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Annadog40 said
I agree with AHDN being the last early album, glad someone else thinks so.
Exactly! It just sounds like Beatlemania, before all the drugs and experimentation kicked in.
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Offline Early Era: Please Please Me , With The Beatles , A Hard Day’s Night , Beatles For Sale
Mezzo Era: Help , Rubber Soul , Revolver , Sgt. Peppers, Magical Mystery Tour
Late Era: The White Album , Yellow Submarine , Abbey Road , Let It Be
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Early: Please Please Me , With The Beatles , A Hard Days Night
Middle: Beatles For Sale , Help , Rubber Soul ,
Next Middle: Revolver , Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour
End: White Album , Yellow Submarine *, Abbey Road , Let it Be
* This feels more like next middle
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Offline Little Babies: Please Please Me , With the Beatles, A Hard Day’s Night
Not Quite Folk Music: Beatles For Sale , Help !, Rubber Soul
Psychadeclecticastical: Revolver , Sgt. Pepper ‘s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Magical Mystery Tour
Honorary Psychadeclecticastical: Yellow Submarine
Big Boy Grown Ups: The White Album , Let It Be , Abbey Road
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I got to the thread before Google did so I brought the posts over.
It is interesting to see what people have done with the claasifications.
Big Boy Grown Ups and Piggies , Bungalow Bill, and Rocky Raccoon . Very interesting.
I liked your topic title, Derek_Francis, so I incorporated it into this thread’s title.
I’ll take this opportunity to plug the Thread Search Thread. If you wonder if we have a discussion that matches your thoughts, we will help you look to see if one exists.
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I got to the thread before Google did so I brought the posts over.It is interesting to see what people have done with the claasifications.
Big Boy Grown Ups and Piggies , Bungalow Bill, and Rocky Raccoon . Very interesting.
I liked your topic title, @derek-francis, so I incorporated it into this thread’s title.
I’ll take this opportunity to plug the Thread Search Thread. If you wonder if we have a discussion that matches your thoughts, we will help you look to see if one exists.
Does only moving one post affect google?
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Offline If we move a post before Google indexes it, no broken link/url occurs. If there are three (or whatever number) replies to a post, as long as Google hasn’t “found” them yet, they can be moved safely.
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If we move a post before Google indexes it, no broken link/url occurs. If there are three (or whatever number) replies to a post, as long as Google hasn’t “found” them yet, they can be moved safely.
So it’s more than just the thread indexed but each individual post is indexed as well?
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Offline That is correct as far as I understand it. Each post has a unique number at the end of the url.
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Big Boy Grown Ups and Piggies , Bungalow Bill, and Rocky Raccoon . Very interesting.
Those are three big boy grown up songs with big boy grown up themes, even though it may not seem that way. Piggies is a social commentary on greed and class differences; The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill is a song about a murderer; Rocky Raccoon is a story about jealousy and greed.
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I’d agree on Please Please Me , With the Beatles, and A Hard Day’s Night being ‘Early Beatles’. Beatles For Sale could go either way for me. There are some definite ‘Early’ songs on there, but then there are also some that are far more advanced and fit in better with the ‘Transitional’ era. I doubt anyone will disagree that Help ! Rubber Soul , and Revolver can be grouped together even though Help ! also still has some ‘Early’ songs, so…
Things obviously got serious with Sgt Pepper , Magical Mystery Tour , and the White Album . Technically speaking, Yellow Submarine should be in that category as well though there are too few new songs and too many Sir George arrangements on there to qualify as a full-fledged Beatles album to me.
Abbey Road and Let It Be are a league of their own. It’s not psychedelia anymore, it’s not quite back to the roots either. I don’t know where to put them. Perhaps they’re too unique to fit into a box anyway.
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Offline This is how I always look at it:
Please Please Me / With (Meet) The Beatles / AHDN and everything leading up to Beatles For Sale – Early
Beatles For Sale / Rubber Soul / Help ! / Revolver and everything up to that – Transitional
Sgt Pepper / Magical Mystery Tour / Yellow Submarine – Middle or maybe what you’d call the psychedelic period
The Beatles (White Album ) / Abbey Road / Let It Be – Late / End
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Offline I would make the cut-off at Help ! Not to say Help isn’t an advanced album with complex music and themes, because it is. The key change on Youre Gonna Lose That Girl is a great example of this. And while Help ! is one of my favorite Beatles albums, to me Rubber Soul is a clear divider between old and new. Rubber Soul has no covers, where Help has Dizzy Miss Lizzy and Act Naturally .
It doesn’t quite have the maturity or completeness that makes the new Beatles albums what they are, although it definetly has its mature moments. Don’t get me wrong Help ! fans, I love Help , but for the sake of classification, Rubber Soul is the dividing line, because it changed everything. (In my humble opinion)
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Offline On the first day of this thread’s existence, I said
To me, the “early period” (era?) would end with AHDN . Once they were under the…shall we say…”Dylan influence”*, that signified the end of the innocence.
*I was referring to the weed influence
This was before we were being asked to classify their albums by era. Since then, I’ve seen many of us clumsily try to do this, not really knowing where Help ! or Revolver and others fit in era-wise. To be fair, I can’t find the perfect cutoff album for each so-called “era” either. This is because the band evolved so quickly, it’s difficult to pinpoint the definitive beginning or end of each subsequent era.
In my original post above, I said AHDN was the end of the “early” period. Giving it more thought, I’m now thinking AHDN and a half. Half of the songs on Beatles For Sale could easily have been on With The Beatles or A Hard Day’s Night and the other half on Help !.
Similarly, half the songs on Rubber Soul would have fit marvelously on Help ! with the rest being quite cozy on Revolver . Could this be why debates exist over the merits of the EMI vs Capitol releases? I prefer the EMI’s though I can’t argue with those who prefer the Capitols. But I digress.
By all means, please keep defining your eras. It’s fun to see what y’all think. For the record, my favorite so far is…
Monkey Finger said
I break the three periods down this way:
Driving force(s): Buddy Holly/Little Richard/Motown
Driving force(s) Dylan & weed
Revolver (though acid is of course bleeding into this one)
Driving force(s): Acid and India
Yellow Submarine (I know YS was released after the White Album , but YS has much more in common w/ SPLHCB & MMT than TWA, in my opinion)
Driving force: marriage(s) and impending divorce
Let it Be
To the fountain of perpetual mirth, let it roll for all its worth. And all the children boogie.
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18 May 2016
Offline For me, I think it’s Magical Mystery Tour because the following album, The Beatles (AKA White Album ) sounds almost nothing like it, therefore removing the smooth transition from Beatle album to Beatles album, although if a genre/era list is what you want, come over here and get it:
British Invasion:
Meet The Beatles
The Beatles Second Album
The Early Beatles
Electric British Invasion Folk Rock:
Something New
Electric Folk Rock:
Beatles 65′
Beatles VI
Help !
Electric Psychedelic Folk Rock:
Yesterday And Today
Psychedelic Rock:
Sgt. Pepper ‘s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Psychedelic Classic Rock:
Classic Rock:
The Beatles
Other:
The Beatles’ Story
Anthology
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The Psychedelic Rock era can also be thought of as Children’s Rock, as it sounds like it was made for 5 year olds (not saying that it’s bad or it makes you look weird for liking it, just saying that no one would dress up in walrus suits and sing about yellow submarines and being in the sky with diamonds unless if they were making it with children under 10 in mind, instead of their usual 10-30 market). Also, the Classic Rock era can also be thought of as Blues Rock or Roots Rock.
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