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Post by pothos on Jun 20, 2017 11:21:05 GMT
I managed to get a CD copy of the LP and listened to it in one go. I found it in equal measures baffling and exhausting. Revolution 9 at least caught my attention.
IMHO Issue 1 - As mentioned before way too long. Some of the tracks are terrible. IMHO Issue 2 - Because so many tracks are from one member only the LP sounds odd and not like a band effort IMHO Issue 3 - It sounds a sad difficult Lp from people who were in a deeply distressing and difficult place at the time. That makes the enforced jauntiness of the music hall inspired tracks feel very out of place. Piggies, Good Night and Wild Honey Pie genuinely baffled me more than Revolution 9.
I adored the rock and blues tracks such as Yer Blues (new to me) It just did not feel like the work of a band.
Technically they are on the rise (the guitar work and Ringo's drumming is impeccable) but from a historical perspective you can tell they are mentally all still traumatised from events that had overtaken them.
Not so much The White Album but a difficult Album.
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Post by Bongo on Jun 20, 2017 11:57:48 GMT
That's funny pothos. I just assume everyone's heard this album a million times by now. But if you give it more time, it will grow on you. Of course there are songs to this day, I still don't like, but I don't find it a depressing album.
But that's just me...
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Post by pothos on Jun 20, 2017 15:33:27 GMT
Do you know what the next night I played A Hard Days Night, Revolver and Rubber Soul back to back and it was joyous and the time flew by.
I suppose you could play which tracks would you drop (which is not really fair on the band) but I just found it heavy going.
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Post by tkitna on Mar 20, 2021 8:30:26 GMT
Tkitna, do you actually like The Beatles at all? With clearly so few songs that you do like in their entire recorded output, what's the point in you actually bothering to listen to them? Is it a rule that you need to like everything they did to be a fan? Just want to know the standards I should be following.
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