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Shabby or Fabby?
Happy 50th birthday, Abbey Road!
by The Call of the Wendigo Thu Sep 26, 2019 1:15 pm
Apparently, it's exactly 50 years to the day since this iconique demonstration of road safety technique came out. 
Don't forget to give us your red hot opinions on it and vote in the special poll.
Don't forget to give us your red hot opinions on it and vote in the special poll.
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Re: Happy 50th birthday, Abbey Road!
by The Call of the Wendigo Thu Sep 26, 2019 1:17 pm
Haven't put the name of the band or the album on the cover. No one'll know who it is. Can't see it being a hit. 
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Re: Happy 50th birthday, Abbey Road!
by cosmictanya Thu Sep 26, 2019 1:56 pm
Happy birthday and all that.
This may not be the place to say so, but John Lennon leaves me cold. I don't understand how you can have next to nothing to do with your own child for years at a time, exclude them from your will (that should be illegal - and it is in most jurisdictions, we and the USA are pretty much unique in allowing that), and go on about love and peace and harmony.
This may not be the place to say so, but John Lennon leaves me cold. I don't understand how you can have next to nothing to do with your own child for years at a time, exclude them from your will (that should be illegal - and it is in most jurisdictions, we and the USA are pretty much unique in allowing that), and go on about love and peace and harmony.
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Re: Happy 50th birthday, Abbey Road!
by Butterfield Thu Sep 26, 2019 6:46 pm
I always think of Abbey Road as my favourite Beatles album but looking at the list of tracks in the poll I think I only particularly like "Something" and the end of "The End".
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Re: Happy 50th birthday, Abbey Road!
by The Call of the Wendigo Thu Sep 26, 2019 7:23 pm
I think the first track I ever heard from it was Octopus's Garden which we had on an old Pinky and Perky EP when I was little. 
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Re: Happy 50th birthday, Abbey Road!
by The Call of the Wendigo Thu Sep 26, 2019 7:26 pm
After that, the next tracks I heard must have been Something, Come Together and Here Comes the Sun, which I knew from Shirley Bassey and the Beatles Blue album, respectively.
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Re: Happy 50th birthday, Abbey Road!
by The Call of the Wendigo Thu Sep 26, 2019 7:28 pm
I don't think I knew any of the other tracks until I heard the album itself, when I was 17. It's amazing how obscure the other tracks on it were, pre-Internet. I don't remember hearing any of them on the radio, ever, before then.
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Re: Happy 50th birthday, Abbey Road!
by The Call of the Wendigo Thu Sep 26, 2019 7:30 pm
Anyrodeup, I have voted for Golden Slumbers/Carry that Weight/The End, a sequence which showcases McCartney's versatility as both a vocalist and a writer and which showcases the Beatles' group chemistry. 
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Re: Happy 50th birthday, Abbey Road!
by Nightjar Thu Sep 26, 2019 7:59 pm
"You Never Give Me Your Money" for me.
Effectively the opening part of "Golden Slumbers/Carry that Weight/The End", the two tracks bookending the marvellous suite of music in between - the greatest, most ambitious, charming, funny, anarchic and delightful work the Beakles ever done.
Side 1 is a somewhat patchy, but all of side 2's really really good.
Something's a bit icky, Octopus's Quitchen is harmless rubbish.
I like Oh Darling and that long one at the end of Side 2 though.
Come Together's very good but suffers from overplaying.
Maxwell's Silver etc is arguably the worst song they/Macca ever did.
Worst than the Enoch Powell version of Get Back.
Effectively the opening part of "Golden Slumbers/Carry that Weight/The End", the two tracks bookending the marvellous suite of music in between - the greatest, most ambitious, charming, funny, anarchic and delightful work the Beakles ever done.
Side 1 is a somewhat patchy, but all of side 2's really really good.
Something's a bit icky, Octopus's Quitchen is harmless rubbish.
I like Oh Darling and that long one at the end of Side 2 though.
Come Together's very good but suffers from overplaying.
Maxwell's Silver etc is arguably the worst song they/Macca ever did.
