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| From | "Robert Sutliff" <Rsutliff@columbus.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: Influential Beatles Songs |
| Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:23:07 -0400 |
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Rain is the first recording on which McCartney played his Rickenbacker bass.
It's also modal which made it pretty different in the pop world in those
days. Also, the basic track was played very fast, in a higher key (I'm
guessing A major) and then slowed down on playback to G. This causes an
amazing sonic density in the sound of the track
I haven't really got a clue which Fab 4 tunes were influential to others - I
just know which ones influenced me - which would be pretty much all of them.
I will mention my all time favorite - Strawberry Fields Forever, which when
released sounded totally unlike any piece of popular music ever up to that
point. I remember the first time I heard it on the local AM station. I
thought there was something seriously wrong with my radio...
Bobby Sutliff
> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:21:41 -0500
> From: "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com>
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Influential Beatles Songs
> Message-ID: <Law14-F90OrBLSAQV6u00002557@hotmail.com>
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> Mark London's comments about ABBEY ROAD, not my opinion, BTW, got my
wheels
> spinning. In particular, his comment about "I Want You (She's So Heavy)".
> Like it or not, boy, there are a slew of artists I've heard rip it off or
do
> a variation on it.
>
> Which leads me to this --
>
> of the individual Beatles songs, which are the most influential? The ones
> that you can hear the most in other tracks, either directly or indirectly?
>
> Two that I would rank highly --
>
> "Rain" - just for Paul's oft-imitated bassline
>
> "Getting Better" -- that guitar chord thing is on about 1 million other
> songs, primarily power pop ones.
>
> What does everyone else think?
>
> Mike Bennett
>
> NP: Michael Carpenter -- KINGSRDWORKS
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