Well, hello! I'm Tomo (that's basically Tom:).
I posted something similar on 'How did you discover Beatles', because I didn't find this thread..
I find this forum very nice. I've been participating in DM's daily quiz for some time now (with mixed results) and decided I should join.
I really love The Beatles, though they were not my childhood favourites or anything. I kind of slowly started to love them, for a lack of a better word. I must admit that I'm primarily a Bob Dylan fan.
My favourite Beatles' album is Sgt. Pepper, most of the time. Favourite song is Happiness is a warm gun or Nowhere man or...
Well. I was born in '85 and ever since I discovered old records by my father and uncle, The Beatles were a band that somehow floated around. But i was so occupied with dylan and the doors (which i still am:) that I never payed any special attention to them, not even when I bought my first cd of theirs, Help!. Then I bought Revolver, beacuse i read somewhere it's the best album of all times. I liked it but wasn't exactly blown away. It was only a few years ago when I started to listen to Sgt. Pepper and then one night I just remained in front of my cd-player, singing every song and even imagining I am the leader of this lonely heart's club band! From then on I bought the remaining cds and saved enough money for Mono remasters and The Beatles are now firmly placed on the second spot of my musical influences...
Right now I'm very much into Anthologies and want to discover more Beatles' bootlegs, but I know from my dylan experience that bootlegs can be hit and miss, so I'll just take it as it comes.
I must also say that I'm glad that Beatles never got together again, 'cos it would be the biggest anticlimax in history, from my point of view...Like, the Stones remained together and all that (and I'm a big fan of theirs), but their recent tours are nothing more than uninspired warhorses show.
