ya!
Yes, Dogs and Sheep are amazing.
Oh my god, Echoes is my favorite Pink Floyd song followed by Comfortably Numb. Check this out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2uuRG9l1JA
Everyone knows that was LZ2. ;0)
Some of the “reject” songs The Who did are great.
Have you ever heard “Melancholia”? How the heck did that not make it onto an album? Perhaps Pete thought it too dark. But it’s now become one of my favorite Who songs.
And my favorite all-time Zep song, "No Quarter". John Paul Jones is a very underrated keyboard player.
how could i forget that one??? thanks for bringing it up...i’ve literally listened to the live version of this song a dozen times this week from TSRTS...
I first heard that one on Thirty Years of Maximum R&B, then it showed up on the expanded Sell Out. The one that kills me is After the Fire, which never had the chance to show up on a Who studio album (though there are some live versions around).
Roger did it on his solo album.
“Days of Future Past” by the Moody Blues (1967) or “Out of the Blue” by the Electric Light Orchestra (1977) might give it a run for its money.
WOW ! Epic ! Thanks !
I am not a pot smoker, but in this instance I wish I was. My luck though, I would have a total melt down. It is one of the best synchronizations ever.
Yes it was. It was their "Foxtrot"/"Dark Side of the Moon"/"Thick as a Brick"
Never got into Physical Graffiti. Bad breakup with guitarist boyfriend. Went silent for a couple of years, started a business and built a house. Almost made up for it?
never to late....
The over the top drumming was the only irritating aspect of Quadrophenia
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