That first one sounds like it may have a little "Whiter Shade of Pale" in it - and the Beatles were certainly an influence on Procol Harum. The track itself is clearly rooted in 1990s Trance, which itself arose through the late 1980s Rave scene - both are audible in all 4 tracks.

These tracks are all created using the same very simple methods - loops created or uploaded and manipulated (copied and pasted) in order to create a flowing piece in a style that builds to climaxes rather than focusses on verse/chorus bridge structures. It's easy peasy, which is why there are so many tunes in this vein.

The sequencing methods used are exactly those used in TMK, even if the hard work is now done by a computer.

Given that 43 years have elapsed since TMK, you'd expect the music to have evolved a bit - but essentially, it hasn't, which is why TMK still sounds fresh in its own way, and the 1980s pieces sound terribly dated, while the 1990s pieces sound of their time.

None of these are strictly what I'd call electronica though - there are too many samples of people playing instruments, and not enough electronically manipulated sounds. Subtle but important difference I feel.

Now Autechre are electronica... :D

i would understand if it was robert miles i put up who has alot of piano pieces.
still electronica, but a shitload of intrumentals


I cant agree to what you have said that they arnt electronica, they were influenced by the acid house movement, which was from the late 80's. the first video i posted is gabber which is dutch ofcourse. the second video is house. thrid ones hardstyle/gabber. fourth ones trance. if you read they links, they all say that its electronica genre music. the tracks were created by 'turntables' which most dj's use. its not some pcdj music, (remember teem techno?) it takes effort and hardwork and research of the movement. or we would all be dj's if it were that easy ;)

It's a tie for for me.
I got:
John and paul

i effectively got all four of them in equal measure with f*cking GEORGE winning at 30%. meh.

I'm Ringo.

Rank The Beatles Songs
 

crappyguitar suggested I just make a thread about this so here I am. Sorry if I step on any toes...

I'm currently in the process of running a fan-run ranking of The Beatles best songs through the internet using a bunch of websites, Facebook, forums, et cetera. Why? Mostly just for fun and to make it a truly fan-run thing instead of these Entertainment Weekly things made by someone who also gave a Thumbs Up to Miley Cyrus' new album.

What I'm looking for now is just people and their ballots. When I say ballots, this is exactly what I am looking for:

A list of your top 25 Beatles songs in order (meaning #1 is your favorite/best Beatles song).

That's all I really need from people who want to participate. If you want to help out more, just let people know and get people to vote. The more voters/ballots, the more varied the list gets and the more definitive it gets.

But for right now, I'm really just looking for people who would be interested and their votes.

As per when I need them, I would like them as soon as possible just so I can add them to the rolling list and see how many people I have so I can see what else I need to do to get more.

Thank you guys so much for your time; I greatly appreciate it!

25? That's alot. I'll do the best I can

1. I Want You (She's so Heavy)
2. Twist and Shout
3. Helter Skelter
4. While My Guitar Gentily Weeps
5. Because (anthology version)
6. Paperback Writer
7. Elenor Rigby (A.K.A All the Lonely People)
8. Within You Without You
9. Hey Jude
10.Come Together
11.Penny Lane
12.Hard Day's Night
13.Help!
14.Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
15.Blackbird
16.Let It Be
17.Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
19.Day Tripper
20.Dear Prudence
21.Nowhere Man
22.Money
23.Octopus Garden
24.Here Comes The Sun
25.Hello Goodbye


Ok, I've been figuring this out for like, 45 minutes so I'm gonna post the rest later...

Sorry to be pushy, but do you have the rest of the list?

I actually plan to start counting down the list on the 10th and I'm planning on having YouTube videos, download links, and information on each song so that's gonna take a while to get off the ground.

I know - I'm a ****...

