Vinyl Me Please Essentials

[Gavaxeman]

Yellow fucking turding Submarine….

Other than that, yeah it’s killer!

If only Yellow Sub has been a stand alone single ....and we could swap Rain or Paperback Writer in its place .....

 

[Joe Mac]

“Wall of Sound” when it comes to a the Beatles, typically is used to reference Phil Spector’s stylized production method that he applied to Let It Be. It’s kind of like being bludgeoned by every instrument in layer after layer eliminating all space and depth from the recording combining individual sounds into a singular new sound. I would not say that “Wall Of Sound” style would necessarily apply to “Tomorrow Never Knows” in that sense. It is busy and multitracked but it’s not what many would describe as “Wall Of Sound” from the Spector definition.

Yeah, even outside of the Beatles Phil Spektor is what I’d point to as Wall of Sound. Multiple overdubbed tracks, traditionally orchestral, creating that huge, almost suffocating, sound.

Tomorrow Never Knows has a lot going on but there is definitely space on that recording, it breathes.

 

[tvham]

Yeah, even outside of the Beatles Phil Spektor is what I’d point to as Wall of Sound. Multiple overdubbed tracks, traditionally orchestral, creating that huge, almost suffocating, sound.

Tomorrow Never Knows has a lot going on but there is definitely space on that recording, it breathes.

Also - used to perfection in Mad Men

 

[Plumcrazyfx]

Revolver is the Empire Strikes Back of Beatles albums. It's the connection between their earlier work and the more experimental stuff around the corner and succeeds in both. I'm Only Sleeping is such a killer track.

 

[jamieanderson1968]

Revolver is the Empire Strikes Back of Beatles albums. It's the connection between their earlier work and the more experimental stuff around the corner and succeeds in both. I'm Only Sleeping is such a killer track.

Great analogy since Sgt Pepper is full of Ewoks

 

[tvham]

Revolver is the Empire Strikes Back of Beatles albums. It's the connection between their earlier work and the more experimental stuff around the corner and succeeds in both. I'm Only Sleeping is such a killer track.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Revolver is the Empire Strikes Back of Beatles albums. It's the connection between their earlier work and the more experimental stuff around the corner and succeeds in both. I'm Only Sleeping is such a killer track.

This implies that Return to the Jedi was experimental…

 

[Joe Mac]

This implies that Return to the Jedi was experimental…

The ewoks were clearly all on LSD…

 

[hayema7]

The ewoks were clearly all on LSD…

Accurate

 

[jfitzy]

Revolver is the best Beatles album. I don't care what anyone else says.

 

[Joe Mac]

Revolver is the best Beatles album. I don't care what anyone else says.

The Beatles are The Beatles. They have 6 albums that are ridiculous and I’ve never really had any complaints about which order people put them in. It falls 5th in my list.

 

[NewsFedora]

Time to rank!

1. Abbey Road
2. Revolver
3. Sgt. Pepper
4. The White Album
5. LOVE by Cirque du Soleil
6. All Things Must Pass
7. Rubber Soul
8. That blue double album comp from your parents collection
9. Hello Nasty
10. Magical Mystery Tour (this 1971 Germany release ONLY the rest can go to hell)

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Also - used to perfection in Mad Men

I was just think about this scene and Imagined what if Megan had told Don to spin “Yellow Submarine” instead.

 

[mdmost]

Revolver is my favorite Beatles album. It would be Abbey Road if the worst Beatles song ever recorded wasn't on it in Maxwell's Silver Hammer. Yellow Submarine is a kick to the groin but that back half of the album is so good. I'm usually okay with Ringo songs but that one just starts off badly and doesn't let up outside of Monty Python-esque shouting out of submarine orders. I wish Doctor Robert was on the front half as I'm not a fan of that song. But the rest more than makes up for it. She Said She Said, Good Day Sunshine, And Your Bird Can Sing, For No One (so underrated), I Want To Tell You (underrated George song and possibly my favorite of his after Something), Got To Get You Into My Life, and the incredible ending song which could double as an early entry into dub step/electronica.

 

[hlaveta]

Time to rank!

1. Abbey Road
2. Revolver
3. Sgt. Pepper
4. The White Album
5. LOVE by Cirque du Soleil
6. All Things Must Pass
7. Rubber Soul
8. That blue double album comp from your parents collection
9. Hello Nasty
10. Magical Mystery Tour (this 1971 Germany release ONLY the rest can go to hell)

Same. Just swap 8 and 9.

 

[ThePakoBuelna]

Hot take? I love Maxwell's Silver Hammer

 

[CrazyDiamond84]

Hot take? I love Maxwell's Silver Hammer

Right there with you.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Hot take? I love Maxwell's Silver Hammer

I enjoy it. I always assumed it was kind of similar to Warren Zevon’s “Excitable Boy” a pleasant upbeat song about a psycho. One of those songs that makes people hum along without a realization it’s a song about a serial killer.

 

[sonic pharmacist]

Hot take? I love Maxwell's Silver Hammer

Hotter take....I love this, AND Yellow Submarine.

and Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da

 

[Plumcrazyfx]

This implies that Return to the Jedi was experimental…

You don't understand, this analogy works on so many levels. The improving special effects are the studio tricks. The "improvements" Lucas made in the late 90s are the Giles Martin remixes. This may be the most profound observation in the history of the internet.