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What 9 songs do you like The Hole Got Fixed, I know 2 of them are Birthday and Piggies , I wonder what the other 7 are. It’s rather odd that you guys like less tracks on The Beatles than there are tracks on that album where Paul plays guitar, which by the way is 10-12, not sure about While My Guitar Gently Weeps and Birthday .

Since I’m here, I think I’ll say what I think is their most overrated proper album, which means Magical Mystery Tour and Yellow Submarine don’t count.

In this case, I’d probably say A Hard Day’s Night The first 2 track are dull and bland, Ringo doesn’t get to say anything, there are only 13 tracks instead of 14, which they later did with Sgt. Pepper ‘s Lonely Hearts Club Band but by then, they weren’t a normal rock band, all 13 of them were done by Lennon/McCartney, Any Time At All is a very weak track, George only gets 1 song to sing, and the album and matching film paints them out to be sellouts.

I’ll be honest, if I were around back in the 1960’s and was old enough to actually understand what I was listening to, I probably would’ve been initially unimpressed with The Beatles and I wouldn’t get into them until around Rubber Soul or Revolver .

The reason why I think the film shows them as sellouts is because the movie is about Beatlemania and it displays that message full force, just about every girl under the age of 40 in the film is in love with them, The Beatles are like Mark Wahlberg in this film. At least with Help !, Magical Mystery Tour , Yellow Submarine , and Let It Be , they had more of a storyline.

As for seeing them smoking, swearing, and screwing, that’d be nice to see as a “Black Friday” reel, but not in the finished product. As for them using the proper instruments, it’d be cool to see but the only one that bothers me in the film is when George uses his acoustic guitar to play I’m Happy Just To Dance With You instead of an electric guitar.

All the movie is about is Beatlemania, that’s why I think it represents the group as sell outs, I hope that cleared things up.

I also think Please Please Me is overrated.

Why I’ll be, no While My Guitar Gently Weeps , I wonder why, it’s one of my favorite songs of all time.

Very interesting, I like long songs, but it seems like you don’t and I’m going to assume that you also dislike It’s All Too Much , I Want You (She’s So Heavy), Bohemian Rhapsody, Stairway To Heaven, 2112, One, and In A Gadda Da Vida for the same reason, never considered While My Guitar Gently Weeps to be a long song myself though and this is the first time I’ve ever heard someone refer to it as such.

For your edit, did you cut out both solos, just the first one, or just the second one, I’d guess both due to over 2 minutes being removed and did you remove anything else. Also, do you like Eric’s solos or did you just cut them out due to the fact that you thought the song was too long. I personally think the main solo is The Beatles 2nd best solo, next to Something with the album version of Let It Be at a close 3rd.

The Hole Got Fixed said
It’s not terrible, and I like an edit I did of it that’s 2:34 (missing the guitar solo), but 4:46 is just too long for me to enjoy it.  

I don’t see how length has anything to do with enjoyment. In fact, the one thing I dislike about In My Life (my favorite song of all time) is that it’s so short. You’re just getting into it when the harpiano solo comes along and before you know it, it’s over.