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11-15-2018, 09:00 PM #176
taylor swift? i know nothing about her but the boy and i started hearing her songs on the xmas radio channel and i want to stab myself in the ears.
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11-15-2018, 09:16 PM #177Funky But Chic
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11-15-2018, 09:28 PM #178
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11-16-2018, 06:07 AM #179
1) Donald Trump
2) Barry Obama“How does it feel to be the greatest guitarist in the world? I don’t know, go ask Rory Gallagher”. — Jimi Hendrix
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11-16-2018, 06:47 AM #180
Taylor Swift
Jeff Fucking Dunham. Before you say he’s properly rated as “bad” - he’s been one of the highest grossing comedians for years and that’s just gross.
Sent from my iPhone using TGR ForumsIf we're gonna wear uniforms, we should all wear somethin' different!
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11-16-2018, 07:59 AM #181
Metallica
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11-16-2018, 09:11 AM #182
So Benny was apparently a teenage girl in the 60's and loved the Beatles.
Beece said it better. I certainly think they are top 3 all time, but they were a pop band that made their nut, and as a result were given the artistic liberty to pursue avenues being forged already by Hendrix, The Who, & the Cream dudes earlier work like the Grand Bond Organization.Live Free or Die
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11-16-2018, 09:16 AM #183Registered User
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Oh, even a neonate can "judge" quality, but only within their limited frame of reference. When does one's frame of reference permit an accurate judgement that can stand the test of time, and apply across a wide spectrum of the population? Ignoring a few outliers let's say 30 - 50 - lot's of individual variation. I mean, some people never get there.
"Listen" to classical music in high school?? Hell, I played classical music in HS, but not very well.
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11-16-2018, 09:22 AM #184
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11-16-2018, 09:24 AM #185
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11-16-2018, 09:30 AM #186
How old is everyone here? What the fuck. The Beatles were almost history when everybody you mention hit their stride. Hendrix made a beeline to John and Paul when he got to London to pay his respects. Cream was just a very loud blues/rock band, anyway, what did they ever invent? The Who? C'mon. Wouldn't have made it out of clubs if not for Moon.
For fucks sake, read some history. Amazing that somebody could think that Cream enabled the White Album.
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11-16-2018, 10:10 AM #187Registered User
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Bill Murray.
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11-16-2018, 10:18 AM #188
The Beatles were the most important band, I love them yadda yadda. But man people get defensive if you suggest that there were also excellent bands who didn't owe their entire existence to the Beatles! Musicians like Hendrix influenced later Beatles stuff as much as vice-versa. And of course the Beatles early stuff is mostly influenced by American R&B, so by that metric Larry Williams (who wrote Slow Down, Dad Boy & Dizzy Miss Lizzy) is who we all should really be talking about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Williams
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11-16-2018, 10:19 AM #189
I like the Beatles but they are definitely overrated.
What would you go back in time to see in the early sixties?
released in 1961
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released in 1963
Early sixties rock/pop was pretty terrible. It was childish and for children. Most bands didn't play their own instruments on studio recordings. Were the Beatles better than most? For sure. But that's no great accomplishment. They were hacks compared to blues and jazz musicians of the era. Yes, I get that these are different genres, but they aren't unrelated. There is a reason rock grew up by borrowing/stealing from Blues.
By the late sixties, when rock had grown up the Beatles certainly had done some growing of their own. But their music was often a polite, restrained version of the bands that were really killing it. My father's parents always thought the Beatles were ok. They hated the Hendrix, Cream and Dylan my dad preferred.
The same way Elvis merged blues, R&B, rockabilly, Gospel and bluegrass and into a watered down, palatable genre for the masses, the Beatles took psychedelic rock and made a version that didn't make mom and dad nervous. And they wrote some great songs.
But unless you were a teenage girl in the early sixties, the adoration of the Beatles outweighs their accomplishments.
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11-16-2018, 10:36 AM #190
Holy shit.
Dude, nobody listens or listened to Coltraine. Get real.
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11-16-2018, 10:42 AM #191
Well, yeah, of course. Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee, yadda yadda. And the Beatles made it a point to pay props to every one they could meet on the first few tours. But, ask any living musician from early British Rock, and every one, Richards, McCartney, anyone, and they can still tell you about the first time they heard Heartbreak Hotel. Hugely influencial record.
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11-16-2018, 10:49 AM #192
Overrated celebrities - clickbait listicle style
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Mundo paparazzi mi amore cicce verdi parasol.
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11-16-2018, 10:51 AM #193
Overrated celebrities - clickbait listicle style
Last edited by irul&ublo; 11-16-2018 at 11:34 AM.
Quando paramucho mi amore de felice carathon.
Mundo paparazzi mi amore cicce verdi parasol.
Questo abrigado tantamucho que canite carousel.
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11-16-2018, 10:55 AM #194
Over rated how I suppose?
If you listen to the breadth of their work and see the evolution of it as well as their cultural influence and impact on music, you would have to put them in top 5 rock AND pop bands.
For those thinking they are over rated, who is in your top 5?Education must be the answer, we've tried ignorance and it doesn't work!
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11-16-2018, 10:57 AM #195
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And when Lennon asked Dylan his opinion of what the Beatles "were trying to say" on "Let It Be" Dylan said something like "I don't think you're saying much of anything."
The Beatles were a great pop band. I went to see McCartney a few years back with my dad and was amazed by the high quality of the show. The guy is the ultimate pro. And that is pretty much how I think of the Beatles too: the ultimate pros. Tidy, polished, controlled and nice. But there isn't a Beatles song out there that blows me away until someone else plays it.
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11-16-2018, 11:05 AM #196
McCartney is nothing without Lennon. Much like Richards and Jagger's solo work blows. Sometimes you need a team.
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11-16-2018, 11:11 AM #197
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11-16-2018, 11:15 AM #198
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11-16-2018, 11:15 AM #199
Well, a few people.
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11-16-2018, 11:16 AM #200
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