So here I am, listening to The Beatles. I’d spent some time a few weeks ago and copied most–but not quite<\/i> all–of my Beatles collection to the hard drive for easy access at writing time.<\/p>\n
(The only things I didn’t copy? Live at the BBC<\/i>, 1<\/i>, and The Capitol Albums<\/i>, because they duplicate so much what I’d already copied.)<\/p>\n
Twenty-one hours of Beatle-y goodness.<\/p>\n
The Beatles are on shuffle. I’ll go from “Something’ to “Run For Your Life” to “Day Tripper.” No rhyme, no reason.<\/p>\n
I went through a twenty minute span of early stuff. “I Saw Her Standing There,” “You Really Got a Hold On Me,” “Besame Mucho” (from the Decca sessions). I don’t often listen to the early Beatles. There’s no reason for the absence, I just tend to gravitate to Rubber Soul<\/i> and beyond. Revolver<\/i>, especially, my favorite of their albums, the one I could listen to forever and day if I could only listen to one Beatles album ever<\/i>.<\/p>\n
A Hard Day’s Night<\/i>, that I listen to often. With the Beatles<\/i>? That gets stereo time. But Please Please Me<\/i>? Beatles for Sale<\/i>? Almost never. I think it’s the covers–the Beatles’ covers, even though they’re amazing (like “You Really Got a Hold On Me” and “Baby It’s You” and “Long Tall Sally” and “Twist and Shout”), just don’t excite me as much as the Beatles’ own material.<\/p>\n
Listening to “I Saw Her Standing There” I could just see<\/i> the Beatles in that little studio at EMI. I could see Ringo working the drum kit. I could see it all<\/i>. And I wondered if perhaps I’d been too harsh in not giving the early Beatles the same stereo love their later work receives.<\/p>\n
Maybe it will all depend on my mood. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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