# I'm Hosting the party and playing The Beatles - choose Red or Blue **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [March 2, 2022, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358 "2022-03-02T17:28:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/41 "2022-03-04T04:03:51Z")
Oh alright I’ll go with [Red.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdcMHWBBSm0&list=PL6ogdCG3tAWjYWwQ7uWVrwg-9YawR_N-1) > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > it’s a weird album, and an even weirder movie. It’s widely felt that it was a major factor in ending Peter Frampton’s run of success in the '70s, as well. /derail/ Hm, I’m pretty sure [I’m In You](https://www.google.com/search?q=peter+frampton+-+im+in+you+-+gatefold&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiW8umTyKv2AhV7AzQIHSN7B50Q2-cCegQIABAA&oq=peter+frampton+-+im+in+you+-+gatefold&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQA1DcB1i2L2DsNmgAcAB4AIABhgGIAdsIkgEEMTcuMZgBAKABAaoBC2d3cy13aXotaW1nwAEB&sclient=img&ei=GI4hYpaGM_uG0PEPo_ad6Ak&bih=576&biw=853&rlz=1C1CHBD_enCA835CA835) came out before _SP._ /d/ If I was stuck to picking only three of the best Beatle partying numbers (but might make for a quickly reptitive mix-tape 🙂)… Birthday (if it’s someone’s b-day, but if not…) I Wanna Hold Your Hand Hey Bulldog Tomorow Never Knows ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/42 "2022-03-04T04:15:45Z")
Although I was too young for the first run of the Beatles I did have both Red and Blue in high school. I wore out Blue I played it so much. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/43 "2022-03-04T04:47:36Z")
For a party I vote red. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/44 "2022-03-04T12:46:04Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > The songs on the Blue album are better overall. But the songs on the Red album are better for playing at a party. Perfectly said, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/45 "2022-03-04T12:48:10Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > In legend, everyone in England spent the late sixties and early seventies asking each other “Beatles or Stones??” Had this ever happened to me I would have answered…Kinks, of course Ha! I kind you not, my son said this to an adult friend when he was six years old. (We had been listening together to the Village Green album, which Dopers had alerted me to. Thanks, folks!) ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/46 "2022-03-04T13:09:29Z")
lol well if one could say the kinks … ill raise you the clash … Now if you wanted to end the party id always play the sex pistols …of course that didn’t always work ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/47 "2022-03-04T13:28:49Z")
🙂 I say 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/48 "2022-03-04T16:19:40Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Oh alright I’ll go with [Red.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdcMHWBBSm0&list=PL6ogdCG3tAWjYWwQ7uWVrwg-9YawR_N-1) > > > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > > > it’s a weird album, and an even weirder movie. It’s widely felt that it was a major factor in ending Peter Frampton’s run of success in the '70s, as well. > > /derail/ Hm, I’m pretty sure [I’m In You](https://www.google.com/search?q=peter+frampton+-+im+in+you+-+gatefold&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiW8umTyKv2AhV7AzQIHSN7B50Q2-cCegQIABAA&oq=peter+frampton+-+im+in+you+-+gatefold&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQA1DcB1i2L2DsNmgAcAB4AIABhgGIAdsIkgEEMTcuMZgBAKABAaoBC2d3cy13aXotaW1nwAEB&sclient=img&ei=GI4hYpaGM_uG0PEPo_ad6Ak&bih=576&biw=853&rlz=1C1CHBD_enCA835CA835) came out before _SP._ /d/ Just to pile on the derail… I remember an old National Lampoon where they were parodying those K-Tel various hits by various artists type of albums. One had a Peter Frampton track listed with the title “Do You Feel Like I’m In You?” 😂 ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/49 "2022-03-04T21:50:17Z")
^ 😛 _Ooo baby I love your thirty days in the hole._ Meanwhile, ha! no one’s fallen for my fiendish, _deceptive trap_ yet! 🤭 ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/50 "2022-03-04T21:59:52Z")
Red for alcohol party. Blue for a pot party. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/51 "2022-03-04T22:56:43Z")
Hah! That’s one cool kid. j ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/52 "2022-03-05T14:45:25Z")
Wow, I appreciate the varied responses. I will play Red and include a few songs from Blue into the play list. Looking forward to hosting our first post-covid party. Still working out the details. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358.md?page=2)