Mad Eyed Screamer
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Siouxsie & The Banshees followed by New Order or The Bunnymen
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All Time Top 1100 Albums (Aerosmith - Big Ones) P265
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2. I don't think that I'd give any of their albums more than 8/10. Most of them, particularly A Hard Days' Night, Help, Rubber Soul, The White Album, and Abbey Road have a handful of brilliant songs, but there is a lot of filler on every album.
With regards to this point, I don't think you'll find many Albums from the 60's that are really polished, coherent works meant to be listened to all the way through as the technology of an LP giving you 40 odd minutes to play with was still in its infancy. Singles were still king until, and they were what sold an album.
Pet Sounds & Sgt. Pepper are probably the first concept albums - the first mainstream ones anyway, and then Abbey Road's Side B Being one long continuous stream of music with half a dozen songs without breaks was also pioneering.
So it's not really fair to compare it to what came after when people built on what they'd started.
….sorry meant to quote this
Quote from Bill Walker Saturday 12.50
“I still struggle all these years later as a amateur/semi pro musician how those two did it.. two working class lads with zero musical training became the biggest band in the world, writing such great songs and performing them.
Every country in the world seemed to love them and have them a number one in the charts how the hell did they do it it's still freaks me out.
I've heard all the songs is a million times but every couple of months I seem to have some form of withdrawal symptoms where I have to listen to a Beatles album, it's like a drug I can stay away for 2 or 3 months but the urge to put one on is so strong and has been nearly all my life since my older brother bought Beatles for Sale.
How do you go from the a pretty ordinary scruffy group in Liverpool to being the biggest group in history ?
Its a freak, the phenomenon which I don't think we'll ever be repeated. Lennon and McCartney created the phenomenon, they had some form of magic potion undoubtedly.”
Spot on summary if I may say so. As an amateur/guitarist still playing for fun at 70+ years old the more I learn the more I realise how brilliant they were. Relative to the Beatles other work only I rate Help at 5/10. Relative to pop music generally 8/10.
Quote from Bill Walker Saturday 12.50
“I still struggle all these years later as a amateur/semi pro musician how those two did it.. two working class lads with zero musical training became the biggest band in the world, writing such great songs and performing them.
Every country in the world seemed to love them and have them a number one in the charts how the hell did they do it it's still freaks me out.
I've heard all the songs is a million times but every couple of months I seem to have some form of withdrawal symptoms where I have to listen to a Beatles album, it's like a drug I can stay away for 2 or 3 months but the urge to put one on is so strong and has been nearly all my life since my older brother bought Beatles for Sale.
How do you go from the a pretty ordinary scruffy group in Liverpool to being the biggest group in history ?
Its a freak, the phenomenon which I don't think we'll ever be repeated. Lennon and McCartney created the phenomenon, they had some form of magic potion undoubtedly.”
Spot on summary if I may say so. As an amateur/guitarist still playing for fun at 70+ years old the more I learn the more I realise how brilliant they were. Relative to the Beatles other work only I rate Help at 5/10. Relative to pop music generally 8/10.
Onholiday(somemightsay)
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Do you feel dirty for mentioning another act? :-)Siouxsie & The Banshees followed by New Order or The Bunnymen
Onholiday(somemightsay)
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As we are talking about the Beatles just stumbled on this.
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RobMCFC
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Yes fair point. Another thing I meant to mention was that I was astounded to find out that the following four songs were only ever singles and not on a proper Beatles album:-With regards to this point, I don't think you'll find many Albums from the 60's that are really polished, coherent works meant to be listened to all the way through as the technology of an LP giving you 40 odd minutes to play with was still in its infancy. Singles were still king until, and they were what sold an album.
Pet Sounds & Sgt. Pepper are probably the first concept albums - the first mainstream ones anyway, and then Abbey Road's Side B Being one long continuous stream of music with half a dozen songs without breaks was also pioneering.
So it's not really fair to compare it to what came after when people built on what they'd started.
Paperback Writer
Day Tripper
We Can Work It Out
Hey Jude
My God! Can you imagine any other artist in history excluding these from an album?
RobMCFC
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I like stuff from their entire career, but only got into listening to most of their stuff about 15 years ago. I like “Hold Your Fire”, “Moving Pictures”, “2112” and “Clockwork Angels”, but again, a best of Rush would comfortably beat any of their albums (probably true of most artists, to be fair).I’d put Moving Pictures at the top of the Rush tree personally. Couldn’t get into anything after Power Windows.
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Mad Eyed Screamer
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Ha! No. Missed out Generation X tooDo you feel dirty for mentioning another act? :-)
OB1
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Rush? Now you’re talking. It’s changed over time, but these days I’d put Power Windows top, followed by p/g then Signals.
I wonder what @Blue2112 would rank as top? ;-)
Rush are one of my top 5 bands. A band who have evolved over the years but kept a really high standard of music for a long time; although I do of course prefer the earlier stuff, by which I mean Fly By Night to Signals.