Beatle Songs
 

Yo man, as an avid Beatle Fan I'll give you my top 25


1. A Day In The Life
2. Yesterday
3. Hey Jude
4. Strawberry Fields Forever
5. Let It Be
6. All You Need Is Love
7. I Am The Walrus
8. Eleanor Rigby
9. I Want To Hold Your Hand
10. Something
11. Tomorrow Never Knows
12. Penny Lane
13. Hello Goodbye
14. She Loves You
15. We Can Work It Out
16. Ticket To Ride
17. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
18. Please Please Me
19. The End
20. Revolution
21. If I Fell
22. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
23. Blackbird
24. All My Loving
25. Dear Prudence

Oh crap, I forgot Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, its gotta go around 10 or so. Man this list is so hard

Allright let's see:

1. a day in the life
2. We can work it out
3. Lucy in the sky with diamonds
4. I am the walrus
5. Come together
6. Eleanor rigby
7. Help!
8. Yesterday
9. Let it be
10. A hard days night
11. Hello, goodbye
12. Norwegian wood (this bird has flown)
13. Strawberry fields
14. Hey Jude
15. I want to hold your hand
16. In my life
17. She loves you
18. Lady madonna
19. The long and winding road
20. Can't buy me love
21. Get back
22. Something
23. All you need is love
24. Penny lane
25. With a little help from my friends.

On another day this list would likely change, but I'll stand by these.

1. The Long And Winding Road
2. Nowhere Man
3. While My Guitar Gentlily Weeps
4. Here Comes The Sun
5. Revolution
6. Paperback Writer
7. Something
8. Please Mister Postman
9. I'll Get You
10. We Can Work It Out
11. In My Life
12. It's Only Love
13. Can't Buy Me Love
14. Day Tripper
15. Taxman
16. A Hard Day's Night
17. This Boy
18. Strawberry Fields
19. If I Fell
20. Anna
21. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
22. Let It Be
23. She Love You
24. Please Please Me
25. Hey Jude

If you really like the fans of the Beatles, you could buy a couple of them and give them as Christmas gifts to all too young to vote! And prepare for the resumption of Beatlemania, because we all know that adults have more cold N'Sync!

i don't understand how this thread is so unpopular.

What do folks think of Love, Giles Martin's (George Martin's son) remix and mashup album of Beatles music released in 2006? The best part is Martin's 5.1 surround sound remastering which makes the music swirl around and jump back and forth between the front and back speakers when you play it on a surround sound stereo rig. Even on a conventional two speaker sound system there's a vast improvement in sound quality. Giles Martin's production work on Love was done at the same Abbey Road facility where the Beatles record all of their studio albums. A short history of the studios at Abbey Road is worthwhile because George Martin crafted the Beatles distinctive studio sound at Abbey Road, one session at at time, over the entire span of the Beatle's seven year recording career.

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The recording studios at 3 Abbey Road

Part of the reason nearly all the Beatles studio albums had such a wonderous and pristine sound was their use of the the EMI studios at 3 Abbey Road, a state of the art recording facility built in 1931 and was primarily used to record jazz and classical music prior to rise of the Beatles.

Sir George Martin began his association with EMI and the Abbey Road facility way back in 1950. Many Beatles fans mistakenly believe that the Beatles built the studios at 3 Abbey Road but the EMI studios at Abbey Road have a long and proud history prior to the entry of the Beatles in 1962 to begin their seven year relationship with producer George Martin.

In 1962 Decca Records had taken a pass on signing the Beatles, so manager Brian Epstien had the Beatle's demo tapes delivered to George Martin through a mutual friend. Martin had previously recorded a handful of pop artists without much success. Martin wasn't that impressed with musicianship of the band, especially the unimaginative drumming of Peter Best. Martin signed on as the Beatles producer because he saw a great potential in singing talents of John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

Peter Best was sacked as the Beatles drummer during the first recording session but the session engineers weren't that impressed with Ringo's drumming either. The studio engineers relegated Ringo to playing tamborine on Love Me Do and doing nothing on Please Please Me while session drummer Andy White played drums. At the time Ringo was the most accomplished professional musician of the Beatles and he wasn't happy with the situation. Despite this early sleight to his drum kit skills Ringo persevered and turned out to be the perfect drummer for the band.

