Aw, I was just throwing a silly dig at you and you respond seriously. More than I deserved. It doesn't matter, though, I am in my 30's but I am sure you feel younger than I do (physically and perhaps emotionally). I should have added that our discussion of best song/section of song/moment in song could not include A Day in the Life...but maybe that isn't fair - if it deserves it, it deserves it. Chuck 4 - when I was a kid I always loved that drum run and thought it surely was super complicated. Then I got older and realized it wasn't but it still is a great part within the song, no doubt.
one other little tidbit. When he recorded those pianos he would push the fader up as the piano decayed allowing those last bits of sound to be captured above the noise floor of the tape. Riding the gain as a manual form of compression. Cheers!
Best album: Revolver Least-good album: Yellow Submarine Best song: can't decide -- probably one of the two songs below, but there are about 30 others I like as much Best section: the intro of "I Feel Fine" Best moment: the transition between takes in "Strawberry Fields Forever"
Best = Abbey Road Worst = Yellow Submarine & I'm also on board AGAINST the Rubber Soul hate. That's crazy talk.
I haven't read through this thread beyond the first few posts and I haven't listened to The Beatles by choice in about ten years (I don't have to - I can just pull up the songs in the ipod of my mind), but the title of this thread is insane. "Worst" Beatles album? Least of the best maybe. The Beatles are the most perfect band of all time. They never made a bad record or even a middling one. I'd love to hear a top ten album list from anyone who named The Beatles "worst" album. I'm almost sure all ten would be "worse" than the "worst" Beatles record they named. And to those of you that named Rubber Soul as a "bad" album, wow. You suck. You really, really suck. Don't ever recommend an album to me ever. I don't know what else to say.
Just relax- the Beatles got paid. A lot of money... The Stones and Bob Dylan are pretty significant too.
I was actually there in 1964, the kid down the block got a copy of Meet The Beatles. My brother and I only had a 45 rpm record player so we had never listened to an 'Album'. We had Hound Dog by Elvis, Great Balls Of Fire by The Killer and up to that point 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' by Gene Pitney was our favorite 45. All that changed with one spin. It was tough though in those days to be a Beatles and British Invasion fan. Your parents and general public considered the Beatles subversive. You got called to the principals office if you had a Beatles cut or wore Beatle boots. Some years later, when John offhandedly said, and intending to be self-deprecating of Beatlemania, "The Beatles are more popular than Jesus"; it really went crazy ( Viet Nam protest had started to pick up steam) I actually went to Beatle's record burning bonfire held by the local AM station. I still loved the Beatles, but it was at night and there were going to be girls there. (my principles were outweighed by my libido) I got a driver's license at 14, my own jeep at 15, could by beer 60 miles away in Louisiana, dropped acid 100 times my freshman year of college, made a load of dough in the dotcom boom and Social Security will still have money for me in 11 years. I wouldn't trade being a baby boomer but I will say arthritis is a stone cold b****. C'est la vie...it's a one way ride.
I've never listened to a Beatles album, but 1 is easily the best greatest hits album of all time...27 non-skippable tracks. Of course, you have to ask, do all the "American" Beatles albums like The Beatles Second Album and Beatles VI really count as Beatles Albums?
