I Feel Fine vs I Am The Walrus

I I Feel Fine - Single, 1964 

~written by Lennon/McCartney, sung by John Lennon

I Am The Walrus - Magical Mystery Tour, 1967

~written by John Lennon, sung by Lennon 

Compare: I feel like these songs changed generations of music because of the styles they were both made. Featured in 'I Feel Fine' was the first mono Beatles track that had double backing vocals that was one of the songs that made The Beatles signature "sound". 'I Am The Walrus' is one of The Beatles most famous songs. Both of them do a job by almost telling a story about 2 people's distinct part of their lives. 

Contrast: Even though both of the songs are very John based by the difference of years, it's basically like 2 different Beatles. The 1964 Beatles were way, way, WAY different than 1967 Beatles and that's primarily because of the change of the years and just how music changes in itself. Which is very understandable why both of these songs sound super different. The amount of drug references that is made in I Am The Walrus is definitely a contrast to the amount that is made in I Feel Fine (and for what I know, I don't think there is any).

Likes: I love how both of the songs show how different music can change just in a matter of 3 years. I Feel Fine was odd for people in 1964 but how amazing it sounds for having been made in 1964. I Am The Walrus has a pretty awesome music type video in the 'Magical Mystery Tour' movie with The Beatles dressed up as animals (and just acting over all ADORABLEEEEE). 

Dislikes: I Feel Fine is very repetitive, some of The Beatles songs during that time was (I can think of one on the top of my head, Eight Days A Week) and after awhile it does kinda seem annoying. I Am The Walrus, for some people, seems too odd in the style the song was made *I enjoy it* and it does reference some drug like themes that is off putting for some people. 

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Beatles Mashups!

I always get inspiration for posts by looking through Beatles news and this one article made me feel really emotional and got my mind thinking, what bands would make the best collaboration with The Beatles? 

Bob Dyan saying that he wished he could have made an ablum with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones really could have been one of the best albums ever made in music history. I really do believe that, all of their different styles and sounds blending together would be enjoyable for any persons liking of music. 

But what other bands would make a fantastic album with The Beatles? What first comes to my mind is Pink Floyd. I know what you're thinking, PINK FLOYD?! But imagine sorta Sgt. Peppers mix with a little bit of Dark Side of The Moon would be one of the most trippy albums ever (which I think would be amazing!) 

The next would have to be from a hand that The Beatles actually took under their wing during the time they had Apple Records, Badfinger. The Beatles were big fans of the group and in the 70s, George Harrison worked with them and had them on his album, but having a full Beatles album with them would have been SO FANTASTIC I WOULD CRY SO HARD! Badfinger was my favorite band even before I started liking The Beatles (shhhhh it's a secret). 

I'm not really familiar with bands that are around today and what would work with The Beatles, but how about complete differents like One Direction. That album would be known as "battle of the boybands", because man, that would be like 2 rams hitting horns. Boybands are so much different than the definition of "boybands" from back in the 1960s, but think about it, the amount of money that The Beatles gets for all of their music (back then and now) and the amount of money that One Direction gets today that this album would make CRAZY AMOUNTS OF MONEY. Just imagine. Sadly, I'd 100% have to buy it.

If you want to read the article about Bob Dylan and wanting to make the album, go ahead and check it out right here! http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bob-dylan-album-with-beatles-and-rolling-stones-20141107

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Bealtes Ultimate Sickday Guide!

This last week, I was very sick and couldn't do very much (WHICH I HATED SO MUCH but thankfully I'm doing a lot better now) and whenever I'm sick, I surrounded myself with something that always manages to make me feel better no matter what - The Beatles. Laughter is the best medicine and man, do The Beatles make me laugh! Seriously, if you haven't seen Help!, then your life hasn't been made yet!


Everytime I'm sick, I basically surround myself with everything Beatles until I feel better. In some ways, I'd love to think that it actually does help me feel better. How I brought up before that I surrounded myself with The Beatles, I wasn't anywhere close to joking. So for the next time your sick, here are some of the ways The Beatles help me feel better!


