Naked. Anthology 1. Anthology 2. Anthology 3. Love. 20. 09 Beatles Remasters. Beatles. Relations. John Lennon. Paul Mc. Cartney. George Harrison. Adrian's Album Reviews . I Love You / Baby It's You / Do You Want To Know A Secret / Taste Of Honey / There's A Place / Twist And Shout. The Beatles? What kind of name is that for a rock n roll group, I ask you? Well, Buddy Holly knows. Yes, it's those fabulous Beatles, four lovable young lads from Liverpool with funny hair and heads that don't quite seem connected to their necks properly. You know the ones... Directly available to you from all good record stores! Buy it today, you won't be disappointed!! In truth, although once The Beatles hit, they really hit big, right from the start virtually, their debut doesn't deviate in terms of structure from the norm of the day. So, you get a couple of hits, a few covers and some filler. The lyrical content of 'I Saw Her Standing Their' which kicks off the record in fine fashion is very much boy/girl, teenage romance kind of stuff - well worn themes. You know, that Ringo is a damn fine looking guy! Although 'Please Please Me' backed with it's singles and the other singles The Beatles released at this stage did shake up the musical world ( well, England at least - America would follow later ) had they not followed this album and had the glittering career they certainly did, would anybody be talking about 'Please Please Me' being a landmark LP? It's a thought to ponder. The Ringo sung 'Boys' is again hardly a great song - just standard Rock N Roll stuff - but Ringo does sing this with verve and style dammit! The title song of course is a wonderful song, with the guitar following the vocal line acting as a kind of fanfare and then we have the chorus - 'Come on, COME ON!'. Yeah, it's pretty good. I Love You' is a sweet ballad and a decent song that Paul sings well, 'Baby It's You' is yet another ballad, good vocals here but overall not the stuff of legends. And, so on, really, repeat to close. As transcribed by Andrew White (10) and shown in Figure 2, the structure which Coltrane uses as a basis for his. Hyde Park Group Food Innovation Did Lucius Chapin write the Amazing Grace tune? Posted by Rachel on May 12, 2015 in All Categories, Composers, News, Songs Well, 'Do You Want To Know A Secret' and 'There's A Place' are both genuinely classy songs and the closing 'Twist And Shout' is something for John to get his vocal chords well and truly around. I only comment on Please Please Me since it never seems to get its just desserts. The crux of PPM is that in its simplistic way it was even more groundbreaking than ANY of the Beatles subsequent recordings or any other fellow rock artists. Name me a group or an artist prior to them of comparable age who had emerged with an album of such quality principally all self- penned. The question, of course, is rhetorical. You had to be around at the time to appreciate the album's impact. To analyse it without such insight is futile because such analysis is devoid of context. Nora Smyth. hreynolds@optusnet. I think that Ask Me Why Is close to the worst track on the album. The line I love youuuuuwoo woo woo woo , lyrically is a disaster. Through its European. Offers news, comment and features about the British arts scene with sections on books, films, music, theatre, art and architecture. Requires free registration. Juan Gabriel was born Alberto Aguilera Valadez in Par See how effectively your business collaborates. Take a SMART Inspired Collaboration Assessment. It's the ideal way to determine your organization's collaboration. Baby its You is another vocal horror. I Saw Her Standing There and Twist And Shout are the standouts on this album. Tom myrtlebox@msn. Great Beatles site Adrian. I started keeping a journal my freshman year in college, and kept the habit for years afterward. I'm still not sure whether it was a good habit or a. INTER.NET NO CONTRACT RESIDENTIAL PHONE AND INTERNET SERVICE offering no contract Phone and Internet service so you can try something different and better with. I am also of the belief that PPM gets passed over too quickly when ranking the songs and LP's of these GODS of music. These lads were glisteningly young at this point and didnt have a whole lot of great musical community threads from which to draw. The one point that MUST be mentioned about this recording effort is that it all took place (aside from PPM/LMD)IN ONE SINGLE FREAKIN DAY!!!! John was battling a throat condition during the recording and was munching on lozenges all day just to maintain some form of voice (witness Anna in the morning warming up and Twist n shout the final number where his voice is definitely gone). The fact that they incorporated 6 covers to flesh out their first LP does force the overall LP ranking down, but it most certainly is ahead of Let it Be (last in my humble opinion) and the majority of the utter tripe in the White album. The songs: I saw her stan! In fact, I would place the first two songs in their overall top 1. Brendan Tnahpellee@yahoo. Actually, this is one of my favourite Beatles albums. Every song has a unique, if not very unconventional melody, it's a very uplifting and vibrant album and, well, it always puts a smile on my face. That is all I really need to say. But, I mean how many times in your life do you hear 'There's a place'? That is such a cool song. John Cox zoz@nrlworld. It's 1. 