Thank you, Boys (Beatles nostalgia)
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lots20in20 and whedon20in20 while listening to the Beatles. I haven't really listened to them in awhile. Like, REALLY listened. Talk about your sense memories.
Sitting here with my headphones on, listening to the "YEAH, Yeah, yeah" of She Loves You, I can totally picture myself running around with my (then) little brother (frakker is like 6 ft WTF now) and jammin out. It was weird to be caught up in Beatlemania however many years since it had happened. I knew every song, knew the names of their friends, birthdays...we even got our parents to take us to Liverpool when we took our trip to the UK.
What was really funny was that neither of my parents were really hard core Beatles fans. People assume that my fanatical obsession with the Fab Four was their fault, but going through their records, the only LP I found was Sgt. Pepper. My mom was a bit too young, so instead of all the Beatles records, she had a nice collection of The Monkees albums (and I listened to those too). She knew the songs because her older brothers had them, but they weren't hers. My dad...I think he listened to them on the radio but apparently my grandparents didn't like them. I remember someone telling me that when my dad was a teenager, he came home with John Lennon frames on his glasses and my grandpa made him take them back. :(
I listened to the Beatles non-stop for a lot of middle school. I caught the rerun of the Anthology on TV and got completely hooked. I devoted myself to researching them. I read TONS of books about them, listened to every album I could. Even found a recording of the NPR show "Songs for Aging Children" where they played the Christmas fan club records and pretty much memorized all of them. To this day, I think my speech has a slight Liverpudlian twang on certain words since I spent HOURS trying to talk like them.
It's just amazing because you really can see how they went from kids to adults in those 10 years in the studio. The poppy fun of "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" taking us all the way to the mature "Don't Let Me Down". There's an album for every mood. And so much of it is a first. First feedback, first backwards music, first mention of a walrus (okay that's probably not true...) And anyone obsessed with the Beatles has to listen to other classic rock that inspired them and that was inspired by them.
I had forgotten how much I LOVED this music until Beatles Rock Band sort of forced me to start listening again. Now I'm listening even closer than before - listening to the bass line, the drum beats, the harmonies, the way the lyrics all come together. When I play that game, it's so different then just playing regular Rock Band, like, in this weird spiritual way, something in my very core, my very soul, that responds to the time in my life that I loved these songs. (oh I can hear my friend from high school now saying "Don't get deep on me Sam"). While everyone else was listening to Nirvana and angry music, I was bopping around to "I Feel Fine"...
mmm....yeah wow this is making me all nostalgic. I'm so happy to be listening to these songs again and to be enjoying them this much because now I know for sure that I can always go back to The Beatles. No matter what happens to any of the other people on my iPod, The Beatles will always be there for me. And I guess it's the same for my brother because, all these years later, even though he's frakkin taller than tall, he got what he wanted for Christmas - Beatles boots with a nice big HEEL!
Um, so something fun - favorite Beatles songs! Here are a few of mine (I mean I love them all but these are fave faves) (I'm avoiding the obvious ones like 'In My Life', 'Day in the Life' 'Blackbird' 'Yesterday' etc because those are EVERYONE's favorites...these are the other favorites...)(play half game, still get full snowcone...):
If I Fell
Fool on the Hill
Paperback Writer
I've Just Seen a Face
I'll Cry Instead
I Will
lots20in20 and whedon20in20 while listening to the Beatles. I haven't really listened to them in awhile. Like, REALLY listened. Talk about your sense memories. Sitting here with my headphones on, listening to the "YEAH, Yeah, yeah" of She Loves You, I can totally picture myself running around with my (then) little brother (frakker is like 6 ft WTF now) and jammin out. It was weird to be caught up in Beatlemania however many years since it had happened. I knew every song, knew the names of their friends, birthdays...we even got our parents to take us to Liverpool when we took our trip to the UK.
What was really funny was that neither of my parents were really hard core Beatles fans. People assume that my fanatical obsession with the Fab Four was their fault, but going through their records, the only LP I found was Sgt. Pepper. My mom was a bit too young, so instead of all the Beatles records, she had a nice collection of The Monkees albums (and I listened to those too). She knew the songs because her older brothers had them, but they weren't hers. My dad...I think he listened to them on the radio but apparently my grandparents didn't like them. I remember someone telling me that when my dad was a teenager, he came home with John Lennon frames on his glasses and my grandpa made him take them back. :(
I listened to the Beatles non-stop for a lot of middle school. I caught the rerun of the Anthology on TV and got completely hooked. I devoted myself to researching them. I read TONS of books about them, listened to every album I could. Even found a recording of the NPR show "Songs for Aging Children" where they played the Christmas fan club records and pretty much memorized all of them. To this day, I think my speech has a slight Liverpudlian twang on certain words since I spent HOURS trying to talk like them.
It's just amazing because you really can see how they went from kids to adults in those 10 years in the studio. The poppy fun of "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" taking us all the way to the mature "Don't Let Me Down". There's an album for every mood. And so much of it is a first. First feedback, first backwards music, first mention of a walrus (okay that's probably not true...) And anyone obsessed with the Beatles has to listen to other classic rock that inspired them and that was inspired by them.
I had forgotten how much I LOVED this music until Beatles Rock Band sort of forced me to start listening again. Now I'm listening even closer than before - listening to the bass line, the drum beats, the harmonies, the way the lyrics all come together. When I play that game, it's so different then just playing regular Rock Band, like, in this weird spiritual way, something in my very core, my very soul, that responds to the time in my life that I loved these songs. (oh I can hear my friend from high school now saying "Don't get deep on me Sam"). While everyone else was listening to Nirvana and angry music, I was bopping around to "I Feel Fine"...
mmm....yeah wow this is making me all nostalgic. I'm so happy to be listening to these songs again and to be enjoying them this much because now I know for sure that I can always go back to The Beatles. No matter what happens to any of the other people on my iPod, The Beatles will always be there for me. And I guess it's the same for my brother because, all these years later, even though he's frakkin taller than tall, he got what he wanted for Christmas - Beatles boots with a nice big HEEL!
Um, so something fun - favorite Beatles songs! Here are a few of mine (I mean I love them all but these are fave faves) (I'm avoiding the obvious ones like 'In My Life', 'Day in the Life' 'Blackbird' 'Yesterday' etc because those are EVERYONE's favorites...these are the other favorites...)
If I Fell
Fool on the Hill
Paperback Writer
I've Just Seen a Face
I'll Cry Instead
I Will
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Date: 2010-01-12 02:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-12 11:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-12 04:02 am (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2010-01-12 11:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-12 01:07 pm (UTC)My teenage niece & nephew got Beatles Rock Band for Christmas and are loving it to bits. So it moves on to another generation...
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Date: 2010-01-12 11:41 pm (UTC)*gasp* and I need a Beatles icon! I can't believe I don't have one uploaded!
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Date: 2010-01-12 03:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-12 11:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-14 08:19 pm (UTC)"I'm so happy to be listening to these songs again and to be enjoying them this much because now I know for sure that I can always go back to The Beatles. No matter what happens to any of the other people on my iPod, The Beatles will always be there for me."
I totally understand you here! This is how I feel with Pearl Jam and a few other artists. makes complete sense.