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2010 15 Jun

A Quick Look At The Beatles Last Five Albums

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The Beatles last five albums were 1967’s Magical Mystery Tour, 1968’s The White Album, 1969’s Yellow Submarine and Abbey Road, and 1970’s Let It Be. This article includes a short overview of each of these albums.

All of these classic albums are contained in the Beatles Stereo Box Set but just Magical Mystery Tour and The White Album are contained in the Remastered Beatles in Mono CD Box Set.

Magical Mystery Tour (1967) – Possibly their most underrated album and I suppose that’s at least partly because it is not really an album from a purist’s POV so people have a hard time giving it real respect for the excellent songs included on it. It’s The Beatles at their most purposefully psychedelic before they began to pull back the experimentation a bit and as a huge fan of psychedelic music, that makes it an obvious favorite of mine.

The White Album (1968) – My all time favorite album by anyone. It does not flow as well as Abbey Road or Sgt. Pepper and you could argue that it’s not as consistently great as Rubber Soul or Revolver but I love it because of the huge variety of styles that it brings to my ears. This 30 song album is a real work of art.

Yellow Submarine (1969) – This “album” isn’t really a Fab Four album because it includes only four new recordingss that were not previously released on other albums. Yet “Hey Bulldog” and “It’s All Too Much” alone make it worth buying.

Abbey Road (1969) – This 17 track album is the favorite of lots of Beatles fans and for many very good reasons. The most clear is the fantastic “suite” of side two which was really pieced together by George Martin and Paul McCartney. And of course there is the classics like “Come Together,” “Something,” and “Oh! Darling.” This album is also the most smooth and most “modern” sound of their career.

Let It Be (1970) – The final LP released but Abbey Road was actually the final album that was recorded. It’s a bit messy by their very high standard but it still contains several absolutely classic tracks like “Get Back” and “The Long and Winding Road.”

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2010 4 Apr

British Rock Groups From The Years – Their Donation To New Rock Of Today

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British rock groups through the years

British rock groups have played a major musical along with cultural part in the development of rock and roll during the last 5 decades.
From the Beatles to The Smiths, from Led Zeppelin to Radiohead, british rock bands have been among the most influential along with innovative, and beloved artists ever to play a tune.

The history of british rock groups in fact begins with the Beatles. The group’s opening incarnation was in 1957, when then sixteen year aged John Lennon and some youngster buddies decided to form a rock band. A month later Lennon met then fifteen year old Paul McCartney and invited him to join. More than a few months subsequently, McCartney invited fourteen year old George Harrison to join, and the birth of the Beatles was complete.

They ended up writing tunes and playing concerts under a number of different names, as well as various pretty poor ones resembling “John and the Moondogs.” In due course Lennon’s schoolboy friends determined to depart the group for college, and Lennon, McCartney and Harrison ended up being left as a trio who would play concerts every time they might discover a drummer.

They finally found a permanent drummer in Pete Best, and packed on a bassist named Stuart Sutcliffe. Around that time they advanced upon the name The Fab Four and stage two of the history of the most celebrated of british rock groups was complete.

As that quintet they trialled gigs both in their native soil of Liverpool and even in Hamburg, Germany. When Harrison was deported for being immature, with Lennon and Best soon next for a liquor-fueled arson episode, Sutcliffe determined to stay behind with his fiance and the quintet went back to a quartet.

After a bit Best was replaced by Ringo Starr – this was in late 1961/early 1962 – and the Beatles were at this time whole. hit song and triumph release after hit music and triumph LP followed, and the British invasion was launched.

British rock bands of all sorts almost immediately followed in the Beatles’ wake. Perhaps one of the most notorious (after the Beatles, obviously) were and are still the the Rolling Stones. The Stones fashioned themselves after great southern bluesmen like Muddy Waters and trialled a more insistently bluesy style, heavy on distortion and power chords, than the Beatles did. Also coming out of Britain then were The Who, a band which in some ways originated two subgenres of rock: Punk rock and progressive rock. They were also the very first of the british rock bands to make destroying the platform during the show a virtual art form.

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