It's not wrong to not like any musical act - if you don't like them then you don't, simple as.

I love the Beatles but not as much as I love Pink Floyd

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Originally posted by Veggieburger:
It's not wrong to not like any musical act - if you don't like them then you don't, simple as.

I love the Beatles but not as much as I love Pink Floyd

OMG..!

you are so wrong!

its the law that you have to love blondie and sing to the carpenters

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Originally posted by Veggieburger:
It's not wrong to not like any musical act - if you don't like them then you don't, simple as.

I love the Beatles but not as much as I love Pink Floyd

I thought you were not here

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Originally posted by charmer:

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Originally posted by Veggieburger:
It's not wrong to not like any musical act - if you don't like them then you don't, simple as.

I love the Beatles but not as much as I love Pink Floyd

OMG..!

you are so wrong!

its the law that you have to love blondie and sing to the carpenters

Well quite but then I am an Anarchist

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Originally posted by lainy m:

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Originally posted by Veggieburger:
It's not wrong to not like any musical act - if you don't like them then you don't, simple as.

I love the Beatles but not as much as I love Pink Floyd

I thought you were not here

I have programmed my doppelganger with a few phrases that are suitable for any thread

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Originally posted by Poolshark:
Is it wrong not to like The Beatles ?

Yes OP it is wrong not to like some of their songs (doesn't mean you have to like them all of course). As for liking their image or not that's your choice. I couldn't say whether I have liked them as people as I've never known any of them personally, you neither I expect.

i dont like paul mccartney
old men look stupid in converse

Not read the whole thread so I don't know what's been said. The Beatles were an enigma in their own time. I LOVED them (but I'm going on 60 now). People see things very differently now, but that does not mean they should be slated by people who have no real experience of them in their own time.

They were much better when they split,I loved Wings.I loved Lennon's Imagine and Woman etc. I just wasn't into The Beatles.Stone's now that was a different ball game.

The two best ones are gone!

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Originally posted by Tiddly~Wink:
The two best ones are gone!

Cannot agree with you. They were only good as a package of four!!!

I had a photo taken outside the Dakota building in New York where John was killed,It was very odd the image ,I also took one of my husband that also came out with a ghostly mist.All the other photo's on that film were normal.

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Originally posted by joyron:

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Originally posted by Tiddly~Wink:
The two best ones are gone!

Cannot agree with you. They were only good as a package of four!!!

Rubbish! Lennon and Harrison were the only two with any real songwriting talent. Starr and Mcblartney just rode along on their coat tails!

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Originally posted by Tiddly~Wink:

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Originally posted by joyron:

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Originally posted by Tiddly~Wink:
The two best ones are gone!

Cannot agree with you. They were only good as a package of four!!!

Rubbish! Lennon and Harrison were the only two with any real songwriting talent. Starr and Mccartney just rode along on their coat tails!

Rubbish you say but I cannot agree with you. None of them were good in their own right, only as a package.

Macca give him his due he's written together with Lennon some great songs.

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Originally posted by Tiddly~Wink:

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Originally posted by joyron:

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Originally posted by Tiddly~Wink:
The two best ones are gone!

Cannot agree with you. They were only good as a package of four!!!

Rubbish! Lennon and Harrison were the only two with any real songwriting talent. Starr and Mcblartney just rode along on their coat tails!

Surely some mistake.

You dont like the Beatles

But, but... the beatles are like gods.

It's not just what they wrote, and they wrote some fabulous stuff, but they also had one of the great bass players in McCartney and one of the finest guitarists ever in George Harrison.
Their musical inventiveness put so much pressure on others to try to match them that most popular music since has simply been a case of picking over their leftovers.
They were, and are, unique.

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Originally posted by captain marbles:
It's not just what they wrote, and they wrote some fabulous stuff, but they also had one of the great bass players in McCartney and one of the finest guitarists ever in George Harrison.
Their musical inventiveness put so much pressure on others to try to match them that most popular music since has simply been a case of picking over their leftovers.
They were, and are, unique.

I suspect reading between the lines that McCartney was the best bass, drummer, and guitarist in the band. Probably keyboards too. As musicians I think Harrison and Starr were pretty average.

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

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Originally posted by captain marbles:
It's not just what they wrote, and they wrote some fabulous stuff, but they also had one of the great bass players in McCartney and one of the finest guitarists ever in George Harrison.
Their musical inventiveness put so much pressure on others to try to match them that most popular music since has simply been a case of picking over their leftovers.
They were, and are, unique.

I suspect reading between the lines that McCartney was the best bass, drummer, and guitarist in the band. Probably keyboards too. As musicians I think Harrison and Starr were pretty average.

