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The Beatles.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭nocoverart


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    Bland bland music,especially from the perspective of that era.Basically the one direction of the 60's,but everybody thinks its "cool" to like the Beatles hence their constant re-emergence.

    Thank you!


    The most overrated of all the overrated dribble forced upon us. The original boy band each manufactured with a certain character and look to target teenage girls.

    So not much has changed then... Sh1tty POP songs with sh1tty lyrics.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    they were no def leppard


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭Mr Tibbs


    darced wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    You need to change the batteries in your hearing aid the as ones your using now were probably made by a Simon Cowel company.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    When people used to compare Oasis/Blur to the Beatles/Stones rivalry I used to laugh for various reasons but I always did think if were comparing bands that Blur were actually much more like The Kinks than the Beatles.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭mathepac


    mitosis wrote: »
    Rickenbacker 360....
    Apologies.
    mitosis wrote: »
    ... Their influence is overplayed. ...
    I'd say it's little understood as I tried to get across briefly in my first post. For example, they gave the Rolling Stanes their first UK hit single. I mean "gave" in a literal sense. John & Paul finished the composition in the Stones' recording studio en route to a function.
    mitosis wrote: »
    ... If it wasn't them it'd have been somebody else ...
    Highly unlikely IMHO.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭mathepac


    ... to the Beatles/Stones rivalry I used to laugh for various reasons ...
    Hopefully one of the reason is that there never was any such rivalry. The bands and individual members were good pals back then hanging out together and the Stones appeared on The Beatles' "All You Need Is Love" trans-European simulcast back in the day, visited France, Antigua and Ireland together where "You could be jus' like a regulah geezah dahn the pub, maite, know wot I mean?" to quote Bill Wyman before he recorded "I Wheeze Like A Rock Star".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    sadly I bought Je suis un rock star :o



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,056 ✭✭✭darced


    This post has been deleted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,996 ✭✭✭mitosis


    mathepac wrote: »
    they gave the Rolling Stanes their first UK hit single.

    I think you'll find that also is mistaken.

    Their first hit, "Come on" was a Chuck Berry song. Their second hit was indeed an LMcC composition.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,186 ✭✭✭Nichololas


    I think the Beatles really perfected rock with 'Paint it Black'


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 168 ✭✭kirb42


    A very fruitful and prolific 7 years... I'd say


    Original UK LPs
    Please Please Me (1963)
    With the Beatles (1963)
    A Hard Day's Night (1964)
    Beatles for Sale (1964)
    Help! (1965)
    Rubber Soul (1965)
    Revolver (1966)
    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
    The Beatles (1968)
    Yellow Submarine (1969)
    Abbey Road (1969)
    Let It Be (1970)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    "I'm not really a fan of the Beatles. I know they did a lot for music and they changed music forever, I don't dislike them or anything, I just never really took to them."

    "WHAT?! You just don't really appreciate them properly. Here, I'll explain it to you...."

    Every. Fukking. Time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,795 ✭✭✭enfant terrible


    Sacksian wrote: »
    Obviously, this makes no sense.

    They played all their instruments, wrote all their songs and their records brought a host of innovative recording/production techniques to the mainstream.

    All the innovative recording/production techniques were down to George Martin not the Beatles who to be fair created pretty rubbish music till they met him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 168 ✭✭kirb42


    orestes wrote: »
    "I'm not really a fan of the Beatles. I know they did a lot for music and they changed music forever, I don't dislike them or anything, I just never really took to them."

    "WHAT?! You just don't really appreciate them properly. Here, I'll explain it to you...."

    Every. Fukking. Time.


    Simple really....its all about the melody.... you either hear it, or you dont...:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,012 ✭✭✭Kerplunk124


    They ripped off The Be Sharps


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 381 ✭✭Gorilla Rising


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    The yardbirds,Cream,Led Zeppelin,Hendrix,Bob dylan,The who,The velvet underground,the allman brothers,the byrds,john coltrane,john mayalls bluesbreakers,simon and garfunkel.You could go on and on.

    This post is laughable.

    You've simply rattled off a few bands you prefer and a few you deem obscure enough to make it appear you know what you're talking about.

    It can easily be argued that the likes of Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and Little Richard were much bigger influences (along with the Beatles) thatnwhat you've named, with the exception of John Coltrane.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    The Beatles (with George Martin at the controls) > Utterly groundbreaking, setting the standard for decades to come.

