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In memory of John Lennon: What are your top 5 Beatles songs?

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Lash
 
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Reply Sun 10 Oct, 2004 05:25 pm
Loved Carry That Weight/Golden Slumbers as well.


<Nice to remember songs we sang our children at bedtime...Blackbird made our nighttime lullaby time>
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panzade
 
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Reply Sun 10 Oct, 2004 05:39 pm
sometimes it's nice to hear Beatles interpreted. The score from the movie I Am Sam is lovely.
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Joe Nation
 
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Reply Sun 10 Oct, 2004 05:46 pm
In My Life
(I require it to be sung at my funeral.)

The Long and Winding Road

The Sargent Pepper Album
Every stinking word and note of it.


And the two best, most poetic songs ever written:

Norwegian Wood


Yesterday
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panzade
 
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Reply Sun 10 Oct, 2004 05:49 pm
Joe, I picked up my Guild acoustic and sang a damn good rendition of Norwegian Wood for you. Hope you liked it.
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Joe Nation
 
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Reply Sun 10 Oct, 2004 05:49 pm
Oh, and at the party, after I am interred, Kevin Spacey will sing Mind Games.
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djjd62
 
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Reply Sun 10 Oct, 2004 06:11 pm
Joe Nation wrote:


Norwegian Wood




the band cornershop have an east indian version (drawing a blank on what language they speak in india) of norwegian wood on their album "when i was born for the 7th time", it's quite interesting
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colorbook
 
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Reply Sun 10 Oct, 2004 06:31 pm
There are so many

Imagine
Long and Winding Road
Woman
In My Life
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 10 Oct, 2004 06:36 pm
These four guys all did so much wonderful music. When George Harrison's Something came out Frank Sinatra called it the best song written in the past thirty years.
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Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Sun 10 Oct, 2004 07:14 pm
John Lennon was more a wordsmith than a musician. He had an acute ear for the whimsicality of the English language and could play with words in a way that's strangely reminiscent of James Joyce. Has anyone on this thread read Lenon's non-musical books -- In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works?
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 10 Oct, 2004 07:57 pm
Read and loved them.
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eoe
 
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Reply Sun 10 Oct, 2004 08:31 pm
I've wracked my brain and it's just too difficult to chose only five. Today's picks can change tomorrow.
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Don1
 
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Reply Tue 12 Oct, 2004 01:30 am
Grand Duke wrote:
McTag wrote:
I wonder why John Lennon is more popular in the USA than he is/was here.


Perhaps they feel guilty for letting him get shot? :wink:


Very Happy

I think probably the answer to that would be his stance on the peace movement to stop the war in Vietnam, the young people of the day looked up to him for that.
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McTag
 
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Reply Tue 12 Oct, 2004 05:48 am
I think the first four bars of the Sergeant Pepper Album, the 'guitar band' intro before anyone starts singing, are immense.

Also, I want to pay tribute to George Martin, whose arrangements and record production were a huge contribution to the whole thing.

"Blackbird"
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Grand Duke
 
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Reply Tue 12 Oct, 2004 06:11 am
You're more likely right than I am, Don1! I can't stop myself from having a little dig at the americans from time to time. If they didn't respond, it wouldn't be half as funny. Maybe time I grew up a little...
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msolga
 
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Reply Tue 12 Oct, 2004 06:31 am
eoe wrote:
I've wracked my brain and it's just too difficult to chose only five. Today's picks can change tomorrow.


Yes, same problem here, eoe.

One (of just about all of them) I like is Back in the USSR.


(Maybe it's because I'm a "Ukraine girl"? Laughing )

I've just been inspired to put on The White Album:

... we're going to a party party
we're going to a party party ..


I haven't played this for years! It's good! Very Happy
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panzade
 
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Reply Tue 12 Oct, 2004 07:46 am
Spot on Mctag. Anybody really interestaed in how the Beatles managed to record so much good music should invest in a book called The Abbey Road Diaries.

In it one can see that George Martin was really the fifth Beatle. A truly gifted, humble arranger, he heard something distinctive from the very day they auditioned and he never let his superior musical knowledge get in the way of their music.
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Tue 12 Oct, 2004 07:52 am
When you think that Sgt. Pepper was recorded on just 4 tracks, it boggles the mind.
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panzade
 
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Reply Tue 12 Oct, 2004 08:00 am
So right Cav.



http://webhome.idirect.com/~faab/AbbeyRoad/pixs4/evolution.jpg
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eoe
 
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Reply Tue 12 Oct, 2004 08:06 am
McTag wrote:
I think the first four bars of the Sergeant Pepper Album, the 'guitar band' intro before anyone starts singing, are immense.


I used to play just the intro over and over and over...
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carrie
 
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Reply Wed 13 Oct, 2004 05:50 am
I love the George Martin Album where many different people do covers of Beatles songs, such as Robin Williams, Goldie Hawn, Billie Connolly. I think this is fantastic, and a great tribute to the Beatles and their talented producer.

George Martin - In My Life
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