It's really the only way to listen to Abbey Road, Revolver, Rubber Soul, and Sgt. Pepper. You should try Let It Be... Naked. They went back to the original studio master tapes and remastered them the way the Beatles recorded them . . . without all of the Phil Spector production crap that was added on two years later for the LP. All of those overblown symphonic overlays and background vocals are gone.
Man @red55 I'm glad you posted the pic of the album cover. For a minute I thought you meant.. oh never mind
The thing about the Beatles, historical position aside, is they played, for the most part, at least early, pure music. Drums, git-fiddles, and bass. No over produced, over synthesized crap. It is kind of elemental. I was in the sixth grade when they played, our cafeteria was in kind of a basement..more like a dungeon. I remember clearly, the Monday after the Sunday night, Mr Carmichael, the principal, standing at the top of the steps, asking every kid, "Did you see them?" Believe it or not, I am pretty much a "rockah" even today!
What made the Beatles special is the astonishing coincidence that the two greatest popular songwriters of the 20th century grew up at the same time in the same town, met and formed a partnership. Then they acquired the best guitarist and drummer in Liverpool, formed a band and kept it all together for 10 years.
Oh if there was ever a time for a derail? Dylan may be the only person more overrated than Springsteen.
Sometimes I hear "Revolution" on the radio (it might depend on the station), and the recording is mastered so that guitar, bass, drums and vocals each come out of one, and only one speaker. So you can fiddle with your speaker control and isolate any part. I've never noticed this with any other song.
Hell, dude, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson started out as class cutups together in junior high school. Then they started Rush, and are still best friends and neighbors 40 years later.
