Just how awesome are The Beatles?!

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  • tcaporaletcaporale Posts: 1,577
    Yeah, that's fine, I don't understand why you're getting so much grief for not connecting emotionally to something. What, are you supposed to force yourself to like it?

    I mean, personally, Pearl Jam have played a bigger role in my life than the Beatles as well. So in that respect I agree with you, even though I think the Beatles were geniuses.
  • DangDangDangDang Posts: 1,551
    Horos wrote:
    And did someone actually say Ed's lyrics are more articulate? Half the time it sounds like he's singing with a mouth full of crackers.

    Ed is much more articulate with regard to : using language easily and fluently; having facility with words; or expressed, formulated, or presented with clarity and effectiveness:

    and not

    uttered clearly in distinct syllables.

    Don't worry. Beatles take the cake with the latter definition.
  • ZosoZoso Posts: 6,425
    you don't necessarily have to connect lyrically to a song to like, enjoy it or have meaning to it. I love the beatles top 5 band easily. the best band of all time no doubt.
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    I just listened to previews of each song on each album off their official website.
    Nothing excites me, maybe 4-5 songs.
    Lyrics aren't my thing.


    how old are you? Have you really never heard their music before? If I have kids, they will be taught the biblical scripture according to john paul george and ringo.

    Umm 25. Heard some songs which I have that are okay but the rest don't do anything for me sorry.
    If I want 60's I'll listen to The Doors, Velvet Underground, Jimi Hendrix Experience etc...

    even if you never listened to them with intent, just like abba songs, beatles songs seem to have seeped into the subconscious of a certain generation.

    in the 70s when i was a child singing was a part of our school curriculum. wed sit in class and maybe once a week be subjected to a programme where we learned 'state approved' songs. years later during my musical awakening i discovered than i knew more beatles songs than i could remember actually listening to(they wereneverplayed in my house). turns out those songs we were taught in school were sometimes beatles songs.


    dont sweat it TA theres no law that says you MUST like the beatles or even appreciate them.
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  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
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  • nuffingmannuffingman Posts: 3,014
    The Beatles didn't grab me that much. Some very good songs but some incredibly lame songs as well. Always preferred the Stones.
  • DangDangDangDang Posts: 1,551
    They are as awesome as 1% of Pearl Jam!
  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Bump. I just had to.

    I'm always on a Beatles high.

    Did anyone get the Rolling Stone issue of The Beatles' 100 Greatest Songs? It's great. How many artists or bands do you know that can have that many timeless songs?

    I just want to add this: the only band/artist in the history of music to claim the top 5 spots of the Billboard Top 100. That's something we will never see again.

    I forgive the person/people who are not into The Beatles. I understand you tried and couldn't get into them. That's cool with me.
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  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    You mean 'were'?

    They broke up in 1970.
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    Byrnzie wrote:
    You mean 'were'?

    They broke up in 1970.

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  • I have tried to be a Beatles fan, I just do not like their music. I like a few songs, but thats about it. They were a very successfull, popular band who sold millions of records. They have been an influence on many bands since the 60's, but their music (to me) just isnt that great, or even good. BTW Jim Morrison was by far a better lyricist than any Beatle.

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  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Grunge100 wrote:
    I have tried to be a Beatles fan, I just do not like their music. I like a few songs, but thats about it. They were a very successfull, popular band who sold millions of records. They have been an influence on many bands since the 60's, but their music (to me) just isnt that great, or even good. BTW Jim Morrison was by far a better lyricist than any Beatle.

    Cheers....

