george harrison's beatles songs

  On 5/18/2011 at 7:46 PM, baph said:

George was my favorite by a million miles, and then John a million miles ahead of Ringo, and fuck Paul.

 

edit: only sort of joking

without paul there'd be no george as we know him.

not joking at all.

  On 5/18/2011 at 11:16 PM, Murveman said:

 

I can't get into All Things Must Pass. Kinda boring.

 

Give it another shot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd8K5juJ_1M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4rOq4uLrM4

not beatles related, but i remember watching this on mtv when i was four. i loved then and i love it now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_niy2ZM5Jo

  On 5/19/2011 at 2:32 AM, jefferoo said:

  On 5/18/2011 at 11:16 PM, Murveman said:

 

I can't get into All Things Must Pass. Kinda boring.

 

 

Give it another shot.

 

yeah, it's an epic album. i love this tune, about the girls that used to hang outside abbey road and apple.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSXK73lS0JE

  On 5/18/2011 at 9:36 PM, jefferoo said:

  On 5/18/2011 at 11:13 AM, Coalbucket PI said:

 

Personally I think Harrison had a bunch of great songs but not on the level of Lennon and McCartney.

 

I do not agree with you.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQKcpmnRsP0&feature=related

 

this was all George.

Probably my favourite Beatles song.

  On 5/18/2011 at 11:13 AM, Coalbucket PI said:

They all had rejected songs from the last few years that came out after they broke up. Harrison was the first one to leave, for about a week, and then came back. I think since they were all disagreeing and historically Lennon and McCartney had written most of the songs before it wasn't really the time for Harrison to start trying to get more songs in. There are clips on the Let It Be film of Paul being fairly condescending to George, and of John having a massive whinge about Maxwell's Silver Hammer being shit, which it obviously isn't. It's bizarre how unhappy they were with Abbey Road.

i'd be curious to see that vid. i read paul mccartney's official bio, "many years from now" and it claims maxwell's silver hammer as mccartney's song, going into the meaning of the weird lyric, "Joan was quizzical, studied 'petaphysical." 90% sure it's not not George's song. it Paul's!

my understanding, largely based on this book and interviews i've read on the net, is thus: lennon & mccartney were a songwriting TEAM, they were since they were little lads. it was their dream, and they worked on it amazingly fucking hard. each album had at least one song for every band member (as some fans liked george, others ringo, others paul), but lennon & mccartney got the lion's share. lennon & mccartney 7/10, george 2/10, ringo 1/10. as they eased up on touring, there was more time for writing, and george had more to say. lennon & mccartney refused, starting a lot of fights. on top of that, lennon got on smack and mccartney tried to take up the slack, but that just made him seem like a control freak. ringo was like, whatever.

  On 5/18/2011 at 11:13 AM, Coalbucket PI said:

Personally I think Harrison had a bunch of great songs but not on the level of Lennon and McCartney. I haven't heard the Bangladesh album but I've got a few live recordings of George and he sounded quite terrible.

i've not really heard much of his solo stuff. i quite like "here comes the sun" though. very gentle and warm.

I BLAME YOKO

  On 5/19/2011 at 2:11 AM, pattern recognition said:

  On 5/18/2011 at 7:46 PM, baph said:

George was my favorite by a million miles, and then John a million miles ahead of Ringo, and fuck Paul.

 

edit: only sort of joking

without paul there'd be no george as we know him.

 

not joking at all.

Yes, I know.

Alternate response: that was the real Paul, before he was replaced by a humongous twat.

  On 5/18/2011 at 7:51 PM, David R James said:

  On 5/18/2011 at 3:00 PM, keltoi said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4G2RlBKbrM

 

This will always be my favorite

me too!

  On 5/19/2011 at 9:04 AM, hahathhat said:

  On 5/18/2011 at 11:13 AM, Coalbucket PI said:

They all had rejected songs from the last few years that came out after they broke up. Harrison was the first one to leave, for about a week, and then came back. I think since they were all disagreeing and historically Lennon and McCartney had written most of the songs before it wasn't really the time for Harrison to start trying to get more songs in. There are clips on the Let It Be film of Paul being fairly condescending to George, and of John having a massive whinge about Maxwell's Silver Hammer being shit, which it obviously isn't. It's bizarre how unhappy they were with Abbey Road.

i'd be curious to see that vid. i read paul mccartney's official bio, "many years from now" and it claims maxwell's silver hammer as mccartney's song, going into the meaning of the weird lyric, "Joan was quizzical, studied 'petaphysical." 90% sure it's not not George's song. it Paul's!

