Like, The Beatles man...

[rirv]

...the worst band name ever.(n)

[rirv]

/hashtag original opinion

[rirv]

But seriously, and I'm two bottles of wine down serious right now, it always blows my mind how SHORT the span of the band was.

1963-1969 was their entire recording period. Seven years!!

Even looking at the pictures, there are light years in between every season.

It's so far out.

Then you get 1970, Plastic Ono Band. Such a transition from 1962/3. Seven or eight years ago I was some pathetic graduate with no plan in life. Now, I'm some dullard reclusive employed person rambling about this rubbish like it matters, listening to studio out takes on youtube, drunk on a Monday night, with no plan in life.

I think it all comes back to listening to my dead dad's Beatles cassette tapes at the age of five and just trying to revert to that time in my life, but you're not my therapist.

[rirv]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DkaRUtp3w8
This is the best song of the whole of everything they did.

[Guy Incognito]

its not as bad as the silver beatles but yes, i agree, bobbins name


i hadnt heard that track before. Beltin'(y)

no one will have a career like that again.

i think they were the first to do a lot of stuff and i think that spurred them on to continue that and do different stuff and thats why their career was so varied. also, drugs.

picking best is very hard but i will go here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-2lMstw6qs

[rirv]

Wow, I was pretty drunk when I wrote all this. Sorry.

Though, I did think that listening to them evokes the same feeling as this:

It's the last day of school before the summer holiday begins and the late afternoon sunlight is shining through the window and it catches on some motes of dust suspended in the still air. It is both the happiest and saddest day of the year because you have weeks of holiday ahead of you but you have to leave your friends and memories behind you. That feeling.

[ms.peachy]

Funny coincidence, I watched George Harrison: Living In the Material World today. Highly recommended.

[Guy Incognito]

Wow, I was pretty drunk when I wrote all this. Sorry.

Though, I did think that listening to them evokes the same feeling as this:

It's the last day of school before the summer holiday begins and the late afternoon sunlight is shining through the window and it catches on some motes of dust suspended in the still air. It is both the happiest and saddest day of the year because you have weeks of holiday ahead of you but you have to leave your friends and memories behind you. That feeling.

cant say thats happened to me. I just remember watching all the beatles films and docs on bbc2 shortly after Lennon died and just wanting to get all the albums but all my folks had was the Red and Blue albums with price stickers that said "Woolworths £1.99". Nice.
Although i hit the red album pretty hard, i was a bit wary of the blue one as an 8 yr old as it had some relatively weird noises and some of the songs were pretty out there.

[Lex Diamonds]

^ Wow, my early experiences/current feelings of the Beatles are an exact mix of those two things. I mean, even down to the Woolworth's stickers.

Both spot on- rirv's sounded nicer, though.

[taquitos]

a band played here recently called hot buttered rum cornbread

[Miho]

Worst band name? Hardly. I am certain you can find tons of embarrassingly bad band names out there. It is a rather bland name, though. I think they were also one of the bands which created the trend of using "The [x]" as a band name, or at least popularizing it.