_hi_water._ Posted September 5, 2020 Posted September 5, 2020 Which one of these bands should I do a marathon on?Did one on Rush and Van Halen recently, so that's out of the question :D
Rutlefan Posted September 6, 2020 Posted September 6, 2020 I just did Zeppelin a couple weeks ago. I recommend Zeppelin.
Rick N. Backer Posted September 6, 2020 Posted September 6, 2020 The Beatles don’t have any clunkers in their catalog. Dream Theater, by contrast, . . . 2
_hi_water._ Posted September 6, 2020 Author Posted September 6, 2020 The Beatles don’t have any clunkers in their catalog. Dream Theater, by contrast, . . .I'm guessing you aren't a prog fan?
JohnnyBlaze Posted September 6, 2020 Posted September 6, 2020 I vote for the FULL hi-water poll treatment! That is, do polls for ALL of those musical acts simultaneously, releasing a new discography poll every half hour! :P 1
Entre_Perpetuo Posted September 6, 2020 Posted September 6, 2020 I voted Judas Priest. I think these are all fine choices though. After having done a Genesis marathon a couple weeks back I'd say it's a very fun and rewarding experience, especially if there are particular eras to the band's discography and you like things from all of it.
zepphead Posted September 6, 2020 Posted September 6, 2020 Blue Oyster Cult. Beatles would be interesting though as there were a few major differences in terms of album releases between US and UK.
driventotheedge Posted September 6, 2020 Posted September 6, 2020 Blue Oyster Cult. Beatles would be interesting though as there were a few major differences in terms of album releases between US and UK.If you do The Beatles, PLEASE do it by UK releases as that's the way the band intended their albums to be put out. Greed by Capitol records was responsible for them chopping up the albums to create more "product". 1
Entre_Perpetuo Posted September 6, 2020 Posted September 6, 2020 Blue Oyster Cult. Beatles would be interesting though as there were a few major differences in terms of album releases between US and UK.If you do The Beatles, PLEASE do it by UK releases as that's the way the band intended their albums to be put out. Greed by Capitol records was responsible for them chopping up the albums to create more "product". What about the superior US release of Magical Mystery Tour? 2
laughedatbytime Posted September 6, 2020 Posted September 6, 2020 If you do Sabbath, I'll join you.There's four guys in the band, how do you plan to split them up? 2
J2112YYZ Posted September 6, 2020 Posted September 6, 2020 I voted for Maiden. But before I did that I probably should have asked if all the bands you picked are ones you haven't heard the discographies of yet?
bathory Posted September 6, 2020 Posted September 6, 2020 I picked mahavishnu because you'll be done faster and none of their shit sucks, as far as I know. four instrumental records and a live album, you don't even have to pay that much attention hendrix has a perfect discog through 1968 but he's put out more posthumous records than 2pac. they live on the same secret island, I guess beatles aren't really good until a hard day's night and they don't really take off til help! and they don't REALLY take off until rubber soul
zepphead Posted September 6, 2020 Posted September 6, 2020 (edited) Blue Oyster Cult. Beatles would be interesting though as there were a few major differences in terms of album releases between US and UK.If you do The Beatles, PLEASE do it by UK releases as that's the way the band intended their albums to be put out. Greed by Capitol records was responsible for them chopping up the albums to create more "product". What about the superior US release of Magical Mystery Tour?The Magical Mystery Tour US release was basically padded out to make an album with a bunch of singles bolted on. Again Capital records milking things. TBH MMT was more just a soundtrack to a BBC broadcast and is not really an album as such. Edited September 6, 2020 by zepphead
Entre_Perpetuo Posted September 6, 2020 Posted September 6, 2020 Blue Oyster Cult. Beatles would be interesting though as there were a few major differences in terms of album releases between US and UK.If you do The Beatles, PLEASE do it by UK releases as that's the way the band intended their albums to be put out. Greed by Capitol records was responsible for them chopping up the albums to create more "product". What about the superior US release of Magical Mystery Tour?The Magical Mystery Tour US release was basically padded out to make an album with a bunch of singles bolted on. Again Capital records milking things. TBH MMT was more just a soundtrack to a BBC broadcast and is not really an album as such. But you've got to admit if you were going to count it as an album it would make more sense to count the US version, especially since the songs that got bolted onto are among The Beatles' best work and don't appear on other albums. 1
