The Sushi Hunter wrote:brywool wrote:Off the top of my head and all but the top 4 change regularly:
1. Help!- Beatles I just love this one. The songs, the period, everything.
2. Revolver- Beatles
3. Rubber Soul- Beatles
4. JellyFish- Bellybutton- these guys should've been huge
5. Tonic- Lemon Parade- great band nobody's heard
6. Journey- Captured- I love live albums
7. Sam Cooke- The Man and his Music
8. Styx- Grand Illusion
9. Cheap Trick- At Budokan
10. Brian Adams- 18 Till I Die
Had I never lived in Japan I would most likely of listed many of the Beatle albums as my favorites, simply because my childhood and teen age years would have been my best years of my life. Living in Japan, I shifted from the Beach Boys, oldies but goodies & The Beatles to more current music. When I was a teen, I started to purchase Beatle records. I had purchased nearly every Beatle album by the time I was a senior in highschool, which was back during the time Journey's Escape album was first released.
Last week I gave my Japanese friend all my Beatles albums. He was thrilled since they were in great shape. The majority all on the Capital label complete with all the posters some of the albums came with new. I had no need for them anymore since I do not really listen to them at all. But I did like the Abbey Road, Revolver and Rubber Soul Albums as well. Hey Jude was another one of my favorites. It always amazed me at how the Beatles as individuals had changed from the time they set foot in the U.S. back in I think 1964 compared to when the White Album was released, which seemed like a relativily short period of time. All in all about six full years. They went from first happy singing about chicks and stuff to LSD (Lucy in the Sky with Diamond) trips and finding happiness in a warm gun and that type of stuff. Yeah, happiness is not only a warm gun....but a warm car engine too. I think what turned me off eventually about the Beatles was the political messages Lennon started to get into. McCartney in my opinion continued to be the most successful out of the bunch after the Beatles. I recall Ringo doing something in the early 70's when I was in elementary school after the Beatles and so did Harrison. I didn't pursue collecting any of albums from them post Beatles era, except for one from McCartney that featured the song "My Love" on it. "Baby I'm Amazed" was the other song I liked from McCartney along with "Live and let die."
"MAYBE" I'm Amazed. That's okay. Paul's been singing Baby on this last tour. Yeah, I bought them all used in my teens. Then bootlegs. Then tons fo books. I'm a Beatles fanatic. Paul's still cool, I don't care what anybody says. I've got all Paul's albums, all of Georges most of Johns and a few of Ringos, especially his more recent ones. Lennon... I don't know, maybe it was the political thing, maybe it was Yoko, but in my opinion, his post Beatles work just wasn't as imaginative. That can be said for all of them, but John kinda went for a stripped down approach. That was great with the early Beatles stuff, but for him solo, it didn't come off as well. I do love some of his solo stuff (God, How, Imagine and others) but some of it wasn't very good at all.
George had some great stuff. Had some bad ones too. Ringo has also had a few cool tunes, especially within the last 10 years or so.
Paul... I don't know. His MUSIC just connects with me. His lyrics usually don't, but musically speaking, I think the guy is brilliant. He can turn anything into a catchy melody. Plus, I think he and Linda too are very cool people. Linda got a bum rap early on. Paul still does. Paul and Perry are probably my idols. If I had to pick any.
And YES Jellyfish was a BRILLIANT band. I wish they were still here.
