The Beatles

northsouthdenimguy

I really discovered The Beatles in 1986, when I was 13. We were taking a road trip from the Midwest to New Jersey, and I’d made a mixtape from my mom’s record collection. She had every single Beatles album.

I had one of those big boomboxes and a pair of those enormous stereo headphones from the ’70s, just jamming away in the back of our Suburban. Apparently, I was singing “Helter Skelter” at the top of my lungs without realizing it, because at one point my dad and brother both turned around and told me to shut up.

Side note: I sold most of those original Beatles albums, I think the following summer, to one of those record stores that gave you about a dollar an album. Most were pretty beat up, but I’m sure a few would be worth a pretty penny today. Not that I’d ever sell them now. That’s the kind of stupid shit you do when you’re young and don’t know any better.

Brian

1963,67,68
All with my mothers maiden name written on them so they knew at parties who’s record was who’s

Rococo

Yoko Ono... discuss.

The amount of misogyny and racism she was subjected to, blamed for the breakup of a band that had already reached its logical conclusion and was imploding on it own, I would like to say all that couldn't happen today but that hardly seems credible. She was an awesome artist in her own right, in the fluxus movement and others, history redeems her by the day.

ROman

I always liked and still like The Beatles.

GraemeE

My first exposure to the beatles was actually cassettes that my mom found me at a garage sale when I was around 8 years old.

The catch is the cassettes we're home made copies of copies with degraded sound quality.

I fell in love with the music and for several years I only ever heard these low quality versions or on fuzzy am radio.

It wasn't until several years later that someone gave me the beatles anthology and I heard what the music really sounded like.

The best way to describe that feeling is similar to when Dorothy enters oz in the movie and everything changes to color

endo

without a doubt my favorite Lennon/McCartney song, the final track on Sgt. Pepper

Brian

I think sgt peppers is one of my favourite albums maybe due to lovely Rita and for the benefit of mr kite, my parents had a friend called vic but growing up we always used mr / mrs / miss and their surname and his happened to be kite
Also listening to the album on mono