The beatles were fucking fantastic!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

So many people fall victim to the "it's played a lot so it must be good" syndrome. When I was in high school they had "Beatle's hour" every morning for the school bus crowd. I would have killed for a Walkman back then.

[Babel]

They may have a dozen great songs, I still think they're shit.

Bloody fucking yellow fucking sub fuck marine.

Die Lennon, DIE!

[Animavore]

So many people fall victim to the "it's played a lot so it must be good" syndrome. When I was in high school they had "Beatle's hour" every morning for the school bus crowd. I would have killed for a Walkman back then.

I had similar problems with Oasis back in the 90s. Thank fuck I did have a Walkman. People are just gluttons for sing-a-long music. I can respect that. I'm guilty of having an aul sing-song when the alcohol is flowing and the craic is ninety. Hell I've even sung along to East 17, but when the lights are out and everyone's gone back home I prefer to listen to something a little more evocative and less superficial. Well, most of the time

[tattuchu]

I'm not too fond of Yellow Submarine, but I don't hate it I love the sound effects in it

Even though I love the Beatles, though, there are a few songs by them I absolutely cannot fucking stand, like Rocky Raccoon and Come Together.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"Maxwell's Silver Hammer", on the other hand...

[tattuchu]

"Maxwell's Silver Hammer", on the other hand...

I like that one. Good silly fun.

I've never liked Back in the USSR. Dunno if I'd go so far as to say I hate it. But certainly never liked it.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"Maxwell's Silver Hammer", on the other hand...

I like that one. Good silly fun.

I've never liked Back in the USSR. Dunno if I'd go so far as to say I hate it. But certainly never liked it.

The sole reason for that was to get "the other Georgia" out there.

[Mysturji]

'Nuff said.

[Animavore]

I was the one you could hear shouting, "Jump! Jump! Jump!."

[Audley Strange]

To be honest, whether you like them or not, (for example I am no fan of The Rolling Stones save We Love you and Paint it Black) one has to respect them for their ablility to transform their medium. They were certainly not alone, but they were popular, massively so and unlike say Zappa or even The wonderous Beach Boys innovations, they're caught the public imagination. The were interfaces between an emergent post-war youth culture and the establishment.

Yeah and without them Oasis would not have existed, nor E.L.O, nor thousands of other bands who's youth was so influenced by them.

[Animavore]

one has to respect them

Not at all.

for their ablility to transform their medium.

Eh?

Yeah and without them Oasis would not have existed, nor E.L.O, nor thousands of other bands who's youth was so influenced by them.

Not to mention countless other shite bands.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Yeah and without them Oasis would not have existed, nor E.L.O, nor thousands of other bands who's youth was so influenced by them.

The Mersey Beat didn't originate with them.

[Tero]

Transformative! Not as trans as Lou Reed but...,

[Audley Strange]

one has to respect them

Not at all.

fair enough, I think your being bloody minded though.

for their ablility to transform their medium.

Eh?

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pop music

[Animavore]

fair enough, I think your being bloody minded though.

I am in my shite being bloody minded. They transformed pop music, big whoop. So did Justin Bieber. To which, by the way, there is a logical pathway from The Beatles.