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27 March 2015
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Not to be rude or anything, but Yellow Submarine , All together Now, and Octopus’ Garden ARE children’s songs.
But to classify all of the phychedelic era as ‘kiddie music’? No, that doesn’t gel with me. It includes some of their best work!
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15 February 2015
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But to classify all of the phychedelic era as ‘kiddie music’? No, that doesn’t gel with me. It includes some of their best work!
As I understand it, some aspects of psychedelia sort of highlight those ‘childish’ qualities (or at least adults’ nostalgic remembrances of them)*, so I can see where sgtpepper63 is coming from. Some of it would certainly appeal to some kids (I seem to recall eight-year-old Silly Girl had a great thing for the ’67 albums 
), but children are very literal-minded and some might find I Am The Walrus incredibly weird. I would say that something like A Day In The Life is very much the work of an adult mind, yet it’s quite psychedelic. So I definitely agree with Mlle. Kittygirl, I wouldn’t classify the whole era as children’s music.
That made more sense in my head, and then I worked at it so long that my ‘precious words drift[ed] away from their meanings’… The farther one travels, the less one knows… 
*which makes for a unique thing when combined with the ‘adult’ themes of sex and drugs (I find the whole psychedelic Sixties bit incredibly fascinating).
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10.33am
12 November 2015
Offline Yeah, psychedelic music is sorta childlike sometimes isn’t it. Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite is a great example. Didn’t Syd Barrett write a lot of his songs using children’s stories as the basis?
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Offline limitlessundyinglove said
Didn’t Syd Barrett write a lot of his songs using children’s stories as the basis?
He wrote primarily about fairy tale themes and fantasy and suchlike… it was in vogue at the time, but most importantly he was just that kind of person who never really grows up.
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7.34pm
9 March 2017
Offline Revolver . While there’s some elements of their mid period in this album, it still sticks to 14 tracks ranging from 1:45 to 3:00 in length, most of the songs contain all 4 Beatles, playing usual instruments without session musicians, and they were still under their original contract for most of the sessions.
Sgt. Pepper on the other hand is something else. The tracks vary in length from just over a minute to over 5 minutes, half of the songs feature session musicians and while only 2 songs are missing Beatles, a lot of songs have a Beatle playing a minimum role, such as in A Day In The Life where despite having nearly 50 different musicians on the recording George’s only role is maracas.
I like to split up the eras like this:
September 1962-July 1964
Early Early Beatles (AKA Beatlemania Beatles)
Releases Covered:
Please Please Me , With The Beatles , A Hard Day’s Night , and tracks 1-13 of Mono Masters
August 1964-August 1966
Early Beatles
Releases Covered:
Beatles For Sale , Help !, Rubber Soul , Revolver , and tracks 14-22 of Mono Masters
November 1966-February 1968
Mid Beatles
Releases Covered:
Sgt. Pepper ‘s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Magical Mystery Tour (Capitol), and tracks 23-24, 27-30, and 33-34 of Mono Masters
May 1968-April 1970
Later Beatles
Releases Covered:
The BEATLES, Abbey Road , Let It Be and tracks 25-30 and 32 of Past Masters
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4.36am
11 September 2018
Offline Here’s my personal take, which probably treads on the toes of many other takes here:
Chapter 1: George Martin’s awful tie and the Beginning of Beatlemania
Please Please Me , With The Beatles
Period covered: 1962 – 6th February 1964
Please Please Me and With The Beatles were the only two LPs released in the UK before the explosion of Beatlemania. Yes, they were already popular, but Fleet Street had yet to really catch on to their importance. It wasn’t until their appearance on Sunday Night at the London Palladium later in the year, and their subsequent televisised performance on the Ed Sullivan Show in America that things really took off.
Scene 2: Endless Touring: The Movie
A Hard Day’s Night , Beatles For Sale , Help !
Period covered: 7th February 1964 – 6th August 1965
You can also classifiy this period as the era where the Beatles never had a day off. The band were now a worldwide phenomenon and the logical step (at the time) was to make a movie or two. It was perhaps lucky for the boys that their films had more commercial appeal than John and Yoko’s later offerings. Essentially they were still being told what to do in terms of when to tour or when to record, but they had already started moving away from their contemporaries thanks to their originality and curiousity. By the time they’d released Help ! they were beginning to become disillusioned with their roles and wanted more.
Act 3: Influences and Experiments
Period covered: June 1965 – 26th December 1967
Rubber Soul , Revolver , Sgt. Pepper , Magical Mystery Tour
With Help ! out of the way, The Beatles returned to the studio a few days after John’s 25th birthday to begin recording their next album. Although they’d experimented in the studio before (e.g. the feeback on I Feel Fine ) I believe this was the period in which The Beatles truly began to explore a songs potential beyond the standard guitars, bass and drums they’d been accustomed to. Beginning with the sitar on Norweigen Wood, and following various visits to the Abbey Road sound effects cupboard along the way, the Beatles reached the top of the mountain during this period. Other, non-musical experiments, were also a regular occurance during this period. A fact which shaped their perceptions and fashions. Finally, the disaster that was Magical Mystery Tour , shown on the BBC on Boxing Day, 1967 was perhaps the first sign that everything The Beatles touched wouldn’t necessarily turn to gold.