96. 3 guys, the Beatles were just taking the first steps to changing the face of music as we know it. As the Fab Four later said, . We'll, here they were singing 1. These young guys went on to change the world big time, their influence still felt to this day, and I'd suspect will continue to be felt .. So listen to this album with 1. Liverpool were issuing the world with a wake up call. It was the start of a . This album seems rough in retrospect but at the time it shone. The beatles where the kings of melody. Even the worst beatle albums have great melodies. The music was the driving force for them. A lot of the time i thought they just shoved lyrics on the end as an afterthought. The beatles where classical musicians at heart with limited instrumental ability. But despite that they where bloody awesome!! ROB NYPlease Please Me is a great album. It's easy to say all these years later it was ! As for the comment by Alan Brooks . For a start most of the hit's they had in 6. The only reason the beatles didn't break America until 1. Capitol records didn't think an English Rock and Roll group would make any money in America. Capitol records are lucky that a major label didn't pick up the US rights to the Beatles before 1. It constitues a watering down of their cavern sound with a mix of covers and rather immature,syrupy songwriting from lennon and mccartney betraying their youth . But it doesnt detract from the fact that this is a dated collection of cliched love songs and impersonations that give little indication of the musical riches to follow . Sandy Norway. It's easy to dissmiss . But if we reverse that thought and ask this question: Could The Beatles have made ? I would say surerly not. The thing about the 6. The Beatles changed so much and so fast that every album they made seem worlds apart from each other. I would say that every Beatles album is perfect on their own merits. I can't think of any better or more fullfilled album from that kind of primitive perspective. C'mon people, Elvis hardly wrote one single song, but he defined every song he sung anyway! Just like The Beatles, the greatest band ever. Don't underestimate the art of doing other peoples songs. I realize that this is much better than whatever else might have been on the album charts back in early '6. Beatles didn't have their shit together at this point. I can't see what they saw in songs like . That's also the case for George and . I Love You / Baby It's You / Do You Want To Know A Secret / Taste Of Honey / There's A Place / Twist And Shout Typical Beatles fan introduction follows as if this person, even though they live in the 2. The Beatles invented everything. The Beatles represent everything good about rock music as a form. They pioneered every music form after 1. The vast majority of their songs are excellent. Their production, care of George Martin, is superb and imaginative. They were extremely original. They were great musicians. Rest assured, although be very alarmed would be a better way to say this, most Beatles fanatics do think this way, to this very day. Did Kraftwerk even exist? Or would a Beatles fan claim 'Tomorrow Never Knows' invented techno? That's just a mischievous thing and I don't want to be petty during this review. Veejay who originally released this LP in the US used the artwork from a British EP, chopped off The Beatles feet (?!?) and then reversed the negative. Being a poor label with poor distribution, 'Introducing The Beatles' sold nowt until Capitol Records got hold of the band, under duress. I use that phrase deliberately. John Lennon, huge Elvis and Buddy Holly fan that he was, was in a skiffle group. Paul was a fan of Skiffle and Rock n Roll too and The Beatles invented precisely nothing at this stage in their history. They were around at the right time and at the right stage signed to EMI in the UK. In the US, signed to Veejay, they suffered poor artwork and no distribution. Then, sold loads on the back of their UK success once Brian Epstein got his back into gear.'Introducing The Beatles' is the same as their UK debut then, minus two songs for licensing reasons. It would later reappear under different guises for numerous different reasons. Roy Orbison, Phil Spector and dozens of other accomplished and fiercely creative US artists I shan't mention, were swept away, black artists particularly. The artwork is indeed very cheap although does proclaim, quite correctly at the time, The Beatles as 'England's NO 1 Vocal Group'. As a post- scipt to this review, this is one of the world’s most counterfeited albums. If you have a slightly different version to me, then good luck to you! The Beatles worked hard, it's fair to say. The songs we know from this early Beatles era are actually only a fraction of the songs they'd written between them. George and even Ringo, in addition to Lennon/Mc. Cartney, were writing songs although these songs weren't widely heard or often even considered for recording at the time. Anyway, 'It Won't Be Long' is a Beatle- mania crowd- pleaser, unremarkable musically but fairly remarkable vocally, especially the swoonsome harmonies at the end. It shows The Beatles beginning to think a little more about their songs, even at this relatively early stage. I mentioned the writing earlier? Well, George did manage to get a song recorded and it appears next. Compared to songs by other groups at the time, The Hollies and what have you, this is damn fine. In fact, it's arguably better than the lesser Lennon/Mc. Cartney material. Bob Dylan's 4. 