What do you mean make albums from the solos? I could talk Beatles stuff all year.

Posted by crazystengel on 6/18/2018 10:20:00 PM (view original):
Elvis Costello put together a 100 Greatest Beatles Songs list a few years ago for Rolling Stone, and wrote brief but insightful comments for each selection. Worth reading if you're a Beatles fan. Here's what he had to say about his #98, "Long, Long, Long," a song I've always loved:

"Long, Long, Long" seems like a love song — "How I want you/How I love you/You know that I need you" — but the object of Harrison's affections was God. "I believe in the saying 'If there's a God, we must see him,'" Harrison said in 1969. He based the song on Bob Dylan's "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" — "those three chords and the way they moved." Though Lennon was blatantly enamored of Dylan early on, Harrison was the true Dylanphile. ("George quoted Bob like people quote Scripture," Tom Petty told Rolling Stone.) Soon after the White Album came out, Harrison was in Woodstock, New York, spending Thanksgiving with Dylan and the Band. He and Dylan wrote "I'd Have You Anytime," which became the first track on All Things Must Pass and the first step toward a lasting friendship.

Harrisons early solo career stuff blows me away (pun intended.) I could match Costello with a Top 100 list.

Posted by dino27 on 6/18/2018 8:52:00 PM (view original):
im going to do the impossible ...a baker's dozen favorite beatles songs ( it changes day to day )
so nice to see a beatles fan...crazy is a stones maniac......

Anybody a Led Zeppelin fan around here? That's another group I could list a Top 25-30 songs...easily. The Beatles need more attention, thought. One of these days we will lose McCartney and I will lower my flag to half mast.

crazystengle and i are big costello fans.......i saw that top 100...it was great......veronica and my brave face - 2 mccartney/costello songs were great triumphs.
he can still crank out great albums......his tv was also tremendous..he is a great student of music..........his father was somewhat well known in england and there is a wikopedia article about him.

i am far more appreciative of led zepplin now then i was as a teenager.

im going year by year and making beatles cds from the solo albums...a few songs from all things...would go on the 1971 album.

the 2 best radio shows for beatles/solos/covers is sirius radio beatles channel and the totally free beatles radio from tunein.

Posted by dino27 on 6/18/2018 10:35:00 PM (view original):
im going year by year and making beatles cds from the solo albums...a few songs from all things...would go on the 1971 album.

Gotcha. As long as Harrison's Blow Away get included on the 1979 album, I'm good.

of course it does.....some great songs on that album......back to the egg has plenty of great songs...a few good ringo songs in 79...i will combine 79 and 80 for a great double album.

When this thread discusses music and great literature, I'll probably be a very active poster. I'm almost done reading Anna Karenina (again) and I'm always amazed by how good it is. Reading Tolstoy and listening to the Beatles...all I need is an XO cognac or a good 18 yr single malt scotch and life couldn't get better.

we are always up for good music banter here and crazy is a literature head including great works of the great russian writers....and he can speak romulan.

Posted by dino27 on 6/18/2018 10:53:00 PM (view original):
we are always up for good music banter here and crazy is a literature head including great works of the great russian writers....and he can speak romulan.

Romulan? I can read French and some German but the Romulan Star Empire is well beyond my skill set.

elvis the great



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and brutal

Always loved "Another Day" by Paul. Also "Coming up" got so stuck in Lennon's head that it annoyed him into recording again.

Posted by bronxcheer on 6/19/2018 4:25:00 AM (view original):
Always loved "Another Day" by Paul. Also "Coming up" got so stuck in Lennon's head that it annoyed him into recording again.

I almost put Coming Up in my list, lol.

coming up is a great song....would be on my top 40.