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18 March 2013
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I would like to hear people’s opinions. Would any song start “Please Please Me ” better than “I Saw Her Standing There “?
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1 May 2011
Offline Not in my opinion. The “1, 2, 3, 4” count-in sends off the LP, and the Beatles records when played in chronological order, perfectly, giving it a real energy and rawness that sums up the early Beatles sound.
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1.36am
6 December 2012
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Agreed.
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9.37am
1 December 2009
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Yep, OTM. “One, two, three, FAW!”
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
4.32pm
3 May 2012
Offline I agree. In fact, I can’t think of many better ways to start an album (and the beginning of their music, album-wise.)
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6.50pm
1 December 2009
Offline It’s probably my favourite first-song-first-album ever.
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
2.20pm
22 April 2011
Offline Well actually, cassette versions of PPM start with Misery . But yes, I Saw Her Standing There is the best way to start it.
4.31pm
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1 May 2011
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RingoStarr39 said
Well actually, cassette versions of PPM start with Misery . But yes, I Saw Her Standing There is the best way to start it.
Not the 1987 remastered cassettes which adopted the original proper running orders. All of the LPs except Pepper and Magial Mystery Tour had their tracklistings rearranged mainly to save EMI money by having the timings of each side as close together as possible and therefore using less tape. Revolver opened with Good Day Sunshine . Abbey Road had both of George’s track at the beginning of side 1! – tho thankfully they only switched Come Together and Here Comes The Sun .
You can see them all here.
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2.12am
12 January 2013
Offline Once you hear that “1, 2, 3, FAW!” You’re hooked. You can’t hear that beginning differently.
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2.20am
18 March 2013
Offline ^True that!
4.26am
14 December 2009
Offline And to think that, between 1979 and ’87, I never thought of it as anything but the second song (the second INCREDIBLE song) on Meet The Beatles!
Paul: Yeah well… first of all, we’re bringing out a ‘Stamp Out Detroit’ campaign.
8.34pm
22 April 2011
Offline meanmistermustard said
RingoStarr39 said
Well actually, cassette versions of PPM start with Misery . But yes, I Saw Her Standing There is the best way to start it.Not the 1987 remastered cassettes which adopted the original proper running orders. All of the LPs except Pepper and Magial Mystery Tour had their tracklistings rearranged mainly to save EMI money by having the timings of each side as close together as possible and therefore using less tape. Revolver opened with Good Day Sunshine . Abbey Road had both of George’s track at the beginning of side 1! – tho thankfully they only switched Come Together and Here Comes The Sun .
You can see them all here.
Mine is the remastered one: http://www.discogs.com/Beatles…..se/3185788
Unless you’re talking about the UK cassettes, the remastered ones still have the rearranged tracklisting.
3.09am
1 November 2012
Offline I’m leery of proposing what may be blasphemous here; but I find the beginning song of Chicago VIII (“Anyway You Want”) to be similarly cool in its own way — and coincidentally it also starts off with a number count, though with a variation: Peter Cetera says “Uh, one!” then seems to falter, almost like it was a false start, followed by “One, two, three, four!” segueing into a nicely relaxed rock piano comp.
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4.44am
14 December 2009
Offline Funny Paper, you LOVE Chicago don’t you? 
Me, I’m more partial to Chicago Transit Authority myself…
As for the thread topic, there’s about 80 weird people who seem to think that “Helter Skelter ” would be a better opener…
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17 December 2012
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LOL! Von… But then wasn’t one, other or both your alters voting for Helter Skelter just to put that limping dog of a game out of its misery…
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5.19am
14 December 2009
Offline Hahaha, “limping dog of a game”, I like that!
Yeah, the only way I could stay interested by the end was by screwing around, changing my vote, giving half a vote and other annoying disruptive shenanigans.
Paul: Yeah well… first of all, we’re bringing out a ‘Stamp Out Detroit’ campaign.
5.31am
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17 December 2012
Offline It’s a semi-quote from McCartney in a letter to either MM or NME, “In order to put out of its misery the limping dog of a news story which has been dragging itself across your pages for the past year, my answer to the question, ‘will the Beatles get together again…’ is no.”
Edit: NME
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5.32am
6 December 2012
Offline And then he drew a smile of some sort at the bottom (I think?).
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5.39am
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17 December 2012
Offline Very toothy grin. Girl, you are fast! I hadn’t even got back to the forum before you’d replied. You’re on fire tonight/today/this morning/this evening/whatever time of day it is for you!
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