Kite: the prevalent feeling of SPLHCB album is that of a Sunday in a British holiday town, like Brighton or Bournemouth. The Beatles' voices blended together in a magical way and this was one of the best examples of it.ġ2) Baby You're A Rich Man: I stand by your description - my feelings exactly.ġ1) Being For The Benefit Of Mr. I re-appreciated it as an adult, especially for its vocal harmonies. Then as a teenager I semi-rejected it as too simple for its period. So, in Getting Better, Paul from the future was looking back at this difficult time for the band and reassuring his band-mates that it would, indeed get better.ġ3) Hello Goodbye: as a child I loved the song. Paul's premise was of placing the album 20 years after the band was formed, which would make it around 1980. John was in the process of putting his own life ahead of the Beatles, George was deeply into Indian philosophy and Ringo was dissatisfied. Still, it's a song that any other composer would have sacrificed an arm and a leg to have been able to write.ġ4) Getting Better: Paul was the driving force behind SPLHCB. It's light and breezy and camp enough to be an enjoyable experience.ġ5) She's Leaving Home: McCartney's stylistic follow-up to Eleanor Rigby lacks the former's magnificently clear structure and poetic lyrics. Here's my list, in two parts, because as usual, I say too much:ġ5) When I'm Sixty-Four: McCartney best of his trio of British Music Hall numbers (the other two being Your Mother Should Know and Maxwell's Silver Hammer). The funny thing is, it failed to encourage any drug use. Why this psychedelic fever dream appealed to an impressionable teen-aged mind I'll never be able to rightly explain. Paul's English travelogue was wondrous to a boy living on a tropical island.ġ) I Am The Walrus. I know this is the Holy Grail for many Lennon fans and if it's any consolation, only the thinnest of lines separates the two.Ģ) Penny Lane: I loved this song as a teenager and it still gives me the feels 50 years on. I really want to consider this and Penny Lane as one entity but that would be a disservice to both tunes. This one blew everyone's mind.ģ) Strawberry Fields. For the Beatles, 1967 was the year of the anthem and this exhortation to love really is all you need.Ĥ) A Day In The Life. Great Horn charts!ĥ) All You Need Is Love. Another anthem that shoulda been a single. Lennon may have been high as a kite but it sure didn't damper his creativity.Ħ) Magical Mystery Tour. It's actually grown on me over the years but c'mon, seriously?ħ) Baby You're A Rich Man. I wasn't a big fan of this confection at the time and really resented it's chart dominance of Walrus but whatever. Me, I guess I'll stick with the original though I kinda miss the strings.Ĩ) Hello Goodbye. They are all stellar but there was more to consider.ĩ) Across The Universe. It over-powered everything else in the Summer of Love but IMO, it's the singles released outside of it that really shine hence the logjam of Pepper tunes in the bottom rungs. Pepper/With A Little Help From My Friends Here are my lists from before this blog (RM, if you still have yours, please post them here in the comments' section).Īs for the 1967 lists, they were published on this blog, with comments for each song here's Record Man's list:ġ0) Sgt. In order to do justice to the material, we divided the lists in four different time periods: 1962-64, 1965-66, 1967 and one that is yet to come, 1968-70. Record Man & I already started doing this before this blog even existed. I would like that to be more of a communal than personal list, if I can get some of you to get involved. Since we did a Rolling Stones countdown and we're recently doing Dylan, I think that it's only fair that we do one for the Beatles too.
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