Much better than Revolver. Flamesuit on! ;)
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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IMHO LZ’s best were their first 3, at least for their style of the blues, after that it was down hill.
Good example for me is classical music. For most of my life, I found classical music boring. Then I decided to give it a listen and found that certain works grew on me over time. Now I'm able to appreciate most classical music from Baroque Era to modern day (and even some Renaissance Era works). To an extent, it's the same with jazz, blues and country, all of which I have come to appreciate to some degree.
Before the age of 30, it was rock music all the time. But I opened my mind up and explored elsewhere. I still go back to rock music but wonder how I ever listened to some of that stuff.
few compare with Robert Plant...
Fifty years ago, most albums were collections of songs that included an accumulation of hits packed in with filler material.
Revolver had some great songs, but as a whole, it just didn’t stand out.
Out of all my many LP’s; I only owned ONE ‘Beatles’ album...’Rubber Soul’. The rest of their catalog? Meh. (Which was blasphemy in the fab four obsessed northeast US.)
Surprised that no one’s mentioned Sgt. Pepper. I am unable to come up with a “best” album of all time.
I like Rubber Soul a little bit better
Alison Krauss and Robert Plant - “Black Dog”...even better than the LZ version!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnNNorl5yKE
The Knife! The Knife!
The Knife...
Genesis Live. Was it Return of the Giant Hogweed?
He certainly had the key to harnessing their collective talent. He was, truly, the Fifth Beatle.
Well, it’s not as if I’ve never been wrong before.
The Beatles provided the background music for my adolescence.
If you want to see real money records, look at mint first-pressing UK Parlophone monos. Evidently, the sky is the limit.
Not even close to the all time best album, but lord it is a great album. Every song is great. There is no filler at all.
Just, compare it to Led Zepplin 4 and there just is no comparison. Even Boston I was better, there are several that are better than Revolver.
Or even
Yes; Queen at Wembly was laudatory. Love watching the YouTube of it.
Saw them live several times. Peter Gabriel was an astonishing performer.
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