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Anyway, in order to bring this thread somewhat back on topic, my grandmother of all people asked me about The Beatles: Rockband the other day. I don't think she's ever played a video game in her life but she is interested in at least checking out this one. Crazy.
I think what really builds them up is the way they created and embodied the archetype of the "rock band": bunch of young guys, screaming fans, trajectory from humble beginnings to international fame, internal strife and breaking up relatively soon with members going on to diverse and successful solo careers. The Beatles were what a rock band is supposed to be, but I don't know if it's because they match this romantic image or because they generated it.
All in all they were good, though I can't muster the enthusiasm I used to have for them. You can't live your life in the past like that.
I think what really builds them up is the way they created and embodied the archetype of the "rock band": bunch of young guys, screaming fans, trajectory from humble beginnings to international fame, internal strife and breaking up relatively soon with members going on to diverse and successful solo careers. The Beatles were what a rock band is supposed to be, but I don't know if it's because they match this romantic image or because they generated it.
Perhaps you can make the argument for solo act vs band, but Elvis was (I believe) the first star (in the US?) to get that kind of screaming adoration. Fuck, he died from a drug over dose.
Thats rock star.
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I grew up on these guys. My dad is a huge Beatles fan and as a result I can't remember a time when I didn't know the words to most of their songs. It took me a while to figure out exactly which songs were theirs though. Until I was about 5 anything my dad listened to was automatically "Beatles" because that was the only band I ever heard him talk about. I still don't really know what album goes with which songs because my dad was a big fan of the mix tape so it was always mixed in with other awesomeness from the 60s and 70s. I will say that as much as I liked most of his music, the only band he listened to that I will still go out of my way to listen to frequently is the Beatles. I really wish I could go out and get the new Rock Band.
It's possible that because I've been listening to them my whole life and have so many fond memories associated with the music that I can't be completely objective about how good they were. I'm not sure if they're my favourite band of all time but they are easily within the top 5. I don't think I have one single favourite band, it's never a question I have a ready answer to.
Also, I'll probably be listening to the Beatles for the rest of the evening. Putting them on random is interesting, you'll get things like PS I Love You, very early, very poppy, very "normal" for the time, followed by Sun King. I love the variety in their music. Oh my. Next comes Revolution 9. I never really "got" this one. I may need more drugs...
Something that I've always wanted to ask some assembled fans.
My Favorite Beatles album, hands down, no question is Help!. Most of the Beatles that I listen to is from that album. I don't dig the stuff with citars, and heavy drug use, and hippies (not that I have much against any of those things, Hell, I listen to my fair share of Joplin, and more than my fair share of Cream).
Am I alone in this? Most of the Beatles fans I know in my life love the later Beatles stuff, but I love Help!, Please Please Me, Rubber Soul, Revolver (which is right there on the line, right?).
While I love most of the beatles catalogue, Rubber Soul is pretty much the pinnacle for me. There were great songs afterwards, but the albums were always marred by corny songs or some clunkers. A good challenge is seeing if you can whittle the White Album down to 13 tracks.
I'm in a similar situation to Anome. Growing up with my dad listening to the beatles, but he never really introduced me to them until about two years ago. Listened to Abbey Road, and loved them ever since then. They're tied to a lot of good memories in my life, and I'll probably be listening to them forever. Definatly one of my favorite bands, even though some of the songs from their first few records have a little to much pop I can honestly say that I like every one of their albums. Favorites being Rubber Soul, Abbey Road and the White Album.
Also everyone here should get the Beatles Rock Band, if just for the visuals and the design of the stages and the four themselves. Its fantastic.
I think what really builds them up is the way they created and embodied the archetype of the "rock band": bunch of young guys, screaming fans, trajectory from humble beginnings to international fame, internal strife and breaking up relatively soon with members going on to diverse and successful solo careers. The Beatles were what a rock band is supposed to be, but I don't know if it's because they match this romantic image or because they generated it.
Perhaps you can make the argument for solo act vs band, but Elvis was (I believe) the first star (in the US?) to get that kind of screaming adoration. Fuck, he died from a drug over dose.
Thats rock star.
Very true, but he died after the Beatles broke up . . . so they did self-destructive behavior first.
I think what really builds them up is the way they created and embodied the archetype of the "rock band": bunch of young guys, screaming fans, trajectory from humble beginnings to international fame, internal strife and breaking up relatively soon with members going on to diverse and successful solo careers. The Beatles were what a rock band is supposed to be, but I don't know if it's because they match this romantic image or because they generated it.
Perhaps you can make the argument for solo act vs band, but Elvis was (I believe) the first star (in the US?) to get that kind of screaming adoration. Fuck, he died from a drug over dose.
