Four Liverpudlians to escort ya’ll back home

This week the remastered Beatles catalog was released for sale, and once again, they went straight to No. 1. According to USA Today:

“Discs are moving steadily, with the $260 stereo and $299 mono box sets selling out at many outlets. Even the band’s website alerted buyers that new box orders would not be shipped until late October “due to the incredible demand.”

At Amazon, the stereo and mono sets ranked first and second on the list of music best sellers, even though the site’s allotment sold out the week before and new orders won’t ship for up to six weeks. The Beatles held 15 spots in the top 20.”

So in light of all that, conversation the other night turned to a difficult subject:

“What’s your favorite Beatles song?”

I didn’t have an answer because, well,  it depends.  One of the great things about the Beatles discography is its range.

When I want some of the early, kick-butt, toe-tapping and rockabilly-influenced stuff, I might go with “Roll Over, Beethoven.” If you’re in a more contemplative mood, “Norwegian Wood” or “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” are hard to beat. You’ve got the playful giddiness of things like “Rocky Racoon” and “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer,” and the sweetness of “When I’m Sixty-Four” or “Something.”

Tonight, though, here’s my pick:

172 comments Add your comment

DebbieDoRight

September 11th, 2009
4:17 pm

Here’s my Friday’s item. Today I’m honoring two kings and also all the tax cheats out there; and how they’ve made me so much money this year!! It seems, surprisingly, (haha), that the majority of tax cheats are the same gender. So this offering is to them. Enjoy…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Febr_t_qa9U

Hef

September 11th, 2009
4:22 pm

Favorite-not an easy answer,Let it Be I guess if you held a gun to my head. Just an incredible band with muliple sounds. I used to think the “stones” were the best rock band ever,especialy in younger day’s,but I was way wrong. The Who,Led Zeplin,&Pink Floyd were great bands as well,but the lads from Liverpool were in a class all to themselves.

Bosch

September 11th, 2009
4:35 pm

Rut Roh Raggie.

Normal

September 11th, 2009
4:36 pm

My favorite Beatles song?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7qpfGVUd8c

and it weeps for thee… ;-)

DebbieDoRight

September 11th, 2009
4:37 pm

Here’s another. It’s in honor of the tax cheats, god bless you all, every one; AND an homage to Jay’s 4 guys!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQwwqajZXD8

Hef

September 11th, 2009
4:49 pm

Normal-was that B/Preston & Ringo & Clapton on for the ride?-excellent clip

@@

September 11th, 2009
4:50 pm

Gosh, jay.

Not one piece have you done in memory of those who lost their lives on 9/11/01.

But the Beatles discs are aiding capitalism.

Interesting.

Joey

September 11th, 2009
4:53 pm

DebbieDoRight:
When writing of the tax-cheats, do you intend to include Geithner and Daschle?

DoggoneGA

September 11th, 2009
4:55 pm

“Not one piece have you done in memory of those who lost their lives on 9/11/01.”

This is an open forum…I don’t see anything from YOU either.

Brad Steel

September 11th, 2009
4:56 pm

Beatles covers rarely come close to matching the original. Unlike any band worth covering, I don’t think I have ever heard a Beatles’ cover that exceeds the quality and experience of the original.

Here is a cover that effectively pays tribute to the seminal original of Across the Universe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H71Fv3PcQQY&feature=PlayList&p=158639FBB1AAE9AA&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=18

Hef

September 11th, 2009
4:59 pm

Was it Clapton who stole Harrison’s wife or vice versa?

Normal

September 11th, 2009
4:59 pm

Hef, yep, and it was always the urban legend that Eric played the guitar lead…I like a good lead guitar, don’t cha know…

Normal

September 11th, 2009
5:00 pm

Clapton did the stealing…Harrison was just too nice a guy…

DebbieDoRight

September 11th, 2009
5:01 pm

Joey aren’t they both men? Then your answer is YEP! I hope, in the future, if they need help, they’ll contact the firm I work for……more money, more money, more money!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jukQX2pl2Q

Tom

September 11th, 2009
5:04 pm

Nice.

And so it is 09/11/09. And we are again reminded that there really exists not an iota of difference between the original 9/11 terrorists and those like-minded cretins of today’s Republiscum Party. It’s all utterly relative. The same hatreds. The same cowardice. The very same ever-destructive mindsets. Yes indeed. Yup.