0 best songs. In his amazing sixties pomp, he was held in awe by everyone, including The Beatles and The Stones. Uncut celebrates the enduring genius of Bob Dylan with an all- star vote to pick the 4. While by way of an introduction, Giant Sand? What can I say to Dylan? What would be the point of conversation? So I always felt I would rather just see how he saunters across the room instead, if I ever had the option. Have you ever seen Don? I ended up being signed to a record label once where that bespectacled, argumentative, science student was the president of said label. Then I did a double bill tour with with Bob Neuwirth some time later. He was the other guy in shades in that movie. The best part of the tour was just listening to his stories on the train. It could seem like I was collecting characters from that film. DA Pennebaker, the filmmaker, even showed up in Tucson for a minute to film us for a second. The only time I ever got close to Dylan himself was when I was invited to see him play in Las Vegas. My old friend, the first drummer of Giant Sand, Winston Watson, was then drumming for him. When I saw Dylan in Vegas, he was wearing a velvet sports coat and holding no guitar. He was working the mic like somebody who never plays anywhere other than Vegas. Since his hands were free to play his blues harp, he commanded it like I never heard before. It was like Hendrix on the harp. Last summer, I was on day six of a ten- day fast. I was in no mood to get a last- minute call asking me to drive to Phoenix. That place sucks even when you ARE eating. I wanted to stay home and watch videos of The Sopranos and not eat. Stricken with the thought of the eventual death of Dylan, however, I knew I would have a hard time living with that decision if I didn. I flew up the interstate to catch the last 3. They placed us on the stage, far left, but so close. There was inspiration there to be had for those in need. After the show as he was headed our way backstage, he spotted Marcela Watson. A good man, I thought. It was a great relief. Howe Gelb. Tucson, Arizona. March 2. 00. 2. Namely that mostly he really does need a good one. Here that apparently isn. But what makes the truly outstanding three tracks outstanding is down to Dylan. Bob loves his bad jokes, and these are such good bad jokes. His vocal phrasing and timing are phenomenal. All those teetering, absurdly packed long lines. But then to literally blow himself off stage – there. Even the way the record starts, you can hear the audience chatting, you can even hear the footsteps of the musicians on the wooden boards and Dylan. Dylan starts strumming the intro and then the drummer just counts in and there. That and that clip from Eat The Document where he. When Dylan sings about not having . Like The Conet Project and Harry Smith. The best music in the world is made when people have tricked themselves into not thinking about themselves. Masterpieces are created out of forgetting who you are and what you are, and what the implications are of the act you. Then you hear a record like this and you realise that you can. Who knows how true that myth is, but I do hear that in the record a lot. Anything that sidesteps the awareness of the thing itself is what you try for when you write. BILLY BRAGG: . Like an overheard conversation on a noisy train; banal, yet intriguing. ADAM SWEETING: Often overlooked is the fact that the Bard has always had a highly- developed sense of the ridiculous. Here, he artfully pulled off one of the few known shaggy- dog stories in rock. With deadpan support from organist Garth Hudson in particular, Dylan assembled a portrait of crushing domestic tedium from a sequence of mundane observations – . Unless you count bringing the washing indoors. MICHAEL GRAY: Sums up the murky, wayward genius of The Basement Tapes – for me, every wondrous item from . Dylan and the band in full effect. I believe, Bob, I believe! JUDAH BAUER: It. The Blood On The Acetates version is great, too. So with Oh Mercy he got himself a decent producer, Daniel Lanois. Tightly arranged, simple clear instrumentation throughout. Six out of the ten tracks are wonderful. Best album since Blood On The Tracks, and arguably my second favourite Dylan album. I was doing Luxuria when this came out. I remember getting the album and playing it to Noko. It was that sort of song. I read these when I was around 1. I can only describe as religious dreams in which I saw these fertile valleys. There was a huge voiceover saying things I couldn. I wrote a lot of strange stuff after these dreams and didn. For me, the confessional honesty of the song reminds me of Robert Bly when he wrote . And with this God- like reverb as well, it. When I first heard it, I was in some friend. Sad lyrics – unusually simple, sweet bridge. Makes me long for the sneering, obnoxious, righteous Dylan. DAN BERN: A