re: Beatles obsession thread

I can appreciate the Beatles and will listen if played but my sister was obsessed. Still is to some degree. I’m more the dead. Cool story Paul came to Nola in the 90s my dad got tickets for my sis sweet 16 and I had to go… since I saved everything I still had the ticket stub. Last year we framed it with the program and gave it to her. She was shocked I still had it.

saw McCartney at the New Orleans arena the last time he was here, my jaw was on the floor. Dude played 30+ songs straight thru without a setbreak, and absolutely kicked arse

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saw McCartney at the New Orleans arena the last time he was here, my jaw was on the floor. Dude played 30+ songs straight thru without a setbreak, and absolutely kicked arse

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He opened that tour in Spokane, WA, of all places right before his 80th birthday. That was his first proper live show since pre-pandemic. I saw him later on the tour and was amazed that he was out there at all. It's like - dude - you're a billionaire. But it just goes to show it's what they do.

I always wonder if some small part of his motivating force isn't still trying to make up for not being a live band during those crucial mid/latter Beatles years.

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To me it's crazy to just outright not like them. But even if that's the overall judgment, the output is so varied, it seems hard to believe there's NOTHING to be found of interest.

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You kind of summed it up. Throughout the 80s and 90s, 10-15 of their greatest hits were just ubiquitous on FM radio, TV commercials, etc., that it was easy for people who didn't grow up in the Beatles era to tire of them. I would have said I didn't really like them that much.

But as you said, their output was so varied, that one will eventually hear something to like. For instance, I don't think I ever heard Hide Your Love Away until it was picked for an American Idol song in the mid 2000's. There are probably still Beatles songs that would be new to me, and that I might like. The immediacy of streaming content certainly makes it easier to find lesser known tracts and deep cuts now.

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Added Sirius XM's The Beatles Channel recently.

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I've been nearly 100% on it since August.

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have to add across the universe

my favorite Beatles' song ever.

Across the universe

give me chills every time

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Yep, greatness. And it's on Let It Be.

This guy just wrote this scathing piece about the post-breakup Beatles. I don't agree with much:

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Their final album, Let It Be, consisted mostly of bad songs, recorded for a ‘back to basics’ project which they had abandoned a year earlier, releasing the far superior Abbey Road (1969) instead. Let It Be’s defects were partially covered up by Phil Spector’s syrupy orchestrations;

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Finished the Harrison biography. I had never noticed the lack of his songs on Red and Blue. Turns out it was Alan Klein intentionally screwing him since they were mid lawsuit.

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Sgt Peppers is just an unreal piece of work.

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What about the deeper cuts like She's Leaving Home?

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Sgt Peppers is just an unreal piece of work

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Is the British usage of referring to Sgt Pepper in the possessive taking hold in America?