Normal

September 11th, 2009
5:07 pm

Y’all I like this Beatles song too, so unlike the. I especially like the video. I had dedicated it to Jay on one of his C&W kicks…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nucSvl7VXVM

david wayne osedach

September 11th, 2009
5:07 pm

I think I’ll wait until Christmas to buy my set. By that time they will have ramped up production into over production. And the price will drop a $100 dollars or so.

Paul

September 11th, 2009
5:12 pm

I’ll piggy-back on Jay’s observation – no matter what mood you’re in, there’s a Beatles song to fit. And a darn good song at that.

DebbieDoRight

September 11th, 2009
5:14 pm

Does Michael Jackson’s estate still own the majority of the Beatles songs? If so, I want to report that I AM THE MOTHER OF BLANKET; and i didn’t legally give up my rights to him. I signed a paper under hypnosis and Michael scared by by dancing the Thriller video with his wig off. AND I was under the influence of alcohol and Janet flashed her boob at me and blinded me in both eyes. IT WASN’T MY FAULT!!!

Also, I would like to add , Blanket, Mommy LOVES YOU!! And I want you to send her some money, (not for me — for my legal defense so that I can get you back); as soon as you can.

Hef

September 11th, 2009
5:16 pm

Kinda scary,I know I’m gettin old I can remember the invasion,Paul is dead,& The Long & Winding Road. At least,I think I Remember-uh what was I sayin?

Jay

September 11th, 2009
5:21 pm

How come nobody mentioned that my video didn’t post?

It’s up now.

I think.

They “upgraded” Wordpress this week AND switched us from Macs to Windows, so the transition has caused some issues.

Paul

September 11th, 2009
5:25 pm

Jay

Note to you at 4:57 in the Wilson thread –

Someday the tide will turn. It has to –

Pleasant weekend, all -

AmVet

September 11th, 2009
5:28 pm

Bosch

September 11th, 2009
5:30 pm

Um Jay,

That was the whole “Rut Roh Raggie” thing with me. I’ve got an old person having a malfunction right now – so I’m out…….

Pleasant weekend all!

DoggoneGA

September 11th, 2009
5:30 pm

“At least,I think I Remember-uh what was I sayin?”

Like the old hippie who doesn’t need drugs anymore, because he gets the same effect by just standing up fast?

Jay

September 11th, 2009
5:33 pm

Thanks Paul. Hadn’t seen that.

The most interesting part was that the Arlington Tx school district had refused to show Obama’s speech, explaining it would interrupt the school day, but is busing 500 kids at taxpayers expense to Cowboy Stadium to hear George W. Bush.

AmVet

September 11th, 2009
5:35 pm

Hef

September 11th, 2009
5:42 pm

Doggone-Or in my case,movement in general.

jokerman

September 11th, 2009
5:42 pm

Whiner .. A little something to debunk your often misinformation concerning global warming.

“2 German cargo ships pass through ‘Arctic Passage’

“In July, new NASA satellite measurements showed that sea ice in the Arctic was not just shrinking in area, but thinning dramatically”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090911/ap_on_re_eu/eu_germany_arctic_passage

And here is a song dedicated to you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRv34Cat3Vw

Normal

September 11th, 2009
5:45 pm

Thes guys ain’t the Beatles, but are definitely British and deserve to be in the rock and Roll Hall of Fame…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbdzUi-vfA4

josef nix

September 11th, 2009
5:46 pm

@@
“Not one piece have you done in memory of those who lost their lives on 9/11/01.”

I noticed that, too. Sad. Even my Little Ones at school remembered.

Jay

September 11th, 2009
5:47 pm

Jokerman, I see that clip was filmed at the Circus Krone in Munich, which takes me back. The first rock concert I ever attended was at Circus Krone. It was Pink Floyd debuting their “Dark Side of the Moon” album, and the experience was … very interesting.

DoggoneGA

September 11th, 2009
5:52 pm

“Pink Floyd debuting their “Dark Side of the Moon”

Ok, now *I* feel old. My first, and only rock concert, was Iron Butterfly in Jacsksonville, FL and they did a 35 minute “Ina Gadda Davida”

wet wiccan

September 11th, 2009
5:54 pm

AmVet @ 5:28 – Thanks for that post. Didn’t you go to see Sir Paul a couple of weeks ago? How was it?

Jay

September 11th, 2009
5:55 pm

Dog, are your ears still ringing?

@@

September 11th, 2009
5:55 pm

Doggone:

Had I made a comment it would have been a reminder to jay of something he obviously forgot. For personal reasons, I no longer feel a sense of obligation to jay.

