sleepy jack

The Beatles were not lame.

Look at them having a pillow fight!



And here they are jumping about!



Here's them making exaggerated stepping movements down stairs in sync with eachother!



Completely functional limbs.

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Check and mate.

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I know I did

And if they were such a great band and better that probably the most important band of the 20th century you should have no problem answering it.

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Oomph!

More or less, yes. Bass, along with the drums, effectively drives your rythm, it creates a layer of sound. Bass isn't the only aspect I was reffering to though.

That was a poor simile, I don't see how dissmissing a movie bacause you don't understand the language it's in has anything to do with music being lame.

If you have to strain yourself to make out the bass, you can't concentrate on the rest of the song.

Thier music was

I didn't 'dodge' it, in fact I've already explained it in this very thread just pages ago.

sleepy jack

Technically music can't be lame. You're going to have to give us a more concrete description of their music or define lame by your standards.

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Seltzer

It wasn't poor - let me explain it if you don't get it. People nowadays are accustomed to having their music drenched in bass because that placates the people of today. You (like those people), feel uncomfortable when you have to actually put some effort into listening for the bass.

There are some people who claim to like movies, yet they refuse to put in the effort to read subtitles for a foreign movie. In other words, as you are uncomfortable listening to music without the bass being nice and easy for you to hear, they are uncomfortable watching movies which aren't nice and easy for them to understand (because the language is foreign and they have to read subtitles). Laziness is the undermining factor in both cases.


Analogy aside, it is quite sad if you judge music by how loud it is. And really, you don't have to strain to hear a bassline in a Beatles song.

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Oomph!

My standards? Well, how about I give you a dictionary standard, I know we are all fans of the dictionary in this forum, right?

Lame:
3. weak; inadequate; unsatisfactory; clumsy: a lame excuse.

When I say lame in this context, I mean (regarding the sound of music) "lacking in passion; weak; ineffectual; shallow"

sleepy jack

lol

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Paul McCartney is without a doubt one of the most important bassists of all time, people often overlook that.

He along with other bassists from that time like John Entwistle, John Paul Jones, Chris Squire, Phil Lesh and Jack Bruce were very important in giving bassists a more important role in a rock band, they didn't have to be just the guy in the background, they could play a very significant part in the music.

Also. Wild Honey Pie > anything by Godsmack

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Oomph!

I'm reffering to 'lameness' (another word I probably made up) as a value. It has nothing to do being lazy, low bass is ineffectual, it doesn't move you. Plus, when you have to strain yourself to hear the bass you can't hear the rest of the song that well.

Being too lazy to read subtitles isn't a 'value'. Either the film is in the language you speak or it isn't.

I'm not talking about volume. You can play any song as physically loud as you want.

Doesn't change the fact that the bass was lower (among other factors), thus more lame.