#798

The sun is up, the sky is blue it’s beautiful and so are you…

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#799

Maybe when I’ve finished testing out my single-album playlist of the White Album.

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#800

Looking forward to @Aggpass tyring to under/over this one.

#801

Think Neil Young still reigns supreme of artists with over 100 votes.

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#803

It’s a bit too quiet and bland for me but I do like the Anthology III take of Julia where you can hear Paul encouraging John. There’s actually a few bits like that in Anthology III. There’s a bit where they’re doing a take of Oh! Darling and John gets the news Yoko’s divorce has come through and Paul just improvises to the song in a really happy way being ‘free at last’ or something - the end of this aroud 3.20 I think.

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#804

For some reason the lazy vocals from John just make me think it was recorded at 4am, tired dreary and still full of contrite love. Perfect closer to disc 1 of white album for me.

Quell you to a quiet slumber, then the pick me up of ‘Birthday’, perfect.

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#805

I think those are just nerves. John hated his voice so much and the fact it was for his mother added a lot of stress for him?

#806

Yeah then he laid it all on the line solo with this gem.

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#808

Ooh good choices. I can’t really argue with most of that. I’ve always had a soft spot for obl-la-di though, and also prob martha my dear. Don’t know what I’d drop from yours though.

Fun fact about Bungalow Bill too, the fast guitar line intro is actually a mellotron sample. This was told to me by an old mellotron enthusiast friend who, er, helped design and build the current model…

I once asked him what the “stairway to heaven of mellotron” was, ie the goto song to play for someone if you’re showing off. His answer was Strawberry Fields

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#809

Yeah this is meant to be a more general single-disc version that would please most people in my mind? Like you I’d keep Ob-La-Di and Bungalow Bill in mine if I could.

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#810

loads of people can

#811

listened to the beatles on the way into work this morn, they’re fucking brilliant. the ballad of john and yoko is a fucking tune.

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#812

Pointless question.

Imagine an alternate timeline in which either of them had left the band in 1965 and think of what The Beatles albums might have been like between then and the end of the decade. It won’t be all that pleasant. You’ve got 2 songwriting geniuses who both happened to be in the same band together and create music greater than the sum of their parts. I mean, that’s enough right?

#813

That’s a fine answer to a whoosh.

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#814
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#815

Easy 5/5

Taxman is great by the way as is “Start” by the Jam.

That riff is so good

#816

Surprised no-one seems to have mentioned solo/post-beatles stuff yet. Will start with a take of indeterminate temperature (as I have no idea how y’all feel bout such things):

I listened to Band on the Run for the first time a few weeks ago, after hearing McCartney talk about it on a podcast.

Irritating, meaningless drivel from start to finish, but after hearing it once I can’t get the title track or Jet out of my head. Seems almost to be songwriting as an intellectual (/financial) exercise - insanely catchy pop-rock with less than zero emotional heft.

#817

Some more:

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