I've determined that the Beatles ARE the best band ever. I'm not even a big fan, but the ammount of songs they have, it's insane. I can point out key points to almost any song that trace back to The Beatles, not to mention that EVERYONE does covers from them. Has anyone heard Cash's version of "In My Life" O.O? I cried. It amazes me that one band can actually pave the way for the future of music to come, forever.

Have you ever sat down to your computer, double clicked that Winamp icon, and the PERFECT beatles song to soundtrack what's been happening in your life pops on? Share your experiences with the Beatles.

JediKirby

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Beatles music is overrated.

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Some of their songs are lame, some are good.

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All hands on deck! 'MOVE' dead ahead! Full to starboard!

Oh, and the beatles are awesome.

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It's out of context today for anything other than nostalgia - it was amazing and revolutionary in its day, and is still brilliant in the present day, but the reverence in our generation is missing, and understandably so. Saying it's overated is missing the point - but not by far. They're still in my playlist.

(oh yeah, and RAMMING SPEED! We need to MOOOOVE!)

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It's not overrated, it's just better than 90 percent of the garbage produced and sold today.

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The fact that we still listen to the music 40 years on shows how good it really is. I mean, the youths of the 1960s didn't listen to music from the 20s, and the 60s pop stars weren't making cover versions of 20's music.

Makes you wonder what they'll be listening to in 40 years' time. Yes, some of the music today might be good, but does it have the timeless beauty of the Beatles, and much of the 60s music in general? I don't think so.

That isn't true at all. There was an article somewhat recently in USA Today explaining how "classic rock" was coming back in a big way.

Music is timeless. Especially when you have a like like The Beatles, which wrote songs mostly about love.

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Maybe what Martyn meant was that the historical context does impact how we view the songs. Saying that osngs are timeless is true, in a sense, however many of the beetles songs were about love and peace and drugs and the very distinct culture of the 60s'. While you could argue we're heading that way, again, it will never quite be the smae context, and people of several generations into the future might not be able to appreciate the subtleties and general mood behind the songs and the culture/era they portrayed . . .

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mmmmm... the Beatles go well with coffee and some other stuff.

My favorite song is She's Leaving Home.

They're not overrated, they're just that good.

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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is my personal favourite [album]. But, what is this topic doing on this forum?

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Eleanor Rigby is one of those great epic songs. It's my favorite.

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hehehe... lucy in the sky with diamonds.

but yeah... they're okay. i like eleanor rigby, but everything else isnt insanely better than any of the newer stuff i have in my playlist.

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In be fo da move.

Oh and, I hate them.

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I lose a brain cell everytime I hear that argument.

Have you even heard 90% of music produced today? I seriousely doubt you have. Heck, people these days just like dissing new music cause it's the "cool" thing to do. No one seems to respect other people's tastes, nor the artistic talent behind those genres. It's like saying picasso sucked because all the people in his paintings looked weird. Music, like painting, is an art with many different forms.

I don't like britney spears' music, but I'm glad she's there. I don't like rap as a whole, but I'm glad it's there, and I'm glad all those black 'gangsta' rappers out there make those cliche videos with the half naked girls shakin' their booty in the back of a limousine next to a guy in a white fuzzy coat with a cigar in his mouth. I'm also glad all those new pop punk bands with the numbers next to their names go on whining about all their angsty teen problems.

You know why? Because it creates diversity. These people don't do what they do because they're not good enough to rip off the beetles, they do it because it's their art, and they're good at it.

As for the beatles... I can't stand their music.

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Do you appreciatre what they did at least Flex? And the Beatles IMO are the greatest band ever. Not my favorite band, and I don't believe indivdually they were amazing musicians. However, their songwriting is almost unparalled, and their songs are timeless. I mean, how many artists would give their right kidney to craft an album like Sgt Peppers?

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There's this little thing called an opinion Flexor, that's what my post was.

The instrumental version of Eleanor Rigby is simply amazing. I love it.

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My criteria for a band to be awesome (in my eyes) is that it has at least one album (not a greatest hits) of which I like all the songs.

So, my current list of awesome bands is:
- Bon Jovi (These Days)
- Dire Straits (Money For Nothing)
- Guns N' Roses (Appetite for Destruction)
- Stratovarius (Visions)

There are other bands I like which could potentially be on this list, but I will have only heard a greatest hits or compilation album. I've heard plenty of The Beatles songs that I like, I just haven't heard a whole album... yet.

*nods*

By the way, i agree with Flex. The Beatles are great, and have quite a number of timeless songs, but i don't think that music today is somehow lesser then what it was before, same as i don't believe that older movies are all so much better then those today, or that somehow the world was better in the 'Good old days'.

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It was formed as a statement.

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Opinions can be statements.

The world sucks.
George Bush is an idiot.
Pie is good.

Those are opinions and at the same time statements.

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If I may venture a suggestion, I would say to listen to Revolver first. Many say that album is their greatest, and to me it is the perfect bridge between their pop days and their "serious music" days.



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No. Listen to Sgt. Pepper's, I think that's their best in-between album, although my favorite is Magical Mystery Tour.



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I respect The Beatles. Dont love them, dont hate them, but it's hard not to notice what they did for music.

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I couldn't count the number of times I've listened to Money For Nothing. Sultans of Swing is one of my favourite songs, and one of my favourite to play. The lead guitar in that song, while not complicated, is pure genius.


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I agree with Schming. They were that good. I disagree when he says Sgt. Pepper's is better than Revolver.

The Beatles weren't exactly pop though- well, not in the sense of pop today at least. The music industry was quite different, and rock and roll was pop. They broke several conventions of the era, like they wrote their own songs, which was unheard of in their type of music. They also rocked harder than anybody else. They had a clean image because Brian Epstein wanted professionalism.
They had an anti-commercial stance that was also very uncommon in those days. They wouldn't put out a song that was a surefire #1 because they thought it was awful. (The song was later recorded by a different band and was a #1 hit).

John, Paul, and even George were brilliant songwriters. They would combine major and minor chords to a great effect.

Even their early albums were great. Their first one has some pretty bad songs, but there's some really good ones too. Each one gets better than the last.

When they reached Rubber Soul is when the really started doing amazing things. Revolver expands on this (the final song on that album is considered an early version of techno).

How can you not think they're brilliant after you hear these songs:
I'm Only Sleeping
In My Life
Strawberry Fields Forever
If I Needed Someone
For No One
I Am the Walrus
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Happiness is a Warm Gun

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All you need is love.

Just a quick thanks to Daft Vader for completely getting my point!

They are amazing, they are to be revered, but I'm not a child of the sixties, and the songs, though I appreciate their greatness, I appreciate also their place in music history - I'll never quite "get" the beatles like, say my parents did.

Oh, and I am on the other hand a MASSIVE Queen fan, so I do keep one foot firmly in the past! (I'm not just a fan of new music I think is meant to be my point there...)



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I really like the Beatles. Got a ton on my playlist.

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dry gear, I love that list.

I'm Only Sleeping is one of my favorites. Have you ever heard the Stereophonics' cover of it? Good stuff.

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new album Between the Dim and the Dark available now

Who needs a list? just listen to the white album from start to finish... if that doesn't make you gobsmacked and understanding of how awesome, expansive and all-influencing the beatles are/were.... then you are musically numb.

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How could you possibly say they were anti-comercial? They made three movies, all for the sake of money! They started a company! They were all totally into money.

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To myself I surrender to the one I'll never please.
But I still try to run on.
You know I still try to run on. But it's all or none.

Eddie Vedder