Red Mosquito

Will wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:I remember taking The White Album off my parent's dusty shelf and giving it a spin. I immediately walked up to my mother and asked, "What's the matter with you?!" She didn't understand. I demanded to know why we always listened to Abbey Road and never listened to The White Album. I couldn't understand why she'd been hiding the White Album from me.

She just shrugged and said, "I don't know. It's weird."

Parents. Amirite?

Aside from the plastic Fisher Price toy records I had as a kid and buying Monkees tapes by phone via the infomercials, one of my first musical memories is sitting in my parents' living room with those giant 70's headphones and two plastic sticks spinning the White Album and drumming along, spinning Revolution 1 over and over.

lowlight79 wrote:I have such love the for the album revolver. I feel like the songs are such a blend between there older days and where they were heading in the late 60's.

surface the north wrote:I often say that Revolver is my favorite Beatles album too, but it's probably The White Album if I'm being honest with myself.

durdencommatyler wrote:This White Album remastered vinyl just arrived in the mail.

McParadigm wrote:I didn't really think much about the earlier records until I started getting really into late-50's early-60's pop, blues, skiffle, and 'rock' music. The clearer a picture I had of what the landscape was when they came out, the more impressed I was with the band from day one.

I really like early, all-in-one-take rock and soul music. Almost all of it is imperfect....stumbly and swinging, you know, and that's a huge plus to my ears. The limitations of two track recording and the simplicity of the subject matter pre-mid 60's aren't so much a weakness as they are a different shade of a known quality...pre-rebellion punk design, recorded in big rooms by engineers in lab coats. Not only that, but with music growing so thoroughly entrenched in minor key songwriting the last few decades, I find I really dig those major key-heavy 60's pop records more and more. I wish I could play them all on 45. I really do.

Having said all that, the Beatles were actually tighter performers than most other bands that came out of the era. All records from that era lean a bit on the sloppy side ("Okay, everybody get it right this time, because we have to record six more songs today"), but The Beatles really did a remarkable job (the remasters really reveal this). Especially....strangely enough....Ringo. There are literally just a small handful of times in all their recording sessions where a song has to be restarted because Ringo screwed up. Go figure.

These days, I honestly think I listen to Please Please Me, Hard Day's Night, Beatles for Sale, and Help more than I do Revolver or Sgt. Pepper. Those other records are incredibly cool, yeah, and I've worn them out, but I find a lot of fresh air in the pre-"We're gonna change the world, oh I guess not" days. Naivety and joy are table wines. Pour yourself a glass and enjoy the sunset.

durdencommatyler wrote:Listening to the vinyl now. Gorgeous.

Dear Prudence is destroying me all over again, as if for the first time.

surface the north wrote:Your rampant spending on vinyl is starting to drive me up the wall, Strat.

Strat wrote:

surface the north wrote:Your rampant spending on vinyl is starting to drive me up the wall, Strat.

Hey man. Im a full time employee, 31 years old and single...wtf else am i going to do?