Rediscovering the Beatles

[Pilotman]

Raining outside, so I am working on the computer and selected 5 Beatles albums as background  that I haven't listened to for years.  Such nostalgia. What wonderful music. I am just amusing Mrs P with my stories of attempting in 1966 to kiss the lovely Jane outside the local chip shop, while listening to Beatles tracks. I never managed it. Great memories, evoked by brilliant music. I wonder if the younger spotify generation will have similar tracks to evoke their memories?  

[Logosone]

Fascinating stuff.

[CharlieH]

Like bookmarks in time, funny how a tune can evoke so many memories, good and bad. Music can transport you magically right back to that moment/period.

I have recalled things from hearing a song that I hadnt even thought about in years.

 

Totally relate to the OP, and I dare say the youth of today will have similar events in years to come. We all have our "triggers" for accessing those distant files in time I guess.

 

"Songs from the past can stir powerful emotions and transport us back in time. Tiffany Jenkins explores what happens in our brains when music carries us away."

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20140417-why-does-music-evoke-memories

[thaibeachlovers]

18 hours ago, Pilotman said:

Great memories, evoked by brilliant music. I wonder if the younger spotify generation will have similar tracks to evoke their memories?  

My generation grew up listening to wonderful music that accompanied our lives, so we remember our lives  as they happened when we hear a particular song.

Perhaps that still happens, but when I hear what they are listening to ( when I can't avoid it ) I don't think it's memorable enough to even be repeated in their future.

[Emdog]

"Music" scene has changed sooo much since those times.

The Beatles were the reason I took up guitar, but I don't hold that against them ????  Beatles album coming out was a major cultural event for us young (then) people yet promotion was almost non existent. I remember going to local department store and seeing some odd new album... went over looked at it and happily thought "Great, a new Beatles album!". The album was Sgt Peppers.

 Taking up guitar did help me dig into the songs, understand the very clever way they put songs together.

Their best album? The one you happen to be listening to at any given time.

[sjbrownderby]

I am currently doing some research for a project I am working on. This year being the 60th anniversary year of The Beatles I decided to build a guitar based on a cushion cover I found at a factory sale in Korat. All will be revealed in good time. The guitar is to be donated to raise money for charity. I didn't feel that I could build the guitar without doing research and learning a lot that I didn't know. What was behind the music? I am still learning but in a few months I have collected a lot of information and some pieces of memorabilia, which I will also donate. Even though I lived through the era when The Beatles gained national recognition in the UK I never looked beyond the music. What has surprised me is that there are many fans among generations who were not even born when The Beatles were together. 

[faraday]

I was 64 last week - had a good time, thought about when I first heard the song, & how it seemed so far away.

 

 

 ????"I could be handy mending a fuse, when your lights have gone" ????

 

 

Time really does fly by......

[Henryford]

It's strange we took great music for granted in those days, there were so many good bands. Compared to the <deleted> they produce now it is so much better.

[stouricks]

I regularly start at Please Please Me album and go consecutively until Let It Be. What a great musical education. I also do it with The Beach Boys albums, even a greater change from Surfin' to God Made the Radio.

But of course, only 7 years of Beatles, 50 for The BBs.

Edited June 4, 2020 by stouricks

[Saltire]

Love the Beatles too, never wrote a bad song. You've prompted me to play them aagain soon.

 

My take on your rainy day nostalgia trip is with a chronological playing of Lez Zeppelin albums. Many memories invoked.

 

 

[1FinickyOne]

I still enjoy most Beatle music.. interesting to me that I did not like too much of the individual stuff after the split...

 

Paul, a bit too sweet, John, too radical but ok, Ringo, a bit dumb, George too spiritual... and yet together... wow. 

[Bangkok Barry]

I never met The Beatles, but can find very tenuous links to them.

George - He did quite a long scene with Kenneth Haigh in A Hard Day's Night. I once managed an HMV record shop in Soho and served Haigh (as well as many other stars such as Sean Connolly, Ronnie Corbett, Christopher Plummer, Mark Wynter (Venus In Blue Jeans). Sid James was outside chatting with someone but didn't come in.

John - I went to The Bitter End in New York to see a gig by Dory Previn, and there was a reserved row at the side with name tags. One was Mary Travers (of Peter, Paul and Mary) and as I was a fan of the group I went over at the interval to take a look. She wasn't there, but in her place was Yoko Ono - who looked better than I'd have expected).

Ringo - The rather ample woman who played his aunt in A Magical Mystery Tour, Jessica Robins, was a patient in a hospital where I worked on the hospital radio service. I would tour the wards and gather record requests, and there she was. She'd have made a great interview but when I spoke with her I discovered she was a bitter person and not nice at all.

Paul - well, I walked past his house in St. John's Wood. That's it.

 

I did actually see them in concert. Saw, not heard, because of the screaming (not from me).

Edited June 4, 2020 by Bangkok Barry

[Two Plus Two]

Maybe have a look at the MonaLisa Twins on YouTube.

They do some nice cover versions.

[stouricks]

1 hour ago, kenk24 said:

Paul, a bit too sweet

Hi Hi Hi, Jet, Rock Show etc etc Sweet? No, out and out Rockers. Long Tall Sally, Kansas City, I'm Down (funnily recorded the morning before he did Yesterday). Too many more.

[stouricks]

55 minutes ago, Two Plus Two said:

Maybe have a look at the MonaLisa Twins on YouTube.

They do some nice cover versions.

Unfortunatley they are just 'Nice cover versions'. The Analogues from Holland are very meticulous with the music and the instruments they use, although I have seen them using a Fender Jazz which Paul only ever used on Helter Skelter.

[NoshowJones]

2 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

My generation grew up listening to wonderful music that accompanied our lives, so we remember our lives  as they happened when we hear a particular song.

