What is your favorite Beatles album?
What are your favorite beatles songs?
Who is/are your favorite members?
Thoughts on the Sgt Pepper 50th reissue?
Any favorite Beatles books, films (besides A Hard Days Night),videos or articles?
Favorite Bootlegs or unreleased material?
What should Giles Martin and Apple Records do next year for 2018 and the White Album 50th anniversary?
Discuss any news, upcoming releases, tour dates or anything Ringo Starr/Paul Mccartney related here
Bad to Me should have never been given away it was a great song. Love the demo of it.
I don't think that Abbey Road is their best album overall, but it's by far my personal favorite. The medley is godlike
I agree 100%
*Deletes Octopus's Garden*
Ranking solo material
George > Paul > John > Ringo
Rubber Soul is my personal favourite. It's when they found their sound and really became their own band. No filler songs, and the whole album has a great feel to it
Paul >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> John = George > Ringo
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The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success. The Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worthy of being saved.
In a sense, the Beatles are emblematic of the status of rock criticism as a whole: too much attention paid to commercial phenomena (be it grunge or U2) and too little to the merits of real musicians. If somebody composes the most divine music but no major label picks him up and sells him around the world, a lot of rock critics will ignore him. If a major label picks up a musician who is as stereotyped as can be but launches her or him worldwide, your average critic will waste rivers of ink on her or him. This is the sad status of rock criticism: rock critics are basically publicists working for major labels, distributors and record stores. They simply highlight what product the music business wants to make money from.
Hopefully, one not-too-distant day, there will be a clear demarcation between a great musician like Tim Buckley, who never sold much, and commercial products like the Beatles.
>What is your favorite Beatles album?
Magical Mystery Tour.
>What are your favorite beatles songs?
Everything on Magical Mystery Tour.
>Who is/are your favorite members?
Paul > George > Lennon > Ringo
>Thoughts on the Sgt Pepper 50th reissue?
Garbage.