What are you listening to right now?

[think positive]

[David]

While we’re on The Beatles, here’s Bill Maher making a massive ass of himself with Julian Lennon by asking him about "Hey Jules", the song "his dad wrote for him".

https://youtu.be/DYuPsoEPs2w?feature=shared

[KenH]

[stui magpie]

[Pies4shaw]

[Magpietothemax]

Exactly correct Pies4Shaw. True art is not just defined by what the individual at that moment likes best. Otherwise there would be no art as such: It would just be whatever tickles every individual's fancy at that moment.
I don't have any specialised artistic knowledge whatsoever. However, one thing that I have learned from my reading of the subject is that one way to identify art of a historic, significant nature, is how it appeals across generations. A classic example is Shakespeare, whose works capture the emotions and the essence of humanity which span generations.
The Beatles are relatively recent in history...not like Shakespeare. But, we can see the tendencies. Their music holds sway over generations. There is no let up in their popularity, despite having disbanded over 50 years ago.

[Pies4shaw]

[David]

Anyway seems I am the massive ass here, as I just watched the longer clip in which he does in fact correctly attribute the song to Paul McCartney. It must have just been whoever titled the video having a swing and a miss.

[Pies4shaw]

[Pies4shaw]

[think positive]

the songs sound so much better in their voices dont they!

i never said i hate their songs, i hate their sound!

[LaurieHolden]

Growing up in the Riverina, our local radio station was 2WG. I was raised on a staple of 'hits and memories of the 50's, 60's and 70's' and Casey Kasem's American Top 40.
My radio had a Short Wave band, which for a country kid blew my mind given some of the relatively obscure geographic locations and stations that would take me to.
Where I first discovered Blues music.

With that, growing up, what was everyone's local radio station identification/ handle?

[stui magpie]

^

The kitchen radio was on the ABC. My dad would have a fit if anyone changed it.

I got a little transistor radio when I was around 7 or 8, the 2 main local stations were 3SR (Shepparton) and 2QN (Deniliquin) on the AM band.

[think positive]

i hate radio.

i play cds

[Pies4shaw]

3XY and 3AK, mostly. One or other of them had an album show on Sunday night that did things like play the entirety of "Brain Salad Surgery" and "Dark Side of the Moon" before they were released in Australia. Either or both of them used to play "oldies" - in 1972, eg, that meant playing a Joe Cocker number from 1969 or playing Steppenwolf's original of Born to Be Wild, instead of Slade's. Once in a blue moon, you'd even hear something "new" like the original of Johnny B. Goode or Lucille that you'd not come across. Also, Chris Winter's show on 3LO (now ABC 774) before the old 2JJ was set up was a massive conduit for music that was otherwise inaccessible in the days when you didn't hear interesting music unless you bought the vinyl and most of us couldn't afford much vinyl. Specifically, I recall first hearing Terrapin from Syd Barrett's "The Madcap Laughs", Johny Shines playing Skull and Crossbone Blues and the whole of Dob Dylan and the Band's "Before the Flood". In those days, those programs were actual treasure troves in a way that youtube, streaming services and the relatively trivial cost of CDs have rendered irrelevant/obsolete.

In fact, the DJs could provide valuable information just by reading the liner notes of the LPs. It's hard to think back and understand just how little music we were exposed to and how little we knew about any of these recordings or artists in those days.

Ther other thing was that those those radio stations were critical for professional musicians - if you wanted to play a hit, the sheet music was useless - the only way to play the song was to "tape" it and then spend hours painstakingly working out, note by note, what the performers were playing on the recording. And if you wanted to play anything that wasn't a hit and you didn't own the album, you just had to hope that one of the more expansive programs would eventually play it.

One day, the internet was invented and I was able to find out, eg, that the reason all the brilliant piano playing on most of the Rolling Stones, Kinks and Who albums - and important Beatles songs like Revolution - was so sophisticated was because it was the same fellow doing it all (the magnificent Nicky Hopkins). Around the same time, I learnt that my only "pin up" rock pianist from childhood - Leon Russell - had provided the keyboards or arrangements on about 25,000 (hyperbole) number 1 hits in the US. As for working out music, I can scarcely express the extent of my disbelief when I cam home from work one day a few years ago to find my son sitting at the kitchen table, casually playing The Mahavishnu Orchestra's Birds of Fire from tablature notation created on the internet. He could just read it and play it in real time - putting aside my irritation that he had that reading skill, I had spent weeks trying to work out that song for my band to play in 1975, just by listening to a cassette recording I'd made from the Sunday night albium show.

In the mornings, my Mum always listened to 3DB. The presenter loved Ray Charles, Nat Kiing Cole, Tom Jones (especially, Green Green Grass of Home) and middle of the road music like the Theme from Doctor Zhivago and Elvira Madigan etc etc. And Taking a Trip up to Abergavenny (sp?). Also, Herb Alpert (the theme from Casino Royale especially). Once again, there was a limit to what you could hear elsewhere, so this was all fascinating to me.