Music Box

Re: Getting to 64

DdtheRevelator — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:41:37 GMT

As to monumentality, that eternal lead in from the sound of the crowing rooster is as monumental as it gets. Magnificent as the 1812 Overture, heh heh heh.

Re: Getting to 64

riocassia — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 02:55:44 GMT

I was a very young girl in Brasil when this record came out. We loved those crazy English boys and their music became part of ours. We did not know what they were singing. Not so many of us knew English then. But, we knew what we heard was full of life and fun. It was easy for our musicians embroider on the beautiful melodies. Beatles songs bacame one with the samba at Carnival for many years.

Re: Getting to 64

macrol — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 22:31:30 GMT

Well said. Beautiful post

Re: Getting to 64

bubbuh — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 16:22:11 GMT

Thanks for the cheery message from "the other side!" :^)~

Re: Getting to 64

USNVETERAN — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 14:26:04 GMT

Bubbuh,

Some of us are already there and waiting for you.

I was introduced to Sgt Pepper's after I came back from Nam.
I was living in the Haight and, we dropped some acid and, as soon as we started getting off, we put the album on.
I think we sat there and played it over & over & over.

It's still one of my most favorite albums and, I never seem ti tire of hearing it.

It ain't bad on this side of 64.

Getting to 64

bubbuh — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 23:49:42 GMT

Thanks for a pleasant and insightful reprise of one of the kindest, least saccharin and most durable record albums ever made. Despite the tension that racked this collaboration from the beginning to the end of their existence, The Beatles knew how to make music for all the ages.

I'm not talking about Bach or Beethoven monumentality. Where The Beatles might stand is the pantheon of musicians is for others to determine long after I'm gone, I speak of real ages, grandmothers and toddlers, angst ridden boys, beer bellied bricklayers, having their pint of afters, and, of course, the young girls. Easy or at its most exotic, the music these four made managed to resonate; however, unexpectedly with almost everyone who listened to it.

This was the music of my teens. I count myself lucky. And, even with forty years of educating my ear, I know it will also be the music of my "late middle age," interleaving and framing the thousands of selections available to me. One of the treasures of our present age is the approximately 400 years of musical genius we have available at the tap of a key. On top of that we have almost 100 years original performances, nuance and phrasing that let us literally step back into time to feel what our ancestors felt.

For me, The Beatles easily hold their own place in this unprecedented river of sound, unlike all too many modern musicians, The Beatles understood that music is the pure language of emotion. They demonstrated that this language had a vocabulary greater than four chords and a whine. They explored it every bit as successfully as the musical luminaries of other ages.

Getting to 64 won't be so bad. I know I'll hear friendly voices
when I arrive.