On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Dan Franke <deer_lick@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Jordan sez: "Still, it's hard to get by without hearing any Beatles songs,
> so I am pretty well versed in the Beatles, I think..."
>
> In 1988, when the original Beatles CD came out, I was 25 and working at a
> record store. I always considered myself a Beatles fan & had been surrounded
> by their music growing up w/ 4 older siblings. I was blown away by how many
> of the songs I didn't know...and how great everything was in the context of
> the albums and the progression from album to album. Hearing everything again
> in more-or-less the order and albums they were intended for really re-opened
> my eyes to the magnitude of how great they were.
>
> Jordan, if you like the stuff you know, you really owe it to yourself to
> take the full dive in - I think you may end up as surprised as I was.
>

Indeed. I had a similar experience — up until I was about 13, I knew the
following albums: *1962-1966, 1967-1970, A Hard Day's Night *(U.S. version),
*Help!* (U.K. version), *Sgt. Pepper*, *Abbey Road*, and *Let It Be. *Oh,
and *This Is Where It Started* (The Beatles and Tony Sheridan). I thought I
was a pretty big Beatles fan. Little did I know what I was missing! Thanks
to my sister for starting the above collection, used record stores to help
me flesh it out, and my aunt for buying me the entire CD set a few years
later. Man, I wish I could discover the Beatles all over again.


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