The Beatles suck. Fact.
Long long long ago in an age far far away.



Talk about them no more. There history.

The salient point, whether you like them or not, is that they ARE history. They sit at the heart of the history of popular music. Everything you listen to (and everything which people with broader and better musical tastes than you listen to) is influenced by the Beatles. Their role in popularising and Anglicising the twelve bar blues, their part in the repositioning of popular musicians within the spectrum of celebrity, their elevation of the poetic standards of lyric writing (and the expansion of what subjects lyrics could address). The Beatles experiments in psychedelic music were of considerable importance in themselves, and of incalculable importance in mainstreaming psychedelic music. They can claim credit for bringing the musical influence of the Indian subcontinent to western pop, and they also played a modest role in supporting contemporary composers (Stockhausen, Taverner) and in introducing some of the musical principles of contemporary composition to a wider public.

One song alone, Tomorrow Never Knows, had a profound influence on the development of dance music in the nineties (and is quoted as a direct influence by several of the artists of the time). Without the Beatles, NOTHING that you listen to would exist in the form it does.

So whether you like them or not is irrelevant, Trig. Anybody with a genuine, live interest in music will continue to discuss them, because you can't make sense of modern music without acknowledging their influence. But then, that doesn't bother you, because a) your interest in music is not live, it's long dead and ossified and b) you have no desire to make sense of anything, just to blot out the silence of your life with noise.

Actually Trig, ALL your likes and dislikes are irrelevant, because you have no place in history at all, no matter how minor. You're a flea.

Fantastic post

<stands to attention> (Yes, John. Obviously.)

 

<applauds>

<Bows somewhat shamefacedly>

no you fool.
they sit at the heart of recordable media, tv and radio
television the drug of a nation breading ignorance and feeding radiation
without the drug of a nation beatles would be nothing
beatles created comercialism
beatle are shite period
beatles got banned from us LMAO
beatles is bigger than jesus?
silly boy

the first music came from the black man in 1940s southern america
this is where ALL infuences come from
the entire 20th centrury music spectrum begins and ends with the black man
you ignorant washed up bafoon
idiot cunts who think bealtes are music
idiot cunts who think bealtes started it all and where the first spectrum of musical light began
idiot manthorp

I think Mozart and Beethoven, who although far from being the first musicians, would strongly disagree with you that the first music ever came into being in the 1940's.

 

Oh, and as for the rest, you're talking crap and just being a troll again.
I'm ignoring you for the rest of this thread.

As I said, your opinions are of no significance to anybody.

what Lennon was trying to say, and has sadly been misrepresented by fools ever since, is that, at the time he was speaking, the Beatles were more important to the youth culture of the day than Jesus

and he was right

Just of out curiosity, when you say "the black man" which one are you referring to?

I wish the Beatles were still bigger than Jesus in the states :(

 

I spent about an hour last night going over a few Beatles albums looking for some of my favourites to stick on a 1GB SD card to put in my Palm. I think I'll have a listen to some of it while I do some work.

LOL, dat is in color man, not black!

Im guessing the black man he,s referring to is actually purple and from liverpool . ;-)

 

not sure how many scousers are on the forum , but a quick google search will reveal all .

 

edit: just google purple aki ;P

Maybe my search wasn,t specific enough but running "purple man liverpool" through google gives

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/6087922.stm

your search was spot on :]

Ah yes indeed



and



should have given it away.

its was a long intermite private interview that went on for hours
the silly man should have said what you said
but he never because hes a fool on the hill
he was a troll of the pop culture spouting crap basiclly
most of younth culture will always think of music before jesus anytime anywhere any decade past present and future

 

whores to recordable media

 

mozart probably said that too

the black men that played music and sang