What was it Lennon quipped about Starr when asked if he was the best drummer in the world

'he's not even the best drummer in the Beatles'

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Originally posted by FGG Aka Crocodile Rock:
What was it Lennon quipped about Starr when asked if he was the best drummer in the world

'he's not even the best drummer in the Beatles'

Yes he did!

Macca wrote "Yesterday" all on his own. Lennon never stopped being crabby about it.

And McCartney is the most successful British songwriter of all time.

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Originally posted by Demantoid:
I like the Beatles, but it's not wrong if you don't.
Personally, I've never "got" Bob Dylan. Just sounds like a bellowing old drunk, to me.

Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix. Just don't get it.

Dylan I do, but to me, Hendrix, half the time when he goes off on one one the guitar is just a noise.

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Originally posted by Tiddly~Wink:

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Originally posted by joyron:

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Originally posted by Tiddly~Wink:
The two best ones are gone!

Cannot agree with you. They were only good as a package of four!!!

Rubbish! Lennon and Harrison were the only two with any real songwriting talent. Starr and Mcblartney just rode along on their coat tails!

Not according to McCartney in his autobiography. Until I read that book, I'd always admired him. When I read how much he claimed he was behind almost everything innovative The Beatles did, I realised just how conceited and self-centred he was.

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Originally posted by joyron:

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Originally posted by Tiddly~Wink:

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Originally posted by joyron:

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Originally posted by Tiddly~Wink:
The two best ones are gone!

Cannot agree with you. They were only good as a package of four!!!

Rubbish! Lennon and Harrison were the only two with any real songwriting talent. Starr and Mccartney just rode along on their coat tails!

Rubbish you say but I cannot agree with you. None of them were good in their own right, only as a package.

You are wrong there.

George's All Things Must Pass was considered a masterpiece in its day and one of the best-known songs, Something, was actually one of George's.

Paul McCartney was very successful with Wings in the 70s and he's an accomplished classical composer.

John was behind many of the more striking Beatles songs, such as Strawberry Fields and I Am The Walrus, but he had many best-selling albums in his own right, not forgetting Imagine, which, strangely, I never liked.

Ringo knew he was just an appendage and accepted that. But he was the voice of Thomas the Tank Engine for a number of years.

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Originally posted by captain marbles:
It's not just what they wrote, and they wrote some fabulous stuff, but they also had one of the great bass players in McCartney and one of the finest guitarists ever in George Harrison.
Their musical inventiveness put so much pressure on others to try to match them that most popular music since has simply been a case of picking over their leftovers.
They were, and are, unique.

Indeed, and even Oasis, today, are almost a copy of The Beatles, and admit it.

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

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Originally posted by captain marbles:
It's not just what they wrote, and they wrote some fabulous stuff, but they also had one of the great bass players in McCartney and one of the finest guitarists ever in George Harrison.
Their musical inventiveness put so much pressure on others to try to match them that most popular music since has simply been a case of picking over their leftovers.
They were, and are, unique.

I suspect reading between the lines that McCartney was the best bass, drummer, and guitarist in the band. Probably keyboards too. As musicians I think Harrison and Starr were pretty average.

George was considered one of the finest guitarists in the world towards the end of the sixties. The best was thought to be Eric Clapton, his best buddy and wife-stealer.

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Originally posted by jennywren:

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

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Originally posted by captain marbles:
It's not just what they wrote, and they wrote some fabulous stuff, but they also had one of the great bass players in McCartney and one of the finest guitarists ever in George Harrison.
Their musical inventiveness put so much pressure on others to try to match them that most popular music since has simply been a case of picking over their leftovers.
They were, and are, unique.

I suspect reading between the lines that McCartney was the best bass, drummer, and guitarist in the band. Probably keyboards too. As musicians I think Harrison and Starr were pretty average.

George was considered one of the finest guitarists in the world towards the end of the sixties. The best was thought to be Eric Clapton, his best buddy and wife-stealer.

Eric Clapton played on a a Beatles record...I think it was on Something..he did the guitar solo bit.

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Originally posted by FGG Aka Crocodile Rock:

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Originally posted by jennywren:

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

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Originally posted by captain marbles:
It's not just what they wrote, and they wrote some fabulous stuff, but they also had one of the great bass players in McCartney and one of the finest guitarists ever in George Harrison.
Their musical inventiveness put so much pressure on others to try to match them that most popular music since has simply been a case of picking over their leftovers.
They were, and are, unique.

I suspect reading between the lines that McCartney was the best bass, drummer, and guitarist in the band. Probably keyboards too. As musicians I think Harrison and Starr were pretty average.

