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Krista4's Beatles 1-25 List Thread! Count down will start Mon Feb 14 noon ET. Will take new lists til then... (1 Viewer)

wikkidpissah said:
i'm such a peep, but the highlite of my online day is watching the daily vid from the Clark family (first famous as the Quarantine Kids - a locked-down club singer who starting recording covers of his favorites in his family room with his 9&11yo sons & 7yo daughter). the reason i mention it is that the 9yo drummer just absolutely lights up when they do a Beatles song, cuz that's when he gets to be brilliantly synchopacious. it's like a RINGO SHOWCASE!!
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I am fascinated with this family's music videos. I watch some every day. Thanks for turning me (us) on to them, wikki. 

 
simey said:
I am fascinated with this family's music videos. I watch some every day. Thanks for turning me (us) on to them, wikki. 
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no matter how blown my day is, it can be righted by watching the girl with the ticktockclock eyes do the Jagger smugstrut. watching her brothers' daily progress as musicians and feeling the great goodness of their parents is just a bonus.

have you seen this? cute can get cuter...

 
wikkidpissah said:
no matter how blown my day is, it can be righted by watching the girl with the ticktockclock eyes do the Jagger smugstrut. watching her brothers' daily progress as musicians and feeling the great goodness of their parents is just a bonus.

have you seen this? cute can get cuter...
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❤️   She does all sorts of dance moves in the videos. She grabs the mic more in this one (which is a Beatles tune). I laughed at the 1:51 mark where she does some weird move with the banana going down her hair.  :lol:

 
Got down to my top 25, now "just" have to rank them.    That should be easy, right?  :oldunsure:

Album breakdown

A Hard Day’s Night: 2
The Beatles (aka White Album): 1
Please Please Me: 1
Abbey Road: 4
Singles: 4
Revolver: 2
Help!: 3
Let It Be: 4
Rubber Soul: 2
Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band: 2

I can't recall actually listening to any of these albums completely before. Was more of a casual Beatle fan. My list is pretty heavy on the ones from the radio, and, of course, am somewhat influenced by having recently watched Let It Be . Two biggest surprised for me were probably

Revolver - had a ton of songs I really liked.  Really enjoyed this album. 

The White Album  - Didnt love this one.  I probably only  considered 6 songs after the initial listen.

 
falguy said:
Got down to my top 25, now "just" have to rank them.    That should be easy, right?  :oldunsure:

Album breakdown

A Hard Day’s Night: 2
The Beatles (aka White Album): 1
Please Please Me: 1
Abbey Road: 4
Singles: 4
Revolver: 2
Help!: 3
Let It Be: 4
Rubber Soul: 2
Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band: 2

I can't recall actually listening to any of these albums completely before. Was more of a casual Beatle fan. My list is pretty heavy on the ones from the radio, and, of course, am somewhat influenced by having recently watched Let It Be . Two biggest surprised for me were probably

Revolver - had a ton of songs I really liked.  Really enjoyed this album. 

The White Album  - Didnt love this one.  I probably only  considered 6 songs after the initial listen.
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People either love the White Album or hate it.  There is LOTS of crap on the album, but having said that, lots of good stuff too.  Most people who love it just sort of take it for what it is.....a mess

 
krista4 said:
Binky The Doormat said:
just watched the "Frieda" movie - about the Beatles secretary ...good stuff highly recommend for this type of group.
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This sounds interesting, but doesn't appear to be streaming on any service I have.  I've heard her interviewed several times on the Beatles Channel.
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loved this one!

”Good Ole Freda”

Pretty sure I posted about it but not sure where

It’s on Amazon rn (free to prime members too)

 
I'm still working on my list, using the ranking engine over and over :lol:  , and am trying to figure out how to get rid of my "Get Back" bias.  

I'm on "I'm Only Sleeping" vs. "I've Got A Feeling" and don't know if I genuinely favor the latter (which I did not in 2019) or if it's recency, etc.

 
I have a friend who submitted a list and no matter how many times I remind him, seems unable to expand his list from 20 to 25 songs.  Should I donate those extra five to Binky?  :lol:  

 
krista4 said:
Right?!?!

I just finished my second full-ish re-ranking.  My top 25 are quite different from...a week ago.  FFS.

