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Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :

Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines
So we sailed up to the sun
Till we found a sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves
in our yellow submarine.

Oh yeah! The Beatles are back in the top 5 on the albums sold charts with of all albums, Yellow Submarine. duh.

Life is good as the current crop of crap-ass music can't beat an album that's over 30 years old!

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Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :

I LOVE Yellow Submarine! It's my all-time FAVORITE Beatles song! Well... not totally... I have a lot of other favorites, too... but you know *grin*

~Liz

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Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :

Well, quite simply, the Beatles are great. As I write this I have Sgt. Pepper's on. A Day In The Life is one of the best songs ever recorded in my humble opinion of course. That is not to disparage any other form of music that turns anyone else out there one (I can do that in private if ya like

While growing up, the music of the Beatles opened my eyes, to a great degree, to the visceral power that music can have. To me the Beatles are to music what John Steinbeck is to writing. Grapes of Wrath was the book for me in my youth. It too, in a very real way, opened my eyes to a much larger and greater world than what I knew before.

I guess that is why I love the Beatles so much. They represent for me, along with Steinbeck and some others, a watershed in my youth. The person I am today is colored by those things. And the child I was before was left behind.

Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :

To listen to "Day In The Life" on a good sound system is perfection. The piano chord at the end is superb. To do it, they crammed as many concert grands they could into the main studio at Abbey Road, got everyone in there they could, and all hit the same chord (I forget which: E something?) simultaneously. Took a few attempts, but then they all just sat there and listened as the reverberations died away. Added to that the full orchestra brought in just to play the full scale of every note possible. . .

And when they released Sgt. Pepper's on CD, they discovered it went on for 20 more seconds than previous music technology had been able to do!

Other trivia: the cocktail party during "Yellow Submarine" was just that, an impromptu party held in the studio with all the 'in' people of the day present; the engine sound was created by dragging a chain around inside a bathtub!

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

On disc I have: all the stuff released at the aniversery. Abby Road, Magical Mystery Tour, Sgt. Pepper, and Revolver. I'd still like to have the white album and Rubber Soul. I had it on tape at one point, but tapes don't last, and this one was true to form. I have the "Let It Be" movie, and Beatles Complete. We used to have a bunch of singles, from the old days, but I think one of my sisters took them. They had the wigs, and dolls and all that, when I was little, but I think all that is long gone.

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Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :

I love the song "For no one" ..... and I've never heard that other one you all are talking about, but I think upon hearing about it, i'd like to. I've heard tons of Beatles music, though, my mother played it all the time. And I can say that they truly were one the best bands ever.

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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

Beatles? I think I stepped on one....... ok, just kidding..........

No Beatle music here, mostly U2 here....... However, I do like the song "Imagine", but I think it was done by John Lennon after the Beatles broke up.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Yes, it was.

Another thing I've heard about the final piano chord of "A Day in the Life" is that there's something to it that's high-pitched enough that people can't hear it, but dogs can, and it drives them nuts. I don't know if it's true or not; it was something I heard a radio DJ mention. I haven't tested it... yet. :-)

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

It isn't part of the chord, it's after it, before the all the jumbled together recordings at the very end.

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

Some friends of mine were a band for a few years. While adding on to there place, they were practiceing at mine. With a sound system big enough for bars, I had an opportunity I couldn't pass up. We played the longest cord, as it began to fade, I cranked up the volume. Dog at every home here. Nothing happened.

The story was that John had the note included on the end, just for pets. If you listen, you can hear a harmonic from the note, but not the sound itself.

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Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. Inside of a dog, it's to dark to read. Groucho Marx

Posted by Gaseous Anomaly (Member # 114) on :

"I read the news today, oh boy
About a lucky man who made the grade,"

Actually, I've only ever heard 'A Day in the Life' once, and that was on a crappy tape. The next day, I unearthed my father's big old book of Beatles songs (for piano) and now play it whenever I get the chance.

I've never actually heard "For No-One" or "From a Window" (that I can recall), but I play them all the time as well. Nice.

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Lords..."

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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

The movie came out when I was young enough to appreciate the cartoon but not old enough to appreciate all the humor.

I really like that movie.

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Hmm, if it was high enough to be beyond human hearing, thne it wouldn't be on the CD version, as they cut out all sub and supersonic noise...

Although that might have been left in, as it's fairly well-known.

And all the Beatles ever did was copy Oasis songs anyway.

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