Early Beatles v.s Later Beatles

[dbakerman76]

Which would you rather hear the early upbeat bubblegum Beatles or the later wiser more mature Beatles?

 

[Buttercup]

I'd pick a couple of the earlier tunes (8 Days a Week, Love Me Do) but prefer the newer stuff after '64.

 

[PureX]

It's all good. If I really had to choose, though, I'd go with the later stuff.

 

[YmirGF]

There are some treasures prior to Rubber Soul but they were never quite the same after Sgt. Peppers.

And I love her/If I fell come to mind...

 

[Bishka]

The early stuff is nice, but I prefer the later music.

 

[sahra-t]

I love listening to it all, but comparing say, Please Please Me and Sgt Pepper's, it's a totally different kind of listening pleasure. Sgt Pepper's is just fantastic, much more to it. Later stuff.

 

[Ulver]

Revolver and onward was their best stuff.

 

[ayani]

Revolver and onward was their best stuff.

seconded.

 

[dbakerman76]

seconded.

Thirded.

 

[Katzpur]

I think you have to be over fifty to love their early music best. I can remember so well when the first came to the U.S. and were on the Ed Sullivan Show. Man, I was in love with Paul. My girlfriends and I were just crazy about them. That's all we thought about - 24/7.

 

[Green Gaia]

Definitely the later stuff.

 

[Pardus]

Early stuff was ok, but it was "Pop" really.

The later stuff is where they started to spread a message.

 

[Tigress]

I love it all. Give me any song with Lennon singing lead and I'm hooked. :cloud9:

 

[athanasius]

For some reason people loved the "Hippie beatles of the late sixties" but I preferred the early beatles and the early music of the early sixites. They had great songs that you could exctually understand like "She loves you" and I "wanna hold your hand".

Now compare that to the Hippie dippie songs of later years like "I am the walrus" or "Lucy in the Sky with diamonds" God only knows what any of those songs meant. I think they were just stoned out of thier mind at the time when they wrote them or trying to make some political statement!

Who Cares about politics or encryptic songs!! Just gimme good ol fashioned fun, easy to understand rock and roll like they did in the early sixties. I do not need all the hippie artsy fartsy stuff. Hippies take a bath and stop whining and start singing good rock n roll again!! Whooohooooo!!!!!!!!

I have a got a feeling that all the liberals who read this are gonna love to tear my theory apart. Oh well it s just my own opinion let them do so at will.

Athanasius

 

[Katzpur]

For some reason people loved the "Hippie beatles of the late sixties" but I preferred the early beatles and the early music of the early sixites. They had great songs that you could exctually understand like "She loves you" and I "wanna hold your hand".

Now compare that to the Hippie dippie songs of later years like "I am the walrus" or "Lucy in the Sky with diamonds" God only knows what any of those songs meant. I think they were just stoned out of thier mind at the time when they wrote them or trying to make some political statement!

Who Cares about politics or encryptic songs!! Just gimme good ol fashioned fun, easy to understand rock and roll like they did in the early sixties. I do not need all the hippie artsy fartsy stuff. Hippies take a bath and stop whining and start singing good rock n roll again!! Whooohooooo!!!!!!!!

I have a got a feeling that all the liberals who read this are gonna love to tear my theory apart. Oh well it s just my own opinion let them do so at will.

Athanasius

I am totally, 100% with you -- for all the same reasons!

 

[Tigress]

For some reason people loved the "Hippie beatles of the late sixties" but I preferred the early beatles and the early music of the early sixites. They had great songs that you could exctually understand like "She loves you" and I "wanna hold your hand".

Now compare that to the Hippie dippie songs of later years like "I am the walrus" or "Lucy in the Sky with diamonds" God only knows what any of those songs meant. I think they were just stoned out of thier mind at the time when they wrote them or trying to make some political statement!

The Beatles, courtesy of Songfacts.

Who Cares about politics or encryptic songs!! Just gimme good ol fashioned fun, easy to understand rock and roll like they did in the early sixties. I do not need all the hippie artsy fartsy stuff. Hippies take a bath and stop whining and start singing good rock n roll again!! Whooohooooo!!!!!!!!

I have a got a feeling that all the liberals who read this are gonna love to tear my theory apart. Oh well it s just my own opinion let them do so at will.

I care, for one. But like I said, I love it all.

 

[Bastet]

While I love it all, if I was forced to throw away half of their albums, the earlier stuff would go.

 

[koan]

I like all the periods of the Beatles. However, I do prefer their latter albums.
My favourites are: Rubber Soul, Revolver, The White Album and Abbey Road.

Her Majestys a pretty nice girl, but she dosen't have a lot to say....Her Majestys a pretty nice girl, but she changes from day to day....I'd like to tell her that I love her alot, but I've got to have a belly full of wine...Her Majestys a pretty nice girl, someday I'm gonna make her mine, oh yeah, someday I'm gonna make her mine...

 

[titoburito]

i'm 17 and I prefer the earlier stuff
Cheesey pop music at its best. The later stuff was just drugged-up codswallop!

 

[FatMan]

Musically, their later stuff appealed to me more, but just having the image of a naked Ono and Lennon burned in my memory allotted too many demerits. Ergo, it's the early stuff.