Today is World Day The Beatles

vienna · 01-16-16, 04:15 PM

It really is rather akin to asking a parent to pick a favorite child, particularly if you happened to have grown up when the whole Beatles phenomenon was unfolding. You hear the cliche "the soundtrack of our lives" but the Beatles music really was a reflection of a rapidly changing time and it was quite without pretension. The Beatles, like Dylan, became the templates for all the "socially relevant" artists that followed; at the time they came up, save for the sort of roots folkie types, there was no rock and roll archetype for them to follow. Hence, their music really was more of an organic, non-studied expression of the world around them...

As far as favorites go, Lennon, I feel, has been much underrated as a ballad composer and singer since that mantle pretty much fell to Paul. Yet, not withstanding songs like "Yesterday", "Eleanor Rigby" and others, John had some of the best ballads of the two composers. There is a radio show in Los Angeles on Sunday mornings playing three hours of Beatles and Beatles-related music each weekend and about once a month, they do a live broadcast and one song is always the most requested. It is also one of my favorites, if not the most favorite:

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vienna Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Anywhere but the here & now... Posts: 7,719 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	It really is rather akin to asking a parent to pick a favorite child, particularly if you happened to have grown up when the whole Beatles phenomenon was unfolding. You hear the cliche "the soundtrack of our lives" but the Beatles music really was a reflection of a rapidly changing time and it was quite without pretension. The Beatles, like Dylan, became the templates for all the "socially relevant" artists that followed; at the time they came up, save for the sort of roots folkie types, there was no rock and roll archetype for them to follow. Hence, their music really was more of an organic, non-studied expression of the world around them... As far as favorites go, Lennon, I feel, has been much underrated as a ballad composer and singer since that mantle pretty much fell to Paul. Yet, not withstanding songs like "Yesterday", "Eleanor Rigby" and others, John had some of the best ballads of the two composers. There is a radio show in Los Angeles on Sunday mornings playing three hours of Beatles and Beatles-related music each weekend and about once a month, they do a live broadcast and one song is always the most requested. It is also one of my favorites, if not the most favorite: <O> __________________ __________________________________________________ __