All You Need is Love-The Great XMTS Beatles Thread

[Macman]

This is a good poll. I'm sort of with Retro Red on this. The Beatles were always my favourite band, and still are. I grew up on them. I like them all, like all their albums, and have only a small number of songs that I don't care for.

Choices:
1) If you make me pick, I'll say Revolver is my favourite album.
2) I can't pick any one favourite song; it's impossible.
3) I'd have to say George, but I like them all.
4) Seeing them for the first time on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Buying my very first record, in Cranbrook, B.C.: it was the single of "A Hard Day's Night", and it cost $1.06 including tax.
Hearing that George had died, while on my way to work. Even though I knew he was really sick, it still broke me up. For me, his guitar still gently weeps.

What a group.

[arrogcow]

LOL! I will put myself out there for the abuse and say that I don't really care for the Beatles either. I respect them as musicians but I just don't listen to their music.

I think to be fair that you should add to you poll the option that people don't like them. Just out of curiosity to see whether or not I stand alone on this one.

That being said though, you are looking for favorite Beatle memories so if you don't want people saying negative things I understand. I personally have nothing negative to say about them, just not my cup of tea.

I'm right there with you. I've always thought they were fantastic song writers, but mediocre musicians. On that note the movie "Across The Universe" that came out last year, is one of the best movies I've seen in a while. Other people performing the Beatles, and you can't go wrong.

Adam

[SteveB]

Favourite Beatles period: long before Hello,Goodbye and long after Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. The Beatles have gone into the history books as the first group to dominate the music scene by savvy marketing. The beginning of the "Beatles Era", was for me the beginning of my exploration of Classical, Celtic, and Country/Western music. I thank the Beatles for driving me away from the Rock Music scene for my teen and college years. I was born in 1951, and started trying to find a music that I could enjoy in the very early sixties. Many promising talents were starting to show up on the airwaves, when the big hoof of over marketed Beatles dominated the airwaves and snuffed out a promising variety to the rock scene for several years. Many of these bands and people resorted to doing Country - Rock crossover as a way to survive, bringing in the era of "underground" radio and the emergence of a new music scene. Just as the parents of my generation were always yelling "turn that rock junk down." my children are yelling to their young'uns "turn that rap junk down."
The more we change the more we stay the same.
Count me in with the Mod who is not a Beatles fan, I am sure there are many more of us on the board.

[Rouge Piper]

Fav album: Abbey Rd, or Revolver
Favorite Song: If I fell, In My life, anything off Abby Rd
Fav of 4: John the outspoken. Ballad of John and Yoko, Great song too.
Beatles memory: Singing to Let it Be 45 rpm when I was 5, They were together at that time and the record was fresh from the dime store.

I like Aerosmith come together cover

My favorite TV moment was Paul on the Chris Farley show.

Me and the lads just did a Beatles Tribute 2 song gig at a talent show fund raiser. Wigs, authentic instruments. A bit old and heavy (We were) but pretty cool.

[Coinneach]

I can't vote. When you like the group as much as many of us do, I don't know how you can pick any one period.

I can't pick one album.
I can't pick one song.
I can't pick one Beatle.

But may I never forget the night I was down in the basement and my older brother was upstairs. He was singing a Beatles tune, but I don't remember which one. I just couldn't understand why he was singing such a strange melody...so finally out of frustration, I joined in and discovered he was singing a harmony part. He came downstairs, picked up his guitar and for the next hour we sang Beatles songs. I think it's the first time I knew we were going to be all right.

[Eujeankilt]

Count me as another that can't vote. I love them all, but I lean towards the later stuff, except for the earlier stuff - but the middle years were great. Let it Be would be in my top three favorites.

While in junior high (late 60's), my neighbor Jim and I learned to play guitar when he got the "Big Book of the Beatles" song book. We played from the book along with the records for hours and hours. Even now, when I hear a Beatles song on the radio, I find myself singing along, remembering most of the words.

The Beatles were my ticket to Rock and Roll. Their evolution paved the way for my evolution in taste and variety. I guess alot of it was part of growing up in the "day".

Great thread Jamie!

Dale

[Ozman1944]

I like ALL of them, but have a soft spot for their early beginnings - they were so fresh and different at the time.

[cloves]

First off, thanks Panache for a great thread!

-White Album is fav album

-Elenaor Rigby is fav song....something about the string section does it for me

-Ringo is my favorite Beatle....come on...he's the drummer!

-Favorite cover....has to be U2's cover of Helter Skelter.....not for Bono's singing (he kinda messes with the lyrics) but for the intro
"this is a song Charles Manson stole from the Beatles....and I'm stealin' it back"

[KGCTJ]

(1) Favorite Beatles Album ALL of THEM
(2) Favorite Beatles Song Black bird
(3) Favorite Beatle Ringo
(4) Favorite Beatles Memory. I Lived just down the Street From Ringo and I told him I had all 4 autographs from 1963 he said that and 5$ will get you a cup of coffee little did he know that Autograph card fetches $8000.00 I didn't have the heart to tell him.



Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

[KGCTJ]

Favorite beatle post "the beatles" Paul and his live and let die album fav song live and let die!