Poll: The Beatles

[Beefcakes]

you should get an avatar.

Some of the most interesting, and maybe even notable, posters on this forum don't have an avatar, I will always read what Alex P has to say about something.
So by my logic, you've sat there and thought, 'Wow, this topic is great to post on, I think I will contribute, hmm oh hang on wait what? He doesn't have a picture to represent himself? Maybe he doesn't know they exists, its the only logical explanation for his lack of avatar. I think I should let him know about it, he will surely be grateful for it.'
Sorry, things like this just really get on my nerves, and I need to vent.

Apologies

Anywho, theres no bigger than Jesus option in the poll?
/bad joke been done numerous times in this thread alone...
But I think the Beatles are a great band, in my opinion, one of the best of all time, top 10 at least
There songs are, inspirational, I find they make me think, much harder than any song should...
I enjoy their music, regardless of whether people find me cliche or not, I don't care, they are a great band, and will like them always, unless I find out they, like, burnt down orphanages in their spare time or something, then I may enjoy the Beatles a little less.
But then it becomes an ethical and morality question
Would you enjoy the Beatles music even knowing they burnt down orphanages?
I just realised how tangential I became...

 

[Xvito]

The Beatles are pe-retty awesome.

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

I never really got into them. Their okay though.

 

[Ace of Spades]

They're pretty good. I like Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

 

[EeveeElectro]

I absolutely love them.
My friends think I'm weird because I listen to them and have a few albums, but who cares?
I adore Paul McCartney,he's great. His video for 'Dance Tonight' was so clever, and didn't McKenzie Crook star in it as the postman?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xTNXrkBSp_o

 

[sanomaton]

Where the hell is the option for TOTALLY FUCKING KICK ASS?

Seconded

I love the old sound they have in their songs and the lyrics are wonderful imho. Especially I like All My Loving, Can't Buy Me Love and I Should've Known Better. I didn't listen to the Beatles when I was a kid though I've just started to like them more and more now in my teens. *shrugs*

 

[Galletea]

Personally I can't stand them. However they took music to a new level at that era. There were other, more interesting artists around (Bowie's debut came out the same time as Sgt Pepper, but the latter was better publicised) but they were responsible for influencing a huge amount of modern music.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

They are really, really awesome. And influential, but mainly just amazing.

 

[Berethond]

The rock and roll group from Britain. Considered one of the greatest groups by some, and by others one of the worst things to happen to culture. Where they good, great, moderate, bad or awful.

Looking for an easy way to get a Hot Topic?
"Controversial" ones that have been done to death seem to do the trick...

I got Hot Topic with a thread about dolphins.

I don't like the Beatles, they started a wave of terrible Pop music that hasn't died yet.

 

[clarinetJWD]

The early years were filled with mindless pop, and given those I'd say they were meh. However, Rubber Soul started them down a new path that fully became apparent in the first "Art rock" album ever, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band. It was also probably the first concept album. From that point on, each album was full of fantastic weirdness, dark humor, contrast, and pushed the envelope of what could be accepted as "popular" music.

For me their best overall album is Abbey Road, mostly due to the B side, which is one long medley of many songs. The White Album, however, was probably the most groundbreaking due to the new and unheard of ground it covered. Musique Concrete in Rock? Wow.

The years from 1967 (and 66 to some degree, Run For Your Life was one of the first times they showed us their juxtaposition of dark material [jealous murder] in a cheerful song. A later example is "Maxwell's Silver Hammer") through 1970 were absolutely fantastic.

 

[Symp4thy]

"Hey look, the Monkees. They were a huge influence on the Beatles."

 

[DannyDamage]

ENGLAND'S first ever manufactured, aggressively marketed boy band.

Granted, they were better than most of the modern crap that's churned out every day, but it's still pop music, whored towards little girls that want to maul the boyish good looks of a record label's latest meal-ticket.

Wouldn't have a go at anyone for liking them, but I'd never go as far as saying they're the best anything ever.

 

[YouGetWhatsGiven]

The rock and roll group from Britain. Considered one of the greatest groups by some, and by others one of the worst things to happen to culture. Where they good, great, moderate, bad or awful.

Looking for an easy way to get a Hot Topic?
"Controversial" ones that have been done to death seem to do the trick...

I have already got hot topics. I searched this one to. I think that the search engine is messed up though.

 

[curlycrouton]

The Beatles were a gigantic leap forward in popular music. Without the Beatles, rock music as we know it now wouldn't exist.

You can dislike them, because that's down to taste, but you can't deny their influence.

I agree with this statement.

Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite anyone?

 

[Alphavillain]

The Beatles wrote some decent songs but were not the trailblazers that casual music fans think they were. They were skilled artisans, writing honed pop songs rather than way-out-there aryists pushing the bondaries of music. Nothing wrong with that, but there comes a time when you want more than "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", etc.

 

[poleboy]

Some of the posts here make me feel sad and old

Anyway, I rather like them. The later half of Abbey Road is some of the most amazingly pleasant music I have ever heard. Love that album. The early rock 'n' roll stuff is rather shallow, but there are a few gems there. The later stuff is generally good. And George was the most likeable guy ever.

Don't forget though, that there were lots of other bands around back then that were as good or better. The 60's and early 70's are a never-ending goldmine of awesome music.

 

[Oasisblur]

They are most likely the most influential rock artists. They basically started World Music with rock with George Harrison being the first rock guitarist playing the sitar, tamboura, and Swarmandal. The Beatles where the first band to go away from the 1-4-5 rock and roll chord progression. They were the first rock band to use guitar feedback with a guitar riff driven song "I Feel Fine" basically a modern rock staple. The Beatles recorded their guitars and vocals backward. They have more innovations than Led Zeppelin or the Stones it's not really that close.

The Beatles, particularly McCartney, became heavily influenced by experimental German composer, Karlheinz Stockhausen. Beginning with Tomorrow Never Knows they began experimenting with tape loops, musique-concrète, and effects which were crucial to the development of modern electronica. Due to the Beatles studio explorations every rock band making an album today owes the Beatles a debt of gratitude in what really what their doing between 1965-1968.

The Beatles use of the 12 string guitar were hugely influential also on the Animals, Brian Jones and Pete Townshend purshase the instrument; helped persuade the Byrds, then folksingers, to plunge all out into rock & roll, and the Beatles (along with Bob Dylan) would be hugely influential on the folk-rock explosion of 1965. The Beatles' success, too, had begun to open the U.S. market for fellow Brits like the Rolling Stones, the Animals, and the Kinks, and inspired young American groups like the Beau Brummels, Lovin' Spoonful, and others to mount a challenge of their own with self-penned material that owed a great debt to Lennon-McCartney.

 

[xxDarlenexx]

I love them. But whether you worship them or think they suck you can't deny the effect they had on popular culture and pop music. What a legacy.

 

[Epifols]

The Beatles kick ass. They had a big range of rock styles, and all are great. I don't see why people hate their stuff. Sure you don't have to love it, but if you don't see some credibility in them I think you have no musical sense.

Considering this was the band that STARTED the British invasion of several dozen bands, which paved the way to stuff more popular today (The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, and the best band ever Pink Floyd).

 

[speedcoreXdandy]

I wouldn't really rate them on that scale. I have to say I'm not really a fan of what I've heard by them but I could never slag them off simply because of the massive influence they've had on music.