1. Put on your favorite Beatles pajamas: One part of your wardrobe that you need to get or need to have is Beatles pajamas. Doesn't need to be too fancy, it could be a cheep Beatles shirt or an expensive Hot Topic shirt with some pajama pants, your Beatles pajamas are perfect! 


2: Drink your favorite drink out of your Beatles cups: My friend was sweet enough a couple of years ago to get me a Beatles cup set that whenever I'm sick I make some pomegranate tea in (my favorite cup is the one with Ringo on it hehe). 


3: Listen to your favorite Beatles album: You can never go wrong with listening to your favorite album to help you feel better (mine is Revolver). It'll help even more if you listen to it so many times that it basically annoys you *in a good way!* 


4: Catch up on some Beatles movies: During school, I find it really hard to go back and watch all of my favorite Beatles movies, when I'm sick I find it a good opportunity to catch up and watch them over again. I always start off by watching Across the Universe, next would have to be Help! (those 2 are my favorites and they just instantly help me feel better). Magical Mystery Tour would be the one I would watch before taking my nap, because it's kinda boring WHOOOPS and it helps me fall asleep easier.

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I'll Cry Instead vs. Happiness Is A Warm Gun

I'll Cry Instead - A Hard Day's Night, 1964

~written and sung by John Lennon 

Happiness Is A Warm Gun - The Beatles (White Album), 1968

~written and sung by John Lennon

Compare: These 2 songs this week are both Lennon songs, which both have similarities in themselves. Both express what happenens when you lose your love and how you can rebound from the pain that comes along with it. 

Contrasts: From any 2 songs, I feel like these are almost the same and almost different at the same time. I'll Cry Instead is basically a cry of a man who has to prove to his love that he's the best for his woman in which he lost and will do the best to stay strong and win her back. This is really hard for the man because he has so many self doubts, but someday when he can feel good about himself, they'll have to "hide all the girls around the world ". Happiness Is A Warm Gun is a cry from a man about how his life is going and how his life is spiraling out of control and needs "happiness from a warm gun" to get through this part of his life. He talks about his life and how his wife effects his life, explaining how their time each day changes him.  

Likes: I love John's songs, plain and simple. He manages to put a large amount of feeling passion into the songs he writes, you feel like you're the actual person experiencing all of these feelings. 

He puts so much of his own feeling into it, it's so heartfelt and amazing. In I'll Cry Instead, he even references things I'm self conscious about myself which helps me when I'm down. 

Dislikes: In Happiness Is A Warm Gun, we all know that the song is referencing to suicide, which is a very touchy topic for me but it's John and I understand his feeling behind it. 

*remember that these are my own opinions and I understand that you might disagree with some of them and that's totally alright don't worry about it* 

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Goals: Dressing up as The Beatles for Halloween

Since this week was Halloween, it reminded of all the different costumes that everyone could be. Myself, I was Quicksilver from the Marvel comic book series 'X-Men' (but that's beside the point). This year while choosing what I wanted to dress up as, the idea of dressing up as The Beatles always come to my mind (but of course I chickened out and decided not to follow through with it, as usual).

What first brought up the idea of truly dressing up as The Beatles this year was when my friend Erica jokingly said that I should dress up as Ringo for her Halloween party. To her own delight and laughter, she really made me start considering that I could actually dress up like him! It came down to the last minute when I really decided what I wanted to be and had to throw everything together (which didn't make my mom too happy).

This wasn't the first year that I REALLY wanted to dress up with a Beatles theme. In the 8th grade, I was daring enough to dress up at Maureen Cox (Ringo's first wife) for the 8th grade dance. I went through a time period when I was OBESESSED with Maureen because I really thought I looked like her, with dark hair and perfectly cut bangs, I thought I could actually pull her look off. I got myself a black and white sorta 60s style dress, my friend did my makeup for the first time and it did come out pretty well (until I found out for the first time that eyeliner comes off and spreads when you rub your eye and by the end of the night I kinda looked like a raccoon).

