1. Forum
  2. Usenet
  3. REC.MUSIC.ROCK-POP-R+B.19

  • The New Beatles Record - Now And Then

    From Bruce@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 2 15:33:58 2023
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW55J2zE3N4

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From RWC@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 2 22:52:05 2023
    On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 15:33:58 -0700 (PDT), Bruce <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW55J2zE3N4

    fast coming up to 25,000 comments already

    Of course they were great song writers and performers,
    but I wonder how much the Beatles' popularity was enhanced by Paul's
    freakishly cute and innocent good looks? (John was harshly plain imo,
    but I'm not a female)

    In middle-age, like fellow Brit Cliff Richard, Paul looked 10-15 years
    younger than his actual age (helped by a temperate climate perhaps
    - I doubt many middle-aged whole-life Californians or Australians look
    10 years younger?)

    (for privacy reason I will not post a photo, but I myself also looked
    10-15 years younger when 45+ {true!})

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From RWC@21:1/5 to RWC on Fri Nov 3 00:03:33 2023
    On Thu, 02 Nov 2023 22:52:05 -0400, RWC <[email protected]> wrote:

    (for privacy reason I will not post a photo, but I myself also looked
    10-15 years younger when 45+ {true!})

    better worded:

    for privacy reasons I will not post a photo, but I myself have looked
    10-15 year younger from age 45 right up until today

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Bruce@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 3 09:34:14 2023
    The official video is pretty cool.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opxhh9Oh3rg

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From RWC@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 3 12:56:33 2023
    On Fri, 3 Nov 2023 09:34:14 -0700 (PDT), Bruce <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    The official video is pretty cool.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opxhh9Oh3rg

    I'm not falling for the hype.
    Good video but the music is ultimately boring, boring, boring.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Bruce@21:1/5 to RWC on Fri Nov 3 10:34:29 2023
    On Friday, November 3, 2023 at 12:56:37 PM UTC-4, RWC wrote:
    On Fri, 3 Nov 2023 09:34:14 -0700 (PDT), Bruce <[email protected]>
    wrote:
    The official video is pretty cool.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opxhh9Oh3rg
    I'm not falling for the hype.
    Good video but the music is ultimately boring, boring, boring.

    I think it's, good, good, good. It gets a 6. I predict it goes to number one, one, one in the UK and probably here too.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Bruce@21:1/5 to DianeE on Fri Nov 3 12:00:21 2023
    On Friday, November 3, 2023 at 2:21:45 PM UTC-4, DianeE wrote:
    On 11/3/2023 12:34 PM, Bruce wrote:
    The official video is pretty cool.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opxhh9Oh3rg
    -------------
    It's beyond pretty cool. It made me cry.

    If those images of George (with a beard) are from 1995, then he was only
    52. He died 6 years later, but my God, he looked terrible in those
    images. That's not what made me cry, though--it was the whole mix.

    I don't know why I never noticed before that they couldn't dance!

    Not only could they not dance, but they were very against dancing or moving around in any way on stage the way that James Brown, Mick Jagger, and many later performers did. They just wanted to present the music as close to the records as possible. They
    were not at all into improvising or taking elongated solos or any of that shit.

    I'm surprised you teared up considering that you usually get annoyed if I bring the Beatles up. I felt tears coming on too.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From DianeE@21:1/5 to Bruce on Fri Nov 3 14:21:42 2023
    On 11/3/2023 12:34 PM, Bruce wrote:
    The official video is pretty cool.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opxhh9Oh3rg
    -------------
    It's beyond pretty cool. It made me cry.

    If those images of George (with a beard) are from 1995, then he was only
    52. He died 6 years later, but my God, he looked terrible in those
    images. That's not what made me cry, though--it was the whole mix.

    I don't know why I never noticed before that they couldn't dance!

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From DianeE@21:1/5 to Bruce on Fri Nov 3 15:49:03 2023
    On 11/3/2023 3:00 PM, Bruce wrote:


    I'm surprised you teared up considering that you usually get annoyed
    if I bring the Beatles up.
    -------------
    That's because when you bring them up it's inevitably to tell some
    incredibly detailed long boring (to me) story about how their recordings
    were made. If you play their music in the car I don't go "Turn that off!"