Over his long career as a producer Martin has produced hundreds of albums by classical, jazz and pop artists and the Beatles catalog is only a small part of his illustrious career as a producer. With or without the Beatles, George Martin is arguably the greatest studio producer in the history of recorded music.

Martin was also a first tier composer, orchestra director and the master of multiple musical instruments including piano and several wind instruments, most notably the oboe which he studied under BBC Sympony Orchestra oboeist Margaret Eliot. Eliot was the mother of Jane and Peter Asher. Jane Asher went on to be a Paul McCartney's girlfriend and the "it girl" fashion model of swinging London in the early Sixties. Peter Asher was in the British invasion group Peter and Gordon. After an Abbey Road apprenticeship under Martin, Asher moved to southern Califormia and as a producer crafted his own trademark SoCal mellow sound of the 70s and produced most the great albums by Linda Ronstandt, James Taylor and Bonnie Raitt. Paul McCartney has maintained his early friendships with Peter & Jane Asher and George Martin which date back nearly 50 years.

The most notable technological advance that came out of the studios at Abbey Road was the development of multi-track recording during the sessions for Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. Acutely aware of the limitations of 4 track recordings, Martin relied on engineer Ken Townsend to invent and build a system whereby two 4 track machines could be linked together. Martin used Towsend's schematic in short order to expand to 16 tracks and then 24 tracks and the age of multi-track recording began. The newly developed 24track recording equipment made Abbey Road the state-of-the-art studio that every rock band wanted to record in. Multi-track recordings revoluntionized rock music and following the Beatles break up, Pink Floyd replaced the Beatles as the house band at Abbey Road. The epic Pink Floyd albums of the Seventies were all products of the Abbey Road studio.

3 Abbey Road was originally a 9 bedroom residential townhouse built in the 1830s in St. Johns Wood, City of Westminister, London England. Abbey Road's name came from the road's close proximity to the Kilburn Abbey an ancient 47 acre monastic estate that dates back to medieval England. The Abbey Road studio is located in heart of St. John's Wood, a posh London neighborhood where Paul McCartney has maintained a home, since the 1960s along with other prominent St. John's Wood residents such as Kate Moss, Jude Law, Ewan McGregor and Lily Allen.

The EMI studio at 3 Abbey Road also has a set of apartments to house musicians who are recording in the studio. Between the apartments and the studio is a footpath that leads to the grounds of Kiburn Abbey which is now a large public green space in the City of Westminister.

In 2009 the Abbey Road studios faced closure at the hands of real estate developers but the studio was saved by an act of the Parliament declaring the EMI studios at 3 Abbey Road a national historic landmark.

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The iconic crosswalk at Abbey Road & Grove End Road where the Beatles cover to the the Abbey Road album was photographed. The Abbey Road studios are the smaller two story building in the center of the photo. The crosswalk at Abbey & Grove End has been a London tourist destination for millions of Beatles fans over the years.

Their Love album was pretty good, even though it cuts out key parts of songs, it still is a recollection of their later songs which were hits.

yea. i think i might even suggest love as a starter album. its really fun.

Me no likey The White Album. Way too long and not a very distinct stamp, unlike almost all the other Beatles albums. I second whoever said Let It Be is underrated. And Rubber Soul is the best album they ever made.

That was my starter album. Next came 1, and then I went for the real albums, which are way better. It is the ultimate starter album for even someone who doesn't have a musical background like others.

its not very consistent, but it has some of the best songs in their catalog(back in the ussr, dear prudence, helter skelter, i will, julia, martha my dear, piggies, while my guitar gently weeps, ob-la-di ob-la-da and i have a soft spot for rocky racoon too...).

I liked birthday too and the non-single rendition of revolution ain't bad either. Would you agree with me at least that it's their worst album post-1964?

i wouldn't.

besides, love is just a collection album. you couldn't really rate albums if they're just music from a bunch of previous albums, especially because the songs are just a few incomplete songs mashed together.

all i said that it was fun and i may recommend it as a starter album for someone in the future.

