Have I ever shown you this?
I came up with this idea on another board a ways back: A playlist of the Beatles' heaviest songs. With help from the other members there, this was the result:
DISC 1
Why Don't We Do It In The Road
I've Got A Feeling
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Birthday
Tomorrow Never Knows
Blue Jay Way
Think For Yourself
Polythene Pam
Get Back
Glass Onion
Revolution (2)
I Am the Walrus
Hey Bulldog
DISC2
Yer Blues
Taxman
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Back In The USSR
She Said She Said
Long, Long, Long
Come Together
Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey
Love You Too
Helter Skelter
Dig A Pony
I Want to Tell You
Oh! Darling
Sgt. Pepper's Reprise
Basically perfect. Might start disc two with Taxman, but otherwise no complaints. More than half tempted to burn some CD-Rs for my next road trip. (I'm one of those idiots who bought the reissued box-set, so I got it all.)
Glad you like it, Todd. It's a fun listen.
Hey Bulldog is included, then you get a thumbs up from this guy.
Ditto here, I'm a long time Beatles nut. That's a good playlist; I may whip it up in iTunes this evening. Shame you couldn't fit Strawberry Fields in there somewhere.
And Todd, I bought the stereo AND the mono. Idiocy loves company. ;D
Quote from: jwinter on August 03, 2012, 06:03:37 PMAnd Todd, I bought the stereo AND the mono. Idiocy loves company.
Ah, shit, now I think I need to get the mono set. (No one is dumber than me. Ask my wife.)
You know, this makes me think of the deleted
Pulp Fiction scene where Uma Thurman's character discusses Elvis and Beatles fans. (Is it wrong that I've started to enjoy Elvis more in the last decade?)
Quote from: jwinter on August 03, 2012, 06:03:37 PM
Shame you couldn't fit Strawberry Fields in there somewhere.
Go for it.
Quote from: Todd on August 03, 2012, 06:07:24 PM
(Is it wrong that I've started to enjoy Elvis more in the last decade?)
No, it's not. He's growing on me too, especially his Sun stuff. Classic.
Dudes, we share a brain... I've gotten quite a bit into Elvis the past year or so... the Sun stuff is great, though I've really become somewhat obsessed with From Elvis in Memphis, truly gorgeous album. I also have a weakness for the early-mid 70s stuff, there are some real gems hidden in those last few albums.
Quote from: jwinter on August 03, 2012, 06:16:22 PM
Dudes, we share a brain... I've gotten quite a bit into Elvis the past year or so... the Sun stuff is great, though I've really become somewhat obsessed with From Elvis in Memphis, truly gorgeous album. I also have a weakness for the early-mid 70s stuff, there are some real gems hidden in those last few albums.
If lovin' this CD is wrong, I don't want to be right:
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But Elvis is so old. Wait, my daughter delights in telling me that I'm old. I'm not, I swear.
Yeah, when did that shit happen??
Seriously. We should get matching hats that say "Old Fart" on them...
Well, if enjoying older music is what makes you old, all us early music listeners are in BIG trouble.
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Jeez, can't I wait until I'm fifty?
Speaking of the mono box, it is worth getting if you're fanatical on the subject. Nothing truly revelatory, but they are very differently mixed, and a few of them include alternate takes. The mono White Album is actually kind of bizarre; Back in the USSR sounds strange in mono.
I actually think I prefer the mono Sgt. Pepper to the stereo -- so did George (Harrison, not that Cortot-loving guy ;D ), who apparently never heard the stereo mix until he was at a friend's house in the 1970s -- in those days, the boys heard and approved the mono track, and the engineers then went through and split it up into stereo.
Quote from: MN Dave on August 03, 2012, 04:50:22 PM
Have I ever shown you this?
