All Time Top 1100 Albums (Aerosmith - Big Ones) P265

[Citizen of Legoland]

Hm, tough one for me because I'm not keen on the standard fare Beatles/Merseybeat stuff. I've heard the hits off here so many times it's hard to rate them fairly, but with Help & Ticket To Ride being a 9/10 and 7s for Yesterday and You've Got To Hide Your Love Away, it's surprising that my avg score for the album ends up at ...

5 / 10.

It's just that there's so many bland songs that just sound like poor versions of other much better Beatles songs to me. Perhaps if they'd dropped 4 or 5 of the songs from "Act Naturally" to "I've Just Seen A Face" and lengthened the tracks of the others I'd push it to 6 or 7, but that was the style of the time. Me having a preference for 20min prog rock tracks makes these little 2min jingles hard to love.

 

[PragueBlue]

I never really got the Beatles and don't enjoy their music at all. I find their sound on this and many others just so bland.

Hard to score it fairly though, as just because it isn't for me doesn't mean it's complete crap. So I'll give it a 4.

 

[chesterbells]

No such thing as a weak Beatles album. You’re Gonna Lose That Girl a highlight, and Ticket To Ride is just magic. It’s still so listenable even now. I love the heartfelt ‘ahhh’ just before they sing the title line. So many special moments in their tracks.

Also to say, for me the Help film is the most enjoyable of all the movies they made. In fact thinking back now, it used to pop up on tv quite a lot, but I haven’t seen a showing for ages now - I wonder if there is some kind of a hitch or rights issue at the moment …

 

[paulbob]

I remember he formed Shriekback who had some good tunes, but I don't know King Swamp. Will give it a listen!

Incidentally, look up what he does for a living now. Oh the irony of the bass player of an unabashedly MARXIST band becoming a music executive for Apple!

Dave Allen (English musician) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I worked with Dave as an order picker at the K Shoes warehouse in the early 70s. I doubt that he remembers that job with a great deal of affection as he and I both hated working there.
I used to socialise with him round the pubs and he was always cheerful and very popular with the ladies I recall :)
Sorry for going off topic a little

 

[BlueHammer85]

No such thing as a weak Beatles album. You’re Gonna Lose That Girl a highlight, and Ticket To Ride is just magic. It’s still so listenable even now. I love the heartfelt ‘ahhh’ just before they sing the title line. So many special moments in their tracks.

Also to say, for me the Help film is the most enjoyable of all the movies they made. In fact thinking back now, it used to pop up on tv quite a lot, but I haven’t seen a showing for ages now - I wonder if there is some kind of a hitch or rights issue at the moment …

whats your score ? :)

 

[Bill Walker]

Ticket to Ride
I read this about that curios and memorable title. Two separate explanations.

"As to the identity of the unique title of the song, there are two explanations that appear plausible. In the Isle of Wight, on the south coast of Britain, there is a town by the name of Ryde. Paul’s cousin Bett and her husband Mike Robbins lived there and were the owners of a pub. Paul and John had hitch-hiked there for a visit back in 1960 (as well as a ferryboat trip in 1963) and it was something that Paul recalled later as inspiration for a title of a song, referring to a British railways ticket to the town of Ryde. “I remember talking about Ryde but it was John’s thing,” Paul remembers about the writing of the song.

However, Don Short, who was a journalist who travelled quite regularly with The Beatles, remembers John explaining things very differently. As related in Steve Turner’s book “A Hard Day’s Write,” Don relates: “The girls who worked the streets in Hamburg had to have a clean bill of health and so the medical authorities would give them a card saying that they didn’t have a dose of anything. I was with The Beatles when they went back to Hamburg in June 1966 and it was then that John told me that he had coined the phrase ‘a ticket to ride’ to describe these cards. He could have been joking – you always had to be careful with John like that – but I certainly remember him telling me that.”

 

[growl]

A few fillers but mostly gems. And a Beatles filler is another band's gem. Worth 9 in my book.

 

[chesterbells]

whats your score ? :)

9 out of 10 buddy :-)

 

[growl]

When I was 14 a friend suggested every record collection should contain an album by a female singer/songwriter. I rectified my oversight by investing in No Secrets. I loved the album at the time but it has not aged well. Ms Simon appears magnificent on the cover but has not aged well. Still worth a listen, especially with James Taylor's contributions. I always found the title track to be rather menacing! You're so Vain is one of the best singles of all time. I would like to give Carly, not one, but 6. (sorry I am late)

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

6/10