Don't forget Happiness Is A Warm Gun, probably the darkest Beatle song ever that hints heroin use by Lennon. When the album was first released, Paul McCartney said Rocky Racoon was a humorous tribute to Bob Dylan's tranformation to more rustic song themes following his motorcycle crash. McCartney's imitation of Dylan's clipped vocal cadence at the beginning of the song (where McCartney sings: "Somewhere in the black mining hills of Dakota etc..) always brings a smile to may face.

Both Lennon & McCartney could do deadly parodies of other musicians and prominent public figures. Lennon also had a talent for clever word play as evidenced by his book title In My Own Write. George Martin infuriated the suits at EMI when doubled their he doubled the Beatle's song royalties from 1 penny to 2 pennies an album, during their first recording session. Martin's only explaination was that even without their musical talents, both Lennon and McCartney deserved additional points for the sheer entertainment value of their humorous observations.

With the White Album, one should consider the fact that it's a two volume album with 28 songs and 20 of those songs are up to par with the other Beatle albums and only 5 to 8 of the songs were filler. It's my favorite album by the Beatles of the post-Sgt. Peppers era and I like for the same reason many people dislike it: It's sprawling, overly ambitious and chaotic effort that baffled the critical establishment with it's wild mood swings and dark themes. McCartney's Rocky Racoon & Bungalow Bill sounded like children songs but each song had macarbe undercurrent of mayhem and violence. Harrison's Piggies and Lennon's Helter Skelter had similar themes.

The White Album was prophetic because the free floating dread of the White Album Beatles music seemed to anticipate the rise of heroin use by the hippie counterculture, the bombings of Weather Underground, the Tate LoBianca murders and chaos at Altamont. All of those events marked 1969 as the end of the dream.

If you want a picture perfect, mellow, coffee table Beatles album then Abbey Road should be your choice. I found Abbey Road to be a frustrating album for that very reason. Abbey Road was the Beatles retreat to the ivory tour of the Abbey Road 64 track studio to record breathtakingly beautiful songs that made everyone happy.

I can't really blame the Beatles for wanting to get out of the game at that point. There were thousands people like Charles Manson who thought the Beatles were there personal savior and their music contained a message to them personally, usually about some sort of imagninary future apocalyspe. Manson's personal message ended up with his final solution of Helter Skelter.

It wasn't just Manson, droves of people had personal fixations on the Beatles and their music. A friend of mine who went on to acheive minor noteriety as rock guitarist confided to me that the Beatles were a fullfilment of the prophesies of King David, in the haze of an acid trip one night. I shrugged when he whipped out a Bible read the passages out of the Book of Pslams that proved the divinity of the Beatles.. but I was a little bit worried about the guy. In a little over a decade John Lennon would be murdered by a guy that believed he was Holden Caulfield from the book Catcher in the Rye and Mark David Chapman really believed world would be a better place without a "phony" like John Lennon. I think Abbey Road was intended to be a chill-out album and a final farewell to that pathological class of Beatle fans. Unfortunately Chapman had the opportunity to deliver the message and was given the opportunity to do so because John Lennon trusted his fans and refused to hire body guards or use rear entry door to his home in the Dakota apartments.

The killing of John Lennon one of those traumatic events that will be forever imprinted in my memory like the Kennedy assasination, the 9/11 attack and the Kent State shootings. I woke up on the morning of Nov. 9th 1980 at 6 am to the sound of Lennon's Love Is playing on my clock radio. As I lay in the dark under the covers with my eyes closed, I was overwhelmed by the simple beauty of the song and as the song faded out, I heard WBCN dee jay Charles Laquidaria's announcement of Lennon's death at the Dakota and I cried... the dream was over. I've never been as overwhelmed with grief at the death of a public figure as I was with John Lennon's death.

A couple of small errors fixed. Excellent post by the way.

Thanks for pointing out the errors.