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Roger Ford@21:1/5 to Bill B on Fri Nov 3 13:13:12 2023
    On Friday, 3 November 2023 at 20:09:55 UTC, Bill B wrote:
    On Thursday, November 2, 2023 at 6:33:59 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW55J2zE3N4


    Did nothing for me.

    Likewise

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Bill B@21:1/5 to Bruce on Fri Nov 3 13:09:53 2023
    On Thursday, November 2, 2023 at 6:33:59 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW55J2zE3N4


    Did nothing for me.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Bruce@21:1/5 to Bill B on Fri Nov 3 13:15:16 2023
    On Friday, November 3, 2023 at 4:09:55 PM UTC-4, Bill B wrote:
    On Thursday, November 2, 2023 at 6:33:59 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW55J2zE3N4


    Did nothing for me.

    Do you have any favorite songs by the boys?

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Bill B@21:1/5 to Bruce on Fri Nov 3 13:20:19 2023
    On Friday, November 3, 2023 at 4:15:17 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
    On Friday, November 3, 2023 at 4:09:55 PM UTC-4, Bill B wrote:
    On Thursday, November 2, 2023 at 6:33:59 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW55J2zE3N4


    Did nothing for me.
    Do you have any favorite songs by the boys?

    Many! I enjoyed all their earlier records and a number of later ones.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Dean F.@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 3 21:08:06 2023
    I wasn't impressed. To my ears, it's the same type of maudlin garbage that McCartney began recording in the 1970s.

    As much as I love the Beatles, they broke up 53 years ago and two of them are dead now. It's way past time to move on.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Bruce@21:1/5 to Dean F. on Fri Nov 3 21:15:36 2023
    On Saturday, November 4, 2023 at 12:08:08 AM UTC-4, Dean F. wrote:
    I wasn't impressed. To my ears, it's the same type of maudlin garbage that McCartney began recording in the 1970s.

    I don't hear that at all. McCartney's bad 70s stuff was mainly the adult contemporary shit like "Let 'em In" and "My Love" and "Silly Love Songs." "Now And Then" sounds more like Beatles circa 1967, although the modern recording techniques are obvious on
    certain aspects of it.


    As much as I love the Beatles, they broke up 53 years ago and two of them are dead now. It's way past time to move on.

    To what? The soul records from the Beatles era that you play every week on your radio show?

    The stuff we talk about here that is mostly from BEFORE there was a Beatles?

    Nobody around here wants much to move past 1970 when the Beatles broke up.

    I would get even more excited if unissued stuff from 70 years ago turned up by one of my favorite 50s acts. I don't want to move on. In fact, I'd per perfectly happy if music had not changed at all since 1958.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Bruce@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 5 11:37:43 2023
    "Now And Then" done in the Beatles early style.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tSefoJDKsU

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Rick Schubert@21:1/5 to Bruce on Sun Nov 5 16:32:39 2023
    On Sun, 5 Nov 2023 11:37:43 -0800 (PST), Bruce <[email protected]> wrote:

    "Now And Then" done in the Beatles early style.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tSefoJDKsU

    I like this much better.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Bob Roman@21:1/5 to Bruce on Mon Nov 6 07:18:13 2023
    On Sunday, November 5, 2023 at 2:37:44 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
    "Now And Then" done in the Beatles early style. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tSefoJDKsU

    Ed Sullivan offers an anachronistic use of the word "cover."
    He must have learned it from the same time travelers who also youth-ified him to a third of his 1964 age.

    --
    BR

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Mark D.@21:1/5 to Bob Roman on Mon Nov 6 21:11:42 2023
    On Nov 6, 2023 at 9:18:13 AM CST, "Bob Roman" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Sunday, November 5, 2023 at 2:37:44 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
    "Now And Then" done in the Beatles early style.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tSefoJDKsU

    Ed Sullivan offers an anachronistic use of the word "cover."
    He must have learned it from the same time travelers who also youth-ified him to a third of his 1964 age.

    --
    BR

    The whole thing was apparently performed by one young oompa loompa.

    --md

    remove "xx" for email

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Bruce@21:1/5 to Bruce on Fri Nov 17 14:28:15 2023
    On Friday, November 3, 2023 at 1:34:31 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:

    I think it's, good, good, good. It gets a 6. I predict it goes to number one, one, one in the UK and probably here too.

    From Wikipedia on November 17, 2023.

    It topped the charts in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Austria, and reached the top ten in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)