George was considered one of the finest guitarists in the world towards the end of the sixties. The best was thought to be Eric Clapton, his best buddy and wife-stealer.

Eric Clapton played on a a Beatles record...I think it was on Something..he did the guitar solo bit.

While My Guitar Gently Weeps from The White Album.

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Originally posted by jennywren:

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Originally posted by FGG Aka Crocodile Rock:

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Originally posted by jennywren:

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

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Originally posted by captain marbles:
It's not just what they wrote, and they wrote some fabulous stuff, but they also had one of the great bass players in McCartney and one of the finest guitarists ever in George Harrison.
Their musical inventiveness put so much pressure on others to try to match them that most popular music since has simply been a case of picking over their leftovers.
They were, and are, unique.

I suspect reading between the lines that McCartney was the best bass, drummer, and guitarist in the band. Probably keyboards too. As musicians I think Harrison and Starr were pretty average.

George was considered one of the finest guitarists in the world towards the end of the sixties. The best was thought to be Eric Clapton, his best buddy and wife-stealer.

Eric Clapton played on a a Beatles record...I think it was on Something..he did the guitar solo bit.

While My Guitar Gently Weeps from The White Album.

Doh!!

Of course it was!

[QUOTE]Originally posted by FGG Aka Crocodile Rock:
Dylan I do, but to me, Hendrix, half the time when he goes off on one one the guitar is just a noise.[/QUOTEIf you played the guitar,you would realise what a great guitarist Hendrix was.I wish I could play it just a little like him.They say he slept with his guitar.He always had it on him.That's the secret practice practice,which I assume he did all of the time.

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Originally posted by joyron:
Not read the whole thread so I don't know what's been said. The Beatles were an enigma in their own time. I LOVED them (but I'm going on 60 now). People see things very differently now, but that does not mean they should be slated by people who have no real experience of them in their own time.

I have to agree. I was in my early teens when The Beatles arrived on the music scene, 1962 or 1963 if I remember correctly and I was 14 or 15 years old. They were a completely new concept. Before them all the groups were instrumental backing groups to a lead singer, such as The Shadows backing Cliff and some went on to record their own instrumentalist singles.

To see a group such as The Beatles with all the members playing musical instruments AND singing with no lead singer taking the spotlight was completely unique.

But there was just something magical about their kind of music. I can remember the first time I heard their first release, it made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. I honestly didn't think I weas going to be a fan of them as I was really into intrumental groups at the time, but there was just something very special about what the music media of the time described as the Mersey Sound.

Just about everyone in my class at school and all of my friends were bowled over by The Beatles. Remember though it was a time when pop music wasn't given much air time on either the radio or on the TV and music listening equipment was nothing like we have today. Back then the more fortunate of us had little transistor radios or portable reel to reel tape recorders, we had tinny sounding record players. The Beatles music IMO really has to be played and listened to on the old fashioned requipment to be fully appreciated for what it is. Then try and imagine us teenagers of that era walking down the street with our friends, listening to the latest Beatles release being played on Radio Caroline or Radio Luxemburg, or played on a little portable tape recorder, with the background of cars, buses, motorbikes, children playing.....

It was urban music. Urban music produced by teenagers who were just like we were.

Magic!

re Hendrix

Quite possibly...I recognise how good he was...but I just don't like his playing..its not to my taste and sounds like white noise to me.

I remember the first time I heard Hey Jude, only I didn't know that's what it was or who it was by. It was playing on a juke box in Dorothy Perkins and I just absolutely adored it instantly. I rushed to the juke box to find out who it was by, and, of course, it was The Beatles. I didn't buy anything in Dorothy Perkins. I rushed straight over the road to Woolworths and bought the record. I've still got it.

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Originally posted by Soozy woo:
urely the whole point is - is that they were the first of a kind for this country back in the sixties. We'd not really had anything as new and innovative before ....it's kind of pointless to say that you dont rate them now as of course it's old hat and has been copied endlessly and there have been numerous covers.

I think they inspired a lot of British musicians

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

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Originally posted by Demantoid:
I like the Beatles, but it's not wrong if you don't.
Personally, I've never "got" Bob Dylan. Just sounds like a bellowing old drunk, to me.

*agrees with Demantoid*

*Seconds*

The Beatles or The Stones?
Neither, The Who wiped the floor with both.

I have never been a fan of the conceited Paul McCartney~ he tries to act cute ~ young and cool~but he sure isn't ~ even in his day ~he thought he was~and acted like he was something very special

I liked a couple of their songs~ I think their hair style and all being dressed in those identical collarless suits ~~was the main reason they did so well