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  Wholesale / Sell Gucci 35cm Hermes Birkin Crocodile Bag @btbnt.com         


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  Re: Lulu reconsidered         


Author: really real
Date: Dec 17, 2007 20:54

>>
>
> Great voice, but she seemed to be putting on a bit of aural blackface.
>
>

Unlike Tom Jones, who comes by this racial kind of voice naturally.
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  Re: Are all the 12 Beatles studio albums mastepieces?         


Author: Andrew Kirschner
Date: Dec 17, 2007 20:41

All masterpieces? No. Still an excellent run. (And I generally include
YELLOW SUBMARINE, albeit just for the four "new" tracks which make it
more of a bloated EP, bringing the total to 13.)

It's always been weird to me that BEATLES FOR SALE is often rated so
low, even "worst", with LET IT BE hanging out over on the other end of
the history.

Anyway, in rough order of recording, my thumbnail reviews:

PLEASE PLEASE ME: Overrated, but certainly energetic enough. The only
album where the covers are largely better than the orginals, with
strong excepttions like the title track and the openner. (B-)

WITH THE BEATLES: As energetic as before, but both the songwriting
craft and the performances have improved noticeably and the polish
really helps. (A-)

A HARD DAYS NIGHT: The strongest and most consistent of the first
five. Beautifully constructed and surprisingly complex at points. And
while these songs may not be great for "content", nonetheless the
discovery of folk-rock does occurr here. (A)
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  Re: I am surprised many Beatles fans over here hate Yes         


Author: abe slaney
Date: Dec 17, 2007 20:15

yes pink van led black rock! wrote:
> Yes took the Beatles idea of melodic harmonies and added virtuoso
> music to create something new. Yes were in essence a combination of
> Beatles and Cream.
ossible that they havent really heard the band?

By the way, given that you provided a quote in which members of Yes
cited the Fifth Dimension as their primary vocal influence, how come you
aren't claiming that Yes is a combination of the Fifth Dimension and
Cream? What do the Beatles have to do with this? What, there's no Fifth
Dimension discussion group to troll?
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  Re: I am surprised many Beatles fans over here hate Yes         


Author: RichL
Date: Dec 17, 2007 19:59

I doubt very much that the majority of RMB'ers *hate* Yes. I happen to
think they're pretty good. They're just not earth-shattering.
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  Re: Are all the 12 Beatles studio albums mastepieces?         


Author: Manco
Date: Dec 17, 2007 19:14

RichL wrote:
> "yes pink van led black rock!" gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:90fb59c1-abe2-434e-a3e6-dc9f416663e7@i72g2000hsd.googlegroups.com...
>> Yellow Submarine of course is excluded! One side of it is not Beatles
>> at all.
>>

I can't believe you fell for another one of Raja's lists.
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  Re: Dave Clark Five         


Author: Dale Houstman
Date: Dec 17, 2007 19:14

MikeLawyr2 wrote:
> It is beyond me that the Dave Clark Five are inducted and The Zombies
> are not. The Zombies pointed us in the direction of art rock and jazz
> rock. They were influential in the most central sense of the word as
> it relates to rock music.

It's only "beyond you" because you have bought into the PR that the HoF
is primarily a matter of artistic judgement and respectful homage rather
than what it really is: another advertising tool for the "industry" and
for the Hall itself. And even given that, there's a lot of subjectivity
here: the DC5 may not be as artistically motivated as the Zombies, but
they had a lot of hits, are popularly more well known, and - frankly - a
lot of fun to listen to, which is really quite a thing in popular music.
As an industry thing, the DC5 were more "it" than the Zombies, and
there's no reason to fret, given the rate of induction, eventually the
Zombies will be enshrined in the mausoleum of rock, along with Nervous
Norvis, Bobby "Boris" Pickett, and Monte Rock III...

dmh
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  Re: Are all the 12 Beatles studio albums mastepieces?         


Author: RichL
Date: Dec 17, 2007 19:03

"yes pink van led black rock!" gmail.com> wrote in message
news:e52306f9-ba8f-4618-bda0-6d7a33cf2b2b@i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> Does this mean you consider the first 5 albums underrated? Because
> typically White Album is considered as better than the first 5 albums.

I guess I'd consider the White Album a bit overrated. Most of it is good,
but there are a few clunkers.
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  New McCartney Show On A&E         


Author: BibsBro
Date: Dec 17, 2007 18:57

Abbeyrd's Beatle News reports show will air December 23 and 24 on A&E.

Paul McCartney Live at the Olympia in Paris.
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  I've Got a Feeling         


Author: abby also
Date: Dec 17, 2007 18:53

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I've_Got_a_Feeling
It is actually a combination of two unfinished songs strung together:
Paul McCartney's "I've Got a Feeling" and John Lennon's "Everybody Had a
Hard Year", with the main guitar riff coming from Lennon's unfinished
"Watching Rainbows". McCartney's song was written for his girlfriend
Linda Eastman, whom he soon married, telling her that she was the girl
he had always been looking for. Lennon's song was a litany where every
line started with the word "everybody".

--------------

For some reason, this song is not discussed much. I'd never really
thought of this as being two separate songs - It's not as obvious as A
Day in the Life. Now that I read this, Getting Better comes to mind:
Paul the optimistic "It's getting better all the time." with John's
"Can't get no worse.".
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