Getting into the Beatles...

Agreed. Haven't seen the Scorcese movie so I don't know if this was covered, but it was also very cool that he was involved in the making of the mockumentary, The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, a Beatles parody starring Eric Idle. Haven't seen it in years but it is very good.

 

Haven't seen the Harrison documentary but people who have (and aren't huge Beatles fans like myself) have said it's fantastic.

 

"Help!" "I Feel Fine" and "A Hard Days Night" are three of my faves. Love the guitars.

I was at Yankees-Rangers game the year the new Stadium opened and McCartney was there, with his wife-to-be. They played "She Loves You" inbetween one of the innings and the stadium cam showed him singing along, bopping his head like the 60s icon he was. That was pretty neat.

 

it is.


nothing more satisfying raising the three stooges than when i turned each on 'em onto 'the beatles'. a reminder to me about just how ridiculously awesome/productive they were in such a short time. there's been nobody since to compare to them. pick out the top of the lot today and comparisons are silly.

nothing better than when your stubborn kids can't muster any argument. i started each with the red/blue albums to dive into the pool. ultmately they bought everything, from 'meet the beatles' on, whenever they had the collective funds to do so.

and the bands who 'invaded' with them, led by 'the stones,' were similarly pridigious. competition is a great motivaror when you're at your creative best.

 

Perfect. When I got into the Beatles back in the early/mid '70s the red album was the first one I had and the blue was the second. What's amazing is they wrote virtually all of their stuff before age 30 and in many cases at lot of it around or before age 25. I can't imagine being that freaking brilliant at such a young age.

 

I'm a Stones guy because I'm a rock/blues guy, but the resurrection of this thread led me to listen to the Beatles on the treadmill today and in my car. Can't go wrong with either band, really.

 

I get annoyed when people say "Beatles or Stones?" I mean, what about Zeppelin, who I believe is at or near the top of rock music. I'd take Zep over the Stones any day. All personal preference of course.

 

The Stones are my third favorite of that trio as well, but they obviously suffer from hanging on too long. As Slash once said "Mick Jagger should have blown his brains out after 'Some Girls.'"

But what the Stones produced from 1968-78 — Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main St., Some Girls, etc. — stacks up with anything.

 

I personally don't think Zeppelin is in the same stratosphere as the Beatles and Stones. A group with Neil Young and Bob Dylan probably make up the second tier. Zepellin is well, well behind. To me, and probably to most who take rock music seriously from a critical standpoint. That's an appeal to authority, admittedly, on my part. I just don't really have the chops when it comes to this stuff to be able to defend it myself. It's mostly intuitive on my part. I will say this. Peak-wise, I don't think Zeppelin matches up with the Stones peak of Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Beggar's Banquet and Exile. And the '70s were pretty good, too, with Goat's Head Soup, It's Only Rock 'n' Roll, and Some Girls.

 

“The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.” ― Lester Bangs, the world's greatest rock critic

 

You're wrong!!!!!!




(Sorry, couldn't help myself)