    1. More than a billion of records they have sold.
    2. Jim Morrison is no where near Lennon and McCartney as a lyricist.
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  • Brisk.Brisk. Posts: 11,567
    Don't think I get them.
  • veddertownveddertown Scotland Posts: 5,260
    I absolutely love The Beatles. Along with PJ, REM, The Black Crowes, Sonic Youth, Masters Of Reality, Kyuss and a few others they are one of my most listened to bands. It doesn't matter to me to fully connect to every lyric with any artist, just for the music to take me where I want it. I do love the lyrics of many Beatles songs but it doesn't come first. The White Album is an amazing album as is Revolver, Abbey Road, Let It Be, Sgt. Pepper and Rubber Soul. I spend a lot of time with these albums and have been listening to them for almost 30 years now and know them inside out. Loads of people I know are still discovering The Beatles and I don't think I've even fully discovered them. Since the stereo remasters came out I'm starting to hear things differently again from the previous remastering and that's amazing to me considering it came out such a long time ago. Absolutely timeless music that will be loved forever and my children even know the words to half their music now. :D
    My Beatles top 20: ...or so.. :D
    In no particular order....

    Dear Prudence
    While My Guitar Gently Weeps
    I'm So Tired
    Blackbird
    Rocky Raccoon
    Happiness Is A Warm Gun
    Dr. Robert
    Here, There and Everywhere
    And Your Bird Can Sing
    I'm Only Sleeping
    Your Mother Should Know
    Fixing A Hole
    She's Leaving Home
    Nowhere Man
    The Word
    Wait
    If I Needed Someone
    Two Of Us
    Across The Universe
    Paperback Writer
    Yesterday
    The Night Before
    And I Love Her
    You Can't Do That
    Come Together
    Someting
    Maxwell's Silver Hammer
    I Want You
    Sun King
    Like a book among the many on a shelf...

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  • Newch91 wrote:
    Grunge100 wrote:
    I have tried to be a Beatles fan, I just do not like their music. I like a few songs, but thats about it. They were a very successfull, popular band who sold millions of records. They have been an influence on many bands since the 60's, but their music (to me) just isnt that great, or even good. BTW Jim Morrison was by far a better lyricist than any Beatle.

    Cheers....

    1. More than a billion of records they have sold.
    2. Jim Morrison is no where near Lennon and McCartney as a lyricist.

    1. Make it a trillion. Markey Mark sold millions of records, Was he any good?
    2. Come on. Most of their lyrics were gummy, just saying. :D

    The Beatles were a good band, and became popular at the right time in music history, nothing more, nothing less.

    Cheers..
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  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Grunge100 wrote:
    Newch91 wrote:
    Grunge100 wrote:
    I have tried to be a Beatles fan, I just do not like their music. I like a few songs, but thats about it. They were a very successfull, popular band who sold millions of records. They have been an influence on many bands since the 60's, but their music (to me) just isnt that great, or even good. BTW Jim Morrison was by far a better lyricist than any Beatle.

    Cheers....

    1. More than a billion of records they have sold.
    2. Jim Morrison is no where near Lennon and McCartney as a lyricist.

    1. Make it a trillion. Markey Mark sold millions of records, Was he any good?
    2. Come on. Most of their lyrics were gummy, just saying. :D

    The Beatles were a good band, and became popular at the right time in music history, nothing more, nothing less.

    Cheers..

    They're probably around 5 billion or more.
    Grummy? I don't think you've heard songs such as Tomorrow Never Knows or I Am the Walrus or even Across the Universe. I'll put those up against any Morrison song.
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  • I've been on a Beatles kick lately... I have everything from HELP! on up in pretty constant rotation. I'm loving the hell out of the songs "Two of Us" and "I'm Looking Through You" right now.
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  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    mbangel10 wrote:
    I've been on a Beatles kick lately... I have everything from HELP! on up in pretty constant rotation. I'm loving the hell out of the songs "Two of Us" and "I'm Looking Through You" right now.
    Great songs. The early stuff is fantastic. Hell, everything is fantastic. Get the early albums.
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  • Newch91 wrote:
    mbangel10 wrote:
    I've been on a Beatles kick lately... I have everything from HELP! on up in pretty constant rotation. I'm loving the hell out of the songs "Two of Us" and "I'm Looking Through You" right now.
    Great songs. The early stuff is fantastic. Hell, everything is fantastic. Get the early albums.