Part IV: Indian Apples and The Long and Winding Split
The White Album , Yellow Submarine , Abbey Road , Let it Be
Period Covered: 27th August 1967 – 1970
As Ian MacDonald says, once you reach the top there is nowhere to go but down. In retrospect it didn’t take very long for The Beatles to slide down the other side of the mountain, even if they did manage to release three LPs and a soundtrack album within that period. There are many factors which (arguably) contributed to their downfall – the Apple disaster, the death of Brian Epstein, JohnandYoko, Paul’s bossiness, Allen Klein, music and personal differences et al, but perhaps the biggest contributor to their split is that the four just didn’t want to be Beatles anymore.
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Offline I like how you split up the eras, Tony Japanese. For me, i was thinking in sense of shifts in sound as opposed to popularity. The only thing i don’t get is why did you pair Yellow Submarine with their later period as opposed to their mid period.
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8.14am
11 September 2018
Offline Dark Overlord said
I like how you split up the eras, Tony Japanese. For me, i was thinking in sense of shifts in sound as opposed to popularity. The only thing i don’t get is why did you pair Yellow Submarine with their later period as opposed to their mid period.
Purely based on release date @Dark Overlord. I could perhaps group the first two together, but I’ve always considered there to be a nice divide between Help & Rubber Soul and Magical Mystery Tour & the White Album respectively.
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Offline I consider Help the changing point – the launchpad. Still a couple of covers ala the early albums but the majority being original content. Rubber Soul was an improvement again, and as we know, Revolver upped their techniques once more.
1.The Beatles 2.Sgt. Pepper 3.Abbey Road 4.Magical Mystery Tour 5.Rubber Soul 6.Revolver 7.Help! 8.Let It Be
9.A Hard Day’s Night 10.Please Please Me 11.Beatles For Sale 12.With The Beatles 13.Yellow Submarine
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6.25pm
15 November 2018
Offline To me, “early” Beatles is Please Please Me through Revolver , and “Late” Beatles is Sgt Pepper through Abbey Road (which I consider the last Beatles album, even though LIB was released later). However, if I were to break the Beatles down into Early, Middle, and Late, it would look something like this:
Early: Please Please Me , With the Beatles, A Hard Day’s Night
Transition: Beatles For Sale
Middle: Help , Rubber Soul , Revolver
Transition: Sgt Pepper
Late: Magical Mystery Tour , Yellow Submarine , The White Album , Let It Be , Abbey Road
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9 March 2017
Offline Why do you place Yellow Submarine after The BEATLES if you place Abbey Road after Let It Be .
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10.12pm
15 November 2018
Offline Dark Overlord said
Why do you place Yellow Submarine after The BEATLES if you place Abbey Road after Let It Be .
Because I always forget when Yellow Submarine was recorded. 
It’s an excellent point that you make though; I should switch them.
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26 January 2017
Offline 50yearslate said
To me, “early” Beatles is Please Please Me through Revolver , and “Late” Beatles is Sgt Pepper through Abbey Road (which I consider the last Beatles album, even though LIB was released later). However, if I were to break the Beatles down into Early, Middle, and Late, it would look something like this:
Early: Please Please Me , With the Beatles, A Hard Day’s Night
Transition: Beatles For Sale
Middle: Help , Rubber Soul , Revolver
Transition: Sgt Pepper
Late: Magical Mystery Tour , Yellow Submarine , The White Album , Let It Be , Abbey Road
If Magical Mystery Tour belongs to any of these, it’s the transition one with Pepper. It’s got so much in common with that album, not to mention coming out the same year and containing singles that were originally meant to be on Pepper. I think the White Album is the real start of their late period.
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9.42am
18 December 2017
Offline I’d say early is Please Please Me –Rubber Soul
Late- Rubber Soul –Abbey Road
because Rubber Soul is the transition in my mind, when they started doing more experimental stuff and less pop/love songs.
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26 January 2017
Offline TheWalrusWasBrian said
I’d say early is Please Please Me –Rubber SoulLate- Rubber Soul –Abbey Road
because Rubber Soul is the transition in my mind, when they started doing more experimental stuff and less pop/love songs.
I’m of similar opinion to you. Obviously the transition musically from simple pop/love songs to more complex and/or diverse stuff was gradual and you can hear it as far back as A Hard Day’s Night , but Rubber Soul was their first time the album was more important than the single, marking the shift towards them (and the rest of the music industry) treating the album as a piece of art in its own right.
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12.04pm
12 December 2018
Offline Mademoiselle Kitty >^..^< said
Not to be rude or anything, but Yellow Submarine , All together Now, and Octopus’ Garden ARE children’s songs.
And they’re all great. 
(Btw, you classify All Together Now as a children’s song? Have you read the lyrics??)
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12.07pm
15 November 2018
Offline silverhammerYT said
And they’re all great.
(Btw, you classify All Together Now as a children’s song? Have you read the lyrics??)
Hahaha do you mean the “can i take my friend to bed” part? I’ve always thought that was strange for a kid’s song…
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18 December 2017
Offline 50yearslate said
Hahaha do you mean the “can i take my friend to bed” part? I’ve always thought that was strange for a kid’s song…
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15 November 2018
Offline TheWalrusWasBrian said
“kids song” *smiles at camera* they’ll never notice
It’s possible that that was Paul’s exact train of thought…
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17 October 2013
Offline I agree with those who see Rubber Soul as the tipping point……. where an entire album is considered. Lot’s of goodies on all the others albums. No Reply could sit on any of the albums after Please Please Me and up to and including Revolver and not jump out at you…..Well not much.
They moved with the times and learned more every album…..But they could always write.
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