-- just a collection of beatles wisdom -- Love You To Harrison Each day just goes so fast I turn around, it's past You don't get time to hang a sign on me Love me while you can Before I'm a dead old man A life time is so short A new one can't be bought But what you've got means such a lot to me Make love all day long Make love singing songs Make love all day long Make love singing songs There's people standing round Who'll screw you in the ground They'll fill you in with all their sins, you'll see I'll make love to you If you want me to The Inner Light Harrison Without going out of my door I can know all things of earth With out looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven The farther one travels The less one knows The less one really knows Without going out of my door You can know all things of earth With out looking out of my window You could know the ways of heaven The farther one travels The less one knows The less one really knows Arrive without travelling See all without looking Do all without doing Within You Without You Harrison We were talking about the space between us all and people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion never glimpse the truth then it's far too late when they pass away We were talking about the love we all could share When we find it to try our best to hold it there with our love, with our love we could save the world if they only knew Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else ca make you change And to see you're really only very small and life flows on within you and without you We were talking about the love that's gone so cold and the people who gain the world and lose their soul They don't know, they can't see Are you one of them When you've seen beyond yourself then you may find peace of mind is waiting there And the time will come when you see we're all one and life flows on within you and without you Tomorrow Never Knows Lennon/McCartney Turn off your mind, relax and float down stream It is not dying It is not dying Lay down all thought Surrender to the void It is shining It is shining That you may see The meaning of within It is being It is being That love is all And love is everyone It is knowing It is knowing That ignorance and hate May mourn the dead It is believing It is believing But listen to the color of your dreams It is not living It is not living Or play the game existence to the end Of the beginning Of the beginning Of the beginning Of the beginning Of the beginning Of the beginning Across The Universe Lennon/McCartney Words are flying out like endless rain into a paper cup They slither while they pass They slip away across the universe Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind Possessing and caressing me Jai guru deva om Nothing's gonna change my world Nothing's gonna change my world Nothing's gonna change my world Nothing's gonna change my world Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes That call me on and on across the universe Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box they tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe Jai guru deva om Nothing's gonna change my world Nothing's gonna change my world Nothing's gonna change my world Nothing's gonna change my world Sounds of laughter shades of earth are ringing through my open views inciting and inviting me Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns It calls me on and on across the universe Jai guru deva om Nothing's gonna change my world Nothing's gonna change my world Nothing's gonna change my world Nothing's gonna change my world Jai guru deva Jai guru deva Polythene Pam Lennon/McCartney Well you should see Polythene Pam She's so good looking But she looks like a man Well, you should see her in drag dressed in a polythene bag Yes you should see Polythene Pam Yeh, yeh, yeh Get a dose of her in jackboot and kilt She's killer diller when she's dressed to the hilt She's the knid of a girl that makes the news of the world Yes you could say she was attractively built Yeh, yeh, yeh -- just a collection of beatles wisdom -- ONE THING I CAN TELL YOU IS YOU GOT TO BE FREE ""24 responses total.
The Beatles were definitely an unmatched phenomenon in popular music.
like ted nugent, or something.
Except that it'd be *good* if there were more like the Beatles..
oh ...so you mean like...capt beefheart!
Or the Kinks...
or Hampton's Grease Band...
Or the Velvet Underground, or the Beach Boys, or the Stooges, or Syd Barrett, or.... (etc.)
The thing about the Beatles isn't that they were wildly successful -- other bands have been wildly successful (perhaps not *as* wildly..) Nor is it that they made good music, though they did make good music they hardly hold a monopoly on that. What's remarkable about them (to me, at least) is that unlike any of the other acts mentioned it's almost impossible to find someone who either doesn't know about the Beatles or who thinks they're too cool to enjoy the Beatles' music.
I know plenty of people who think they're too cool to enjoy the Beatles' music. Of course, most of them are pretty dumb...
I know a lot of 60s-generation people who hate the Beatles (most of whom prefer the Stones), and I wouldn't care to take a survey of Beatles knowledge among today's teenagers (or teenagers of any period for the last 20 years, actually). But regardless of their popularity among certain limited groups, the Beatles were supreme in their field, something that observant people noticed from the beginning. (They wrote most of their own songs! They made up their own answers to press questions! Even parents liked their music! None of these were true of most pop phenoms at the time.) Elvis may be a greater cultural icon, but the Beatles were the best musicians in popular rock, period.
