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Anyone else not like The Beatles?
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No mention of building 7 in your anti-conspiracy theory rant. Coincidence? I don't think so!
I wonder how Les Paul would have responded to this statement.
Pretty ugly analogy Joe. Especially to hammer home the minor point you're making. Sheesh!
Definitely not a Lennon song. "Why Don't We Do It In The Road" is a McCartney song, too---so two of your examples of hard-edged Lennon songs are actually McCartney songs. In fact, both wrote and sang ballads and rockers, in roughly equal proportions: e.g., Lennon's Yes It Is and In My Life, McCartney's I'm Down and Back In The USSR.
Honestly, I think it's 50/50 in society.
Yes, they did stuff that was great and McCartney / Lennon were a songwriting force to be reckoned with.
The Beatles will be the first to admit that Sgt Pepper was an attempt to copy ( what they say is ) the greatest album ever made ; The Beach Boy's "Pet Sounds"
On the other 50%, I think the music has been pounded into us for 50 years so we have no choice but to like it.
I like them. I don't love them. I do think John Lennon was a genius and he's on my list of people I would want to meet either dead or alive.
Yes, they did stuff that was great and McCartney / Lennon were a songwriting force to be reckoned with.
The Beatles will be the first to admit that Sgt Pepper was an attempt to copy ( what they say is ) the greatest album ever made ; The Beach Boy's "Pet Sounds"
On the other 50%, I think the music has been pounded into us for 50 years so we have no choice but to like it.
I like them. I don't love them. I do think John Lennon was a genius and he's on my list of people I would want to meet either dead or alive.
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For a musician to dismiss the Beatles' influence on rock and roll as "hype" would be like an airplane enthusiast dismissing the DC-3. Or a doctor dismissing Louis Pasteur.
Yes they recorded some real clunkers-- "Honey Pie" for example--but they had some great stuff as well. Then factor in that they did this 50 years ago. No they didn't invent recording, nor did they invent multi-track recording, but they did pioneer some recording techniques in the studio, pushing the envelope and breaking conventional studio rules.
Like most classic rock, a few of their songs get over-played. Ignore those and listen to some of their greatest work: Take Side 2 of Abbey Road...put on a good set of headphones in a quiet peaceful room. Start with "Here Comes The Sun"--who said the Beatles couldn't think in more than 90 second bursts? Ignore the sleepy "Because" then listen to the medley that follows (starts with "You Never Give Me Your Money"). This was the Beatles "swan song" but at least they went out in a blaze of glory.
Don't like that one? Try the much-earlier song "Paperback Writer" which doesn't get much air time on the classic rock stations.
Yes they recorded some real clunkers-- "Honey Pie" for example--but they had some great stuff as well. Then factor in that they did this 50 years ago. No they didn't invent recording, nor did they invent multi-track recording, but they did pioneer some recording techniques in the studio, pushing the envelope and breaking conventional studio rules.
Like most classic rock, a few of their songs get over-played. Ignore those and listen to some of their greatest work: Take Side 2 of Abbey Road...put on a good set of headphones in a quiet peaceful room. Start with "Here Comes The Sun"--who said the Beatles couldn't think in more than 90 second bursts? Ignore the sleepy "Because" then listen to the medley that follows (starts with "You Never Give Me Your Money"). This was the Beatles "swan song" but at least they went out in a blaze of glory.
Don't like that one? Try the much-earlier song "Paperback Writer" which doesn't get much air time on the classic rock stations.
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No troll intention. Just my opinion.Curious if I'm the only one who cannot stand The Beatles? I will give them all the credit in the world for their success and how they arguably changed the industry, but I absolutely, cannot listen to their music. One of their tunes comes on the radio, I can't get to the kill switch fast enough.
I listen to all genres from jazz to punk to metal to country. I just don't get the hype?
I'm probably going to get banned for this one.
There are plenty of popular bands I don't care for, I just never saw the need to post a thread about it.
Should be an understanding that before you say, "I just can't stand.......(whatever band or genre you want to mention)....." You get out your equipment and try to write a piece of music that would be accepted as what you are dissing.
Legend has it the only reason he didn't play at the Monterey Pop Festival, and he was asked, was that he refused to get on the same stage with any of the bands from San Francisco, he felt they were all "beneath" him.Frank Zappa pretty much disliked everyone. He seemed to feel anything that was widely admired by the general public he so despised couldn't be anything but garbage. (Can you say: "green eyed monster?") So I wouldn't read too much into that.
Well then, you've just disqualified yourself from admission to Troll School.
Lesson #1 of Troll School: Always begin your post with a phrase such as, "No troll intention. Just my opinion."
Take your time to read my next couple of posts and you will have the whole picture.Pretty ugly analogy Joe. Especially to hammer home the minor point you're making. Sheesh!
To me The Beatles and The Rolling Stones by the way were to the rock scene of that time what, for example, is Eminem or Kanye West to the actual hip hop scene. Nothing but CRAP in comparison with who were making THE REAL THING. Many unsung heroes under the way too overrated shadow of The Beatles. Nothing but money, business and marketing around them.
Legend has it the only reason he didn't play at the Monterey Pop Festival, and he was asked, was that he refused to get on the same stage with any of the bands from San Francisco, he felt they were all "beneath" him.
Which was a shame. But maybe the festival was better off for it. Nobody really wants to listen to an egomaniacal and humorless sociopath with a big mouth. And Frank did everything he could do to marginalize The Mothers over the years.
One of the biggest poses is to always be acting like you're "above it all." And in that respect, Frank was probably the earliest and most consummate proto-hipster that ever walked the face of the earth. Which was unfortunate. Because there certainly was a solid motherload of musical genius lurking beneath all his BS. Too bad for Frank that most people didn't feel sufficient need to put up with him and his antics to get to it. Like many orhers like him, I think Frank Zappa like to flatter himself he was hard to get to know, when the sad truth is he was just difficult to like.
Oh well. I still think his music (minus most of the lyrics) was unusually good.
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I think you couldn't be more wrong.
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