I came up with this idea on another board a ways back: A playlist of the Beatles' heaviest songs. With help from the other members there, this was the result:
DISC 1
Why Don't We Do It In The Road
I've Got A Feeling
I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
Birthday
Tomorrow Never Knows
Blue Jay Way
Think For Yourself
Polythene Pam
Get Back
Glass Onion
Revolution (2)
I Am the Walrus
Hey Bulldog
DISC2
Yer Blues
Taxman
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Back In The USSR
She Said She Said
Long, Long, Long
Come Together
Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey
Love You Too
Helter Skelter
Dig A Pony
I Want to Tell You
Oh! Darling
Sgt. Pepper’s Reprise
Where's "Doctor Robert"?
Quote from: karlhenning on August 03, 2012, 06:55:25 PM
Where's "Doctor Robert"?
With "Day Tripper" and "And Your Bird Can Sing".
Quote from: karlhenning on August 03, 2012, 06:55:25 PM
Where's "Doctor Robert"?
Quote from: Szykneij on August 03, 2012, 07:08:53 PM
With "Day Tripper" and "And Your Bird Can Sing".
And with "Ticket To Ride", "I'm Down" and "I Me Mine".
....
And "I Saw Her Standing There".
And "Drive My Car".
And "One After 909".
And ....
STOP!!
It's all too much.
:)
"When I Get Home" is a favorite early screamer.
Quote from: The new erato on August 03, 2012, 10:29:09 PM
"When I Get Home" is a favorite early screamer.
Still adding songs, eh?
Listen pal, enough is enough.
I already said STOP!!, so
you can't do that!!
Remember, we were going for heavy.
"Long Long Long" is heavy?
There's more of a story behind my suggestion. It's not much, but even such as it is, it's got to wait until après-musée.
Trust me, this was put together by experts.
You can do your own list, of course...
You're a writer, so you especially know how funny the very idea of Beatles music experts is! ; )
Quote from: karlhenning on August 04, 2012, 07:22:07 AM
You're a writer, so you especially know how funny the very idea of Beatles music experts is! ; )
Not Beatles experts. Experts on
The Heavy.
Shedizens, in other words? How'd I miss this discussion in The Shed?
And, dude: if Mr Garian wasn't on your panel, the results are RUBBISH!! ; )
Quote from: karlhenning on August 04, 2012, 07:28:04 AM
Shedizens, in other words? How'd I miss this discussion in The Shed?
And, dude: if Mr Garian wasn't on your panel, the results are RUBBISH!! ; )
Bah. Not that kind of heavy.
Anyway, I'm not Bruckner. Once a work is complete, I don't go back and tinker with it on someone else's say-so.
I'm still tellin' you my story later.
Quote from: karlhenning on August 04, 2012, 07:30:14 AM
I'm still tellin' you my story later.
All about the girl who came to stay?
Will she still believe it in The Shed?
Quote from: karlhenning on August 04, 2012, 07:42:19 AM
Will she still believe it in The Shed?
I'm sure she understood it when they said.
Quote from: karlhenning on August 04, 2012, 07:30:14 AM
I'm still tellin' you my story later.
Or not. Chances are no one needs it.
Long Long Long but no Strawberry Fields? ???
I pulled this up as a playlist in iTunes, and checked it out on a longish drive yesterday. Excellent, I must say -- there were a couple of tracks that I wasn't sure of just by reading the list, but as a whole it really does flow very well, and definitely highlights the Heavy side of the Beatles. For the record, I did add Strawberry Fields to the end, right after Sgt Pepper's reprise, but that's just tinkering...
Quote from: jwinter on August 05, 2012, 07:15:51 PM
I pulled this up as a playlist in iTunes, and checked it out on a longish drive yesterday. Excellent, I must say -- there were a couple of tracks that I wasn't sure of just by reading the list, but as a whole it really does flow very well, and definitely highlights the Heavy side of the Beatles. For the record, I did add Strawberry Fields to the end, right after Sgt Pepper's reprise, but that's just tinkering...
Nice to hear. Thank you.