This time I put 66 songs in there.  Last time it was 54.  Common thread:  both times "Blackbird" was the lowest ranked of those I entered.  :shrug:  
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I think you can eliminate Blackbird from your top 25. So at least you accomplished something.

 
krista4 said:
Apparently I've decided to post a "today in Beatles history" every day.  I think when we get into the countdown, I'll post some trivia every day as well (Guido, you are not allowed to play ;)  ).

On this day in 1966, George married pie-faced painted stick* Pattie Boyd.  Pattie wanted a church wedding, but Brian Epstein insisted they marry at the register office and try to keep it a secret.  (They were met with dozens of photographers as they emerged from the wedding, so you see how well that worked.)  Pattie seemed excited about it anyway.  Paul served as best man and looked more into the bride than George did.

*OH's words, not mine.
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OH's absolute disdain for Pattie Boyd was one of my favorite subplots of the original thread. :lol:

 
On this day in 1968, the Beatles opened Apple Corps at its original location on Wigmore Street in London. This is not the studio you saw in "Get Back," however.  It turned out that the lease they signed for this place didn't allow them to play records in the building so as not to disturb the other tenants, so they relocated six months later.

 
krista4 said:
I have a friend who submitted a list and no matter how many times I remind him, seems unable to expand his list from 20 to 25 songs.  Should I donate those extra five to Binky?  :lol:  
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Only if you want this 🔪 too.

 
krista4 said:
On this day in 1968, the Beatles opened Apple Corps at its original location on Wigmore Street in London. This is not the studio you saw in "Get Back," however.  It turned out that the lease they signed for this place didn't allow them to play records in the building so as not to disturb the other tenants, so they relocated six months later.
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There's a new 82 track box set Good As Gold: Artefacts of the Apple Era 1967-1975 available on your favorite streaming service. It consists of previously unreleased material from the Apple vaults, mostly by artists who never released anything on the label.

These are much deeper cuts than the usual Badfinger, James Taylor, Elephant's Memory songs that you'd associate with Apple.  I consider myself a music history nerd but I never heard of most of these artists.

 
Eephus said:
There's a new 82 track box set Good As Gold: Artefacts of the Apple Era 1967-1975 available on your favorite streaming service. It consists of previously unreleased material from the Apple vaults, mostly by artists who never released anything on the label.

These are much deeper cuts than the usual Badfinger, James Taylor, Elephant's Memory songs that you'd associate with Apple.  I consider myself a music history nerd but I never heard of most of these artists.
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Super-cool - thank you!  I'm just scrolling through and thinking...yeah, Jackie Lomax...OK, I know that one and...errrr...ummmm.  Eager to listen.

 
Binky The Doormat said:
just watched the "Freda" movie - about the Beatles secretary ...good stuff highly recommend for this type of group.

Good Ol' Freda
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I just watched this. It was wonderful.

Man, she is a hoot. Her description of what The Cavern smelled like had me rolling, as did her response to being asked if she ever "dated" one of the Beatles. Freda also had me in tears at the end when she was listing all of her friends and coworkers who are gone.

This isn't some fame-mongering piece by someone looking to cash in. In the 40 years between her leaving her job at Apple and this film (released in 2013), almost nobody knew who she had been. And she was still working as a secretary when filming took place. She had given away most of her Beatles' memorabilia decades before (though I bet what she still has would be worth a small fortune just by provenance). Seems to me the only reason she made this film was so her grandson would have a record of what Freda was a part of - I think the passing of her son may have spurred that urge.

Thanks for hipping me to this film, Binky. 

 
krista4 said:
Super-cool - thank you!  I'm just scrolling through and thinking...yeah, Jackie Lomax...OK, I know that one and...errrr...ummmm.  Eager to listen.
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check out the player credits on his first Apple album:

Jackie Lomax – vocals George Harrison – acoustic guitar, lead guitar (solo) Eric Clapton – lead guitar Nicky Hopkins – piano Paul McCartney – bass Ringo Starr – drums Billy Preston – Hammond organ

and just awful. Lomax played on the same college circuit i worked on. nice guy, great show (kinda Boz Scaggsy), crowds loved him, worked hard and just none of it translated to vinyl.

