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 The Beatles rate 2024, Top 10 revealed |
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 Friday, 05:13 PM
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 Rob aah
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'A Day In The Life' a great start to the top 10. I gave 'Help!' my maximum points so no shade
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Friday, 05:14 PM
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QUOTE(Severin @ 17th May 2024, 05:08 PM)  Out of curiosity, what would chartjack2's point have done for its placing? I think I still voted for it but it was mid table maybe. |
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Friday, 05:16 PM
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QUOTE(Severin @ 17th May 2024, 05:08 PM) Out of curiosity, what would chartjack2's point have done for its placing? Interestingly this would be a “non mover” at #10 but with “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” and “Come Together” climbing to #8 and#9 respectively and the 2 next to reveal dropping out. I’ll show the full alternative results at the end. 
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Friday, 08:05 PM
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Shakin Stevens
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QUOTE(Severin @ 17th May 2024, 05:06 PM) I think when you place A Day in the Life within its historical context, it just goes to show what a completely groundbreaking and astonishing piece of work it is. It really is a masterpiece of writing, arrangement and production. Nobody had ever recorded anything quite like it before and it sits comfortably among the most influential songs of all time. With due respect to other acts like The Velvets, Pink Floyd, Beach Boys, Byrds, Hendrix etc, the entire late sixties music scene underwent a seismic shift in their wake, with A Day in the Life regularly cited as a point of inspiration. Even to this day it still gets rated as one of the greatest songs of all time, and the juxtaposition from John's surrealistic parts to Paul's more traditional section only serves to make the song even more strange, dream like and otherworldy. The transition to and from that is exceptional too. For many of my younger years I would casually dismiss The Beatles and much of the era as the music of my parents. Combined with my earliest exposure to music being Punk and Disco (and I didn't like Disco), The Beatles seemed like a relic for a different generation to cling to, even though their songs were always on the radio they seemed irrelevant when compared to all the Punk/New Wave and later Post Punk and New Romantic stuff that seemed so fresh and exciting. But if you go back and look at their work with the benefit of histrical context and free from any prejudiced thoughts... boy were they a phenominal band when they went for it. Fantastic post! |
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Saturday, 08:48 AM
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Ticket To Ride so close, a major influence on the sound of poprock at the time, and a key moment in Help! the movie, basically the first travelogue-frollicking-video. Loved it. Still sounds fresh.
I agree with the comments on A Day In The Life (and apply them to Sgt Pepper the album in general), ground-breaking, but I prefer other Lennon psychedelia tracks and I also was never that keen on the Paul bits. In the end I voted for favourites rather than on musical merit, have to go with my heart not my head, but oh my word that ending! |
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Saturday, 09:12 AM
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Paul ruined it with his part, is there a Paul-free version of the song?
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Saturday, 10:42 AM
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I like Paul’s part of the song. I think it wouldn’t be as good without it as the contrast between those parts keeps the momentum going and keeps it interesting. I always saw it as a deliberate contrast between what’s happening out in the world and the more mundane day to day life of Paul’s part, it works really well imo
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Saturday, 10:48 AM
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Yeah echoing dandy*, for me there’s no song that more perfectly captures waking up from a dream and being confronted by the mundanity of life.
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9th: 522 points
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds WhoOdyssey 50 Chez Wombat 46 Roba. 45 popchartfreak 43 jimwatts 43 Jade 41 gooddelta 41 Brer 40 Severin 38 DanG 35 King Rollo 32 Notorious D.O.T. 31 steve201 20 JulianT 12 dandy* 5 …ready for it 0 Bjork 0 ben08 0 And so beating “A Day In The Life” by all of 1 point, with eight 40 plus scores and a maximum from WhoOdyssey, it’s this other psychedelic adventure, also from “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”. An Elton John cover was a US #1 in 1974. While many have thought it to be no coincidence that the title’s principal words abbreviate to “LSD”, the inspiration apparently was far more innocent, when John’s son Julian said his school drawing was of Lucy in the sky with diamonds. The track uses a Lowrey organ and an Indian tambura drone, distorted in the studio to create the sense of the imagination going somewhere unusual. |
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The owls are not what they seem
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Lucy in the Sky... one of my absolute favourites, such a joyful psychedelic trip
 A Day in the Life is also brilliant and obviously one of the most groundbreaking pieces of popular music there's ever been. I agree that the contrast between vocals is what makes it so good.Help! above both of these is a bit questionable, it feels a bit of an odd one out in this top 10. |
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