 

my understanding, largely based on this book and interviews i've read on the net, is thus: lennon & mccartney were a songwriting TEAM, they were since they were little lads. it was their dream, and they worked on it amazingly fucking hard. each album had at least one song for every band member (as some fans liked george, others ringo, others paul), but lennon & mccartney got the lion's share. lennon & mccartney 7/10, george 2/10, ringo 1/10. as they eased up on touring, there was more time for writing, and george had more to say. lennon & mccartney refused, starting a lot of fights. on top of that, lennon got on smack and mccartney tried to take up the slack, but that just made him seem like a control freak. ringo was like, whatever.

 

Maxwell's Silver Hammer is Paul's song, I didn't mean to imply it wasn't.

You simplified a lot of stuff there but I can't really pull you up on any of it particularly. If you can find the Let It Be film I recommend it, but I think Paul doesn't want it released.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUpRAe7Nd24&feature=related

  Quote

when the truth gets buried deep

beneath a thousand years of sleep

time demands a turnaround

and once again the truth gets found

...yeah, george!

 

awakening the hurdy gurdy man

who comes singing songs of love

a lot of you guys need to re-listen to martha my dear, i will, and mother nature's son. paul knows what the fuck he is doing.

I love george, and his songs are great, but his "tortured" ones aren't as good as john's and his "pop" ones don't really match up with paul's. There are a lot of gems tho.

paul can write a hell of a melody, and was probably the most musically talented of the beatles. but lennon summed up what was wrong with him better than i could; he was very vocal with his hatred of 'ob-la-di ob-la-da', dismissing it as "paul's granny shit".

also he was excessively fond of parallel fourths in his basslines (i.e. when i'm sixty-four) - i really wish he didn't do that, it makes him sound like a fucking german oompah band.

  On 5/20/2011 at 3:12 PM, keltoi said:

  On 5/18/2011 at 7:51 PM, David R James said:

  On 5/18/2011 at 3:00 PM, keltoi said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4G2RlBKbrM

 

This will always be my favorite

 

me too!

this

  On 5/28/2011 at 4:08 AM, kaini said:

paul can write a hell of a melody, and was probably the most musically talented of the beatles. but lennon summed up what was wrong with him better than i could; he was very vocal with his hatred of 'ob-la-di ob-la-da', dismissing it as "paul's granny shit".

 

also he was excessively fond of parallel fourths in his basslines (i.e. when i'm sixty-four) - i really wish he didn't do that, it makes him sound like a fucking german oompah band.

boring parrot.

you read and recite a lorra shite!

i can't see those posts, but i'm guessing it's more of the same predictable bollocks. someone let me know if sirch actually manages to say something amusing.

  On 5/28/2011 at 4:54 AM, kaini said:

i can't see those posts, but i'm guessing it's more of the same predictable bollocks. someone let me know if sirch actually manages to say something amusing.

kaini . that's more than amusing. lol

i love this thread. I'm a huge Beatles lover but for some reason, in all these years I have been listening, they seem to be the one band that I don't overthink or scrutinize to high hell. it's always been a mystery to me as to why they are the only ones who get a free pass from my never ending scrutiny but they do and I enjoy that.

probably already been said but "Here Comes the Sun" is a great one too.

i also like... that one off Let it Be, that i can't remember the name of...

"because you're sweet and lovely.. i love you.."

you know the one :)

..but "Within You Without You" is by far his best! imho. fucking classic.

  On 5/28/2011 at 5:00 AM, jules said:

i love this thread. I'm a huge Beatles lover but for some reason, in all these years I have been listening, they seem to be the one band that I don't overthink or scrutinize to high hell. it's always been a mystery to me as to why they are the only ones who get a free pass from my never ending scrutiny but they do and I enjoy that.

the beatles, for me, are musical purity. they were revolutionary and innovative before those words really had any meaning within popular music. anything that came after which had original studio techniques, it was easy to accuse of ripping off the beatles. but with the fab four, you can't do that. you can't accuse them of ripping off a lot of stuff simply because they invented (or at least massively popularised, pedants) a lot of those techniques. for pop music with an experimental slant, they were year zero.

and i think even after close to twenty years of listening, that's why they remain fresh for me.

they are the best

they are the best.

proto ska? do you know how old ska is?

  On 5/29/2011 at 5:16 AM, nene multiple assgasms said:

proto ska? do you know how old ska is?

I'm not too keen about who wrote what, so I'm just going to post some of my current favorites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvA64O2LySc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6G7MkBMVxE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpGbx7nwWBw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhBrevk7IRo

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE2Vdcv9Q_o