Some of my favorite pictures of The Beatles are when they dressed up for Halloween parties. I remember seeing one picture when John dressed up as a Teddy Boy and walked around looking like Elvis and being super cute! Maureen and Ringo always did their best to dress up for the parties and managed to be an adorable couple in the process with matching costumes.

One thing I would love to experience someday is going to a Beatles themed Halloween party where all of the people there are dressed up in every style The Beatles were each year. Like 1964 would be their nice suits with the 'Mop Top' hair style, I'd most likely dress up as 1966 Beatles with the rectangle sunglasses with awesome pre-hippie style clothing. You can't forget the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band uniforms and end off with the Abbey Road/1970s style Beatles clothes. You never know, maybe someday I'll have one of these parties and my dream will be made!

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Beatles and Baby names

The Beatles did an amazing and horrible thing at the same time. In most of the songs, they reference a name, sometimes a girl name and sometimes even a boy name. By doing this, it provides a reason for Beatles fans to name their children after those names, hey, maybe even after the song title itself!


Would you be daring enough to do this? Many generations have and I think that it will still last for generations to come. I'd like to keep it going by even naming my children after Beatles songs/Beatles referenced things (I hope).


The reason I would like to do this is because The Beatles brought me happiness and helped me through the hard parts of my life, that my children being named after Beatles song(s), they could go to it when they're down and it'll help them feel better.


In the era today, it isn't uncommon or parents to name their children to name them unique names, many of those people being famous. When The Beatles were famous, naming children uncommon names were actually very uncommon itself and I bet they would never believe that someday their songs would be used to name children.


What makes me mad about this topic is the opinion that people have against the people named after Beatles songs, that their opinion of how negative The Beatles actually were is a reason why people shouldn't name them after songs. 

I'm a kind of person that doesn't mind that people have different opinions over a topic, but why is it such a big deal that people are named after Beatles themed names? Yes, I completely understand that many people don't like The Beatles (mainly about the things they did in the 60s), but you agree that people could be named odd, non normal names? 

This is a very flexible generation and a older generations need to learn that uncommon names are going to be showing up more and more, and that things won't change just because of their opinion.


If you'd like to read an article about a young girls story about her Beatles themed name, go ahead and check it out! http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/strawberry-fields-forever-beatles-teen-4538571

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Help! vs All My Loving

So I decided to start this new topic that I take 2 Beatles and kinda compare/contrast them and then talk about my likes/dislikes about them. How I decide which songs to pick, I basically put shuffle on my music list and had it pick 2 random Beatles songs. This time the songs are Help! and All My Loving 

*these are all my own opinions so if you don't agree with some of them, that's ok!*


Help! - Help! album, 1965 

~ written and sung by John Lennon 

All My Loving - With The Beatles, 1963 

~ written by Lennon/McCartney, sung by Paul McCartney 


Compare: They both have classic Beatles "reflection" topics, in which you listen to the songs and they remind you of points in your life. Both talk about a later time in life how they had lost something and want to receive it back (AML: love; H: help from someone). They talk about how they both need love, hoping that they'll never lose the love they had before.


Contrast: You can tell between the McCartney song and the Lennon song for sure. In AML, it's basically just talking about love and being away from your love, "sending your love" and "tomorrow I'll miss you", hoping that your love receives the love you can't give them (McCartney based love song). In Help!, it's basically John's cry for help, talking about his life before and putting it in the way he was feeling at the time, "won't you please, please help me". It always talks about a persons life and how you need to take new chances, doing things you've never done before, that you never thought you could do.


Likes: Both of these songs are good to listen to when you need a little pickmeup when you're feeling down. AML promises that no matter what when you're away from your love, they'll always remember that you love them and it'll keep your mind at ease. Help! tells you to forget what happeneds in the past, get help from others and yourself to make it to the future, try new things and keep yourself the way you are to make life to the fullest.


Dislikes: I'm not really a big love song fan and I've head AML so much that it's not one of my favorite ones (generic Paul love song), Help! is also one of the songs that I've heard so many times that I tend not to listen to it, plus it brings back the story in which John wrote it and it's just really, really, REALLY sad. 


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