Rick N. Backer Posted September 6, 2020 Posted September 6, 2020 Blue Oyster Cult. Beatles would be interesting though as there were a few major differences in terms of album releases between US and UK.If you do The Beatles, PLEASE do it by UK releases as that's the way the band intended their albums to be put out. Greed by Capitol records was responsible for them chopping up the albums to create more "product". What about the superior US release of Magical Mystery Tour?The Magical Mystery Tour US release was basically padded out to make an album with a bunch of singles bolted on. Again Capital records milking things. TBH MMT was more just a soundtrack to a BBC broadcast and is not really an album as such. But you've got to admit if you were going to count it as an album it would make more sense to count the US version, especially since the songs that got bolted onto are among The Beatles' best work and don't appear on other albums. Think about that. They released Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane BEFORE Sgt. Pepper. They did the same thing the next year with Lady Madonna/The Inner Light and Hey Jude/Revolution from the white album sessions. Unthinkable after the 60s to release songs of that caliber as stand alone singles. 2
Rick N. Backer Posted September 6, 2020 Posted September 6, 2020 You might want to explore the individual Beatles' solo outputs. 1
zepphead Posted September 6, 2020 Posted September 6, 2020 Blue Oyster Cult. Beatles would be interesting though as there were a few major differences in terms of album releases between US and UK.If you do The Beatles, PLEASE do it by UK releases as that's the way the band intended their albums to be put out. Greed by Capitol records was responsible for them chopping up the albums to create more "product". What about the superior US release of Magical Mystery Tour?The Magical Mystery Tour US release was basically padded out to make an album with a bunch of singles bolted on. Again Capital records milking things. TBH MMT was more just a soundtrack to a BBC broadcast and is not really an album as such. But you've got to admit if you were going to count it as an album it would make more sense to count the US version, especially since the songs that got bolted onto are among The Beatles' best work and don't appear on other albums. Think about that. They released Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane BEFORE Sgt. Pepper. They did the same thing the next year with Lady Madonna/The Inner Light and Hey Jude/Revolution from the white album sessions. Unthinkable after the 60s to release songs of that caliber as stand alone singles.Why? If they are not part of an album concept then why should they be on it??? .... unless... it makes a few more bucks for the record label.
Rick N. Backer Posted September 6, 2020 Posted September 6, 2020 Blue Oyster Cult. Beatles would be interesting though as there were a few major differences in terms of album releases between US and UK.If you do The Beatles, PLEASE do it by UK releases as that's the way the band intended their albums to be put out. Greed by Capitol records was responsible for them chopping up the albums to create more "product". What about the superior US release of Magical Mystery Tour?The Magical Mystery Tour US release was basically padded out to make an album with a bunch of singles bolted on. Again Capital records milking things. TBH MMT was more just a soundtrack to a BBC broadcast and is not really an album as such. But you've got to admit if you were going to count it as an album it would make more sense to count the US version, especially since the songs that got bolted onto are among The Beatles' best work and don't appear on other albums. Think about that. They released Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane BEFORE Sgt. Pepper. They did the same thing the next year with Lady Madonna/The Inner Light and Hey Jude/Revolution from the white album sessions. Unthinkable after the 60s to release songs of that caliber as stand alone singles.Why? If they are not part of an album concept then why should they be on it??? .... unless... it makes a few more bucks for the record label. Except SFF and PL were recorded as part of the Sgt. Pepper sessions. 1
