The Beatles...

[thundertail19921]

Does anyone here like the Beatles?

[thundertail19921]

BTW, my favorite album is Abbey Road.

[which doctor]

No, no one likes the Beatles. No one at all.

[DecDoom]

Back in the US-

Back in the US-

Back in the USSR!

[SecondLife]

Beatles is commerce. I am 42y old, but it even for me too old music.

[Pirate Utopian]

Some songs.

[New Tet]

Does anyone here like the Beatles?

They were cool, they were young; they were fresh and many of their songs became popular (and, yes, commercial) anthems.

As a kid I use to worship them. Now, with so many other great music around (some of it influenced by their work) I find them mildly entertaining. This is as it should be, I think.

[MakeYourFuture]

They were not more commercial than the Sex Pistols......
They made some very good songs. The commercials bands of this old era were more creative than the commercials bands of today.

[SecondLife]

They were not more commercial than the Sex Pistols......

Sex Pistols was indeed commercial. Non commercial banda are example: The Fall, The Smiths, Joy Division, Xmal Deuchland, Japan, David Sylvian etc.

[Il Medico]

I love the Beatles. Abbey Road is good, but I prefer Rubber Soul and Sgt. Pepper's.
If Elvis was the King of rock and roll, then The Beatles are the gods. No other band comes close to having so many songs and all of them are better then most hits by other bands. I love the Beatles!!!:wub:

[Il Medico]

They were cool, they were young; they were fresh and many of their songs became popular (and, yes, commercial) anthems.

As a kid I use to worship them. Now, with so many other great music around (some of it influenced by their work) I find them mildly entertaining. This is as it should be, I think.
Mildly??? I listen to all types of good music, most of which you probably never heard of. That doesn't change the fact that they are the end all be all of rock. I doubt there is an artist out there, even now that hasn't been influenced by the Beatles!

[NoMore]

First off, Im not a beatles hater and I actually like some of their songs (the ones that people dont people don't overplay),however I would like to discredit them. All of these obsessive jerk offs that go around and say "the beatles revolutionized music" are completely ignorant of the fact that they could have gone to the u.k. before the Beatles were even famous and you could have found about 20 other bands that sounded just like them. They were just popular and had stage charisma.

[Nwoye]

my appreciation of the beatles has gone way down in recent months. i mean, the mid to late sixties was probably the greatest period in the history of modern music, and the beatles are constantly heralded as the greatest band of the era, while everyone else is overlooked.

[9]

Of course, they are fantastic. The White Album is my favorite.

[Jimmie Higgins]

What a stupid band name. What beautiful hair.

Actually I only like Beatles cover bands like... http://www.hotpep.com/Hot%20Peppers/Assets/band%20photos/ppw_beatles.jpg

[Invader Zim]

I like the Beatles, but not this song, which is shit:


Back in the US-

Back in the US-

Back in the USSR!

[Spud]

I like the Beatles. Rubber Soul, Sgt pepper and the White Album in particular. The early John & Yoko stuff wasnt bad either.

[Hit The North]

The Beatles are amongst a handful of really important bands.

My favourite album is Revolver, which contains what I think is their finest moment: the startling Tomorrow Never Knows, where Lennon intones lines from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, over a hypnotic drum-loop and backwards spiralling guitars. Nothing had ever sounded like it before:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTMOSCh7aJU&feature=related
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-N1qFWsqRA&feature=related)

[SocialismOrBarbarism]

I agree...Revolver is their best. Pretty much every song on that album is great. I'm only sleeping is one of the songs that really got me into them.

[Nwoye]

Of course, they are fantastic. The White Album is my favorite.
the White Album is full of so much crap though. Bungalow Bill? Wild Honey Pie? Ob-la-di? what the fuck is that shit?

[MrTrawley]

Lennon should have been shot a long long time ago

[9]

the White Album is full of so much crap though. Bungalow Bill? Wild Honey Pie? Ob-la-di? what the fuck is that shit?

Ahh, I hate to agree with you here, but I must. It is true, all the songs you have named are terrible. And not just terrible, but on-the-verge-of-vomiting-terrible. Buuut.... I still think that most of the rest of the album makes up for these.

