beatles are the first boy band
sasoj
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in response to the best band ever -
my view is that they are not a rock band, but
the first boy band ever
they had marketing like that
targeting teenage girls ...
and just because damn rollingstone magazine says they are the best -
they realy are not ...
sure they sold alot - but so did justin timberlake
my view is that they are not a rock band, but
the first boy band ever
they had marketing like that
targeting teenage girls ...
and just because damn rollingstone magazine says they are the best -
they realy are not ...
sure they sold alot - but so did justin timberlake
i love rock chicks
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The Beatles may have had some of the traits of a boyband and may seem really tame by todays standards, but it was a totally different kettle of fish in those days. Helter Skelter was one of the hardest rocking tunes around at the time, definitely not boy band material.
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Yes, during 1963, when the first issues of The Beatles Monthly were released, the band was being visually streamlined for girlie appeal, but they were hardly a manufactured record company combo. Before then, during 1961-2, Brian Epstein couldn't get them signed with Decca, because they were so unruly in sound; he even considered trying to get them signed to the Woolworth's label, before he got lucky with Parlophone.
One should also note that Please Please Me and With The Beatles comprise what was basically the band's live repertoire at the time. They had the balls to reject the pre-written song How do You Do It? (which later became a big hit for Gerry and the Pacemakers), in favour of John's Please Please Me (the band's first UK number one). And check out the cover versions on those first two albums: Goffin and King songs, Isley Brothers hits, and a Smokey Robinson number. In the days before these acts were household names, in the very early days of Tamla, The Beatles were showing their hipness to American soul music. Manufactured boy bands have covers picked for them; Lennon and McCartney served an apprenticeship in their early years, learning from other great songwriters and performers, in development of their own sound.
Absolute and total bollocks... go back and listen again and again and again... :rolleyes:
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Even if they were packaged like a boy band during a certain period, the musical content was better. You seem to be overlooking the music they made.
they are good ...
but they are not THAT good
all you need is love? let it be?
it reminds me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G92R9WPEiGo
same quality
maybe better
is this a joke?? those two lines you just mentions are known throughout mankind.....
and they were taken and still are..very seriously.
Just because they may have been marketed at as a boy band early on, they most certainly were not a boy band.
I try to respect opinions and everything but nonsense I cannot respect.
so is this:
check out this amazing beatles video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncw70Hw1ffs
you really have no idea what's going on. I mean, I understand what you're trying to say. you can dance to their early records and young girls did love them. but, unlike Timberlake who you referenced, The Beatles composed their own music and played their own instruments. and you can't deny that Hard Day's Night, Help, etc are good rock n roll songs.
now Sasoj, since you know nothing about the Beatles and I know everything about them, I'll give you the definitive reason why they're NOT anything like a modern day boy band. a boy band is manufactured to sell records. they would never mess with the formula or try anything creative. When the Beatles stopped touring, let their hair and mustaches grow, started eating acid and released the Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane single, their young teenage fans didn't know what to think. when the music videos for these songs were first shown on American Bandstand, many of the teens in the crowd said they hated it when Dick Clark asked them. that's right, they HATED Strawberry Fields Forever. because these Beatles weren't the same Beatles that sang I Want To Hold Your Hand
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By the way I wouldnt classify them as a boy band personally. In my opinion they are the greatest band ever. Not my favorite band ever that would be Pearl Jam but they are the greatest.
im sick of ppl saying the beatles were the greatest band ever. i dont get it and i do understand the history, but the music itself is good, just not as phenomenal as ppl keep on saying. I like it but not enough to listen to over and over again. though when i do indulge in beatles stuff, i am surprised at how good it is...but not how great it is. plus i loathe macca. always have. same way i do lars ulrich...
they had boy band tendancies in the beginning, im sure of that because my parents only listen to these songs, which i like, btw.
but sgt pepper is way beyond a boy bands capabilities...