Beatles documentary “Get Back”

[Stuuuuuu]

I agree about the variation and that is important but, more than that, I think it's the songwriting.

There are albums that are so well-written that you can listen to them forever. Obvious examples are Ziggy Stardust and the first Clash album. They're not really varied records but the songwriting is outstanding.

I think it's the same for The Beatles. Yes, they covered loads of styles brilliantly - and invented many styles in the process. But the individual songs will last forever. Across The Universe, We Can Work It Out, Paperback Writer or Let It Be (this list could have been very long but I'll just leave those four examples) will simply never age. I fully expect to be listening to these songs 50 years from now.

 

[mackenzie]

'The Beatles: Get Back' Director Peter Jackson Discovered 'the Lovely John' Lennon Paul McCartney Describes

Director Peter Jackson says 'The Beatles: Get Back' shows John Lennon behaving as lovely as Paul McCartney always describes him.

www.cheatsheet.com

Really interesting piece/review of the things most of us found really good.

 

[lonestay]

The thing I took from it was just how little input Ringo had , he literally just sat there adding percussion when needed, but not really adding anything else . If it had existed at the time he could have just been a drum machine .

 

[Stuuuuuu]

The thing I took from it was just how little input Ringo had , he literally just sat there adding percussion when needed, but not really adding anything else . If it had existed at the time he could have just been a drum machine .

Hey, credit where credit's due: he did write the first ten seconds of Octupus' Garden (before George stepped in and wrote the rest for him)!

 

[ancoats]

My thoughts entirely mate.. I feel it is a privilege to watch these guys actually making an album, has to be another Beatle first.
I watched it twice now and the second time was better.
My two obsessions since the age of 14, 55 years ago, have been Manchester City and The Beatles.

I truly find it baffling that I still listen to the same music I loved at 14.

funny enough early Beatles is not for me ? to much boy band stuff and girls screaming
but they grown into the best band in the world bar none and i got it

also my love of the jam was beatles based and the look of them rickenbackers and the mod style
i would say Oasis also they are the closeness to the Beatles sound i have heard from any other band

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

The thing I took from it was just how little input Ringo had , he literally just sat there adding percussion when needed, but not really adding anything else . If it had existed at the time he could have just been a drum machine .

Best job on the planet........

 

[meltonblue]

funny enough early Beatles is not for me ? to much boy band stuff and girls screaming
but they grown into the best band in the world bar none and i got it

also my love of the jam was beatles based and the look of them rickenbackers and the mod style
i would say Oasis also they are the closeness to the Beatles sound i have heard from any other band

Just taking the Britpop battle, Blur were far more like the Beatles than Oasis were, let alone plenty of other bands. Beetlebum and Tender being good examples that are far more Beatles than anything Oasis wrote.

 

[ancoats]

Just taking the Britpop battle, Blur were far more like the Beatles than Oasis were, let alone plenty of other bands. Beetlebum and Tender being good examples that are far more Beatles than anything Oasis wrote.

Blur never did it for me and OCS was better in my book ? true many god bands from the Britpop time.
but when it gets to the stage when it become mass then they over killed it and far to many bands just jumped on the bandwagon

Oasis won the Britpop battle hands down

 

[Stuuuuuu]

Oasis also they are the closeness to the Beatles sound i have heard from any other band

Jesus fucking wept...

 

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The thing I took from it was just how little input Ringo had , he literally just sat there adding percussion when needed, but not really adding anything else . If it had existed at the time he could have just been a drum machine .

I thought the same about John’s input (relative to their standing in the band, that is).

But we only saw 7odd hours that the documentary-maker showed us from the 3 weeks it covered. At times songs just seemed to come from nowhere but they will have been worked on for ages, and from what seemed to be a handful of songs there were actually 14 that they’d been working on.

So where I thought John was always late and didn’t seem to be coming up with many songs (at one point Paul asked him if he had anything else and John said “no!”), he actually wrote “Across the Universe” “Dig a Pony” “Dig It” and “One After 909” for Let It Be; and “Don’t Let Me Down” which also featured in the doc and was played in the roof.

Paul got emotional in the Eight Days A Week docu about what Ringo brought to the band. And you could see that Ringo understood what Paul wanted from songs more than George did, Ringo just seemed to pick the beat up immediately.