「She Knows Me Too Well」18歳になってすぐの頃『Today!』で聴いた🎵
演奏はシンプル、でもコード進行・コーラス・Brianのファルセット、どれも美し過ぎる😭
『Pet Sounds』の萌芽とも言われたこの曲は1番聴いた☺️
当時のリアルなヒット曲(パッと出ない😅)に勝る魅力があったのだよ😉👍
#BeachBoys
Taylor Swift praises Paul McCartney & his new album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, in her Instagram stories this hour 🫰:
"Never not inspired by this eternally exceptional artist 💪"
Today marks a new extreme in cognitive dissonance: A Beatle is 85 years old.
#HappyBirthdayRingoStarr
"So many people aren't hip to Ringo. He's got his own approach, and he drives everybody with a very funky beat. He inspired us so much that we wrote three songs that night."
--Doris Troy, on Ringo playing drums for her eponymous 1970 LP
#DorisTroy #Soul #MamaSoul #JustOneLook #RingoStarr #HappyBirthdayRingo #TheBeatles
"Nothing hit me as hard musically until the Beatles came on the scene. It was organized music that had quality songwriting, playing, and singing. It was in a completely different league.
"I had the very good fortune of touring with Ringo a few years back. And before I went out on tour with him, I thought I’d get the Best of The Beatles book, just in case he wanted to play a song on short notice. I bought the book and took it home, and I sat there one evening — it was about six o’clock — and I started to play through the book. It got to about eleven o’clock and I realized I was only half way through. I flipped to the back and I could see there was over two hundred songs there. It’s just an incredible body of work, when you think of the short time they were together.
"I was also very fortunate to see the Beatles, in the very early days, before they ever came to America. And they were just stunning. They were just unbelievable live. They were very tight, very powerful, fantastic harmonies, pitch perfect . . . and they had this property which was almost spiritual: to be able to somehow be better than great. They would push you to a point where you couldn’t stand it emotionally; you didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. You’ve heard the term 'Beatlemania' — and that is exactly what that is. They could drive an audience beyond the point where they just lost it, really, and started to scream. I saw it with my own eyes, it was a phenomenal thing. That ability, that spiritual power, to drive an audience right over the edge . . . it’s remarkable; you only see it once or twice in a lifetime.
"As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful rock'n'roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference."
--#GregLake
#KingCrimson #ELP #EmersonLakeAndPalmer #Songwriter #ProgRock #LuckyMan #TheBeatles #Influence #GOAT
"I heard Joni Mitchell say, 'Everybody's a songwriter, even people who shouldn't be.' It's true. It was as true in 1963 as it is today. People heard the Beatles and said, 'Oh, I could do that!' Actually, no, you couldn't. You couldn't write 'She Loves You,' let alone 'For No One' or 'Girl.' It's the same today. A lot of people who can sort of write songs screw up their ears and tell themselves it's something special. But it's not really.
"Lennon, McCartney and Harrison had stunningly high standards as writers. Imagine releasing a song like 'Ask Me Why' or 'Things We Said Today' as a B side. They made such fantastic records as 'Penny Lane' b/w 'Strawberry Fields Forever' and only put them out as singles! These records were events, and not just advance notice of an album release.
"You can’t really put onto the page what is great about 'And Your Bird Can Sing' or 'Paperback Writer' or even a great overlooked hard rock Beatles cut like 'Hey Bulldog.' Ok, you can break it down to this remarkable guitar part, those weirdly tracked, overlapping vocal harmonies or Lennon’s insanely intense delivery of an almost throwaway cut and even remark that the piano part is a relative of 'Lady Madonna.' But this doesn’t begin to explain how these records make me feel. That is beyond words."
--#ElvisCostello
#Songwriter #TheAttractions @ElvisCostello #Grammys #ASCAP #BAFTA #HallOfFame #TheBeatles #Influence #GOAT
“He's like Mozart or Chopin or Beethoven or something. This music will live forever. It's going to be these melodies and these words, and it's just fantastic. There's very few writers I feel the emotional and spiritual contact with that I feel with Brian.”
– Neil Young
Between '65 and '66, @TheBeachBoys released the first unplugged album ever (Party!) and one of the first concept albums in history (Pet Sounds). They were way ahead of their time.