Posted on 01/16/2023 7:45:13 PM PST by DallasBiff
Baby You're A Rich Man · The Beatles
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I’ve never really understood that song, but I’ve always like the sounds of it. That steady beat, the jingle-jangle percussion. I’m guessing John used a lot of instruments they learned about while in India.
If this was about their manager Brian Epstein, then this is John Lennon’s equivalent of the later tune by
Joni Mitchell: ‘Free Man In Paris’. That was written about her manager, the Uber-Rich David Geffen.
The falsetto too. Made it a rather unique work of John’s.
Not a big fan of the 1967 Beatles. Some of there weakest work. Best was the White Album and Abbey Road.
One of those songs in their massive catalog that you haven’t heard in awhile and you listen to it and just think, “Man, these guys were good!” :)
I meant a White Album cut down to 18 songs with the drek cut out.
Well the Beatles, wanted out of their EMI contract, and put the dreck in, to make it a double album.
**I’ve never really understood that song,**
Ha, I’ve never understood the attraction to any Beatles music. Same for my wife, and especially in this case, because any high pitched voice coming from a male singer is not to be listened to at all.
I also liked Revolver, Something New and Rubber Soul. My parents had those albums and when I was old enough, I’d sneak them into my room and listen to them on my record player with my headphones. {creak!}
So, you didn’t like Dear Prudence either?
The word you use that is telling is “understood.” I’m sure that there were people who didn’t “understand” Bach. Your post reflects on you, not on the music that will be around for another 500 years. My experience with people who claim they don’t like the Beatles is that they have never listened to the Beatles.
I never said I didn’t like Beatles music. I said I never understood the attraction.
Growing up on a farm, the only radios were in the family car and the pickup. Heavily influenced by my parents (who controlled the radio) I came to think men singers should sound manly. And that’s how my city girl wife grew up as well: manly men didn’t look or sound like the Beatles (or many other rock musicians).
Oh, we’d like a song here or there, but ‘I am the walrus’?, ‘yellow submarine’? Etc.
I remember riding the school bus around 1966, seeing farm girls going through some music magazine, oohing at pics of guys that likely wouldn’t have a clue how to work cattle, how to operate machinery, or build a mini-bike (made my first at 13).
Just never got to understand the musician worship, that has done a good job of messing up the minds of young people.
For me the British invasion songs were something to fill the time while waiting for the next song on am radio in my room (I got model Jag XKE am radio when I was 13. Probably worth a buck or two now, but my own kids played with it and broke it back in the 80s).
Is this the new theme song for black leeches in California?
We be axin’ for a friend...
After leaving UofCincy after my freshman year, I headed west to LA with the girl-next-door by my side. My plan was to finish school at UCLA where in state tuition was $100/qtr.
Eventually, we found a nice apt in a residential neighborhood of Hollywood.
One Sat afternoon, the clock radio sitting atop the refrigerator was tuned to KHJ.
I was hearing songs I never heard before and a guest DJ explaining what each song was about or what was happening in the recording studio at the time.
The album was the “White” album.
The guest DJ was George Harrison
A week later it was released and I bought it at a record shop on Sunset.
I love gospel bluegrass, but I doubt that my favorite Bluegrass musicians were good with a wrench. And just FYI, the Beatles grew up poor and were working class hell raisers before they discovered Elvis on a pirate radio station floating in the English Channel. Ringo spent most of his childhood in a hospital with various ailments. Don’t let their accent fool you. They were hard edged characters.
Good story. Mine is this. I started listening to the radio about the time Elton John covered Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. It was one of my favorite songs. Later I was with a friend and the Beatles (original) version came on. I blasted it and mocked them for their ridiculous effort at covering the beautiful Elton John song. My friend laughed his ass off and told me I was a moron. “Ever heard of The Beatles?” he asked. Later that week I went to the local record store and bought five of their 8-track “albums” and played them on a loop for about a month. Then the cassettes later, then the albums…. again and again and again.
There are three things that are very unique about the Beatles-
1. Nearly all of their songs are different in some profound way.
2. Their songs are very memorable. I love Led Zeppelin, but if were ask me to name titles of songs I would struggle after a handful. I could easily rattle off the names of 200+ Beatle songs without much effort. Melody is sticky in the mind.
3. Their music evolved at light speed. Distinguishing their music only requires weeks or months. The jump from A Hard Day’s Night to Pepper is a quantum leap that would fill up a twenty year career for most bands.
Oh yeah, that was the band Paul McCartney was in before Wings.
McCartney needed the Wings like molasses needs a cold morning.
Dear Prudence is one of my favorite songs. It was about Mia Farrow.
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