Finally listening to music in the car again

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

But the joke is on her in this case because I don't particularly care about the Beatles.

this is really unacceptable

I mean I like them and all, I just don't have any sentimental attachment to them.

[Jeremy]

sentimental attachment to them.

How can this be that this is a factor.

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

Well it only factors into whether it upsets me that she doesn't like them.

Like with Big Star for example.

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

When I was a kid my mom would never play anything after Help! because that was what she'd listened to while her parents were dying.

[Baby Museum]

make her listen to Nick Lowe - Jesus of Cool

[wintergreen]

i've always said i wouldn't leave my kids alone with someone who
doesn't like the beatles. you'll get home and they'll be all "the common opinion on flaying children is so pedestrian."

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

Actually I would say she's really liked everything since Please Please Me.

"She Goes Out with Everybody": liked, but the production gave it away. (I slotted it between "She's a Woman" and "Eight Days a Week.")

"Daytripper": liked. "Have they started smoking pot yet?"

"We Can Work It Out": liked a lot. "I can hear them branching out...in a way that doesn't even annoy me."

And we only got through the first two songs on Help!

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

Help!: liked a lot
-- "Act Naturally": "Well this is goofy."
-- "Yesterday": "We had to sing this a bunch in music class." (She does not share my hatred of this song.)
-- "Dizzy Miss Lizzie": "Exactly what kind of guitar are they using to make that noise? It's horrible."

"Paperback Writer": "Why would you want to be a paperback writer? That's a terrible job." (A: "Well, he works at the Daily Mail.")

(The playlist got out of order, and I incorrectly assumed "Paperback Writer" was before Rubber Soul.)

Rubber Soul: liked?
-- "Drive My Car": apparently when she was little her dad drew some wheels on a cardboard box and she and her sister would sit in it and sing "Baby you can drive my car!" Bonus: "'Beep beep, beep -- !' Aw, they didn't do it that time." (She kept doing that part when she was drunk later on. As far as I can tell it's the first time she's ever had a song stuck in her head.)
-- "Norwegian Wood": "Why is there a sitar in a song about Norwegian wood?"
-- "Nowhere Man": "This is depressing."

Revolver: seemed to like a lot
-- "Taxman": "Did they also explain to him about roads and clean water and all that stuff?"
-- "Eleanor Rigby": "Why didn't they use this for Mad Men?" (A: "Don would have liked it.")
-- "Love You To": "Is this the one [from Mad Men]?"
-- "Yellow Submarine": "My dad used to sing this all the time. I think he only knew the chorus."
-- "Tomorrow Never Knows": "I don't usually like all that noise but it works really well in this song."

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

Should I put "Penny Lane" or "Strawberry Fields" first?

[edgeev]

you reverse Drapered her

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

I feel like "Penny Lane" would sort of be a letdown if I put it second.

[Merciel]

Help through Revolver is def. going on the playlist to Nantucket.

I'm taking off that song with the terrible guitar though. The rest can stay.

[edgeev]

Sounds like we have a Paul fan

[mites]

dizzy miss lizzy's guitar totally does suck. I'm with you on that one merciel

[chairkicker]

-- "Tomorrow Never Knows": "I don't usually like all that noise but it works really well in this song."

softly smiled to myself

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

She did not have anything to say about "Penny Lane" or "Strawberry Fields."

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: "Not a big fan of this album."
-- "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band": "This sounds like a Stones song."
-- "With a Little Help from My Friends": "Is this about his drug dealer?"
-- "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds": apparently Pongu was a big fan of this song. He was high on Xanax at the time.
-- "Within You Without You": "I'm sure this rocked in 1967 but it just makes me feel like I'm waiting to get Indian food."
-- "Good Morning Good Morning": "This song is terrible."
-- "A Day in the Life": "Huh. Okay."

Magical Mystery Tour:
-- "Magical Mystery Tour": "This was the box-fort song. Whenever we made a new box fort we had to wait for my dad to play this song before going in."
-- "Fool on the Hill": "We used to sing this at Leah [the elder of her two sisters]. We would dance around her and she would usually start crying."
-- "Flying": "I guess we turned it off after 'Fool on the Hill.'"
-- "Blue Jay Way": "This song sucks. It sucks and it's boring."
-- "Your Mother Should Know": "I like this one."
-- "Hello, Goodbye": liked a lot.

We didn't get through the rest.

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

Oh I missed one:

-- "I Am the Walrus": "I wish I were a walrus."

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

In general she seems to hate George Harrison.

[chairkicker]

"blue jay way" is so awesome, though. even as i'd agree on every count with her take on sgt pepper's, i feel like if she admires "tomorrow never knows" at all, "blue jay way" would become a favorite in time

[wanamaker]

are you planning on doing wire eventually?

[Merciel]

-- "Magical Mystery Tour": "This was the box-fort song. Whenever we made a new box fort we had to wait for my dad to play this song before going in."

I want to elaborate on this one:

Because my dad was in the Army while we were growing up, we moved a lot and so we constantly had these HUGE cardboard boxes that were used to move furniture and household stuff. Also I think my dad got extra boxes from the neighbors, because everyone else was constantly moving too and so there were just tons of giant cardboard boxes around.

My dad liked to make stuff with the boxes to entertain us. He would make these huge awesome box forts that had like facing windows (so you could camp out by one window and shoot Nerf darts at someone passing by another window) and secret passages and filled up large portions of our house at a time. Sometimes he would go all-out decorating the interior of a particularly huge box or hide candy in secret alcoves or whatever so we would flip out when we got to that part of the fort. These forts took forever to build and the unveiling of a new one, or a significant addition to an old one, was a Big Deal.

So whenever my dad was about to finally let us into a new box fort (that we had seen being built for days/weeks beforehand but were not allowed to enter until it was ready), he would play the Magical Mystery Tour song and we would FLIP OUT, because we were all like 5 to 8 years old and the anticipation was tremendous.

I remember that song very clearly and hearing it again made me feel real weird. But I guess we only ever listened to the first two songs on that album, because I didn't remember the rest of them at all.

[edgeev]

it was only after many years and careful reflection that I realized George Harrison songs were boring

[rtt]

it was only after many years and careful reflection that I realized George Harrison songs were boring

that is not true. except for the indian ones. inner light being the exception. and the other two aren't even that bad

merciel should listen to day in a life more.

[young opiate]

-- "Norwegian Wood": "Why is there a sitar in a song about Norwegian wood?"

amazing

[rtt]

this might be the best song by a beatle after they broke up .

[Shart Damage]

george harrison was the man



motherfuckers

[edgeev]

The man who could put you to sleep with his arrangement of musical notes

[raskolnikov]

I'm glad she liked rubber soul.

[Jeremy]

She did not have anything to say about "Penny Lane" or "Strawberry Fields."

-- "Within You Without You": "I'm sure this rocked in 1967 but it just makes me feel like I'm waiting to get Indian food."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CMk5ventUU&feature=player_detailpage#t=754s

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

The more I think about it the clearer it becomes that we are doing the Beach Boys next.