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rubber soul
revolver
half of the white album
abbey road (minus godawful "maxwell's silver hammer" and "octopus' garden")
let it be (naked)-the one without all the b.s. phil spector production
the rest of it i can do without.
It's always difficult comparing athletes from two different eras, but over the years I've often gazed out the window and wondered who was more of a one-dimensional stiff: Zydrunas Ilgauskas or Ed Sullivan.
Alan, you've never met my brother-in-law.
Your brother-in-law is (or was) Ed Sullivan? Wow. It's a really big shoe tonight. The next time you pay a visit to your brother-in-law's gravesite, tell him I still miss Topo Gigio.
By the way, terje, are you just being contrarian by implying the Beatles sucked? That's like Terry Pluto or Brian Windhorst writing that Danny Ferry bites the big one. You'd have to be insane to believe it will ever happen in the real world. Tell me you're just being contrarian or you just had a real bad day.
I mean, even that silly comment regarding Octopus's Garden. Come on. Much like any one of Ferry's thousands of gifted restricted and unrestricted free agent contracts or Randy Lerner wearing a pair of shorts during the summer, the Beatles just did it for lighthearted yucks. It wasn't exactly a political statement. I mean, even the Muppets later sang it.
Besides, the first records I ever bought were Beatles records. I took a couple of pounds of my paper route change and bought them at J.P. Snodgrass at Cedar Center. In fact, the more I think about it, I find your implication personally offensive and I demand a personal apology.
no, the beatles didn't suck. the stuff i listed was great. but….a lot of their music did suck.
some of my first records were beatles albums too. got some around age 3 and cranked them on a plastic, orange fischer price turntable. the teeny bopper crap lost it's shine by age 6 and the stupid psychedelic stuff was tired by age 16. the old bar days stuff is tolerable i guess.
and who the hell wants to hear "octopus' garden"? i don't hate ringo but that song is a stain on a mostly great album. especially when it comes after paul mccartney who decided to make an effort and belt out "oh! darling". talk about a kick in the nads after jamming a great song. lucky for ringo, paul drops a turd, calls it "maxwell" and makes the garden seem less horrid in comparison. george, john and ringo all hated that song.
btw, most of of those innovative production techniques on sgt. pepper were copped from the mothers of invention "freak out".
Alan, I merely meant my brother-in-law is a one-dimensional stiff.
I know that, Barry. I'm dumb, but I'm not that dumb. Is he aware that you're badmouthing him on a blog site of a newspaper with a circulation of at least 100?