The Beatles Band • Page 26

"Fancy My Chances With You" is pretty damn ridiculous

 

and they were only a band for 10 years. pretty crazy.

 

Hot take here and certainly one that I agree with! I think it's maybe a generational thing, but I never understood all the critical disdain for the production on this record. I grew up with it and loved it and never heard a thing wrong with it.

 

Listening to the Super Deluxe this morning - some wild stuff on the demos/rehearsals for sure. Fun listen.

 

i do not care for the spector version at all but i also think he’s incredibly overrated

 

These two are such grandpas

 

I wouldn’t have it any other way though

 

Would not have guessed Ringo had a bape phone case lol

 

Put a pop-punk spin on a Beatles tune.

 

i need all the dig a pony content when get back comes out

 

GOD I love that song. Just such a cool fucking riff

 

Get Back dropped part 1 this morning

 

Gonna watch as soon as I get home after the holidays, very excited

 

Can’t wait to watch, gonna watch this weekend

 

Like halfway through part 1 and this is fucking wild, extremely looking forward to reading endless breakdowns of all of it

 

Yeah I watched part 1 last night with my family and we all loved it

 

love watching bands just be bands, which is to say hanging out and being juvenile dorks lol. like when they start singing "everyone has a hard on." its like oh they're just like all my other bands!

 

I thought this was a little dry but still fascinating as a fan, it looks amazing too.

 

Paul and Ringo just sitting at the piano casually writing the suite with Linda taking pictures as George walks in to joke about being late because he was hungry just blew my mind a bit

 

I have something I'm confused about. I've read a decent amount about the Let It Be / Get Back album project. More than someone with no interest in The Beatles but I have no sort of in depth knowledge of them. And I just started watching Part 1 of the Peter Jackson documentary tonight.

Did George Harrison try to get the other guys to consider using some of his songs for the Get Back album, aside from just the two that made the album.....? I know Lennon & McCartney always looked down on his songs and kinda poo-pooed them, and I thought at some point he kinda stopped even trying and was saving the songs for himself, so-to-speak - but I really can't wrap my head around having a songwriter as good as George Harrison in your band, and he's offering up the songs he's written for use, AND you're up against the crazy two week deadline and need to write & record 14 new songs and you're still like 'nah, fuck it' on George's songs and think it's a better idea to like aimlessly jam or try to think of songs that you wrote when you were 15 that maybe don't suck.

 

he demoed several of the songs that ended up on All Things Must Pass during the LIB/Abbey Road sessions

 

Exactly what I thought too hahaha. I was like “Oh, not just us?”

 

Seemed like they weren’t coming up with ideas as a band so all of them were bringing in song ideas they’d been working on individually and also ones that were old as hell that they hadn’t recorded together, just to get a bucket of songs to choose from to see what stuck. I think all bands do that. But yeah, looked like George had some ideas cookin that he brought to the table, but the other guys didn’t vibe with them, so he saved them for his solo album. If I had a dollar for every time this has happened in every band I’ve ever been in…

 

only got through part 1 but my review is basically the lads be rockin

 

one more post part 1 pre the rest thought: jeez they really blew Two Of Us. every time they play it in the first week of sessions it's a total banger. I always liked the album version(s) and never knew what I was missing.

Kind of funny in that to this point we've seen them spend (in some cases a significant amount of) time on I've Got a Feeling, One After 909, Don't Let Me Down, Let It Be, a really great version of Two Of Us, Get Back, and All Things Must Pass. If I didn't know how it turned out, or that they were working with a completely ridiculous time limit, you could convince me they're about to turn in another absolute masterpiece.