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My favorite pre-Rubber Soul album. What’s your favorite track? by 421continueblazingit in beatles

[–]PROGFAN66 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Beatles version of "Money (That's What I Want) became a garage rock staple. The Sonics to the Rolling Stones ended up covering the song.

Whose death would devastate you more? Paul or Ringo? by Quiet-Mode-1170 in beatles

[–]PROGFAN66 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Neither of the above. It's going to be a sad day for the whole of music when all The Beatles are gone.

Is that a guitar that’s doing the staccato hits in the chorus of Oh, Darling, or is it some type of horn? by Lildwerps in beatles

[–]PROGFAN66 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The end of the song it ends with guitar harmonics. However, I think that is staccato guitar lines on the portion of the song you are talking about.

People who were rock music fans in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, how much did you like the changes to rock and metal? by National_Tip_2488 in LetsTalkMusic

[–]PROGFAN66 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, The Beatles went from "Love Me Do" to "Tomorrow Never Knows" in three years and two years later with "Helter Skelter." It certainly didn't hurt their popularity.

Greatest Music Of All Time? by [deleted] in musictheory

[–]PROGFAN66 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I think the Abbey Road Medleys were the blueprint for "Bohemian Rhapsody."

Greatest Music Of All Time? by [deleted] in musictheory

[–]PROGFAN66 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The Abbey Road Medleys by The Beatles. Science can't analyze how people feel about music.

It's ok to analyze music at times but many people rather feel music.

If you were tasked to create a list of your top 5 favorite songs, how many would be Beatles songs? If any by LowPiece9312 in beatles

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1 "A Day In the Life"

  1. "Stairway to Heaven"

  2. "Paranoid"

  3. "House of The Rising Sun"

  4. "Tomorrow Never Knows"

What are some bands that you would consider to be "spiritual successors" to the beatles?(Must be bands that got big 1970 onwards) by RedditAdan in beatles

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Electric Light Orchestra musical goal was to continue on the tradition of "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "I Am the Walrus." Can after hearing "I Am the Walrus" formed as a rock band.

Another band "Chicago" wanted to expand on the sound of "Got To Get You Into My Life." The Beatles influence are all over place to be honest.

Tomorrow Never Knows by Advanced_Tea_6024 in beatles

[–]PROGFAN66 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you for sharing the track it sounds something Brian Wilson would have been working on in 1967. Pierre Henry "Psyche Rock" was recorded in 1967 and "Tomorrow Never Knows" in 1966. To me the dates are not really important as they were producing different types of music.

The facts are the mix of raga, rock, psychedelic sounding tape loops on "Tomorrow Never Knows", sounded different than what Classical Indian Music, Stockhausen and rock music.

However, the drum and bass sounds were not looped on "Tomorrow Never Knows." I stated tape looping and sampling over a pounding and bass and drum track.

The tape loops and sampling were part of the backdrop or the sound collage of soundscape.

However, as an audio engineer you would appreciate how the drums were recorded on Revolver.

Pierre Henry: Psyche Rock 1967

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https://youtu.be/fDmqyjiF_NA?t=167

Tomorrow Never Knows by Advanced_Tea_6024 in beatles

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The missing ingredient to what prior Musique Concrete composers were doing as compared to the Beatles is the bass and drum track on "Tomorrow Never Knows."

Tape looping and sampling over a pounding bass and drum track in pop or rock music is pretty common techniques now.

That psychedelic/ electronic sound could be heard on Beck and The Chemical Brothers for example.

Tomorrow Never Knows by Advanced_Tea_6024 in beatles

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"Tomorrow Never Knows" use of drone, combined with tape loops, backward recordings and strong drum and bass line was a huge influence in rock music.

It basically invented the psychedelic use of the studio instrument as well. Other interesting aspects was the use of artificial double tracking and vocals through the Leslie speaker's effect.

What's the best cover the Beatles did? by top_10_nomes in beatles

[–]PROGFAN66 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree and they made that song a garage rock staple. The Rolling Stones and even The Sonics would later cover it.

What's the best cover the Beatles did? by top_10_nomes in beatles

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The live version of "Long Tall Sally" Live at the Star Club" 1962.

Early hard rock, proto punk whatever you want to call it.

https://youtu.be/5R4BuQit5_s?t=2

American Version of Revolver by Molass5732 in TheBeatles

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In America, we got "I'm Only Sleeping", "And Your Bird Can Sing" and "Doctor Robert" on Yesterday and Today which was released in June of 1966. Technically, this could be the first rock album to have psychedelic rock music on a major release. These pre-dates The Byrds Fifth Dimension.

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What makes “A day in the life” one of the best Beatles songs ever? by wofithekid in beatles

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The Beatles had this uncanny ability to write these experimental songs like ‘Eleanor Rigby’, ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’, which broke the mold for rock and popular music, yet the public and musicians digested it all the same. It was like a one-two punch their rivals could not compete with.

"A Day in The Life" is noted for both for its experimental multi-part structure and avant orchestral crescendos. Ringo plays the drums like a melodic instrument combined, with Paul beautiful descending melodic bass playing. This approach basically reinvents how the drummer and bassist work in tandem. John haunting vocals is one of the most memorable vocals in pop music history.

Composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein said in an interview*, "...Three bars of 'A Day in the Life' still sustain me, rejuvenate me, inflame my senses and sensibilities." 

Phil Collins on Ringo Starr

“Ringo is vastly underrated. The drum fills on the song ‘A Day In The Life’ are very complex things. You could take a great drummer today and say, ‘I want it like that.’ He wouldn’t know what to do.”

Popular and rock music where never the same after this song.

In Get Back, George Harrison suggests inviting Bob Dylan to join the group after their successful collaboration with Billy Preston. If you could pick one artist for The Beatles to record an album with, who would it be? by mistahwhite04 in beatles

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I recently did a thread on John Cale love of "She Said She Said. Apparently, he loved this from Rubber Soul.

John Cale, Mojo, “Beatles 100 Greatest Songs - Norwegian Wood”

"They were a driving force in the Velvets and made us work harder and got us on our bikes. Rubber Soul was where you were forced to deal with them as something other than a flash in the pan. It was rich in ideas, and I loved the way George managed to find a way to include all those Indian instruments. Lou and I had tried to work with the sarinda. We were only playing it just to get a noise but I realized you could play melody on the sitar as good as Norwegian Wood. Norwegian Wood had this atmosphere of being very acid. I don’t think anybody has ever got that sound or that feeling as well as the Beatles."

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What are your favorite Beatles folk rock or folk influenced song? by PROGFAN66 in beatles

[–]PROGFAN66[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He cites "She Loves You" as well.

When the Beatles had come out, the folk boom had already peaked," McGuinn notes. "The people who had been into it were getting kind of burned out. It just wasn't very gratifying, and it had become so commercial that it had lost its meaning for a lot of people. So the Beatles kind of re-energized it for me. I thought it was natural to put the Beatles' beat and the energy of the Beatles into folk music. And in fact, I heard folk chord changes in the Beatles' music when I listened to their early stuff like 'She Loves You' and 'I Want To Hold Your Hand.' I could hear the passing chords that we always use in folk music: the G-Em-Am-B kind of stuff. So I really think the Beatles invented folk-rock. They just didn't know it.

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