ReRushed Posted September 7, 2020 Posted September 7, 2020 (edited) Blue Oyster Cult. Beatles would be interesting though as there were a few major differences in terms of album releases between US and UK.If you do The Beatles, PLEASE do it by UK releases as that's the way the band intended their albums to be put out. Greed by Capitol records was responsible for them chopping up the albums to create more "product". What about the superior US release of Magical Mystery Tour?The Magical Mystery Tour US release was basically padded out to make an album with a bunch of singles bolted on. Again Capital records milking things. TBH MMT was more just a soundtrack to a BBC broadcast and is not really an album as such. But you've got to admit if you were going to count it as an album it would make more sense to count the US version, especially since the songs that got bolted onto are among The Beatles' best work and don't appear on other albums. Think about that. They released Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane BEFORE Sgt. Pepper. They did the same thing the next year with Lady Madonna/The Inner Light and Hey Jude/Revolution from the white album sessions. Unthinkable after the 60s to release songs of that caliber as stand alone singles.Why? If they are not part of an album concept then why should they be on it??? .... unless... it makes a few more bucks for the record label. Except SFF and PL were recorded as part of the Sgt. Pepper sessions.George Martin regretted releasing SSF and PL as a single. He said they belonged on Sgt. Pepper's. Including them would have strengthened the vague concept of the album. Also, "Rain" and "Paperback Writer" were not on Revolver and "Day Tripper" and "We Can Work It Out" were not on Rubber Soul. Edited September 7, 2020 by ReRushed 2
zepphead Posted September 7, 2020 Posted September 7, 2020 Blue Oyster Cult. Beatles would be interesting though as there were a few major differences in terms of album releases between US and UK.If you do The Beatles, PLEASE do it by UK releases as that's the way the band intended their albums to be put out. Greed by Capitol records was responsible for them chopping up the albums to create more "product". What about the superior US release of Magical Mystery Tour?The Magical Mystery Tour US release was basically padded out to make an album with a bunch of singles bolted on. Again Capital records milking things. TBH MMT was more just a soundtrack to a BBC broadcast and is not really an album as such. But you've got to admit if you were going to count it as an album it would make more sense to count the US version, especially since the songs that got bolted onto are among The Beatles' best work and don't appear on other albums. Think about that. They released Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane BEFORE Sgt. Pepper. They did the same thing the next year with Lady Madonna/The Inner Light and Hey Jude/Revolution from the white album sessions. Unthinkable after the 60s to release songs of that caliber as stand alone singles.Why? If they are not part of an album concept then why should they be on it??? .... unless... it makes a few more bucks for the record label. Except SFF and PL were recorded as part of the Sgt. Pepper sessions.George Martin said that they had a 'rule' at the time that singles shouldn't go on albums and so they were dropped from Pepper. Guess that's what they felt was right for them at that point in time.
zepphead Posted September 7, 2020 Posted September 7, 2020 Blue Oyster Cult. Beatles would be interesting though as there were a few major differences in terms of album releases between US and UK.If you do The Beatles, PLEASE do it by UK releases as that's the way the band intended their albums to be put out. Greed by Capitol records was responsible for them chopping up the albums to create more "product". What about the superior US release of Magical Mystery Tour?The Magical Mystery Tour US release was basically padded out to make an album with a bunch of singles bolted on. Again Capital records milking things. TBH MMT was more just a soundtrack to a BBC broadcast and is not really an album as such. But you've got to admit if you were going to count it as an album it would make more sense to count the US version, especially since the songs that got bolted onto are among The Beatles' best work and don't appear on other albums. Think about that. They released Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane BEFORE Sgt. Pepper. They did the same thing the next year with Lady Madonna/The Inner Light and Hey Jude/Revolution from the white album sessions. Unthinkable after the 60s to release songs of that caliber as stand alone singles.Why? If they are not part of an album concept then why should they be on it??? .... unless... it makes a few more bucks for the record label. Except SFF and PL were recorded as part of the Sgt. Pepper sessions.George Martin regretted releasing SSF and PL as a single. He said they belonged on Sgt. Pepper's. Including them would have strengthened the vague concept of the album. Also, "Rain" and "Paperback Writer" were not on Revolver and "Day Tripper" and "We Can Work It Out" were not on Rubber Soul.The 'no singles' rule strikes again!
