lucifer_sam

it seems a lot of people that LOVE the Beatles (i don't mean casual fans, i mean the crazy ones) haven't heard anything else that's similar to them. the people that usually cite the Beatles as "the best band ever" probably haven't heard anything by The Pretty Things, 13th Floor Elevators, The Monks, Moby Grape, Love, etc.

it's insanely infuriating to try and have a thoughtful conversation about the Beatles with someone who thinks that Ringo Starr is a competent songwriter.

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Comus

Yes, the reason people who like bands of the same era with quite a similar sound don't like the beatles is because they'd rather be listening to the musically competent bands. Y'know those that consistently made good, interesting and listenable music.

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Neapolitan

Well, in a way it did affect me too, I hated hearing that about them being the greatest, but I got over it, it doesn't bother me putting things in proper perspective, and I can why they were called that. Before I got into The Beatles I liked bands like The Rolling Stones and Yes, and I know a lot of people who don't like them for various reasons. But instead of comparing them to Yes, I took them for who they were, and hear a lot of interesting stuff in their music. Plus by being a Steve Howe fan I got into music he liked and learn a lot from that. I consider Les Paul the one who started the music revolution, and his acheivements were greater then The Beatles and the bands that followed.

I guess by not putting The Beatels in the proper place in RnR history and judging them with other band further down the RnR timeline, it's easy to scoff at them.

boo boo

I know quite a bit of people who know all these artists and still prefer The Beatles, I'm one of them. Stop acting like it's wrong.

For someone who claims to have listened to over 1001 albums, you know alarmingly little about music.

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Son of JayJamJah

First use ever on here?

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boo boo

I deleted that bit right before you posted.

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lucifer_sam

of course it's not wrong. it just so happens that a disproportionate number of people that cite the Beatles as their "favorite" band are ignorant twats.

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Son of JayJamJah

I'm glad I captured the moment. I laughed out loud the second I read that word.

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Neapolitan

Well the hogs did need washing.

boo boo

That's how music should be judged. Instead of trying to figure out why it's more popular than the stuff you already like, you need to judge it for what it is.

But that's not what most people do. They scoff at popular bands because they refuse to try and figure out while they're more popular than The Fuzzy Cunts from Buttfuck Nowhere, Idaho.

Fixed.

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