Thats rock star.
Very true, but he died after the Beatles broke up . . . so they did self-destructive behavior first.
meh, without the hindsight, sexy new asian girlfriend is hardly self destructive behavior
I think what really builds them up is the way they created and embodied the archetype of the "rock band": bunch of young guys, screaming fans, trajectory from humble beginnings to international fame, internal strife and breaking up relatively soon with members going on to diverse and successful solo careers. The Beatles were what a rock band is supposed to be, but I don't know if it's because they match this romantic image or because they generated it.
Perhaps you can make the argument for solo act vs band, but Elvis was (I believe) the first star (in the US?) to get that kind of screaming adoration. Fuck, he died from a drug over dose.
Thats rock star.
Very true, but he died after the Beatles broke up . . . so they did self-destructive behavior first.
meh, without the hindsight, sexy new asian girlfriend is hardly self destructive behavior
The Beatles' problems were way deeper than Yoko Ono near the end.
I've looked into Yoko's work as a peformance artist and she is so in her own world that, while she may have heard of the Beatles (good chance she didn't), I doubt she recognised his name personally.
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I've looked into Yoko's work as a peformance artist and she is so in her own world that, while she may have heard of the Beatles (good chance she didn't), I doubt she recognised his name personally.
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So i've never really sat down and listened to this group. I've heard various songs of theirs from time to time but didn't get what was the big deal.
I feel like i'm missing out or something. It'd be pretty slick if they had most (prefererably all) of their songs on a two/three CD set, but it's probably astronomically expensive.
So i've never really sat down and listened to this group. I've heard various songs of theirs from time to time but didn't get what was the big deal.
I feel like i'm missing out or something. It'd be pretty slick if they had most (prefererably all) of their songs on a two/three CD set, but it's probably astronomically expensive.
There are a fewgreatesthits CDs out there, but with band with as many good songs as the Beatles, they leave out a lot of incredible songs. Plus they aren't the remastered versions.
I think what really builds them up is the way they created and embodied the archetype of the "rock band": bunch of young guys, screaming fans, trajectory from humble beginnings to international fame, internal strife and breaking up relatively soon with members going on to diverse and successful solo careers. The Beatles were what a rock band is supposed to be, but I don't know if it's because they match this romantic image or because they generated it.
Perhaps you can make the argument for solo act vs band, but Elvis was (I believe) the first star (in the US?) to get that kind of screaming adoration. Fuck, he died from a drug over dose.
Thats rock star.
Very true, but he died after the Beatles broke up . . . so they did self-destructive behavior first.
meh, without the hindsight, sexy new asian girlfriend is hardly self destructive behavior
The Beatles' problems were way deeper than Yoko Ono near the end.
I think what really builds them up is the way they created and embodied the archetype of the "rock band": bunch of young guys, screaming fans, trajectory from humble beginnings to international fame, internal strife and breaking up relatively soon with members going on to diverse and successful solo careers. The Beatles were what a rock band is supposed to be, but I don't know if it's because they match this romantic image or because they generated it.
Perhaps you can make the argument for solo act vs band, but Elvis was (I believe) the first star (in the US?) to get that kind of screaming adoration. Fuck, he died from a drug over dose.
Thats rock star.
Very true, but he died after the Beatles broke up . . . so they did self-destructive behavior first.
meh, without the hindsight, sexy new asian girlfriend is hardly self destructive behavior
The Beatles' problems were way deeper than Yoko Ono near the end.
What did she do, anyway?
Well, she was pretty manipulative by all accounts, and got John into heroin. She also insisted on watching them record (whilst never speaking to them), which pissed off the other Beatles as they never had anyone in the studio with them as they recorded except for the people who had to be there.
But all in all it's like Spike said on Buffy: she gets blamed because she happened to be there, not because she was really to blame. She certainly didn't help matters, but blaming her for the breakup is pretty ridiculous IMO.
So i've never really sat down and listened to this group. I've heard various songs of theirs from time to time but didn't get what was the big deal.
I feel like i'm missing out or something. It'd be pretty slick if they had most (prefererably all) of their songs on a two/three CD set, but it's probably astronomically expensive.
There are a fewgreatesthits CDs out there, but with band with as many good songs as the Beatles, they leave out a lot of incredible songs. Plus they aren't the remastered versions.
So i've never really sat down and listened to this group. I've heard various songs of theirs from time to time but didn't get what was the big deal.
I feel like i'm missing out or something. It'd be pretty slick if they had most (prefererably all) of their songs on a two/three CD set, but it's probably astronomically expensive.
