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23 January 2022
I put on the Suzanne Vega album 99.5f last night for the first time in years. It got me through a hard time in the past, but then ended up being associated with it. Happy to report I’m able to enjoy it again. Full of absolute bangers so it is.
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Richard, RubeMy hot take is that after the Beatles split they went down the paths of spiritualism, solipsism, alcoholism, and Paul McCartney
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Sour Milk Sea from the Esher demos. What a work of art.
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sigh butterfly, vonbontee, meaigs, Rube1.The Beatles 2.Sgt. Pepper 3.Abbey Road 4.Magical Mystery Tour 5.Rubber Soul 6.Revolver 7.Help! 8.Let It Be
9.A Hard Day’s Night 10.Please Please Me 11.Beatles For Sale 12.With The Beatles 13.Yellow Submarine
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1 December 2009
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RubeGEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
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14 December 2009
Saw a recommendation of this 1970 Supremes album on a music message board’s discussion of “psychedelic Motown”, so I checked it out – and discovered yet another of the era’s soul LPs with a Beatles cover (gotta be one of the earliest “Come Together ” versions on record)*
*EDIT: I take it back – I did a bit of research after writing that, and discovered at least a half-dozen “Come Together ” covers on record by 1970, including a Count Basie version recorded in December ’69, three months after the original release. And also, I learned that Basie’s version appears on an all-Beatles showcase album (the Count’s second such tribute)…with sleeve notes by Ringo himself!
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12.03am
11 June 2015
Heard this on the radio today. I was living in the Hawaiian jungle for most of the seventies, so I was about as far removed from disco as you could be. We occasionally celebrated harvest by flying over to Waikiki. Several times friends took us out to the disco for a drink. Once they played this song. For the intro, the lights were turned down low and people were slow dancing like they used to do when I was in high school. Suddenly the beat started pumping, the disco ball started spinning, the floor was flashing rainbow neon lights, and Donna implored all to “Dance the last dance TONIGHT!!” The place went totally nuts!!!!
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1.14am
14 December 2009
sigh butterfly said
Suddenly the beat started pumping, the disco ball started spinning, the floor was flashing rainbow neon lights, and Donna implored all to “Dance the last dance TONIGHT!!” The place went totally nuts!!!!
Warms my heart – I can’t tell you how much I loved Donna, or how the revolutionary “I Feel Love” single blew my ten-year old brain in ’77 (as did Star Wars and the Ramones, before year’s end)… Disco was peaking in popularity exactly as I reached the age of plugging into pop culture and playing the radio during most waking hours, and the best of it is still among my chosen varieties of sound-for-pleasure
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2.51am
14 December 2009
I’m listening to “A Hard Day’s Night ” (an album by the Beatles)
Wow, they were a really really great band!
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17 December 2012
Taylor Hawkins tribute concert at Wembley Stadium last night. Paul ticks off another of his songs that he hasn’t done since way back when he was in a group with some guys called John, George and Ringo…
…and also…
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17 June 2021
It was 60 years ago today that The Beatles recorded this version of Love Me Do with Andy White on drums.
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5.05pm
1 December 2009
One of my top ten favourite of the original 1950s rock ‘n roll acts, whose big hit “Love Is Strange” will be familiar to Wings fans
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RichardGEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
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17 December 2012
It was 60 years ago yesterday they moved from being a live band to recording artists…
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The Beatles Bible 2020 non-Canon Poll Part One: 1958-1963 and Part Two: 1964-August 1966
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1 December 2009
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Beatlebug, RubeGEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
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