If I have a religion, it's music. Especially the music of the Beatles

[Taverner]

The Beatles were men

Their music, however, transcended mortality and mere humanity

I am not even talking about the lyrics

The lyrics were there just to have something to sing while the beautiful music was swirling all around them

You just can't argue with that

The Beatles' music joined young and old, hippie and straight, American and Foreigner...

People of all walks of life enjoy that music

Even if they don't know what the words mean

Amen

[msongs]

1. Rubber Soul album: "the word" all the religion you will ever need nt

[Meshuga]

2. Perhaps God is Four

Fab Four that is. In the name of the John, the Paul, the George, and the holy Ringo. Amen.

[mitchtv]

3. Make mine Beethoven

sheer glory

[edhopper]

4. Mine is art

A great landscape can give me they same "religious experience" that I hear about from believers.

[Webster Green]

5. The Beatles were bigger than Jesus for awhile.

I think it lasted a week or so. After a sudden uproar, they defaulted back to just being the Beatles.

Back in the good old days, we used to say we were going to church as we headed off (tripping our brains out) to see Jethro Tull or The Who rock some small, acoustically flawless venue where the local symphony usually played. Not a dry seat in the house! :hippie:

[ChadwickHenryWard]

7. They're bigger with me than Jesus ever has been or ever could be.

On a related note, I was driving a girl in my class to a show she was playing a couple of weeks ago, and we saw a poster of Bob. I remarked that, as Anthony Kiedis put it, he was a poet and a prophet. She said she was so glad to find out I knew Bob was about more than just getting high (thought that's nice too.) He wrote about things that were genuine and true and cut right to the core of one's being in a way that no one else did. "Waiting in Vain" in particular makes me feel like I'm in love (I'm not.) It evokes a subtle and cautiously optimistic hope that's something I only experience when listening to it.

[Taverner]

17. The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Stones - all were great

And this is coming from someone who thinks there has been good music somewhere, at any segment of time

Even today, there are some indie artists that would blow anyone listening away

[ChadwickHenryWard]

6. No band has been more formative to my identity than the Beatles.

That said, Bruce Springsteen speaks to me on a much deeper level. I've always felt that his music was about me personally, speaking to me so much more than any of those silly old fairy tales in the old Bronze Age book.

Though I must say, I feel that I have a "personal relationship" with the Beatles, much the same way born-agains have a "relationship" with Jesus. That is to say, I don't actually know them and never could; but I know them so well through their music and their public personae that I have feelings of intimacy and affection towards them just as I do with friends I actually know.

[Odin2005]

8. Bach pwns all the rest, you infidels.

I remember hearing the Toccata and Fugue in D-Major in 7th Grade Music class and it was like an ecstatic mystical experience.

[raccoon]

9. If music is religion, my religion is the Beach Boys.

I especially like "Don't Worry, Baby," "In My Room," and "God Only Knows." Those songs seem especially spiritual to me.

[Taverner]

18. Pet Sounds and Smile are my faves

The melancholy in Pet Sounds has never been matched until Smashing Pumpkins and Elliott Smith

[SecularMotion]

10. Have you seen this?

Howard Goodalls 20th Century Greats - The Beatles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zddh5Vp-ApI

[Taverner]

12. No I haven't - thank you so much brother

:hug:

[SecularMotion]

13. No problem

It really gives one a deeper understanding of The Beatles music and their place in musical history.

I'd also recommend Howard Goodall's series "How Music Works" to all music lovers. He breaks down songs into the basic building blocks - Melody, Rhythm, Harmony, & Bass and explains the construction of many styles of music.


:toast:

[Taverner]

14. There are three kinds of innovators: (1) Those who open the door, (2) Those who kick in the door...

And (3) Those who take the door off it's hinges and put it into a woodchipper

The Beatles were the latter

[Iggo]

11. Preach!

:headbang:

[edhopper]

15. The Beatles did not produce

a single bad song.
(I don't consider Revolution No. 9 a Beatles song)

[Taverner]

16. Revolution 9 was not a song, that is correct

It's a track, but not a song

Agree 100%

[edhopper]

19. And it's not the Beatles.

It's john and Yoko fucking around in the studio.