There are a fewgreatesthits CDs out there, but with band with as many good songs as the Beatles, they leave out a lot of incredible songs. Plus they aren't the remastered versions.
Also some of the albums are damn near seamless and that's part of the appeal. Abbey Road especially.
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So, the Beatles Rockband.. good? I've never played Guitar Hero or Rockband. I am really tempted to buy it, although I'm on a spending freeze until everything is bought for the new house.
Speaking as a music lover in general, I think it's pretty fantastic.
My father was a DJ in the 70s. When he came to Canada, he and my mother brought everything - two turn tables, a microphone, etc.
I was born a year later. The quickest way to calm me down and get me to sleep was to put a Beatles album on. They learned quickly that if they didn't let it play through I would wake up quite cranky until it was put back on. I think it became rooted quite deep in my mind; to this day anything from their discography puts me in a good mood. Playing Beatles Rock Band is like brain candy.
I think what really builds them up is the way they created and embodied the archetype of the "rock band": bunch of young guys, screaming fans, trajectory from humble beginnings to international fame, internal strife and breaking up relatively soon with members going on to diverse and successful solo careers. The Beatles were what a rock band is supposed to be, but I don't know if it's because they match this romantic image or because they generated it.
Perhaps you can make the argument for solo act vs band, but Elvis was (I believe) the first star (in the US?) to get that kind of screaming adoration. Fuck, he died from a drug over dose.
Thats rock star.
Very true, but he died after the Beatles broke up . . . so they did self-destructive behavior first.
meh, without the hindsight, sexy new asian girlfriend is hardly self destructive behavior
The Beatles' problems were way deeper than Yoko Ono near the end.
What did she do, anyway?
John Lennon.
I mean I thought that was common knowledge.
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My father was a DJ in the 70s. When he came to Canada, he and my mother brought everything - two turn tables, a microphone, etc.
I was born a year later. The quickest way to calm me down and get me to sleep was to put a Beatles album on. They learned quickly that if they didn't let it play through I would wake up quite cranky until it was put back on. I think it became rooted quite deep in my mind; to this day anything from their discography puts me in a good mood. Playing Beatles Rock Band is like brain candy.
No idea that was by them. I heard that song being blasted at a couple of bonfires this summer.
That song is all right, I guess. It's not as low on my list as, say, The Ballad of John and Yoko or I Want You (She's So Heavy). It just seems overrated to me.
I know I'm in the minority on this, but I love almost every song on Help!. I mean, I love almost all of the Beatles' stuff, but Help! is the one consistently playing on my iPhone.
So, the Beatles Rockband.. good? I've never played Guitar Hero or Rockband. I am really tempted to buy it, although I'm on a spending freeze until everything is bought for the new house.
Speaking as a music lover in general, I think it's pretty fantastic.
If you're getting it for the first time, though, it may make sense to look for a marked down RB1 bundle for the instruments, and grab just the disc for the Beatles. I mean, $100 for just the guitar is crazy talk.
Edit: I do love "Help!" a whole lot. I actually really like their early stuff. It's not very revolutionary, but the Beatles/Dave Clark Five/Monkees are just fun to listen to sometimes.
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YamiNoSenshiA point called ZIn the complex planeRegistered Userregular
edited September 2009
Blew through all of Beatles RB last night with my fiancee. We form quite the dichotomy as she loves the early pop-ish stuff, while I prefer the later, more trippy experimental sound. So right as I was getting excited she was a little disappointed. But the whole game was a blast. I kept missing notes because the visuals were so awesome, especially in the studio dreamscapes. Difficulty wise, it's obviously scaled down. If you're on expert in regular Rock Band, you'll have no problem. A Beatles "six" isn't anywhere near the ones in the regular game. Overall the game was great, and definitely worth it for anyone who's even remotely a fan.
So, the Beatles Rockband.. good? I've never played Guitar Hero or Rockband. I am really tempted to buy it, although I'm on a spending freeze until everything is bought for the new house.
Speaking as a music lover in general, I think it's pretty fantastic.
I've never been a fan or a hater, but my wife is a fan. We bought this yesterday and played for 3 or 4 hours. I had a lot of fun. I sight read all of the songs playing on hard and never scored below a 90%. It was a lot of fun. I did get a lot of "Are you serious?" when I'd say "I've never even heard of this song before!". Sometimes that was met with a "You will when we start it because it's been in a commercial". I think I'm now in the "Yeah, they're okay, but I still don't see the big deal". camp. So, still not a real fan or a hater.
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edited September 2009
I'm going to sound a bit nitpicky, but... in the original post you have Yellow Submarine as a studio album... It's more like a sound track. I think the Beatles wrote two, maybe three new songs. The rest is by George Martin.
