OT: What Are You Listening to Now?

Post #321 » by **fatlever** » Fri Oct 3, 2014 9:54 pm

everyone list their 5 favorite beatles songs. certainly everyone has at least 5 they love.

Post #322 » by **fatlever** » Fri Oct 3, 2014 10:08 pm

5 favorite Beatles songs (5 bonus) mostly songs that didn't get too overplayed during my lifetime, which rules out 90% of their catalog. What remains are the songs that I never got tired of hearing, no matter how many times I've heard the song.

1. Abbey Road Medley - kinda cheating since its really a 7-song segue
a) You Never Give Me Your Money
b) Sun King
c) Mean Mr Mustard
d) Polythene Pam
e) She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
f) Golden Slumbers
g) End

2. Day In The Life

3. Happiness Is A Warm Gun

4. Dig A Pony

5. I Want You (She's So Heavy)

Bonus

6. Two Of us

7. Eight Days A Week

8. I'm Only Sleeping

9. Lovely Rita

10. And Your Bird Can Sing

Snidely FC · Post #323 » by **Snidely FC** » Sat Oct 4, 2014 2:31 am

My Beatles Top 5:
Yesterday
I Saw Her Standing There
Here Comes the Sun
Blackbird
Norwegian Wood

(Next Five: All My Loving, Rock and Roll Music, Let It Be, Hey Jude, Fixing A Hole)
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBrH9EWZ-Bc[/youtube]

LamarMatic7 · Post #324 » by **LamarMatic7** » Sat Oct 4, 2014 9:30 am

1) Abbey Road Medley - I'll cheat as well. Golden Slumbers is my favourite part of the medley, I love the way McCartney sings the chorus. such a balance between him singing so powerfully yet beautifully.

2) Something

3) Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

4) Come Together

5) Hey Jude

Bonus:

6) Blackbird

7) Let It Be

8) And Your Bird Can Sing

9) Happiness Is a Warm Gun

10) I'm So Tired

HM: Strawberry Fields Forever, A Day in the Life

The list must have changed with every year though. I started to listen to them at about the age of 7 through this CD we had which worked kind of like a computer program, you'd have an interactive board of all of their albums, could listen to every one of them and every song also had lyrics. So way back then I probably was more fond of their older, more rock & roll stuff.

TheKingofSting · Post #325 » by **TheKingofSting** » Sun Oct 5, 2014 12:51 am

MLB Playoffs - Washington and SF

Braggins · Post #326 » by **Braggins** » Mon Oct 6, 2014 11:22 am

fatlever wrote:everyone list their 5 favorite beatles songs. certainly everyone has at least 5 they love.

Happiness is a Warm Gun
Here Comes the Sun
Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Eleanor Rigby
Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Braggins · Post #327 » by **Braggins** » Mon Oct 6, 2014 11:25 am

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eahgkn5Qopc[/youtube]

Snidely FC · Post #328 » by **Snidely FC** » Mon Oct 6, 2014 1:34 pm

Braggins, as a fan of Guitar Gently Weeps what do you think of this K-os tune:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFfgoNlkIrQ[/youtube]

LamarMatic7 · Post #329 » by **LamarMatic7** » Mon Oct 6, 2014 2:52 pm

of course, there also was this stand-out Wu-Tang song on the overall forgettable 8 Diagrams album

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grypHorDPNA[/youtube]

Post #330 » by **fatlever** » Mon Oct 6, 2014 3:39 pm

how about favorite covers of Beatles songs? there has been 1000s of great ones.

Post #331 » by **fatlever** » Mon Oct 6, 2014 3:52 pm

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQYuxrGXzQk[/youtube]

pretty cool cover of "she's so heavy" by groove collective from the 90s. funk/jazz/horns

Post #332 » by **fatlever** » Mon Oct 6, 2014 4:00 pm

of course you cant talk about Beatles covers w/out mentioning Joe Cocker

She Came In Thru the Bathroom Window
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkdjMxTdrU8[/youtube]

EwingSweatsALot · Post #333 » by **EwingSweatsALot** » Mon Oct 6, 2014 4:26 pm

I don't know if I can name 5 Beatles songs.

Post #334 » by **fatlever** » Mon Oct 6, 2014 4:27 pm

pretty cool version of "Dig a Pony" from Umphrey"s McGee that I found today

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6DO6Ii5qNk[/youtube]

Post #335 » by **fatlever** » Mon Oct 6, 2014 4:29 pm

EwingSweatsALot wrote:I don't know if I can name 5 Beatles songs.

Its impossible not to be able to name 5 Beatles songs, even if you hate them, unless you have been in a coma since birth or living in the rainforest with a native tribe that doesn't have electricity.

EwingSweatsALot · Post #336 » by **EwingSweatsALot** » Mon Oct 6, 2014 4:33 pm

fatlever wrote:
EwingSweatsALot wrote:I don't know if I can name 5 Beatles songs.

Its impossible not to be able to name 5 Beatles songs, even if you hate them, unless you have been in a coma since birth or living in the rainforest with a native tribe that doesn't have electricity.

I know 5 Beatles songs. I can pick them out when I hear them. Sing lyrics, I'm sure. But to name them off the top of my head would be rather difficult.

It also takes me about 4-5 seasons of a tv show for me to start knowing characters names as well.

Post #337 » by **JDR720** » Mon Oct 6, 2014 4:35 pm

I recognize songs when i hear them but i rarely remember/know the name of the song

LamarMatic7 · Post #338 » by **LamarMatic7** » Mon Oct 6, 2014 4:49 pm

EwingSweatsALot wrote:
fatlever wrote:
EwingSweatsALot wrote:I don't know if I can name 5 Beatles songs.

Its impossible not to be able to name 5 Beatles songs, even if you hate them, unless you have been in a coma since birth or living in the rainforest with a native tribe that doesn't have electricity.

I know 5 Beatles songs. I can pick them out when I hear them. Sing lyrics, I'm sure. But to name them off the top of my head would be rather difficult.

It also takes me about 4-5 seasons of a tv show for me to start knowing characters names as well.

Have you watched The Wire? I have to wonder how you did with all the characters they had by the end of the series.

EwingSweatsALot · Post #339 » by **EwingSweatsALot** » Mon Oct 6, 2014 4:56 pm

LamarMatic7 wrote:
EwingSweatsALot wrote:
fatlever wrote:
Its impossible not to be able to name 5 Beatles songs, even if you hate them, unless you have been in a coma since birth or living in the rainforest with a native tribe that doesn't have electricity.

I know 5 Beatles songs. I can pick them out when I hear them. Sing lyrics, I'm sure. But to name them off the top of my head would be rather difficult.

It also takes me about 4-5 seasons of a tv show for me to start knowing characters names as well.

Have you watched The Wire? I have to wonder how you did with all the characters they had by the end of the series.

My favorite show of all time. I loved every bit of it. I still couldn't tell you every name of every character, but I could go in depth and describe each person. While watching the shows I don't get lost in context because I see what's going on, but an hour after the show goes off I am like so what was that guys name that got killed by that other dude. I can process everything, but for some reason names are not a part of that.

Post #340 » by **fatlever** » Mon Oct 6, 2014 5:23 pm

My two nephews are hearing impaired. They can hear with the aid of what is called Cochlear implants, but they watch TV with the closed-captions on to help. I've gotten used to closed-caption and now I use it on pretty much any drama that I watch. It really helps me pick out dialogue and character names that I would normally overlook. Also really helps on shows with thick accents like Game of Thrones or Copper.