By the way one of the most surprising moments on the Love album was the combination of Good Night from the White Album and Octopus's Garden from Abbey Road. It actually made Octopus's Garden beautiful, which is damn hard.

there are a number of moments like that. kinda like listening to the avalanches.

I know, it is somewhat better with the mixing of different songs, but they're shortened, so it's kind of like something that's very different. "Because" on that album can scare the **** out of you because of it's silent intro, and you're waiting... waiting... waiting... and if you got on high volume, someone gonna jump out of their seat.

But your post was great!

Thanks for all your reviews. I'll have to make sure I get all those albums. Right now I just have them on tape from when my dad use to play them

Yes, they are very obtainable. No matter where you go, GO GET THEM!

the medley was actually a quick fix by the sound dep. because the band was already dissolving... but still genius

1. In My Life
2. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
3. Here Comes the Sun
4. Something
5. Tomorrow Never Knows
6. Come Together
7. I Am The Walrus
8. Eleanor Rigby
9. A Day in the Life
10. Hey Jude
11. She Loves You
12. Oh! Darling
13. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
14. I Wanna Hold Your Hand
15. The Long and Winding Road
16. Let It Be
17. Getting Better
18. She's Leaving Home
19. Rain
20. Blackbird
21. Within You Without You
22. Can't Buy Me Love
23. Strawberry Fields Forever
24. Please, Please Me
25. Back in the USSR.

1. Eight Days a Week
2. Ticket to Ride
3. Eleanor Rigby
4. Come Together
5. Help!
6. Yesterday
7. In My Life
8. The Long and Winding Road
9. I Want to Hold Your Hand
10. Something
11. With a Little Help from My Friends
12. Let it Be
13. Paperback Writer
14. Taxman
15. She Loves You
16. Penny Lane
17. Twist and Shout
18. All My Loving
19. Hey Jude
20. Can't Buy Me Love
21. All You Need is Love
22. Lady Madonna
23. From Me to You
24. I Am the Walrus
25. A Hard Day's Night

This is sickeningly hard to do, but I'll do my best.

1. I Am The Walrus
2. A Day In The Life
3. In My Life
4. Let It Be
5. Something
6. Hey Jude
7. Strawberry Fields Forever
8. Tomorrow Never Knows
9. And Your Bird Can Sing
10. Come Together
11. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
12. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
13. I Saw Her Standing There
14. Here Comes The Sun
15. Yesterday
16. Penny Lane
17. Revolution
18. Julia
19. Don't Let Me Down
20. Day Tripper
21. I'm A Loser
22. You Can't Do That
23. The Fool On The Hill
24. I Should've Known Better
25. Helter Skelter

Jesus Christ. I reserve the right to change this list at any time.

This is going to be a tough one....they change daily or even hourly for me, but I'll do this as fast as I can without too much thought

1. Rain
2. Across The Universe
3. Tomorrow Never Knows
4. I Am The Walrus
5. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
6. Ticket To Ride
7. Strawberry Fields Forever
8. Dear Prudence
9. Revolution
10. In My Life
11. I'll Be Back
12. She Said She Said
13. Nowhere Man
14. I Want To Hold Your Hand
15. I Saw Her Standing There
16. All My Loving
17. Yer Blues
18. Eleanor Rigby
19. Taxman
20. Here Comes The Sun
21. Getting Better
22. A Hard Day's Night
23. I Need You
24. You Can't Do That
25. And I Love Her

In my opinion, The Beatles have one of the most solid musical catalogues in rock history. With the exception of a few tracks (really just Revolution 9, Run For Your Life and Chains), I like every single song and album that the Beatles have released. My friends think I'm crazy for liking such songs as Sun King or Bungalow Bill, but in my opinion their unusuality and eclectic nature makes them so fascinating and fun to listen to.

No, this was way after The Kinks made See My Friend, which was clearly Indian.

Now that that's out of the way, I love The Beatles to bits, and I have never grown tired of them after years of listening. I'll admit, sometimes they will be a bit overrated, but it's my opinion that their music was highly influential and perfect in almost every way.