In other notes... I will probably get Beatles rock band, which will be my first foray into the music game genre.
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I'm... I'm ashamed to admit that I just now got this. Seriously, I never even thought about it before.
As punishment, I will go listen to Sergeant Pepper for twenty four straight hours.
What?
I think there is something wrong with me.
Anyway, in order to bring this thread somewhat back on topic, my grandmother of all people asked me about The Beatles: Rockband the other day. I don't think she's ever played a video game in her life but she is interested in at least checking out this one. Crazy.
All in all they were good, though I can't muster the enthusiasm I used to have for them. You can't live your life in the past like that.
I didn't realise until I was watching That Thing You Do . . . two or three years ago.
That is not the proper spelling of the insect, but rather a pun by using the word beat (a musical term)
The Beatles thing? It's that Beatles isn't correct spelling for the bug. The bug is Beetles. The band has a good Beat, and thus is the Beatles.
EDIT: Beat like a Ringo trying to suggest a song.
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Thats rock star.
Oh, I understood that the spelling "wasn't" correct, but I didn't make the connection to the term "beat".
It's possible that because I've been listening to them my whole life and have so many fond memories associated with the music that I can't be completely objective about how good they were. I'm not sure if they're my favourite band of all time but they are easily within the top 5. I don't think I have one single favourite band, it's never a question I have a ready answer to.
Also, I'll probably be listening to the Beatles for the rest of the evening. Putting them on random is interesting, you'll get things like PS I Love You, very early, very poppy, very "normal" for the time, followed by Sun King. I love the variety in their music. Oh my. Next comes Revolution 9. I never really "got" this one. I may need more drugs...
While I love most of the beatles catalogue, Rubber Soul is pretty much the pinnacle for me. There were great songs afterwards, but the albums were always marred by corny songs or some clunkers. A good challenge is seeing if you can whittle the White Album down to 13 tracks.
I got it, I just thought they'd managed to discover a good pun.
Also everyone here should get the Beatles Rock Band, if just for the visuals and the design of the stages and the four themselves. Its fantastic.
meh, without the hindsight, sexy new asian girlfriend is hardly self destructive behavior
Also, hands up anyone who actually believes Yoko when she says she didn't know who John was when she met him.
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I feel like i'm missing out or something. It'd be pretty slick if they had most (prefererably all) of their songs on a two/three CD set, but it's probably astronomically expensive.
What did she do, anyway?
But all in all it's like Spike said on Buffy: she gets blamed because she happened to be there, not because she was really to blame. She certainly didn't help matters, but blaming her for the breakup is pretty ridiculous IMO.
Well shit.
Also some of the albums are damn near seamless and that's part of the appeal. Abbey Road especially.
No idea that was by them. I heard that song being blasted at a couple of bonfires this summer.
Speaking as a music lover in general, I think it's pretty fantastic.
I was born a year later. The quickest way to calm me down and get me to sleep was to put a Beatles album on. They learned quickly that if they didn't let it play through I would wake up quite cranky until it was put back on. I think it became rooted quite deep in my mind; to this day anything from their discography puts me in a good mood. Playing Beatles Rock Band is like brain candy.
John Lennon.
I mean I thought that was common knowledge.
Ever wake up in the sofa, plastic guitar in hand?
"I wanna hold your haaaaa-zzzz..."
That song is all right, I guess. It's not as low on my list as, say, The Ballad of John and Yoko or I Want You (She's So Heavy). It just seems overrated to me.
I know I'm in the minority on this, but I love almost every song on Help!. I mean, I love almost all of the Beatles' stuff, but Help! is the one consistently playing on my iPhone.
If you're getting it for the first time, though, it may make sense to look for a marked down RB1 bundle for the instruments, and grab just the disc for the Beatles. I mean, $100 for just the guitar is crazy talk.
Edit: I do love "Help!" a whole lot. I actually really like their early stuff. It's not very revolutionary, but the Beatles/Dave Clark Five/Monkees are just fun to listen to sometimes.
I've never been a fan or a hater, but my wife is a fan. We bought this yesterday and played for 3 or 4 hours. I had a lot of fun. I sight read all of the songs playing on hard and never scored below a 90%. It was a lot of fun. I did get a lot of "Are you serious?" when I'd say "I've never even heard of this song before!". Sometimes that was met with a "You will when we start it because it's been in a commercial". I think I'm now in the "Yeah, they're okay, but I still don't see the big deal". camp. So, still not a real fan or a hater.
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In other notes... I will probably get Beatles rock band, which will be my first foray into the music game genre.