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I can’t remember any vivid experiences of first-time Beatles songs, but do recall being immediately wowed by RAM when someone else blasted the whole vinyl from beginning to end.
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Offline The first time I heard Hear Comes the Sun I just needed that cheerful, hopeful message towards the end of winter. I felt the arrival of spring in that song so deeply that I have wanted to hear it every spring since it first came out, and that’s a LOT of years!
And also I was thrilled to realise that this was George’s song and this was going to be a chart topper and he too was a musical genius coming into his own.
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Offline ^ That’s right, @oldfannz, the song came out as your hemisphere was in early Spring. Cool story! Thanks for that perspective.
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^ That’s right, @oldfannz, the song came out as your hemisphere was in early Spring. Cool story! Thanks for that perspective.
I still hear this song being played by random people in random places in spring and summer! “Sun, sun, sun, here it comes!”
(Well, not a lot of it about down here at the moment, or only after a frosty night!).
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Offline ‘I Need You ‘ when I was young completely enslaved me, I was mesmerized for a long time by the Wah-Wah sound. Being the opening track on the pre-’87 ‘Help !’ cassette meant I was playing the album incessantly which no doubt played a large part in my deepening fan status.
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Offline There where a few songs that blew me away when I first heard them. I’ve mentioned a few times on the forum that Strawberry Feilds took me away when I first heard it. Third grade me was ablosultly blown away when I heard the psychedelic sounds of that song. At that age I thought the beatles were some hippies that went to India once or twice.
I also remeber when I heard A Day In The Life for the first time. I was again completly blown away, shocked, amazed. I think I might have been in the library the first time I heard it. I love the opening with the guitar and piano, the lryics, the vocals, the orchestra. I loved everything about it. I did a school project on the song so I got a chance to really take a deep dive into the song.
(Strawberry Feilds just came on when I started typing lol)
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There were a couple of 1974 Nilsson songs wrongly credited as John solo outtakes on ‘More Sweetest Apples’ which I loved along with a fabulous alternate version of ‘Jealous Guy ‘. ‘The Sweetest Apples‘ and ‘MSA‘ were two of the first bootlegs I bought (first on cassette from a record shop in a city called Stirling, later found on CD) that kept me playing bootlegs. I loved those two albums, so many brilliant songs – the ‘GB’ selections at the end of ‘MSW’ are some of the true highlights for me from those sessions.There was also an outtake of ‘One After 909 ‘ from the ‘GB’ sessions which is still my favourite version of that; John completely messes up the lyrics and loses it.
These were the reasons why I really got deep into bootlegs which further sparked my Beatles obsession. No longer the same versions of the same songs. Nowadays you can find any track and variation quite easily online, and there are so many complete collections of every booted chord ever played. but back in the day it was so much fun finding a bootleg and then getting it home to play. Soon after tho the market was flooded with cheap crap knock-offs that left you with nothing, but finding a proper one was a marvelous moment. I still remember spending about 45 minutes debating over what bootleg digipacks I should buy (it was to be four from five: the first four stereo UK albums which all came with bonus tracks and an unreleased version of the ‘Get Back ‘ album – I left behind ‘BFS’ but was so blown away by those four I quickly bought that and all the other albums up to ‘Pepper’ but in mono). Delightful memories looking back.
I don’t buy them now but it is fun coming across a bootleg in a shop.
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Offline The Abbey Road medley was another example of me being amazed, like I had came across a priceless artifact which had to be shared with the world. Some of the best segueing I’ve experienced to this day.
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Offline First diving into bootlegs of The Beatles, you hear some tape whirring, something gets knocked around and a little bit of chatter on a very raw sounding recording. Then they start playing, and you hear the same song youve always known, but different. You realize how great the sounds that they captured in the studio actually were, of course George Martin worked some serious magic to gloss up the albums, but as they say, you can’t put lipstick on a pig.
My dad had the full A/B Road of the Get Back rehearsals on cd, but had never taken the time to put in into his digital collection. I took it upon myself to do so, and remember being absolutely floored right away. They were coming up with all kinds of ideas, some were seeds that eventually grew to become what we hear on the albums, other were played once and tossed. Playing old and new songs, covers, and whatever else they decided to jam on. It felt like I had been granted high level clearance to the most secret Beatles database in the world. Of course the Get Back rehearsals were a unique circumstance for having that much recorded material from a band, but soon I was into the album bootlegs as well. Hearing Mark I and the flubs on Think For Yourself , it was so fun and cool breaking into each record and peeling back the layers.
As far as a regular song that blew me away, its hard to remember a specific instance, because I have listened to the Beatles as long as I can remember. I developed a serious obsession in early highschool, and then in all kind of compounded at once into this life altering mind blowing explosion of Beatles music.
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Offline There is so much great music within the January 1969 sessions it’s madness that Apple avoided compiling even a half decent set instead giving us the mediocrity that’s on the ‘LIB ‘ deluxe. Such a wasted opportunity.
Hearing ‘Suzy Parker’ and not wanting to hear more is surely impossible. It may not be a fully polished classic but neither does it have to be, it doesn’t need to be versions of ‘Maxwell’, ‘Get Back ‘ etc, instead it can be just four guys having fun – which was the overriding message of the documentary.
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