    I own them all... trust me. I just prefer everything past Help! That to me, is the benchmark album of when the band truly started to mature and write their most amazing songs. The majority of songs written post Help! are truly some of the best songs ever written. I break The Beatles in to two parts, the early bubble gum years and the later, experimental and truly creative years.
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  • youngsteryoungster Boston Posts: 6,576
    Grunge100 wrote:
    Newch91 wrote:
    Grunge100 wrote:
    I have tried to be a Beatles fan, I just do not like their music. I like a few songs, but thats about it. They were a very successfull, popular band who sold millions of records. They have been an influence on many bands since the 60's, but their music (to me) just isnt that great, or even good. BTW Jim Morrison was by far a better lyricist than any Beatle.

    Cheers....

    1. More than a billion of records they have sold.
    2. Jim Morrison is no where near Lennon and McCartney as a lyricist.

    1. Make it a trillion. Markey Mark sold millions of records, Was he any good?
    2. Come on. Most of their lyrics were gummy, just saying. :D

    The Beatles were a good band, and became popular at the right time in music history, nothing more, nothing less.

    Cheers..

    I think you meant to say that they MADE music history, no? The only other artist at that time that could stand up to the Beatles was Elvis. They revolutionized music to what it is today and almost any major artist of the last 40 years would count the Beatles as a musical influence. I don't think they became popular at the right time, I think they revolutionized music and then became popular. People had never heard anything like that before. The Beatles set the bar and no one has met it yet.
    He who forgets will be destined to remember.

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  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    mbangel10 wrote:
    Newch91 wrote:
    mbangel10 wrote:
    I've been on a Beatles kick lately... I have everything from HELP! on up in pretty constant rotation. I'm loving the hell out of the songs "Two of Us" and "I'm Looking Through You" right now.
    Great songs. The early stuff is fantastic. Hell, everything is fantastic. Get the early albums.

    I own them all... trust me. I just prefer everything past Help! That to me, is the benchmark album of when the band truly started to mature and write their most amazing songs. The majority of songs written post Help! are truly some of the best songs ever written. I break The Beatles in to two parts, the early bubble gum years and the later, experimental and truly creative years.

    If you look at Beatles for Sale, that's when they matured. Perfect example: I'm a Loser. Beatles for Sale was the result of their meeting with Dylan. If you listen to A Hard Days Night and then Beatles for Sale right after, you hear a huge difference. That album has Dylan written all over it.
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  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    youngster wrote:
    Grunge100 wrote:
    Newch91 wrote:
    1. More than a billion of records they have sold.
    2. Jim Morrison is no where near Lennon and McCartney as a lyricist.

    1. Make it a trillion. Markey Mark sold millions of records, Was he any good?
    2. Come on. Most of their lyrics were gummy, just saying. :D

    The Beatles were a good band, and became popular at the right time in music history, nothing more, nothing less.

    Cheers..

    I think you meant to say that they MADE music history, no? The only other artist at that time that could stand up to the Beatles was Elvis. They revolutionized music to what it is today and almost any major artist of the last 40 years would count the Beatles as a musical influence. I don't think they became popular at the right time, I think they revolutionized music and then became popular. People had never heard anything like that before. The Beatles set the bar and no one has met it yet.

    +1. youngster, you forgot about Dylan. Him and The Beatles influenced each other.
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  • youngsteryoungster Boston Posts: 6,576
    Newch91 wrote:
    +1. youngster, you forgot about Dylan. Him and The Beatles influenced each other.

    *smacks forehead*

    Of course, how could I forget about Mr. Dylan.
    He who forgets will be destined to remember.

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  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    youngster wrote:
    Newch91 wrote:
    +1. youngster, you forgot about Dylan. Him and The Beatles influenced each other.

    *smacks forehead*

    Of course, how could I forget about Mr. Dylan.