Well, not the "best musicians", but best all-around, perhaps..
Best songwriters, maybe? As songwriters they begin to stand outside the rock tradition and more in the line of the pop classicists like the Gershwin brother, Cole Porter, the great Broadway musical writers.
I'll go along with "best songwriters." Certainly their songs will far outlast almost everything else from that time period.
They were one of the few acts in any style that combined excellent songwriting with good execution. Most of the songs I'd consider really well-written were written by either someone who specialized in songwriting or someone who _should_ have specialized in songwriting and left the performance to someone else. In styles that insist artists write their own songs, most of those songs end up pretty mediocre. Thankfully, there's nothing wrong with a mediocre song, especially when it's performed well, but the Beatles were an example of how much better songwriting can be.
Yes. One fine example is Bob Dylan, who incidentally, was a profound influence on the group after they met. I think it's been mentioned here that many people like Bob Dylan's music better when he isn't singing it..
he use to have really cool hair... but not anymore.
What I meant in #10 is what orinoco said in #14. The Beatles' musicianship included both their performing skills (good, if not uniquely outstanding) and their songwriting skills (spectacular). As opposed to the aforementioned Bob Dylan: songwriting very good, performing gawdawful.
Well, it should be noted that the _Rubber Soul_ album was almost a direct result of meeting with Dylan. Dylan said something to the effect that the songwriting wasn't deep or philosophical enough-- before, the Beatles had written a lot of pop tunes. So even if Bob Dylan wasn't quite as good (as resp:17 might suggest), I would say he pushed the Beatles to progress further than where they had been.
Although I'm sure he did influence their career a bit, I think that Dylan's given waaaay too much credit for whatever inspiration he might have provided. I think it's far more significant that around the time of "Help" and "Rubber Soul" that not only were audiences getting more adventurous but the Beatles were also beginning to enjoy the freedom of being established superstars.
<nods> The "famous enough to get away with it" point is when most interesting musicians _got_ interesting. Like the Beatles' departure from straightforward pop songs, or like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell or even Bob Dylan himself veering off from folk, or like Miles Davis leaving mainstream jazz and going electronic, or whatever.
and get that never seems to show in my music classes.. the things revered musicians have done, and I'm still doing tired stuff
>Well, it should be noted that the _Rubber Soul_ album was almost a >direct result of meeting with Dylan. Rather proves the point about Dylan: more the cause of greatness in others than the creator of greatness himself.
>I don't really know if this is a good place to file this report or not, but >I thought some of you might be interested. > >Monday, October 9, 2000 would have been John Lennon's 60th birthday. I just >received an e-mail notice from my favourite local radio station about the >tribute they will broadcast for SIX hours on Monday night. (Remember... all >times are Central, which means one hour behind Ann Arbor time) ><pasting> >6 - 7 p.m. "Starting Over: A Conversation with Yoko Ono about the John Lennon >reissues." We air a September 7, 2000 interview with Yoko Ono by KGSR >Program Director Jody Denberg, in NYC~ includes 6 newly remixed/remastered >songs from 3 classic Lennon discs. > >7-10 p.m. "John Lennon" A 60th Birthday Celebration" KGSR airs a 3 hour >nationally-syndicated program that also includes new interview material with >Yoko Ono as well as comments by many of the people who worked directly with >John Lennon, as well as many great Lennon songs, both Beatles & solo. > >10 p.m. - Midnight "Austin Celebrates John Lennon." For two hours KGSR >broadcasts live from the KGSR Music Lounge. We've asked some of our favorite >Austin musicians to perform John Lennon compositions on the air. Participants >include Stephen Doster, Shawn Colvin, Patty Griffin, David Halley, Damnations >TX, Alejandro Escovedo, Craig Ross, Jon Dee Graham, Two O'Clock Courage, Gurf >Morlix, Ron Flynt & the Blue Hearts and Eliza Gilkyson. > >You can listen to 107.1 KGSR on your computer by going here: http://www.broadcast.com/radio/adult_album_alternative/kgsr/ or, of course http://www.kgsr.com
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