bdp24, I suggest you listen to Let it Be Naked and see if it doesn't nudge you in the other direction. I find it to be 180 degrees from the Phil Spector version.
Schubert, what you said about George Martin writing the Beatles' songs is simply not true. He often made huge contributions to the arranging and production. He did not write any of the songs. Not one.
I was eleven years old when the Beatles' music hit America. I was a high school senior when they broke up. I don't expect to get the same buzz from it now as I did then, but in the words of Brian Wilson, "I still dig those sounds." I appreciate better a lot of other music from that time than I did then (such as Dionne Warwick singing Burt Bacharach) but I keep coming back to the Beatles. The biggest problem is that I have heard the original recordings too many times and so I often opt for alternate versions these days but I expect that for me they will always be the gold standard for the 60's.
Schubert, what you said about George Martin writing the Beatles' songs is simply not true. He often made huge contributions to the arranging and production. He did not write any of the songs. Not one.
I was eleven years old when the Beatles' music hit America. I was a high school senior when they broke up. I don't expect to get the same buzz from it now as I did then, but in the words of Brian Wilson, "I still dig those sounds." I appreciate better a lot of other music from that time than I did then (such as Dionne Warwick singing Burt Bacharach) but I keep coming back to the Beatles. The biggest problem is that I have heard the original recordings too many times and so I often opt for alternate versions these days but I expect that for me they will always be the gold standard for the 60's.