A Music Experiment
There are times when I listen to an album from the 60s-70s and wonder what it felt like to have it in your hands the day it released and hear it for the first time.
Sergeant Pepper. Or Dark Side of the Moon. Or Who's Next.
You wouldn't have heard or seen any early reviews. Going in totally blind.
Plus, particularly in the case of the Beatles, the progression over time was insane. And they were pumping out multiple albums a year for the first three years, then one a year after that. Incredible pace.
I decided to try an experiment, and hopefully Eli 24.8 will do it with me, because he has no concept of how quickly the Beatles developed musically.
Basically, I want to listen to the Beatles albums (and possibly the Rolling Stones and the Who on the same timeline) as they came out. So designate day one as March 22, 1963 (the day Please Please Me came out) and progress from there, one day at a time.
It will take seven years for the Beatles. Longer for the other two groups, obviously (plus the Stones started a year after the Beatles, the Who two years later).
I might compress the timeline a bit, but I actually really like the idea of the same amount of time elapsing as the original releases. And I'd stop at the end of 1973, after the Who put out Quadrophenia. The Beatles had broken up, the Who never released another great album, and the Rolling Stones had 1-2 hits on each album after that but no truly great albums.
Total time: ten years and nine month.
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