Worst than the Enoch Powell version of Get Back.
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Re: Happy 50th birthday, Abbey Road!
by Butterfield Thu Sep 26, 2019 8:04 pm
Nightjar wrote:the Beakles
There has got to be a tribute act with that name.
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Re: Happy 50th birthday, Abbey Road!
by Nightjar Thu Sep 26, 2019 8:13 pm
Look!
Teh Grauniad's ranked every one of the Beakles 7" signals...
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/26/the-beatles-singles-ranked
Hard to argue with No.1.
Teh Grauniad's ranked every one of the Beakles 7" signals...
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/26/the-beatles-singles-ranked
Hard to argue with No.1.
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Re: Happy 50th birthday, Abbey Road!
by Nightjar Thu Sep 26, 2019 8:17 pm
Hard to argue with No.22.
I'd put Paperbork Writer higher though.
And Hello, Goodbye lower.
I'd put Paperbork Writer higher though.
And Hello, Goodbye lower.
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Re: Happy 50th birthday, Abbey Road!
by The Call of the Wendigo Thu Sep 26, 2019 8:54 pm
I have produced my definitive list.
1- Hey Jude
2- Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever
3- Let It Be
4- Can't Buy Me Love
5- A Hard Day's Night
6- Help!
7- Ticket to Ride
8- Paperback Writer
9- Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby
10- We Can Work It Out/Day Tripper
11- She Loves You
12- Hello, Goodbye
13- Get Back
14- Lady Madonna
15- I Feel Fine
16- Something/Come Together
17- The Ballad of John and Yoko
18- All You Need Is Love
19- Please Please Me
20- From Me to You
21- I Want to Hold Your Hand
22- Love Me Do
1- Hey Jude
2- Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever
3- Let It Be
4- Can't Buy Me Love
5- A Hard Day's Night
6- Help!
7- Ticket to Ride
8- Paperback Writer
9- Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby
10- We Can Work It Out/Day Tripper
11- She Loves You
12- Hello, Goodbye
13- Get Back
14- Lady Madonna
15- I Feel Fine
16- Something/Come Together
17- The Ballad of John and Yoko
18- All You Need Is Love
19- Please Please Me
20- From Me to You
21- I Want to Hold Your Hand
22- Love Me Do
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Re: Happy 50th birthday, Abbey Road!
by Butterfield Thu Sep 26, 2019 9:13 pm
Nightjar wrote:Look!
Teh Grauniad's ranked every one of the Beakles 7" signals...
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/26/the-beatles-singles-ranked
Hard to argue with No.1.
No Long and Winding Road or A Day in the Life?!
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Re: Happy 50th birthday, Abbey Road!
by Butterfield Thu Sep 26, 2019 9:13 pm
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:I have produced my definitive list.
1- Hey Jude
2- Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever
3- Let It Be
4- Can't Buy Me Love
5- A Hard Day's Night
6- Help!
7- Ticket to Ride
8- Paperback Writer
9- Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby
10- We Can Work It Out/Day Tripper
11- She Loves You
12- Hello, Goodbye
13- Get Back
14- Lady Madonna
15- I Feel Fine
16- Something/Come Together
17- The Ballad of John and Yoko
18- All You Need Is Love
19- Please Please Me
20- From Me to You
21- I Want to Hold Your Hand
22- Love Me Do
No Long and Winding Road or A Day in the Life?!
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Re: Happy 50th birthday, Abbey Road!
by The Call of the Wendigo Thu Sep 26, 2019 9:22 pm
They were never released as singles in Britain.
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Re: Happy 50th birthday, Abbey Road!
by Butterfield Thu Sep 26, 2019 9:30 pm
Ohhh, I missed the key word.
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Re: Happy 50th birthday, Abbey Road!
by Butterfield Thu Sep 26, 2019 9:30 pm
The key word being "signals".
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Re: Happy 50th birthday, Abbey Road!
by The Call of the Wendigo Thu Sep 26, 2019 11:49 pm
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Re: Happy 50th birthday, Abbey Road!
by Fangirl Three Fri Sep 27, 2019 7:29 am
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