    I don't know how you did. After that first encounter with each other, everything changed.
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  • youngsteryoungster Boston Posts: 6,576
    Newch91 wrote:
    youngster wrote:
    Newch91 wrote:
    +1. youngster, you forgot about Dylan. Him and The Beatles influenced each other.

    *smacks forehead*

    Of course, how could I forget about Mr. Dylan.

    I don't know how you did. After that first encounter with each other, everything changed.

    Hey, you're over 2500 posts now. Did you renew the membership yet?
    He who forgets will be destined to remember.

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  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    youngster wrote:
    Newch91 wrote:
    youngster wrote:
    *smacks forehead*

    Of course, how could I forget about Mr. Dylan.

    I don't know how you did. After that first encounter with each other, everything changed.

    Hey, you're over 2500 posts now. Did you renew the membership yet?

    That's right. I am. I haven't renewed yet. Been busy doing homework this weekend with some time to come on here. I'll renew tonight.
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  • I think you meant to say that they MADE music history, no? The only other artist at that time that could stand up to the Beatles was Elvis. They revolutionized music to what it is today and almost any major artist of the last 40 years would count the Beatles as a musical influence. I don't think they became popular at the right time, I think they revolutionized music and then became popular. People had never heard anything like that before. The Beatles set the bar and no one has met it yet.[/quote]

    Sorry, Still no buying that, have you forgotten about Buddy Holly. The Beatles were a good band that formed at the right time in history. If not for the Beatles, another band (just possibly more talented) would have assumed this revolution in music, it just happened to be them. They made unassuming music that was bubbly, somewhat like what Sweet would do years later(sorry, low blow) :mrgreen:

    I am done, you have your opinion and I have mine.

    Cheers m8

    PS: Well at least we both like PJ.... :D
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  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Grunge100 wrote:
    I think you meant to say that they MADE music history, no? The only other artist at that time that could stand up to the Beatles was Elvis. They revolutionized music to what it is today and almost any major artist of the last 40 years would count the Beatles as a musical influence. I don't think they became popular at the right time, I think they revolutionized music and then became popular. People had never heard anything like that before. The Beatles set the bar and no one has met it yet.

    Sorry, Still no buying that, have you forgotten about Buddy Holly. The Beatles were a good band that formed at the right time in history. If not for the Beatles, another band (just possibly more talented) would have assumed this revolution in music, it just happened to be them. They made unassuming music that was bubbly, somewhat like what Sweet would do years later(sorry, low blow) :mrgreen:

    I am done, you have your opinion and I have mine.

    Cheers m8

    PS: Well at least we both like PJ.... :D[/quote]

    Did you just say that a band is more talented than the Beatles? Have you tried playing their early stuff on guitar and drums? They made crazy chord progressions and used crazy chords. They would add chords that didn't belong in the key and made it sound like it did. Ringo keeps his drumming so simple that it's that good. Tom Petty said when he would listen to the Beatles, George's solos were so simple he couldn't believe how simple they were. There will never be a band like The Beatles again who took over the world.
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  • veddertownveddertown Scotland Posts: 5,260
    Newch91 wrote:

    SorryThere will never be a band like The Beatles again who took over the world.

    Amen to that sir! :D
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  • The Beatles are beyond awesome, they are part of the fabric of British guitar music, you only have to look at the most commercially successful guitar band of recent times, Oasis to see their influence is as strong today as it ever was. To go from "Please Please Me" to "Let it Be" in just 7 years is insane! Although I have no real time for pre Revolver albums you watch the dance floor fill at a party when early Beatles is played!, I love all the albums after, there is gold on every one. (I make no defense of Revolution Number 9 tho).

    The Beatles cannot be judged in anyway other than as the greatest Rock and Roll band the world has seen. Any way you want to look at it they are the kings. Record sales, critical acclaim, and influence. Sure Dylan is a better lyricist, but he can't sing like Paul, and have you seen the footage of them live? What other band created that level of hysteria? The world had not seen anything like them before, and only Michael Jackson got near that kind of reactions since.
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