 
krista4 said:
Super-cool - thank you!  I'm just scrolling through and thinking...yeah, Jackie Lomax...OK, I know that one and...errrr...ummmm.  Eager to listen.
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I shuffled around the Apple box a about a half hour last night.  The Beatles' influence permeated most of what I heard with some shades of Psychedelia and early Prog.

 
wikkidpissah said:
check out the player credits on his first Apple album:

Jackie Lomax – vocals George Harrison – acoustic guitar, lead guitar (solo) Eric Clapton – lead guitar Nicky Hopkins – piano Paul McCartney – bass Ringo Starr – drums Billy Preston – Hammond organ

and just awful. Lomax played on the same college circuit i worked on. nice guy, great show (kinda Boz Scaggsy), crowds loved him, worked hard and just none of it translated to vinyl.
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Sour Milk Sea is always somewhere in bag of songs that I'm picking from in these drafts ...

 
January 23 isn't the most exciting day in Beatles history, but it was a pretty good day for a 20-year-old sound engineer who made his first appearance at the "Get Back" sessions on this date in 1969.  Alan Parsons would, of course, go on to be successful not only in recording others but as a musician in his own right, but on January 23, 1969, he was listening to no fewer than 46 takes of the song "Get Back," plus a host of other recordings.

 
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krista4 said:
January 23 isn't them most exciting day in Beatles history, but it was a pretty good day for a 20-year-old sound engineer who made his first appearance at the "Get Back" sessions on this date in 1969.  Alan Parsons would, of course, go on to be successful not only in recording others but as a musician in his own right, but on January 23, 1969, he was listening to no fewer than 46 takes of the song "Get Back," plus a host of other recordings.
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The dude worked on Let It Be and Dark Side of the Moon. That’s a hell of an education in record production.

It might not be your cup of tea because you don’t care for prog and related sounds, but the second Alan Parsons Project album, I, Robot, is a remarkable sonic achievement. It may be the closest anyone has come to nailing the vibe of Dark Side.

 
Pip's Invitation said:
The dude worked on Let It Be and Dark Side of the Moon. That’s a hell of an education in record production.

It might not be your cup of tea because you don’t care for prog and related sounds, but the second Alan Parsons Project album, I, Robot, is a remarkable sonic achievement. It may be the closest anyone has come to nailing the vibe of Dark Side.
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great album.

I wouldn't want to be like you.

great song.

 
Pip's Invitation said:
The dude worked on Let It Be and Dark Side of the Moon. That’s a hell of an education in record production.

It might not be your cup of tea because you don’t care for prog and related sounds, but the second Alan Parsons Project album, I, Robot, is a remarkable sonic achievement. It may be the closest anyone has come to nailing the vibe of Dark Side.
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Parsons got a big assist from songwriter/keyboard player Eric Woolfson who was Parsons' collaborator for the band's entire run.  They should have been called the Parsons-Woolfson Project.

 
Eephus said:
Parsons got a big assist from songwriter/keyboard player Eric Woolfson who was Parsons' collaborator for the band's entire run.  They should have been called the Parsons-Woolfson Project.
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Agreed. They basically functioned like Becker and Fagen did for Steely Dan.

 
Eephus said:
Parsons got a big assist from songwriter/keyboard player Eric Woolfson who was Parsons' collaborator for the band's entire run.  They should have been called the Parsons-Woolfson Project.
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How's the Eephus 1-25 list project going?  :D

 
Another list came in.  Just about every list is changing the #1 ranked as they come in. Quite a few songs at the top battling it out, unlike three years ago.

 
My album breakdown:

Revolver - 5
Abbey Road - 4
White Album - 4
Let it Be - 2
Rubber Soul - 2
Sgt Pepper - 2
Singles - 2
Help! - 1
Beatles for Sale - 1
Magical Mystery Tour - 1
Yellow Submarine - 1

Edit: Only 1 from Help!

 
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heckmanm said:
My album breakdown:

Revolver - 5
Abbey Road - 4
White Album - 4
Help! - 2
Let it Be - 2
Rubber Soul - 2
Sgt Pepper - 2
Singles - 2
Beatles for Sale - 1
Magical Mystery Tour - 1
Yellow Submarine - 1
 
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Question is, which album loses 1 song when you cut the list to 25? 🤔

 
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