I was breastbed to the sounds of the Beatles, or at least I am pretty sure I was. Music was played in my house repeatedly, all day, and when it wasn't records played it was piano or drums. I had bad dreams about the part at the end of Yes' Fragile and the cover of Gensis' Nursery Chryme, long before I could read the covers.

But I remember two devastating moments of my childhood with regards to music, one was when my father was showing me Genesis' new album Trick of the Tail and explaining to me the Peter Gabriel was not singing with the group anymore (my mother had left us earlier that year) and the other a year or so before, when he told me the Beatles broke up "a few years ago." Back then, albums we did not listen to all the way through were basically unheard of.

These days, I run around too much to listen to full albums all the time, but when I am home listening to music I rarely program anything out. There are plenty of times I only listen to tracks and even acts to whom I only listen to one or two tracks. That's both a product of what popular music is about and my own disjointed lack of extended listening time. Some bands are one-hit wonders in any generation, and thanks to MP3's I can at least have that one hit.

But there is plenty of great music still being made. The radio and MTV have been useless for so long I strain to remember what it was like to use these avenues to find out about bands. I still have people get into my car and marvel at my lack of station presets. Than I show them the 20 GB on my Ipod and they flip out...until I tell them this represents about 20% of my collection...

BTW Revolver is still my favorite Beatles album.

Personally, It has to be the white album.. But im pretty sure they came out with an extended Strawberry Fields LP, and i think i have heard it, and it is epic.


but correct me if im wrong and it was something different?

They recorded 3 versions with multiple takes of each arrangement of Strawberry Fields Forever.


The only one which was released officially in any format before the Anthology Series was the one every knows....which is the master take of the third version....which includes parts from the 1st and 2nd versions.


On Anthology 2 they released Lennon's home demo of the song....the first take of the first version and the 7th take of the 2nd version....which they used a minutes worth for the final master take of the 3rd version.

My favorite is The White Album, it was the album that got me into The Beatles and the majority of my favorite Beatles songs are on that album.

Sgnt Peppers for sure.

Yellow Submarine

I really like Abbey Road and how it's all connected. But I haven't checked out their entire discography enough.

Revolver.

So many cool and innovative recording techniques, and such great music. Beatles at their prime IMO. Great band, great album. How can you go wrong?

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It has been a long time friend.

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