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The movie does such as excellent job of placing songs in the right context. The simple beauty of Yesterday; the early rockers as played in the studio; In My Life; Back in the U.S.S.R.; Long and Winding Road; Eleanor Rigby bouncing in and out of the story; the wailing version of Help!; the concert montage; the joy of Ob-la-di Ob-la-da to end it. Their messing around with Hey Jude was frustrating, but he expressed our frustration ...and the real version kept us glued to our theater seats at the end (we had a small crowd, so it didn't turn in to a sing-along, unfortunately).
U2 sucks
Holy crap. I just looked this up. Never had any idea it was that fast. I just assumed all those albums were years apart. That’s nuts.
I might be misremembering but I think the longest gap between releases was about a year, and that was when they recorded the white album, a double album.
Just imagine, every six months or so, you're getting Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Peppers, Magical Mystery Tour, White Album, Abbey Road, etc. I literally can't wrap my head around it. 
Much as I love them, they have a fair amount of inconsistent material in the earlier pre-Dark Side days. When they're on, they're on, but when they're not...
I don't know, I think that is an issue even with the Beatles, they definitely have some stinkers as well.
Perhaps, but the Beatles very early albums aren’t exactly models of consistency either. Help! was when their albums started to get mostly good, and then of course we later got the god tier albums like Revolver, Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road.
Fair point - every artist has their stinkers, but I think the lows of the Beatles are still solid. I don't think you'll find another artist with that kind of consistency
College courses are so much cooler these days - that should be a required course for any major at any university.
You sure those analogies work? In this case Otis is talking about a line of beers from a specific brewer.
The big difference there though is the Beatles songs are all great when you listen to their originals. Many of Dylan’s well written songs aren’t as listenable until you hear covers.
Side note, I was suprised at how enjoyable the movie was. Also always liked the movie "Across the Universe" as well.
Matter of opinion but I agree subjectively they Dylan did not out together songs anywhere near as polished as what The Beatles did.
Got it - my son's university has a similar course. Should a be HS graduation requirement then.
The Beatles are to music as beer is to beveragesYou sure those analogies work? In this case Otis is talking about a line of beers from a specific brewer.
That is pretty cool. It was an elective obviously for high school. Fun class that I got to do briefly when the band teacher's plate was temporarily full. I had to redesign the class because he was a great band leader and teacher of music, not so good in other regards. He personally redacted the text books to remove every mention of sex or drugs and the class was just basically a giant memorization of who sang what songs. I totally rebuilt the class from the ground up and gave it all to him when he taking the class back over. As people do, he just went back to his old system.
I think a higher percentage of people like The Beatles than like beer. Apropos of nothing.The Beatles are to music as beer is to beverages
You basically have to get outside their top-150 to find "stinkers". It's ridiculous the number of quality songs they put out.
When I was a kid I was learning to play piano, and I had a book of sheet music called "The Beatles Best". It had well over 100 songs in it, I remember thinking it really funny at the time that their list of "best" songs was longer than many bands' entire catalogs.
I have a handful or two of bands with just as much great music as the Beatles when looking at total minutes, largely because so many of their songs were so short, but to write that many songs with such great hooks in almost all of them is unheard of.
That's a really interesting point that I've never heard anyone make before. Not sure I completely agree with the premise but it's a unique point (for me at least) and something worth considering.
I came across this fact that I was unaware of: "the Beatles occupied the no. 1 spot on the Billboard charts 20 percent of the time during their career."
I had the exact same reaction in the theater and I don't consider myself even close to a fan.
I am a huge fan of longer songs, many of which are in the prog rock genre, but I love a great short song as well. I can bounce from The Beatles to Stevie Wonder to Pink Floyd to Prince to Judas Priest, and not bat an eyelash. I always say, good music is good music, and it comes in a lot of shapes and sizes.
Rolling Stones are Lemieux. Howe is the Kinks. A Kinks hat trick includes a bout of brotherly fisticuffs. The Who is "Rocket" Richard. Way too ahead of their time when they started to even comprehend what that looks like today.
Heh. Cool. I love Modest Mouse. One of my favorites of my thirties. I also like Crosby. That's just a common complaint about them by detractors.I like some Modest Mouse songs, but that made me laugh.
you have those reversed.