Rick N. Backer Posted September 7, 2020 Posted September 7, 2020 Blue Oyster Cult. Beatles would be interesting though as there were a few major differences in terms of album releases between US and UK.If you do The Beatles, PLEASE do it by UK releases as that's the way the band intended their albums to be put out. Greed by Capitol records was responsible for them chopping up the albums to create more "product". What about the superior US release of Magical Mystery Tour?The Magical Mystery Tour US release was basically padded out to make an album with a bunch of singles bolted on. Again Capital records milking things. TBH MMT was more just a soundtrack to a BBC broadcast and is not really an album as such. But you've got to admit if you were going to count it as an album it would make more sense to count the US version, especially since the songs that got bolted onto are among The Beatles' best work and don't appear on other albums. Think about that. They released Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane BEFORE Sgt. Pepper. They did the same thing the next year with Lady Madonna/The Inner Light and Hey Jude/Revolution from the white album sessions. Unthinkable after the 60s to release songs of that caliber as stand alone singles.Why? If they are not part of an album concept then why should they be on it??? .... unless... it makes a few more bucks for the record label. Except SFF and PL were recorded as part of the Sgt. Pepper sessions.George Martin regretted releasing SSF and PL as a single. He said they belonged on Sgt. Pepper's. Including them would have strengthened the vague concept of the album. Also, "Rain" and "Paperback Writer" were not on Revolver and "Day Tripper" and "We Can Work It Out" were not on Rubber Soul. Paul disputes that the concept was ever about Liverpool. However, he also disagrees with what the inspiration for A Day in the Life was, so who knows. 2
ReRushed Posted September 7, 2020 Posted September 7, 2020 (edited) Blue Oyster Cult. Beatles would be interesting though as there were a few major differences in terms of album releases between US and UK.If you do The Beatles, PLEASE do it by UK releases as that's the way the band intended their albums to be put out. Greed by Capitol records was responsible for them chopping up the albums to create more "product". What about the superior US release of Magical Mystery Tour?The Magical Mystery Tour US release was basically padded out to make an album with a bunch of singles bolted on. Again Capital records milking things. TBH MMT was more just a soundtrack to a BBC broadcast and is not really an album as such. But you've got to admit if you were going to count it as an album it would make more sense to count the US version, especially since the songs that got bolted onto are among The Beatles' best work and don't appear on other albums. Think about that. They released Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane BEFORE Sgt. Pepper. They did the same thing the next year with Lady Madonna/The Inner Light and Hey Jude/Revolution from the white album sessions. Unthinkable after the 60s to release songs of that caliber as stand alone singles.Why? If they are not part of an album concept then why should they be on it??? .... unless... it makes a few more bucks for the record label. Except SFF and PL were recorded as part of the Sgt. Pepper sessions.George Martin regretted releasing SSF and PL as a single. He said they belonged on Sgt. Pepper's. Including them would have strengthened the vague concept of the album. Also, "Rain" and "Paperback Writer" were not on Revolver and "Day Tripper" and "We Can Work It Out" were not on Rubber Soul. Paul disputes that the concept was ever about Liverpool. However, he also disagrees with what the inspiration for A Day in the Life was, so who knows.Paul seems to be a bit of a revisionist regarding Beatles history. Of course, I wasn't there and he was, so like you said, who knows? Anyway, Paul always remembers Beatles history favoring him. And the subject and topics of the songs seem to contradict him. Edited September 7, 2020 by ReRushed 2
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