I was over at Kyle’s reading the piece he did on 9/11/01. If it’s any consolation, Wooten didn’t do one either.

I can only guess that Kyle hasn’t grown as hard and crusty as jay and Jim.

I’ve visited a multitude of sites that are offering tributes. A moment of reflection.

Back to the Beatles for you.

Normal

September 11th, 2009
5:56 pm

Josef, it’s hard to find a song that really fits 9121 and I’ve been looking…this is the best I can do…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xbpgmJCxT8&feature=related

DoggoneGA

September 11th, 2009
5:56 pm

“Dog, are your ears still ringing?”

Yep! Still one of my all-time favorites too.

Normal

September 11th, 2009
5:57 pm

I was at the Pink Floyd concert here too. What a show!!!

AmVet

September 11th, 2009
5:57 pm

wiccan, yes, me and about 50,000 of my closest friends saw Paul in Piedmont Park. What an experience! It was odd going to see a rock show and just KNOWING that people wee gonna cry at it. Music is such a powerful thing and let’s face it, he and those other three guys changed the world.

Thank Gawd for liberals!

Always loved John’s voice on these two:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcDSndO0Vr4

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygocvhKtcwo

Normal

September 11th, 2009
5:58 pm

Josef, that’s 911…I got fat fingers

jokerman

September 11th, 2009
6:01 pm

Jay been to Munchen several times while a G.I. (Oktoberfest) sorry to say never got much past the beir gartens.

wet wiccan

September 11th, 2009
6:02 pm

In remembrance of Freddy Mercury, whose birthday was this week. I love this song and he sings like an angel. I miss him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8-rH2ilkxk

I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator (-: You Whine )-:

September 11th, 2009
6:03 pm

Normal

September 11th, 2009
6:07 pm

Tom

September 11th, 2009
6:07 pm

Tis NASCAR/NRA Time. The frothing Little People vomit forth their anger and witlessness. It is good.

Normal

September 11th, 2009
6:09 pm

josef nix

September 11th, 2009
6:12 pm

AmVet

September 11th, 2009
6:17 pm

josef nix

September 11th, 2009
6:21 pm

Favorite Beatle, good music, good cause

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VpuBxRhhkw

Brad Steel

September 11th, 2009
6:23 pm

Saw Zappa at the Circus Krone in ‘84. So glad I got to see him in what I consider to by one of his prime periods.

Life’s regrets include never having seen: a late 60’s Beatles or Elvis show, a mid-70’s Led Zepplin show, a 1980’s Clash show, or Husker Du cerca 1985.

…but then again a few too many….

AmVet

September 11th, 2009
6:25 pm

Frank Sinatra called it the greatest love song ever written:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDTi_La94Uo

AmVet

September 11th, 2009
6:29 pm

Dusty

September 11th, 2009
6:29 pm

Well, I see that Jay did remind us @5:33 that there are people in Texas who remember who got us going after 9/11. None other that Pres. George W. Bush who deserves respect from all Americans. School children from Arlington will know that which is more that some seemingly mature Americans.know or will acknowledge.

Jay forgot that part about respect in Texas because he’d rather talk about Wilson giving non-respect. Seems Wilson was correct if rather rash! Reminds me of the “Give me liberty or give me death!” exclamation . Wilson implied that he wanted the truth “Give me the truth!” (in so many words).. Ah well, I missed Jay’s last subject.

Now we get the Beatles. Hmmm yes. Millions like them and millions can’t be wrong. Oh, I take that back. There are millions of Democrats!! Yep!

Have fun twanging away! I am as busy as a beaver and heading for the beach. Ah…. Sunday with the waves a’roaring, the gulls a’ flying, the sand all golden, ooowweee here I come.

Starting to pack my bags..Gotta get ready here..and dinner tonight…good old bratwurst with cabbage….smell it cooking??..

jconservative

September 11th, 2009
6:35 pm

AmVet
September 11th, 2009
6:25 pm
Frank Sinatra called it the greatest love song ever written:

I will agree with you & Sinatra. Wonderful lyrics.
What separates the Beatles from anyone else is the musical genius.

AmVet

September 11th, 2009
6:43 pm

jconservative, musical genius AND the courage to take an anti-establishment stand. Causing the non-attentive “conservatives” of that era to burn their records. Note that George says, “Christianity is declining, and everybody knows it…”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPZVJcyHX6s&feature=related

josef nix

September 11th, 2009
6:44 pm

TnGelding

September 11th, 2009
6:49 pm

wet wiccan

September 11th, 2009
6:55 pm

Josef – who is Fierce Advocate?

