Now here’s something that everybody has an opinion on.
Well, obviously not everything pop music’s Liverpool of geniuses (see pun?) was totally freakin’ awesome, dude. Some of their songs, in fact, quite sucked.
I would say, “Anna, Go With Him”, but that’s a cover, right? So what’s my least favorite original Beatles song? Hmmm. Perhaps, “Michelle”? A big hit, but it absolutely sucked. At least “Revolution #9” was sort of proto-post-rock in its weird psychedelic way. Still sucked. So did “Love You To” .
Actually, now that I realize it, “Got To Get You Into My Life” is the most annoying, tuneless piece of garbage the Beatles ever put to tape.[/i]
[quote=“Quentin”]Well, obviously not everything pop music’s Liverpool of geniuses (see pun?) was totally freakin’ awesome, dude. Some of their songs, in fact, quite sucked.
I would say, “Anna, Go With Him”, but that’s a cover, right? So what’s my least favorite original Beatles song? Hmmm. Perhaps, “Michelle”? A big hit, but it absolutely sucked. At least “Revolution #9” was sort of proto-post-rock in its weird psychedelic way. Still sucked. So did “Love You To” .
Actually, now that I realize it, “Got To Get You Into My Life” is the most annoying, tuneless piece of garbage the Beatles ever put to tape.[/quote]
[quote=“George Martin”]Yellow Submarine’ saw some pretty strange experiments, too. In one sequence, in the ‘Sea Of Monsters,’ the yellow submarine is wandering around and all kinds of weird little things are crawling along the sea floor, some with three legs. One monster is enormous, without arms but with two long legs with wellington boots on, and in place of a nose there is a kind of long trumpet. This is a sucking-up monster-- when it sees the other little monsters, it uses it’s trumpet to suck them up. Eventually it sucks up the yellow submarine, and finally gets hold of the corner of the (movie) screen and sucks that up too, until it all goes white. I felt, naturally, that scene required special ‘sucking-up’ music-- the question was how to do it with an orchestra!
Suddenly, I hit upon the obvious-- backwards music. Music played backwards sounds very odd anyway, and a trombone or cymbal played backwards sounds just like a sucking-in noise. So I scored about 45 seconds for the orchestra to play, in such a way that the music would fit the picture when we played it backwards. The engineer working at CTS at that time was a great character named Jack Clegg, and when I explained the idea to him he said, 'Lovely! Great idea! I’ll get the film turned 'round, and you record the music to the backward film. Then, when we turn the film ‘round the right way, your music will be backwards.’ It sounded like something from a ‘Goon’ script.
Once all the music had been recorded, we dubbed it onto the film, and even then there was more messing about. In some places we cut out the music because sound-effects worked better-- in others we eliminated sound-effects because what I had written sounded better. Yet, in spite of everything, that score proved enormously successful and earned me a load of fan mail.[/quote]Source
Those two go into the “Make Ecaps’ Ears Bleed” category.
(That list started out as just Yellow Submarine but as soon as I started thinking I had to start adding. Could probably be more but I’m trying to purge the thoughts from my head)
Been said before, but the yellow sub kills me every time. Can’t bare it. It was on my wife’s ipod until I managed to delete it to which she commented “oh, I hate that one too.”