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     Austin Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 92 Registered: 09-2004 |
Here is an interesting interview with Robert talking about the Beatles - "It was 50 years ago today." http://blogs.abc.net.au/queensland/2012/ 08/it-was-50-years-ago-today-robert-fors ter-on-beatles-influence.html | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 627 Registered: 10-2006 |
I like "garAZH band" - makes it sound almost posh! Unlike "GARidge band", as I'd call them. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 751 Registered: 04-2005 |
Nice choice of Beatles song by Robert; "I've just seen a face" from "Help". Very under-rated song. I remember as a teenager having a friend who hated the Beatles. I couldn't understand him and used to say "but my little sister likes the Beatles, my mum likes them and even my grandmother likes some songs". And he would reply "Exactly, that's why I hate them". Mind you he was a huge Rush fan. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3032 Registered: 03-2005 |
Yes, one of the two songs taken from the offside of the U.K. "Help" album that Americans encountered as part of "Rubber Soul." ("It's Only Love" is the other one.) It's a great song with lovely guitar work. I appreciate Robert's honesty about the impact of the Beatles on himself and the Go-Betweens, i.e., that there really wasn't any. Even on a special occasion he tells the truth. I was born in 1956 so I'm minimally older than Robert. I remember when "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" took over the radio in the U.S.. The earlier singles didn't do much here. My brothers were already listening to the Beach Boys who were a guitar rock band so the Beatles were not such a revolutionary change in sound. They were more like a messier sounding Beach Boys. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4812 Registered: 05-2005 |
Andrew, it was Kevin, wasn't it? I'd recognise that Scottish, Beatles-hating MO anywhere. And, to this day, he's still a huge Rush fan. I've lost count of the number of Ayn Rand quotes he sneaks into his postings here; like the time he said he was looking at a map of Brisbane when suddenly "the atlas shrugged". | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 844 Registered: 05-2005 |
Interesting to note that although the Go Betweens started out all angular and anti-Beatles, they soon developed the lush melody and lyricism of the Beatles in many of their best songs (e.g. Bachelor Kisses) As a long time Beatles fan, I totally agree with Robert that it was VERY UNCOOL to be one in the early 80's. I thought the interview funny in that the DJ was trying to get Robert to nearly "come clean" with an undying love of the Beatles, only to get Robert rather tactfully trying to say they meant nothing to him! Funny too that Robert picked "I've just seen a face" from "Help!" which 16 Lovers Lane was aiming for (nearly) in sound. I wonder if he's made it up to the White album yet? He's in for nice surprise! |