eraser.time206

All of that has to do with sound. Their lyrics were garbage. "we are the village green preservation society"....garbage...."There's nothing you can do that can't be done"..garbage. They brought a great sound but their lyrics were garbage. The British Invasion inspired sound + garbage lyrics.

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Unknown Soldier

I agree, they were probably not very well known in Tibet.

That album is based around character sketches from traditional English village life. The lyrics are not meant to be relevant unless you know what you`re looking for and even then they`re open to debate. FTW I think the lyrics are good on that album.

right-track

Lennon and McCartney and Ray Davies lyrics..."garbage".
You write off 3 songwriters with 2 examples and dismiss them as garbage.
And this after you complain about British Invasion bands ruining music and somehow negatively effecting American culture.
Perhaps you can tell me just exactly where British Invasion bands were influenced, before hitting the shores of the U.S.A. like a destructive musical and cultural tsunami?

Necromancer

As most everyone already knows, a lot of the British bands and artist were influenced by American Blues.

Artist like Robert Johnson, Chuck Berry, etc.

I don't get the bad lyrics/"garbage" bit myself?

eraser.time206

British bands were influenced by Blues musicians as already said. John Lennon is not a good writer and neither is Paul McCartney. They have written good songs but not on a consistent basis. I'm sure music as a whole would have been of a higher quality nowadays if the British Invasion never happened.

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Howard the Duck

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Jedey

That happened for me when he said the British Invasion of 1964 kept people from hearing about Frank Zappa, Frank's first album came out in 1966.

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eraser.time206

The British Invasion had artists getting getting recognition they didn't deserve. Frank Zappa should have been as famous as the Beatles.

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Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra

Frank Zappa is only famous because he sang songs about eating Husky pee tainted snow. Buy a best of from Best Buy, and realize it's a compilation of some of his worst work. I mean songs like "Fine Girl" which are definitive sarcastic B-sides that you could only imagine your 85 year old sexist uncle listening to.

Zappa's whole appeal was his abrasiveness. He hated love songs, he hated politeness, he hated easy lyrics, he was 100% sarcastic prick, arrogant, overachieving. Daringly self centered in his approach to music. THAT is why he's a genius. He wrote his thing, his way, and still somehow made a fantastic living off of it. If he had to cater to be as famous as the Beatles, he'd never achieve like he did as a technical songwriter.

If he has too stand, and smile, and spew out mindless hippy love garbage he wouldn't be Zappa. However, that doesn't mean he got the shaft, he IS a household name.

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