The Beatles

[Raz]

Are they really the greatest band ever? What's your favourite beatles song/album? Do you even like their music? Is any music collection right without at least one beatles album? We're they just another pop band (hell no ).

Discuss...

[randman]

I think they are the greatest band ever. The main reason is they grew with each album. They evolved from a pop band to (at the time) a progressive rock band. I don't know many (if any) groups that can make that claim. Also (unlike the Stones), they knew when to quit.

If you had to have only one Beatles album, I would suggest "Abbey Road". It shows all the Beatles at their best. McCartney's "Oh! Darling", Lennon's "Come Together", Harrison's "Here Comes The Sun", and Starr's "Octopus's Garden". The production values are impeccable. Simply the Beatles at their best.

[Raz]

I definately agree about the evolving, i mean they went from, i want to hold your hand, to sgt peppers and on and on.

I like the 1 collection myself. And the white album, and obviously sgt peppers... argh can't choose.

[Shenlong]

It's beyond my time, so I'm not gonna say anything...

[taylormemer]

My mother likes them. I listen to Yellow Submarine sometimes. I think that they are one of the greatest bands ever, but they are not the greatest.

[ShyShy]

they are one of the greatest, but not THE greatest in my humble opinion. i grew up listening to them, my mom is a HUGE fan. she knows all the background on their lives and songs/albums. i've got the yellow submarine cd, only because my mom had an extra one. i hear enough of their music when i visit the folks. but i've got to admire them as a band for growing and expanding in their musical direction.

[taylormemer]

Coz i sometimes listen to them, the girls are like awwww your soooo cute! I dont know where that comes from. They dont listen to them.

[papadoc]

To me what makes The Beatles the greatest band of time,
is more than just their music.
It has to do with life itself.
There's an old saying: "Timing is everything".
This holds true for The Beatles.
They appeared on the scene at a time when the world
was listening to 3 chord rock and roll at the sock hops,
country music from pick up trucks, jazz at the bistros where
the beatniks hung out, and old blues in the segregated city blues clubs.
People were stuck in the 50's, both musically and in their lives.
The Beatles changed all that with ONE album.
They changed the way we looked.
They changed the way we thought.
They changed the way we acted.
Not to mention the tremendous change in all music,
not just a particular segment of music, but all music.
They gave a youth that had no real direction or purpose,
a reason to get up in the morning with a new found excitement.
So through time...as The Beatles grew...so did we.
The Beatles were in the right place at the right time.
Not to mention they were incredible songwriters and musicians.

And I agree with randman, their best album was "Abbey Road".
No doubt about it.
It's not necessarily my favorite, but it is their best.

[Mr_007]

I dont like beatles!

[papadoc]

Originally posted by Mr_007
I dont like beatles!

Why not Mr_007?

[Raz]

He probably means the insects papadoc, just leave him be.

[Fickle]

The Beatles are where it's at. Always. My only disagreement is thier best album, which to me will always be the White Album.
Sgt pepper is second, Abbey is third, or tied for second. Yeah, that.

Bungolow Bill
Happiness is a Warm Gun
Honey Pie
BlackBird
While My guitar Gently Weeps
Rocky Racoon
Sexie Sadie
Julia
Helter Skelter.

There are many more I haven't mentioned, but you understand. My personal fav.

[Cylob]

Originally posted by taylormemer
Coz i sometimes listen to them, the girls are like awwww your soooo cute! I dont know where that comes from. They dont listen to them.

There's a certain amount of kudos associated with them. I rarely listen to the Beatles myself but I have the obligatory albums in my collection (who doesn't).

I'm eternally grateful for the way they changed music.
Papadoc sums it all up.

[Triton4]

I'm not a big Beatles fan, but I like one of their best tracks 'Day Tripper' a lot.

[ripe]

The track I'm listening to has -
big, loud, break beats...
distorted, backwards-sampled instruments...
disorientating sounds and lyrics...

and it's not some modern dance anthem, it's The Beatles' Tomorrow Never Knows, and it was recorded in 1966. Holy ****.

However,
Just to play devil's advocate, don't you think if the Beatles hadn't pushed pop music forward, someone else would've done it just as well?
People tend to credit the Beatles with every new musical style from the 60s. Isn't it more a case of being in the right place at the right time? Were they just riding on the crest of a bigger cultural wave???


Oh and BTW, The Stones will always be way cooler. :evil laugh:

[Cylob]

Originally posted by ripe
Just to play devil's advocate, don't you think if the Beatles hadn't pushed pop music forward, someone else would've done it just as well?

Nope! The fab 4 really were geniuses.

[Mattress]

I don't really much care for their music but I respect their contribution. I have a couple of their albums (Beatles IV, Abbey Road) on vinyl, rarely listen to them though.

[Xerxes]

The screaming of the adoring fans in "A Hard Days Night" where they all look like they could die of anurysm at any second... has never been equaled by other performance group. So there must have been something there.

[randman]

Originally posted by Xerxes
The screaming of the adoring fans in "A Hard Days Night" where they all look like they could die of anurysm at any second... has never been equaled by other performance group. So there must have been something there.

You're so analytical. Do you ever let loose and have any real fun? I worry about you Alex.

[Xerxes]

Real fun is relative.

