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What Beatles facts and details have you committed to memory and can't forget?
Example, I memorized all the tracklist orders on each album. Abbey Road , Pepper, White Album , Yellow Submarine , and Let It Be are all solid, no doubt, I can name all the tracks on those albums in my sleep.
With The Beatles was a pain to remember, and I still forget some.
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I'll always know their exact tour dates.
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More than I ever need yet less than I ever want.
Some albums I can rattle off the lyrics for most if not all songs, others I cannot remember even a handle of the tracks lyrics.
I can never remember the correct order for side 1 of 'MMT' or side 2 of 'Yellow Submarine ' (but who cares for that), the rest are ingrained along with release dates.
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There are definitely limits on my Beatles-memory, within various parameters: I know how many songs are on each release; and I'm positive I can name each song on every album/EP/single from PPM through AR, but I'm less positive I can recall the exact track sequences of every album side of the pre-'Rubber Soul ' albums. And in the case of "With The Beatles ", there are definitely a handful of its 14 titles that I'm unsure whether they appear on Side One or Side Two. The "Let It Be " album, as well: I'm almost certain I couldn't tell you the exact running order of that album.
As for significant calendar dates? - forget it! I know a handful of unforgettable ones (Feb. 7th and 9th of '64, 30 January 1969, maybe a few others of the ones that are huge enough to be permanently on Joe's home page here), and that's about it.
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It is easy to memorize tracks on their 12 albums, here are some tips:
- Associate certain songs with numbers (One After 909 is Track 9 on Let It Be , easy - Eight Days A Week is track 8 on Beatles For Sale )
- Listen to the album regularly, sometimes the next song will automatically come to your head just by playing the last part of the previous track in your head. (I can't remember what comes after I Wanna Be Your Man , but playing the final bars gives me Devil In Her Heart )
- Divide the albums. On vinyl, 7 tracks on each side (usually... except Abbey Road ). On White Album I know the first and last tracks of all 4 sides, and side 1 is [method 2] more often than not. Side 4 is a crapshoot, what is the order of Honey Pie , Savoy Truffle , Cry Baby Cry ?
Also, I just now scored 100% with 4 minutes to spare on the above linked quiz.
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Hey, wait a minute! I never said anything about memorizing album tracklisting in order! I thought about it but never posted... Are you a mind reader
?!?!! Thanks for the tips though. I'll propbably use them to show off to my friends and family.
More on topic, I've memorized the Beatles different styles of facial hair and what years they had them. I didn't even do it on purpose it just happened because of the amount of photos and videos I've seen of the Beatles. I dunno why it was their beards and mustaches in specific, it just stuck with me y'know?
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Playing those mind games together, Oakwood.
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Ubexter said
It is easy to memorize tracks on their 12 albums, here are some tips:
- Listen to the album regularly, sometimes the next song will automatically come to your head just by playing the last part of the previous track in your head.
Well, I have been listening to all the albums (regularly or otherwise) for between 32 and 40 years, so that's no problem. And yeah, for the ones whose sequences give me problems, it can sometimes help if I'm trying to remember while actually playing the album, as opposed to just sitting around, trying to mentally recreate the sequence. Often I do know which song is up next once I hear the previous track end. But that doesn't help with the earlier albums that I've largely listened to using the shuffle feature.
But anyways, I really don't mind not necessarily having every sequence memorized - this information is easily found, and it can be kinda fun being surprised by a song I wasn't expecting, like if I think "Yesterday " is next but I hear "It's Only Love " instead.
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I wish I had their lyrics cataloged as a Dewey decimal system in my head. I can usually get the main topics, but not direct lyrics, despite me being able to sing each song verbatim, rent-free in my head anytime.
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Guys like Alan Civil, Jack Fallon, Dave Mason, etc. Random session musicians that played a solo on a Beatles track. Im at my most annoying and condescending when someone claims Clapton is the only non beatle to perform on a Beatles track. Not sure where that idea came from but its preposterous, I mean what about George Martin and Billy Preston, not to mention the full orchestras of western and indian classical musicians. So I like to rattle off the names of obscure session musicians as a response.
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For no reason at all I remember that they recorded a BBC session for 'Saturday Club' that was broadcast on the 4/4/64.
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sir walter raleigh said
Guys like Alan Civil, Jack Fallon, Dave Mason, etc. Random session musicians that played a solo on a Beatles track.
Indeed!
It's further interesting to me how Civil, Mason, and almost nobody else got specifically credited for an instrumental solo, while Fallon and Hopkins and Ronnie Scott and whoever played cello on "Blue Jay Way " didn't have their lead contributions credited by name.
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