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Anyone not like The Beatles?

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  • #32
    PeterIanStaker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭PeterIanStaker


    The Kinks were the best, and still are. Ray Davies, what a songwriter!!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpL4xbfmXlQ


  • #33
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    hondasam wrote: »
    I'd say moody blue :pac:
    Actually you'd be right! :D
    (...And others)
    ...And its Moody Blues.


  • #34
    7sr2z3fely84g5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭7sr2z3fely84g5


    Anthology series was great,can be got very cheap from amazon if you never seen it.


  • #35
    Badgermonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,018 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    123balltv wrote: »
    give me the Rolling Stones anyday

    But they're a Vegas cabaret act today, how Keef is happy to tolerate it I'll never know.


    Most likely he's oblivious.


  • #36
    Acoshla
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    I cannot stand them, never liked them, I just hate everything about them, hate their voices, their look, their songs, in particular I hate John Lennon.


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  • #37
    Alter-Ego
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Alter-Ego


    People who don't appreciate The Beatles should curl up and die or leave the planet.

    I mean that in the nicest way possible. :)


  • #38
    mrsdewinter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,197 ✭✭✭mrsdewinter


    I think at this stage, it's not a matter of liking or disliking The Beatles. For anybody born after 1970, they've supplied the soundtrack of our lives.
    It's terminally uncool but I'm a bit 'meh' about John Lennon. I'd say he was a tedious pr1ck to be around and it really bugs me when grown men cite one of his supposedly witty aphorisms. He was a songwriter, not a philosopher.


  • #39
    Stained Class
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,808 ✭✭✭Stained Class


    PeterIanStaker wrote: »
    The Kinks were the best, and still are. Ray Davies, what a songwriter!!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpL4xbfmXlQ

    The Kinks are brill!

    Think of this though.

    The Beatles were(arguably) the first mainstream act to have singers, songwriters, & musicians in one unit.

    They changed everything in popular music!

    Without them, they'ed be no Rolling Stones, Who, Kinks & all who followed....


  • #40
    Pwindedd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭Pwindedd


    I was never a big fan, but then I saw the film Across the Universe and it kind of put their music into context for me. They say (don't know who they are, so don't ask) everyone goes through a Beatles phase at some stage of their life. This film was mine.


  • #41
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    PeterIanStaker wrote: »
    The Kinks were the best, and still are. Ray Davies, what a songwriter!!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpL4xbfmXlQ

    A great band, and a great song in particular.


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  • #42
    Badgermonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,018 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    Stained Class wrote: »
    Think of this though.

    The Beatles were(arguably) the first mainstream act to have singers, songwriters, & musicians in one unit.

    I'm arguing, they simply weren't.


  • #43
    7sr2z3fely84g5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭7sr2z3fely84g5


    Found it stupid that pete best *who?* is cut out of their history..


  • #44
    Smartly Dressed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 555 ✭✭✭Smartly Dressed


    Mediocre singers.

    Led Zeppelin is the greatest band of all time!


  • #45
    giggsy664
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,457 ✭✭✭giggsy664


    Tbh, their early stuff, while not great, is still worth listening to, as it's better than a decent proportion of other music. Music is subjective, so a lot of people will like the Beatles, a lot won't. And that's ok.

    However, I'd be hard-pressed to find another band that can write a feel-good song about a boy who murdered 3 people with a silver hammer:pac:.


  • #46
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Biggins wrote: »
    Actually you'd be right! :D
    (...And others)
    ...And its Moody Blues.

    are you sure bout that ?
    I'm trusting you here.


  • #47
    JohnathanM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 410 ✭✭JohnathanM


    Lads, you're all doing it wrong:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFIMWRXWY90


    As the man himself said, on The Beatles:

    "I didn't hate them. I actually like two or three of their songs. I just thought they were ridiculous. What was so disgusting was the way they were consumed and merchandised. No music has succeeded in America unless it was accompanied by something to wear, something to dance or a hairdo. A phenomenon is not going to occur unless you can dress up to it.    "

    In other words, a boy band.


  • #48
    Dravokivich
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    Biggins wrote: »
    Actually you'd be right! :D
    (...And others)
    ...And its Moody Blues.
    hondasam wrote: »
    are you sure bout that ?
    I'm trusting you here.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NQwiGTXoRU


    T'is Blue...


  • #49
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Moody Blues:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9muzyOd4Lh8


    ...And I was born before the 70's.


  • #50
    admiralofthefleet
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    i like about two of their songs but thats it


  • #51
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Interesting that some people are mentioning how the fact that they don't like Lennon or McCartney as people puts them off the band, as that was one reason why I was a latecomer to them. Harrison seemed ok (though I don't like that he played guitar on that nasty Lennon song about McCartney, "How do You Sleep at Night", I think). Ringo seemed ok till the whole not replying to fanmail thing (did he not see that episode of The Simpsons!?). McCartney seems like a bit of a tool and Lennon came across as a vicious, petty, mean-spirited bastid.
    But...I just love the music so much I can disassociate it from their personalities.


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  • #52
    Stained Class
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    Badgermonkey wrote: »
    I'm arguing, they simply weren't.

    Okay, lets hear more about your 'arguement'..............?


  • #53
    7sr2z3fely84g5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭7sr2z3fely84g5


    I get me coat....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcBofzIYVNY


  • #54
    Dravokivich
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    Biggins wrote: »
    Moody Blues:

    ...And I was born before the 70's.

    Ah I see... didn't know you were referring to a band.


  • #55
    Badgermonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,018 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    It's so subjective the whole argument is a nonsense tbh.

    Personally, I do think Side 2 of Abbey Road is amazing and George Harrison was a practitioner of non-flashy but perfectly judged playing.


  • #56
    Owen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,678 ✭✭✭✭Owen


    Can't stand them. I sub with a lot of bands in Cork, and the three rules I have if I'm to stand in with a band are no Beatles, no Irish Country and Western, and no Boyband stuff.


  • #57
    The King of Moo
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    JohnathanM wrote: »
    Lads, you're all doing it wrong:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFIMWRXWY90


    As the man himself said, on The Beatles:

    "I didn't hate them. I actually like two or three of their songs. I just thought they were ridiculous. What was so disgusting was the way they were consumed and merchandised. No music has succeeded in America unless it was accompanied by something to wear, something to dance or a hairdo. A phenomenon is not going to occur unless you can dress up to it."

    In other words, a boy band.

    That's certainly a fair point to make about them in their early years, though they did move beyond the pop sound and suit and mop of hair look.


  • #58
    orourkeda
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    As musicians they are really very ordinary and it is difficult to understand why they are such a revered musical outfit (for me at least)


  • #59
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    Ah I see... didn't know you were referring to a band.
    Thats ok - your young. :)
    I'm older. :o


  • #60
    Paparazzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,395 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    squod wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE2Vdcv9Q_o


    Anyone who likes this kind of rubbish needs their head examined removed.

    Show me to the guillotine then.


    And not forgetting they released everything over a 7 year period. Dont think any band can come close to the impact the beatles had over such a short period.


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  • #61
    Badgermonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,018 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    Stained Class wrote: »
    Okay, lets hear more about your 'arguement'..............?

    Well one quite comparable 'mainstream' unit preceding the Beatles were the Beach Boys, who only later moved to recording with session guys.


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