Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:00 pm Post subject: The Beatles - Not really very good were they?
Yes thats right. They were a bit poo really!!!!
I can't see the fasination tbh.
They seem to be self perpetuating on their own hype.
Basically, cos they seem to be the 1st band to achieve a fantical following that has some how turned them in to a group everyone has to love.
People loved aspestos (sp?) in the '60's. Doesn't mean its good for you today!
People were fantical about Take That. doesn't mean they should be loved by everyone.
I suppose they did define "middle of the road" for a generation - but I'm sorry - cant see what there is to get so excited about.
And yes I have listen to them - much to Batmanuels horror - I even own a copy of Sgt Peppers LHCB. Its Ok - but it's ment to be their master peiece!!! I brought it cos everyone told me how fantastic it was.
I even have it on vinal with the "pop out" figures.
I like the Beatles, but as someone who didn't grow up with them, it's hard to grasp how ground breaking they were at the time. I don't think that Take That is a fair comparison, given that the Beatles wrote and played their own instruments and their music has stood the test of time and is still popular today.
I was about post that's not the case with Take That, but I think they're at number one in the hit parade now. But their music isn't considered "classic" it just get trotted out a wedding discos...
Now The Rolling Stones, there's an overrated band..... _________________
The music is no different to other bands of the time - even bands prior the them (Bill Haley and the Comets for example) had a very similar sound and style.
Sure they were the first band to really believe their own press and disapear right up their own arse - but I cant see why we would want to celebrate that.
Dont get me wrong here - I am not saying they were "bad" as such, just they are so ridiculously over hyped - no where near as good as people say.
As for Take That - well, if one of the band was assainated they would end up acheiveing a similar status to the Beatles - the public love dead guys!
Look at what happened to Queen after Frddie Mercuray died. They went from being the band everyone remebered for "that bit in Waynes World" and the "Best driving albulm" type tune - to untouchable legends of rock!
Right then - best form a band and tell the lead singer to make no long term plans!!!
The music is no different to other bands of the time - even bands prior the them (Bill Haley and the Comets for example) had a very similar sound and style.
Yes "Across the Universe" and "Rock Around the Clock" - Practically the same song.
I will concede that The Beatles (and Queen) are overrated, but they just wrote bloody good songs that have stood the test of time. _________________
I was talking over all style - not indervidual songs.
I am sure if any "non relesed" recordings exsist if Bill H and the Comets their will be some weird stuff on their unlike everything else! But thats why it was unreleased....
The Best known and most popular Beatles tunes -Hard days Night, Lady Madonna, LSD etc) are esentially pop tunes. Same kind of beat, same structure etc etc.
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I will concede that The Beatles (and Queen) are overrated
Thats just about what I was looking for. rome wasn't built in a day!!
The Beatles caught the public's attention for almost a decade and enjoyed a fanatical following - I guess that can help enhance a legend, eh? Without that, they probably wouldn't have enjoyed the legendary status they have.
So what is it that The Beatles had? What defined them and made them stand out in the way that other bands of the decade couldn't?
Having been born in the 80s, I have no idea... so I guess we need someone from an older generation to enlighten us... is Batmanuel around yet...?
i am not that old, more of a seventies child me Bowie through to The Sex Pistols (The Greatest Rock n Roll Band EVER), but i did have older sisters who were into them, later on ( i dont have time right now) i will post my thoughts on the Beatles, I am going to have such FUN with this thread... _________________
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Yes as you will learn to your peril when i set fire to your Head and then run over it with a seventeen ton stone wheel
But really The Beatles for feks sake,
Like I said I had sisters who were into this crap and that’s about right, they were a boy band nothing more nothing less.
They did however realise that in order to survive they needed to be something more, and along came the hippy bandwagon, that will do so aboard they jumped, lets make deep and meaningful songs about drugs... Lucy in the sky with diamonds, a small child could have come up with that one, and the last true meaning to marmalade skies was the napalm over Vietnam, lets do a hippy trippy film...yellow submarine, but they were so stoned they couldn't be bothered to show up for voice overs, yes that’s not the Beatles voices on the film.
But the hippy band wagon came and went, and guess what the Beatles spit up, quickly realising that they were nothing more that a talentless bunch of pricks who jumped on the wrong train.
Ringo went on to do Thomas the Tank Engine
George went on to be sited in copyright infringement on my sweet lord.
Paul continues to create nursery rhymes (no prize to anyone who can tell me what McCartney Ditty is his most famous)
And John is famous for being shot, shame they didn't get Yoko too.
So there you have it, suffice to say,
I don’t rate the Beatles very much.
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