Elric

5y

Well it was the Beatles in 1968 so even their filler was pretty fascinating. I don't know it's just the perfect balance of everything they ever did and the songs were so much sharper than 67 or 69 because they wrote most of them with no d**** while secluded up in the mountains of India.

Elric

5y

Well it was the Beatles in 1968 so even their filler was pretty fascinating. I don't know it's just the perfect balance of everything they ever did and the songs were so much sharper than 67 or 69 because they wrote most of them with no d**** while secluded up in the mountains of India.

Elric

5y

Just revisited, definitely not. I am real f***in partial to some Octopus's Garden though I don't know it just seems like such a lightweight pop album other than maybe two songs and even those are not deep. Like does Maxwell's Silver Hammer actually mean anything to you or is it just a gloriously produced pop song? It's possible these lyrics are as interesting and layered as White Albums and I'm just oblivious but they really don't seem like it.

Very Based

5y

It just has numerous high-quality songs that flow together really well. The medley leading to The End is an incredible final statement from the band as well, even if Lennon thinks it sucked. I don't really trust a lot of his opinions anyway.

Elric

5y

Except for Lennon enjoyed the company of the lads and only Paul's ego could've ended it

Lennon dead ass tried to get them to all move to a Greek Island in 1967 went and scouted locations and everything

Atlienz

5y

the highs on RS, Revolver (+Rain) and MMT still compete

Within You Without You is the s*** too dont care what anyone says

Atlienz

5y

yea getting some Funeral vibes from the singles. think this is the best one yet

Elric

5y

I don't know I feel the big love you take is equal to the love you make statement is way too on the nose for the band that's supposed to represent that whole decade. Dylan would never.

Elric

5y

Sgt. Pepper could have been a contender if George Martin didn't f*** around and put Strawberry Fields on Mystery Tour instead. Biggest mistake of his career he admits.

Good Morning Good Morning couldn't gone

Elric

5y

How many times have the planets aligned for the most popular pop music of an era to be played mostly with a rock and roll instrumental combo?

Very Based

5y

Basketball Shoes is good but I've only ever heard it live so I'm curious how the studio version will sound. I think it's about a guy who falls in love with Charli XCX or something. I can picture @RVI reading these lyrics and wanting to puke

"I have this dream about Charli XCX
Finding her way to me on a train
From the London Eye to the Big Ben
She knows who I am
She's studied my prose
She's read all of my texts
I die like 15 times inside just watching her undress"

rvi

5y

yeayh youre right but idgaf about the lyrics on the end. could be gibberish for all i care, the final statement is music, esp. with the 4 all giving their solos

rvi

5y

yeayh youre right but idgaf about the lyrics on the end. could be gibberish for all i care, the final statement is music, esp. with the 4 all giving their solos

internet buddy

5y

Early to mid ‘90s

Very Based

5y

Basketball Shoes is good but I've only ever heard it live so I'm curious how the studio version will sound. I think it's about a guy who falls in love with Charli XCX or something. I can picture @RVI reading these lyrics and wanting to puke

"I have this dream about Charli XCX
Finding her way to me on a train
From the London Eye to the Big Ben
She knows who I am
She's studied my prose
She's read all of my texts
I die like 15 times inside just watching her undress"

rvi

5y

its just the ultimate artistic statement from them. ofc the strength of the songs and variety, but also the aesthetic itself is just so compelling. especially coming right after Sgt Pepper, will always be such a legendary followup. abbey road great too ofc but feel like there was no way to go further up than White

Elric

5y

Well this is our usual divide of me getting way more replay value out of the lyrics than the music I guess

Obviously I really enjoy the music of that and just listening to it a minute ago made me really wish someone would do a YouTube video or something to differentiate who is exactly playing what guitars on that outro

Elric

5y

Seems like by far their most personal music as well

rvi

5y

you just have to know the order is Paul->George->John and it repeats

idrk all the music theory description of this but if you read along while you listen you can tell who is who

"Paul opens with a characteristically fluid and melodically balanced line that sounds a high A before snaking an octave down the scale; George responds by soaring to an even higher D and sustaining it for half a bar before descending in syncopated pairs of 16th notes; John then picks upon the pattern of George's 16ths with a series of choppy thirds that hammer relentlessly on the second and flattened seventh degrees of the scale. The second time through, Paul answers John's bluesy flattened 7ths with bluesy minor thirds and then proceeds to echo George's earlier line, spiraling up to that same high D; George responds with some minor thirds of his own, while mimicking the choppy rhythm of John's part; John then drops two octaves to unleash a growling single-note line. On this final two-bar solo, Paul plays almost nothing but minor thirds and flattened sevenths in a herky-jerky rhythm that ends with a sudden plunge to a low A; George then reaches for the stars with a steeply ascending line that is pitched an octave above any notes heard so far; and John finishes with a string of insistent and heavily distorted 4ths, phrased in triplets, that drag behind the beat and grate against the background harmony"

Very Based

5y

Basketball Shoes is good but I've only ever heard it live so I'm curious how the studio version will sound. I think it's about a guy who falls in love with Charli XCX or something. I can picture @RVI reading these lyrics and wanting to puke

"I have this dream about Charli XCX
Finding her way to me on a train
From the London Eye to the Big Ben
She knows who I am
She's studied my prose
She's read all of my texts
I die like 15 times inside just watching her undress"

Elric

5y

Seems like by far their most personal music as well

rvi

5y

yeah but then also has the complete opposite end of that spectrum as well

Atlienz

5y

Julia