short, tight, perfect little song with a perfect little bridge. If you look at the lyrics, they. A lot of people think of Dylan as being this surrealist mess, but the words to this are so straightforward. Real straight, not a lot of metaphor – but just really heartbroken. ROB HUGHES: When Nashville Skyline hit the racks, it made Dylan. While the dissenters fumed, the man (of course) just got on with it. On Skyline, he tucked his voice to the back of the throat and let it slow- boil its way through, discovering the same joy in country music as he. On the surface a simple song of regret, as ever with Dylan, it. A harsh warning shot across the bows of anyone who dares stray into temptation. Telling somebody about that experience, it. Dylan is still rummaging around in his folkie roots, taking old, old songs and remaking them anew. ROBYN HITCHCOCK: Partly because it. The version he did with Johnny Cash on Nashville Skyline is very different and has a touching, nostalgic feel about it – but I still prefer the Freewheelin. Mainly because of his guitar picking – in the early days he used to make a bit more effort and it really shows through. That is, the thing about Dylan is that his stuff is incredibly sad going from top to bottom. All the way through, the root of his work is incredible sadness. JUSTIN CURRIE: A beautiful melody, expertly picked on a little Gibson guitar by a 2. As a piece of character acting alone this and . His vocal is so haunted, it. The emotional candour and naked hurt reminds me a lot of Paul Westerberg. Westerberg and Dylan, those two romantic misfit poets from the bleak wilds of Minnesota. Sometimes this is all you need: a voice, a guitar, words that break your heart. COLIN Macl. NTYRE: I love the line, . I find it romantic because it. With his stories about relationships, I never know which way it. Tonnes of people have covered Dylan. But this one, the melody and song structure make it a real anomaly. And more than a lot of Dylan songs, it has a lot of specific lines that stand out more because they don. I also like that line. It was the first time I. There was a bar by the college and I. It was the first time I felt like a real woman and the song seemed to accentuate that. It was strange and smoky and sexy and I felt like I. It made me feel I could reinvent myself. NICK BROOMFIELD: Dead sloppy, but I’m a sucker for it. This song proved very useful. We had such a horny summer. This song always takes me back. One More Cup Of Coffee From Desire (January 1. ROBERT FORSTER: This is a really good example of Dylan in the studio. Up until 1. 97. 8 Dylan hardly did any overdubs, which is amazing, so he. But people respect Dylan and are intimidated by him, so no- one. Emmylou Harris is on it, and she sings in the chorus with a scat harmony in the background. She thought it was a run- through and searches for a harmony. I love him for that. ROBERT FISHER: There are certain songs that get stuck in my personal CD player as I walk around town. I play them over and over on repeat and with every listen they seem to reveal something I hadn. The duet between Dylan and Harris is seemingly effortless and amazing. Sweet melancholy music that suggests salvation and hope are just within reach. KATHRYN WILLIAMS: It. I was a complete Hendrix nut. The Hendrix version now sounds like it doesn. A lot of other people like Lennon would have tried to write a chorus that was different. But Dylan just takes this minimal approach, as he often does. I also love the lyric; it. If I was going to make a biblical film, Dylan would be the first person I. But also I think Dylan has the idea that there. Cheating, I know, but the rhetoric of Dylan. The only flaw is that Daniel Lanois . Art in the service of anger. DAVE MARSH: If for no other reason than that the country I come from is called the Midwest. When he came in on that scene of Slim Pickens and Katy Jurado, it blew me away. I remembered Bob watching the rushes in Mexico. When we first screened that, it was one of the reels that came back from the lab fucked- up. The picture was getting dark. And I know that he put the line there: . The composer Sam used before, Jerry Fielding, didn. Thought it was too literal. Biggest bunch of shit I. He had no understanding of the life of the music Bob did. Even that damn jangle when Garrett. And the song about Billy: . I saw it years ago on a family holiday when I stayed up late to watch it. Listening to it, you wonder if they can tell that they. Judging by what you can hear, probably not, as the session sounds like a complete shambles. LYNDON MORGANS: Which came first, this or Neil Young? Whichever, two magnificent songs for the price of one chord sequence. It evokes the film, obviously, romantic and elegiac. GERARD LANGLEY: Even people who don. If you make a tape and start it with this, everyone usually really likes it. Dylan is seen as a writer, but it shouldn. And this track illustrates this. With Roger Mc. Guinn on guitar and Booker T on Hammond, this has a great sound, which is why it. Most writers would like to come up with a song that could stand the test of time, grateful for its playability over a 2. Meanwhile, this man comes up with one that could have been sung 2.
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