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[Pavement Ist Rad]

Great rekkid. Mother Nature's Son Good Night Long Long Long Wild Honey Pie Yer Blues Many classics.

[birdistheword]

I kind of like the sprawl, very fitting for a double LP. Even if you chopped it down to a single platter, it still wouldn't feel very cohesive. There's still a few decent outtakes - "Not Guilty" and even "Junk" are better, IMO, than "Honey Pie" and "Revolution No. 9," but whatever, it is what it is, a glorious mess, take it or leave it.

[Chronodiggity]

1. Back in the U.S.S.R.
2. Helter Skelter
3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
4. Dear Prudence
5. Happiness is a Warm Gun

how cannon is that?

[Chicken Invaders!]

Hmmm. 01. Happiness Is A Warm Gun 02. Back In U.S.S.R. 03. Helter Skelter 04. I'm So Tired 05. Why Don't We Do It In The Road?

[cerebralcaustic]

You say it's your birthday?

Ah, that explains why "Sexy Sadie" and "Cry Baby Cry" were in my head yesterday.

[Asher Ford]

Cry Baby Cry I'm So Tired Julia I Will Long Long Long

[M_Rots]

I don't know from jams, but my favorite 5 tracks: Dear Prudence Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da Happiness Is a Warm Gun Don't Pass Me By I'm So Tired

[stignasty]

I bought my first copy of the white album on its tenth birthday. . . Blackbird Yer Blues While My Guitar Gently Weeps Julia Everybody's got something to hide...

[Badger]

Beatles nuts with an hour to kill could do worse than spending it listening to the BBC Radio 4 documentary on Kenny Everett that went out last night.

He was a Liverpudlian DJ who broke ground pissing about with tape effects in the 60s (and became a massive TV star in the 80s with the visual equivalent) but this programme concentrates on his relationship with the Fabs from about half way through. He got on with them to such an extent that he produced a couple of the later of the Christmas fan club singles and there is lots of high quality banter with John and Ringo in this, most of it unheard (in the UK at least) since the 60s.

Available here: http://www.bbc.co.uk...hour/pip/r8r40/

[Your Little Hoodrat Friend]

1. Happiness is a Warm Gun 2. Martha My Dear 3. Blackbird 4. I Will 5. Mother Nature's Son

[Badger]

"A Vatican newspaper has forgiven the late English singer John Lennon for saying four decades ago that The Beatles were more popular than Jesus."

http://news.bbc.co.u...ope/7744282.stm

[M_Rots]

"A Vatican newspaper has forgiven the late English singer John Lennon for saying four decades ago that The Beatles were more popular than Jesus."

http://news.bbc.co.u...ope/7744282.stm

Mighty charitable of them. Too bad he never said it.

[vamos]

HEEEEEEEY BUNGALOW BILL, WHAT DID YA KILL

[Sid Hartha]

"A Vatican newspaper has forgiven the late English singer John Lennon for saying four decades ago that The Beatles were more popular than Jesus."

http://news.bbc.co.u...ope/7744282.stm

Mighty charitable of them. Too bad he never said it.

Here's the original 1966 article:

http://www.geocities...s/standard.html

...Experience has sown few seeds of doubt in him: not that his mind is closed, but it's closed round whatever he believes at the time. 'Christianity will go,' he said. 'It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first-rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.' He is reading extensively about religion...

[Badger]

Hit by a tsumani of weird just now, listening to this, 'Don't pass me by' -

Sorry that I doubted you, I was so unfair
You were in a car crash and you lost your hair

Suddenly I was back at school, 11 or 12 years old, a kid came in with his head shaved and said he had been in a car crash, they'd had to shave it all off to check for lacerations etc. Yeah, yeah, you fuckin' slaphead LIAR. No one believed him and it followed him round for years that he would just make stuff up. I never made the association before. Still doubt it was true, his dad probably made him do it, but I wonder now if this song gave him his story.

[M_Rots]

"A Vatican newspaper has forgiven the late English singer John Lennon for saying four decades ago that The Beatles were more popular than Jesus."

http://news.bbc.co.u...ope/7744282.stm

Mighty charitable of them. Too bad he never said it.

Here's the original 1966 article:

http://www.geocities...s/standard.html

...Experience has sown few seeds of doubt in him: not that his mind is closed, but it's closed round whatever he believes at the time. 'Christianity will go,' he said. 'It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first-rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.' He is reading extensively about religion...

I totally don't understand, but fuck it, won't be the last time, certainly isn't the first.

The spin on this has always been that he said "To teenagers, we're more popular than Jesus, now." And I would have sworn that I've heard/read that, but not this. Guess I believed what I wantedto believe."

Too bad it looks as if he was dead wrong.

[surlacarte]

"A Vatican newspaper has forgiven the late English singer John Lennon for saying four decades ago that The Beatles were more popular than Jesus."

http://news.bbc.co.u...ope/7744282.stm

Mighty charitable of them. Too bad he never said it.

Here's the original 1966 article:

http://www.geocities...s/standard.html

...Experience has sown few seeds of doubt in him: not that his mind is closed, but it's closed round whatever he believes at the time. 'Christianity will go,' he said. 'It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first-rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.' He is reading extensively about religion...

I totally don't understand, but fuck it, won't be the last time, certainly isn't the first.

The spin on this has always been that he said "To teenagers, we're more popular than Jesus, now." And I would have sworn that I've heard/read that, but not this. Guess I believed what I wantedto believe."

Too bad it looks as if he was dead wrong.

Well, they did redefine pop, so he gets some leeway in how he uses the term.

[Sid Hartha]

I totally don't understand, but fuck it, won't be the last time, certainly isn't the first.

The spin on this has always been that he said "To teenagers, we're more popular than Jesus, now." And I would have sworn that I've heard/read that, but not this. Guess I believed what I wantedto believe."

Too bad it looks as if he was dead wrong.

Lennon always had a big mouth.

Personally, I find those comments - taken in that context - hilarious. But, yeah, wtf was he thinking saying something like that in such a high profile interview.

On the other hand, this was about the same time that they did the 'butcher cover' - so it's entirely possible that it was deliberate. Sabotage that clean-cut image.

Listened to the white album last night. I think side four is my favorite, despite it being the weakest for material. It's so dark. Even "Honey Pie" sounds sinister to me.

[JeffTweedysFatStomach]

I've never read a book on The Beatles and I've always wanted to. Someone recommend something for me - I'm looking for something more biographical than anything else, but not at a fan-worship level.

[Mitchell]

Revolution In The Head.