TnGelding

September 11th, 2009
6:59 pm

josef nix

September 11th, 2009
7:05 pm

josef nix

September 11th, 2009
7:06 pm

wet wiccan–The fool on the hill who claimed he’d be a “Fierce Advocate” for gay rights…HA!

TnGelding

September 11th, 2009
7:10 pm

josef nix

September 11th, 2009
7:06 pm

Be patient. Rome wasn’t built in a day.

Dedicated to Dusty and all of our lady friends:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVQIzDb6gqw

TnGelding

September 11th, 2009
7:16 pm

“Census Bureau severs ties with ACORN in 2010 count”

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Census Bureau on Friday severed its ties with ACORN, a community organization that has been hit with Republican accusations of voter-registration fraud.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9ALCUJO0&show_article=1

TnGelding

September 11th, 2009
7:17 pm

Refresh, please.

j$

September 11th, 2009
7:41 pm

feeling a bit melancholy today so I’ll put up this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiFYOn1AFms

I am a conservative and I like the Beatles /gasp!

NRB

September 11th, 2009
7:42 pm

I always liked Helter Skelter.

I want the mono set.

Normal

September 11th, 2009
7:58 pm

josef nix

September 11th, 2009
8:00 pm

TnGelding…it’s easy enough to counsel patience when you’ve already got yours…I didn’t expect anything else from him, Prop 8, Preacher Warren and all that, but then to go and say he’d be a “fierce advocate?’ He lied. I don’t like him. He’s not my friend. His name ain’t Jesus.

However, it is Friday night and I’m supposed to be light-hearted, happy and gay, so…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4×1R50zNV1I&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4×1R50zNV1I&feature=related

I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator (-: You Whine )-:

September 11th, 2009
8:05 pm

With a political arms race in full force, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) has raised almost $750,000 in less than 48 hours since his shout of “You lie!” to President Obama during the Wednesday address to Congress.

You’re welcome.

I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator (-: You Whine )-:

September 11th, 2009
8:09 pm

On the eve of what organizers call a ‘Big Ol’ TEA Party’, the Washington, D.C., offices of FreedomWorks were evacuated by DC Metro police on Friday afternoon after the conservative organization reported to authorities at 3:42 pm ET that it had received a bomb threat.

Time to sic ole Homeland “Security” dogface on some left wingers, eh?

TnGelding

September 11th, 2009
8:11 pm

josef nix

September 11th, 2009
8:00 pm

You’ve come a long way. Count your blessings.

TnGelding

September 11th, 2009
8:15 pm

I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator (-: You Whine )-:

September 11th, 2009
8:05 pm

Yeah, there’s a lot of you crazies out there with money to burn.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8gIKdjpDmM

catlady

September 11th, 2009
8:18 pm

I would never be able to pick a favorite, even if I took it year by year and picked a favorite, or went album by album to pick. Just can’t do it. And I can’t think of any other band I can say the same about. THAT, dear friends, is genius!

TnGelding

September 11th, 2009
8:18 pm

I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator (-: You Whine )-:

September 11th, 2009
8:09 pm

Party Poopers!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80-8WEuJ68M

j$

September 11th, 2009
8:20 pm

josef nix

September 11th, 2009
8:23 pm

TnGelding…
But of course, we’re no longer a mental illness or criminals…but, then, as they used to say, we’ve been good to our n*gruhs, and look at how ungrateful they are…

Seriously, though, it’s not that I am unaware of how far we’ve come, I mean, after all, when Dick Cheney is more an outspoken advocate than the Fierce One and when the GOP is actually giving consideration to the Light in the Loafers Pink Elephant…no, I’m not not counting the blessings…I’m saying that he lied and he has taken us three steps backward, not forward.

TnGelding

September 11th, 2009
8:23 pm

j$

September 11th, 2009
8:29 pm

They shoulda let yoko in the band..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT0GbCIEqDM /sarc of course

TnGelding

September 11th, 2009
8:31 pm

josef nix

September 11th, 2009
8:23 pm

I’ll apologize if you’re not singing a different tune by this time next year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9kdHXrJYF8&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHdTdFBefGM

josef nix

September 11th, 2009
8:33 pm

Later in the p.m.–need to go water the impatiens and spend an hour or so with the Unmentionable…DADT–.:-)

TnGelding

September 11th, 2009
8:36 pm

The rest of the story:

“S.C.’s Wilson Rakes In $750,000 in Less Than 48 Hours; Opponent Tops $1 Million”

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2009/09/scs_wilson_rakes_in_750000_in.html

TnGelding

September 11th, 2009
8:42 pm

josef nix

September 11th, 2009
8:33 pm

“What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmcJ9JO75E0&feature=related

wet wiccan

September 11th, 2009
8:44 pm

Josef – I have been disappointed by the fool on the hill too. Not for the same reasons as you, but because I thought he might really make some changes on Wall Street. But it turns out that is not going to happen either. I think it would do so much for the morale of Americans to see those crooks prosecuted.

