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favorite beatles song? depends upon the day, i guess.


favorite complete album for me is abbey road, though i know many choose rubber soul.


anyway, today my favorite beatles song can be heard at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_1y3Aa4PhA

"The Word" from Rubber Soul

excellent song bb72...

The Beatles are the most over rated band in history...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUfAfq02-B8

thanks to Spanky this may help change your opinion of da Bettles. Albeit, STones, Led Zeplin, and even the Monkeys are better IMHO.

You will love this one.

In particular, I enjoy some of the songs contemporary with I saw her standing there and I wanna hold your hand such as Do you want to know a secret, Love me do, Please Please me, From me to you.


Ciaociao

Talking about the Beatles AS A BAND is kinda beside the point. Their place in history is assured by their being a cultural phenomenon that broke the '60's open but much more so, their brilliance as song writers most particularly Lennon and McCartney. They combined elements of all kinds of music into a wonderful amalgam of popular music. Never will that (or they) be repeated.

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"A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind"--Dr. Johnson
"Amen, brother"-ED

No one who came of age after the Beatles can appreciate them as we who came of age before the Beatles.

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Brother Scubabum has it just right. The '50's were unbelievably bland and mediocre both musically and culturally. Perfectly understandable--the previous generation had had both the Depression and WWII to deal with so they wanted peace and quiet, and a chance to build prosperity and families. Then this bunch of Boomers comes along who hadn't known anything like tough times but did experience parents who sheltered them and made unparalleled prosperity available. All adolescents need to separate themselves from their parents by any means necessary--the Frontier having been closed 70 years before we gravitated to cultural separation, hence music, psychopharmacology and all that went with it. A perfect time for the Beatles and the perfect groundbreakers for us--acceptable mostly to our parents and subversive enough for us. And then those who came after us--the post-Boomers not having been there for the cultural tsunami wondered what the fuss was all about--Hadn't things always been like this?

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"A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind"--Dr. Johnson
"Amen, brother"-ED

I was barely walking when the Beatles first came along so I`m not really locking into the whole cutural thing by way of experience but some of the songs to me are just great, particularly the late 60s psychadelic era stuff. I can do without most of the early tunes with "I want to hold your hand," etc. But don`t the Beatles owe a debt to many that preceded them such as Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, etc? Ahh and the 50s Beat Generation, the great jazz of Miles Davis and John Coltrane, and the birth of the Civil Rights Movement, some rich stuff both culturally and musically in the 50s as well. 60s was a Renaissance but unfortunately really missed the mark with the drug abuse which is about univerally recognized now as a flop.

Not to take a Brother up too much, but the music you mentioned was timeless but marginal to the greater mass of society. The Beatles and those later were a strong chest punch that altered society.
The Civil Rights Movement came to fruition in the '60's Zeitgeist ("spirit of the times") but had strong, important roots long before--it didn't come up out of nowhere as the White's cultural changes did. Soul was arrived at by transition; Rock (not Rock & Roll) arrived full-blown. This isn't a precise explanation but it''ll do.
Most def' agree that the drugs were a wrong road to a dead-end. We lost more than we gained.

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"A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind"--Dr. Johnson
"Amen, brother"-ED