[Il Medico]

The Beatles are amongst a handful of really important bands.
I completely agree. The people who down play their importance to music are either idiots or don't like the Beatles so the bash on them. Some bands of the time may have sounded similar to the Beatles (hell the song Happy Yellow Bumble Bee by Of Montreal kinda sounds like early Beatles). The Beatles were more diverse and their style changed over time. Most people I know like the Beatles, all the musicians I know like the Beatles during during one or all of their styles. This includes Metal musicians. That's right, the Beatles influenced Metal? How could someone say they were not important to music?


My favourite album is Revolver, which contains what I think is their finest moment: the startling Tomorrow Never Knows, where Lennon intones lines from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, over a hypnotic drum-loop and backwards spiralling guitars. Nothing had ever sounded like it before:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTMOSCh7aJU&feature=related
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-N1qFWsqRA&feature=related)
This is a good album. The song you mentioned is defiantly one of their greatest. It is like a early take on the style which would become prevalent during the Sgt. Pepper's stage.

[Knight of Cydonia]

here..here...here...:thumbup1: big fan of it.

[hammer and sickle]

Does anyone here like the Beatles?
The Beatles are by far my favourite band! Plus John Lennon was a Communist (I think).

[hippiedude94]

I love them!!!!

[Comrade Ziggy]

Beatles were amazing

[Led Zeppelin]

Beatles are awesome. Rock as it exists today (or as it existed in the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's etc.) is defined in large part by them.

So all us rock fans owe them a lot. Keep that in mind kids! :thumbup1:

[Sarah Palin]

I used to think the beatles were lame. Then I heard Sgt. Pepper's. The beatles are fucking awesome.

[Trystan]

I like John and George. Especially George. He was the most talented of the four, in my opinion.

[punisa]

Lennon should have been shot a long long time ago
you stupid prick, I hope you die young

[New Tet]

the White Album is full of so much crap though. Bungalow Bill? Wild Honey Pie? Ob-la-di? what the fuck is that shit?

Bungalow Bill is an anti-war song with imagery of comic book characters in a Vietnam setting superimposed on a backdrop of English colonial expansionism.

It's a very clever song!

Honey pie is probably unfinished work by John & Paul, which Paul took up again in his "solo" work.

Ob-la-di is a very cute song about the existential angst of sexual and domestic relationships using a nice musical narrative style. This is mostly, if not all, Paul. He reprises that narrative style often, as with "Lady Madonna" and during his solo career in songs like "Uncle Albert" in RAM and "Rock Show" in Venus and Mars and, of course, the title cut of "Band on the Run".

Lennon was the slogan-maker, Paul the story-teller.

I think that if Brian Epstein had lived longer the Beatles cultural influence would have developed almost exactly as it is now. A little more polished, maybe, but in all their most important cultural dimensions, the same...

[Agrippa]

I was an obsessive Beatles fan from ages 12-15. I guess I just got really burnt out on it, because now I mostly think of it as irritating pop-music, eespecially their psychedelic phase (Sgt. Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour) and especially most of Paul's stuff, which, in the final perspective, is mostly just elevator music.

The only two socially relevant Beatles songs (with the possible exception of Bungalow Bill) are Piggies and Taxman, both written by George Harrison, the "silent beatle" whose creative expression was supressed by John and Paul's egos.

The only Beatles albums I can still listen to without cringing are Rubber Soul and Revolver. There are so many more socially relevant, poetic, and artistically innovative rock musicians from that era. The claim that the Beatles revolutionized rock music is really untrue, in his famous Playboy interview John goes out and admits that none of the Beatles, including him, have any real musical talent.

Even as far as counter-cultural 1960s psychedelic pop goes, I now prefer the Rolling Stones. (although at least The Beatles had the decency to break up instead of producing decades of mediocre music)

Most of John's solo work is also shit, but Some Time in NYC is, in my opinion, a highly excellent, highly underrated album that everyone who reads this should listen to right away.

[punisa]

BTW, Paul is dead (remeber the famous hoax? :laugh:)

[Pirate Utopian]

BTW, Paul is dead (remeber the famous hoax? :laugh:)
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