Perhaps that still happens, but when I hear what they are listening to ( when I can't avoid it ) I don't think it's memorable enough to even be repeated in their future.

As an ex professional musician, songs go through my head all the time, and as for playing music on my smartphone, there are some songs I cannot listen too now because of past memories, good ones I mean.

As for The Beatles, some of their songs were brilliant, and some were dreadful. As for musical and vocal ability, they were nowhere near the best. Bands like The Byrds and The Eagles were far superior.

[Wongkitlo]

I was more a Stones, Who fan and my least favourite Beatle was Paul McCartney. Then I watched the Carpool Karaoke episode with him on YouTube and it gave me a new appreciation of him.  

[NoshowJones]

1 hour ago, Saltire said:

Love the Beatles too, never wrote a bad song. You've prompted me to play them aagain soon.

 

My take on your rainy day nostalgia trip is with a chronological playing of Lez Zeppelin albums. Many memories invoked.

 

 

Never wrote a bad song?? Get back. Michelle. Yellow Submarine. Good ones All my Lovin, You've got to Hide your Love Away, I'm a Loser.

[ianezy0]

Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, I’m The Urban Spaceman from the album, The Doughnut In Grannies Greenhouse.

 

Bit weird huh but a great track.

Oh yes, The Beatles are awesome.

[ezzra]

The Beatles? the young generation are not good enough o appreciate the Beatles music and others like them, if its not on social media, politically correct or burning, looting and lynching people to make a point, the Beatles might as well happen a 1000 yeas ago... someone once said that the youth is wasted on the you young, and oh boy this is so right...

[Wongkitlo]

29 minutes ago, possum1931 said:

As an ex professional musician, songs go through my head all the time, and as for playing music on my smartphone, there are some songs I cannot listen too now because of past memories, good ones I mean.

As for The Beatles, some of their songs were brilliant, and some were dreadful. As for musical and vocal ability, they were nowhere near the best. Bands like The Byrds and The Eagles were far superior.

I am not a Beatles fan but the Beatles were around a long time before the other bands you mention. By the time the Byrd's formed Beatles were international stars while the Beatles were finished by the time The Eagles turned up. I'd say they are also totally different bands. Beatles were rock n roll while the others were more laid back. PS I'd take the Byrds over the Beatles most days.

 

[khunPer]

I think we were quite a number back in the 60s that didn't understood to appreciate the value of John and Paul's composition work – not to forget the producer George Martin's influence – at that time, even we would sing along on the themes, and know the lyrics by hearth. I also find The Beatles' songs better now, than then; whilst then, I found Rolling Stones – and numerous others – more fascinating than The Beatles...????

[Blackheart1916]

When I was going to high school in the 80s, for me and my friends it was mostly metal. Except for one mate, he listened to Beatles, and nothing but Beatles, dressed like them, the whole bit. Used to cop a good bit of flack from us for it. About 15 years ago, I started listening to their last 7 albums. There earlier pop stuff was big in it's time, but for me the latter part of their career the music was way, way ahead of it's time. Absolute genius.

[Blackheart1916]

39 minutes ago, ezzra said:

The Beatles? the young generation are not good enough o appreciate the Beatles music and others like them, if its not on social media, politically correct or burning, looting and lynching people to make a point, the Beatles might as well happen a 1000 yeas ago... someone once said that the youth is wasted on the you young, and oh boy this is so right...

Wow that's a lot of people to put in the same pot, and I can assure you that you are very, very wrong. Do you do much besides watch the 6 o'clock news?

[Saltire]

1 hour ago, possum1931 said:

Never wrote a bad song?? Get back. Michelle. Yellow Submarine. Good ones All my Lovin, You've got to Hide your Love Away, I'm a Loser.

Funny that, Get Back is in my top 3 Beatles songs ???? Each to their own.

 

 

[teatime101]

59 minutes ago, ezzra said:

the young generation are not good enough o appreciate the Beatles music and others like them, if its not on social media, politically correct or burning, looting and lynching people to make a point,

My (13 yo Thai) daughter has matured from Black Pink and BTs, to Daniel Caesar and Phum Viphurit. Couldn't be happier. There's a lot of <deleted>, especially black music from the USA*, but there's a lot of great music too.

 

*Watch some Soul Train clips to see how awesome black music in the US used to be. There are some great documentaries on major black musos on Netflix.

 

The Beatles had chemistry. And we know what happens if you fool around with chemistry too much. It blows up in your face.

Edited June 4, 2020 by teatime101

[teatime101]

28 minutes ago, Blackheart1916 said:

I can assure you that you are very, very wrong.

Yes. There are some amazing young musicians around. No finer example than Jacob Collier.

[tandor]

22 hours ago, Logosone said:

Fascinating stuff.

...That's nice dear.

[Kadilo]

1 hour ago, ezzra said:

The Beatles? the young generation are not good enough o appreciate the Beatles music and others like them, if its not on social media, politically correct or burning, looting and lynching people to make a point, the Beatles might as well happen a 1000 yeas ago... someone once said that the youth is wasted on the you young, and oh boy this is so right...

Typical miserable old mans response. 
 

“the young generation are not good enough to appreciate.....”

 

Who are you to decide who is good enough based on their liking of a band from the past. I’m no youngster but I thought with the exception of one or two songs they were bang average. But that’s just me, I accept music is an individual taste and sometimes down to an individual moment. Maybe they don’t all want to live in a Yellow Submarine. 

 

The youngsters of today will have their own hero’s and influences. Just because they don’t appreciate yours doesn’t make them any less valuable to them. 
 

 

Edited June 4, 2020 by Kadilo

[johnnysunshine]

A great reminder for us: ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE - da da da da da