If it makes you feel any better, I didn’t get married in a church either. We went to a Justice of the Peace (do they still have those?) All the ceremony of a church wedding is just too much for me.

Midori

September 11th, 2009
8:44 pm

Tn,

must have come from those Bush tax cuts.

Normal

September 11th, 2009
8:46 pm

Just goofin’ off now, but…NRA FANS…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgm9H3hmH1o

TnGelding

September 11th, 2009
8:50 pm

Midori

September 11th, 2009
8:44 pm

That disappeared in the economic meltdown. These folks are rabid.

md

September 11th, 2009
8:51 pm

“but because I thought he might really make some changes on Wall Street. But it turns out that is not going to happen either. I think it would do so much for the morale of Americans to see those crooks prosecuted.”

Won’t happen because Congress was just as complicit, too many back room deals would be exposed as the truth came out. The big boys on the Street would not go down alone.

I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator (-: You Whine )-:

September 11th, 2009
8:54 pm

After 8 years of slobbering insanity, frothing paranoia and oozing idiocy, I often wonder how you libs can call another person “crazy,” TN.

Y’all aren’t jealous, are you?

TnGelding

September 11th, 2009
8:58 pm

TnGelding

September 11th, 2009
9:01 pm

I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator (-: You Whine )-:

September 11th, 2009
8:54 pm

Yeah, we envy your wealth and your freedom to destroy the planet with your lavish, wasteful lifestyles. NOT!

Midori

September 11th, 2009
9:04 pm

Andy,

I have a problem — I don’t know who to root for on Sunday.

The Redskins have completely ticked me off.

DebbieDoRight

September 11th, 2009
9:04 pm

oh josef, give it a rest why don’t ya?! The man hasn’t even been in office a year; and he had more important things to think about anyway, like the deficit, stimulating the economy, a new supreme court justice, etc. I could see if he’d been in for 6 years and did nothing, THEN you’d have a legitimate complaint; but now you’re just moaning cause you don’t like the man; not because, in LESS THAN A YEAR in office he hasn’t done enough for gay rights!! PS: Left us a msg. at the thread downstairs.

Dusty: Boy, what a bummer you are!!! You sure know how to bring a party down!! With one post you single handedly brought doom and destruction in your wake. You must the blog equivalent of Hurricane Katrina!

j$: Let Yoko Ono SING..(shiver)…. R. U. I-N-S-A-N-E!!!! I’d rather listen to josef bitch about Obama nonstop for 40 days & nights while tied to an anthill of red ants!!

Whine: This one for you!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TbyDe4pwWw&feature=related

DebbieDoRight

September 11th, 2009
9:07 pm

Whine: Of COURSE we’re jealous, (at least I am). I wish I could blog all day, and live downstairs in my mother’s basement, eating cheetoes. while scratching myself and farting. WOW!! You nerdly hunk you!!!

Midori

September 11th, 2009
9:11 pm

md

September 11th, 2009
9:12 pm

” and he had more important things to think about anyway, like the deficit”

Wish he hadn’t thought so much about that one, it doesn’t look so good.

Normal

September 11th, 2009
9:17 pm

Normal

September 11th, 2009
9:20 pm

Debbie, Josef has a point. He voted for Obama for gay rights, I voted for Obama because he promised to get us out of the wars…we are both disappointed. We have one vote apiece, but if the President doesn’t get on the stick, he will be two votes shy…

DebbieDoRight

September 11th, 2009
9:23 pm

Here’s another one for you Whine; just in case you run out…….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYSq3LGKx9I&feature=related

DebbieDoRight

September 11th, 2009
9:25 pm

Normal if, in the next 3 years he doesn’t do anything then you and josef have a legitimate gripe; but seeing as how it HASN’T been a year……… Gosh!! Come on!! Everyone gets an interim period when they’re learning the job; why can’t he have one?

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