As I said in an earlier thread, a glass of wine, friends, a lawn and orchestra is as "real" as I get.

The world would spin off its axis if it wasn't for an elite corps of squares like myself to keep it stable, mark my words.

[randman]

You is mah hero. Can I call you Al?

[Xerxes]

That would be acceptable.

I really am not a robot, honest. I was born to see everything in percentages and ratios. The advantages outweigh the disadvantages 3 to 1, modestly.

Perhaps one day I will learn what everyone else refers to as "attachment". (/me leaks a lone stream of oil out of left eye)

[Mattress]

Originally posted by Xerxes
The screaming of the adoring fans in "A Hard Days Night" where they all look like they could die of anurysm at any second... has never been equaled by other performance group. So there must have been something there.

Didn't Hanson and other boy bands recreate something similar to this?

[randman]

Originally posted by Mattress
Didn't Hanson and other boy bands recreate something similar to this?

For about a year maybe. Nobody is denying the Beatles weren't pop when they started. Hell, they invented pop. The point is, they grew, they experimented, they created, they emerged as something much more than a pop band.

No "boy bands" ever did that.

I will defend the Beatles music and their historical significance to my death.

[Fickle]

Originally posted by randman
For about a year maybe. Nobody is denying the Beatles weren't pop when they started. Hell, they invented pop. The point is, they grew, they experimented, they created, they emerged as something much more than a pop band.

No "boy bands" ever did that.

I will defend the Beatles music and their historical significance to my death.

I hate it when I read an entire thread, decide what I want to say, and someone has already siad it. I guess that's a thank you, Randman, but it's really an (I hate you) an angry little boy who feels you gipped him a good point.

[anubis2003]

Don't really like them - in fact I can't even stand some of their songs. A couple are ok, but it's not really my kinda music.

[randman]

Originally posted by Fickle
I hate it when I read an entire thread, decide what I want to say, and someone has already siad it. I guess that's a thank you, Randman, but it's really an (I hate you) an angry little boy who feels you gipped him a good point.

I love you too Fickle. I'm willing to share the credit with you.

[Pixelcraft]

Heh, this thread brought up a great memory.

My friend Logan absolutely hates the beatles. Cannot stand them at all. Every time someone mentions the beatles, he gets pissed.

What's funny about all this is that Logan is the kind of guy that can take an insult like taking a cookie from a jar. Someone could come up to him and say "Hey Logan, you really suck! You gotta be the dumbest clump of dirt on the planet!" and he'd just say something like "Yeah, I know". He's a total slob, he works as a garbageman, and best of all, he's got a mullet.

So we had to watch this movie about the beatles once in school, and they mentioned how the beatles had the biggest recorded song of all time, or something like that, and logan turns to me and says: "Okay. You know what? I don't care. I'm telling you man, someday we'll get that title. We'll beat those guys, those lousy beatles, just you watch! Just you watch Seth, we'll beat them! Watch out for us man! I got a band of my own! Were called the "Flaming Mullets!" LMAO

[Xerxes]

Originally posted by Mattress
Didn't Hanson and other boy bands recreate something similar to this?

Similar, although the recorded scenes of the screaming teens in that movie posess a ... visceral, palpable electricity that I don't think I have ever seen in footage of an audience before.

Perhaps because the audience had never been entertained like that before.

Just my observation.

[ripe]

Originally posted by Pixelcraft
Watch out for us man! I got a band of my own! Were called the "Flaming Mullets!" LMAO

heh, they should do a cover version of that old Paul McCartney drivel...

"Mullet Of Kintyre"

[Pixelcraft]

I'll be sure to ask him that!

[Mr Jones]

Mullets own...

[Pixelcraft]

If only I had a picture of him.....the kid just looks funny!

[ShyShy]

Originally posted by Mr Jones
Mullets own...

uh, i don't even want to know why you would know about that site

[Mr Jones]

I know about lots of things, some of them good, some of them not so good

[Cylob]

How do you sleep at night Jones?

[Twilightseer]

I absolutely hate the Beatles. I hate the songs, the sound, the lyrics, I hate crappy messages and anthems like "Love Me Do" or "All you need is love". It just makes me nauseous when I hear any of their songs. And the sad thing is that it is not allowed to hate the beatles because "they're the greatest rock band ever". Pfft

[Mr Jones]

Originally posted by Cylob
How do you sleep at night Jones?

Makes you wonder dosn't it....

As for the Beatles, the early stuff dosn't work for me, the later stuff however does, the song writing partnership of Lennon/McCartney is a great combo, and they did write quite possibly the greatest R&R song of all time, Helter Skelter, crank that up on your hifi and you'll see what I mean...

[Semantics]

The White Album and Revolver...two of the best albums ever to grace mankind (a close second is give to Abbey Road, followed by Rubber Soul). The Beatles are, well the Beatles. Simply gods amoung men in terms of music. Ditto to "Helter Skelter" by the way. And damn Charles Manson for marring that song, the bastard.

[randman]

Originally posted by Semantics
The White Album and Revolver...two of the best albums ever to grace mankind (a close second is give to Abbey Road, followed by Rubber Soul). The Beatles are, well the Beatles. Simply gods amoung men in terms of music. Ditto to "Helter Skelter" by the way. And damn Charles Manson for marring that song, the bastard.

I see great genius in you.