    The perfect mix of voices & personalities to conquer the pop world of the 60s (US inc), with a burning passion that would ensure they burnt
    themselves out within a decade, and that's exactly what happened, but what a catalogue of songs they left behind! Never to be surpassed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,234 ✭✭✭trouttrout


    Love the Beatles, but imo Odyssey and Oracle by The Zombies is the best album of that period. Absolutely sublime


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    Their music is good but I hate john Lennon and Paul McCartney as people. John Lennon was full of ****,singing songs about peace and love while beating the crap out of his wife behind closed doors.it makes my blood boil when I see dopey saps celebrating him like he was the massiah.Paul mccartney then is just a smug money grabbing old cut throsy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,731 ✭✭✭✭entropi


    Never liked anything I've heard from them. I've heard the "but you do realise what they brought to music, right?" argument quite a few times, but I won't be drawn into a pointless lecture about why I should like them. Just like many other people, I'll never like them/their music.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    All the innovative recording/production techniques were down to George Martin not the Beatles who to be fair created pretty rubbish music till they met him.

    George Martin produced loads of other singers and bands. If he was that much a genius and changed them that much how come he never changed his other acts so much? Don't get me wrong I think he was hugely influential on the Beatles but people get infatuated on him.

    He didn't do much with Cilla Black now did he?

    I like the Group America but I wouldn't call the production revolutionary.

    Obviously for any neutral observer it was The Beatles themselves which made all the difference which I am sure George Martin himself would acknowledge.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,795 ✭✭✭enfant terrible


    George Martin produced loads of other singers and bands. If he was that much a genius and changed them that much how come he never changed his other acts so much? Don't get me wrong I think he was hugely influential on the Beatles but people get infatuated on him.

    He didn't do much with Cilla Black now did he?

    I like the Group America but I wouldn't call the production revolutionary.

    Obviously for any neutral observer it was The Beatles themselves which made all the difference which I am sure George Martin himself would acknowledge.

    So you think its a coincidence they went from creating rubbish music to great music the day they started working with George Martin?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    trouttrout wrote: »
    Love the Beatles, but imo Odyssey and Oracle by The Zombies is the best album of that period. Absolutely sublime

    Keep pointing this out to people but some idiot in the printing presses at the time spelled Odyssey wrong. So off it went and thousands were printed with the wrong spelling. Finally someone noticed it and they thought it was a clever pun or something but as the band members later admitted it was just an error which still remains on the cover today

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Odessey_and_Oracle.jpg

    Except for Time of the season and a few other songs they never really did it for me. Their music was too timid or something.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    So you think its a coincidence they went from creating rubbish music to great music the day they started working with George Martin?

    If I remember correctly they were in Hamburg before they made a record and played a huge amount of gigs honing their craft and getting laid.

    When they came back they played a load more gigs at places like The Cavern.
    They actually hadn't written many songs at this stage. They were still very young. Plus they left Sutcliffe behind in Hamburg

    They were hugely proficient before they met Martin but they never made an album until martin came along so what rubbish music are you referring to.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    Allergic to them.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭mathepac


    mitosis wrote: »
    ... Their first hit, "Come on" was a Chuck Berry song. Their second hit was indeed an LMcC composition.
    First UK Top 20 hit then. Nothing like being kept honest :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,397 ✭✭✭✭cena


    My mother was John Lennon's nanny for there kids when she lived in New York.
    Not A word of a lie


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    The extremes of Beatlmania didn't do them them any favours and they would be to first t to admit at the height of their fame ,they were 'Beatled to death ' by the whole mop top image .It's always been popular in some circles over the decades to say how over rated they were while forgetting how many bands reference and admit to them being a major influence


    As for the music itself ...

    There is no denying they wrote some great songs with amazing chord structures ,verse, bridge, chorus and some of their vocals and harmonizing on the first 7 albums Please Please Me , With the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night, Beatles For Sale, Help ,Rubber Soul and Revolver is simply first class

    The last 6 albums Sgt Pepper ,Yellow Submarine ,Magical Mystery Tour ,White Album ,Abbey Road and Let It Be show how much they had progresed
    and matured as studio musicians who wern't just a '3 chord trick ' band.

    I'm a Beatles fan although I'm never been enamoured by the nasty side of John Lennons personality .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    The shi-tty Beatles. Love em.



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    Bland bland music,especially from the perspective of that era.Basically the one direction of the 60's,but everybody thinks its "cool" to like the Beatles hence their constant re-emergence.
    So what are One Direction's equivalent songs to Helter Skelter, A Day in the Life and Tomorrow Never Knows?


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