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JoshWoodzy
Joined: May 22 2008
Location: Goshen, VA
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I am not the biggest Beatles fan, I mean I get their influence on certain bands and shit, blah blah. But I don't think putting a band that was only making records for like 6 years on a pedestal does anyone any good. I mean, if I can listen to damn near every song a band recorded in a relatively short period of time, then their influence may be a tad overstated.
That said, I enjoyed "Revolver" and "Abbey Road" a little bit.
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Greg the White
Joined: Apr 09 2008
Location: Pennsylvania
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I am not the biggest Beatles fan, I mean I get their influence on certain bands and shit, blah blah. But I don't think putting a band that was only making records for like 6 years on a pedestal does anyone any good. I mean, if I can listen to damn near every song a band recorded in a relatively short period of time, then their influence may be a tad overstated.
That said, I enjoyed "Revolver" and "Abbey Road" a little bit. |
That's why my vote for "best band" goes to either The Kinks or The Who. They always seemed to take The Beatles' hit-or-miss experimentation, and put their own spin on it, frequently improving on the formulas.
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 So here's to you Mrs. Robinson. People love you more- oh, nevermind. |
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JoshWoodzy
Joined: May 22 2008
Location: Goshen, VA
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Oh, I love The Kinks so much more than any other British band, for sure. I could listen to them all day, and it's almost like they have a song for every occasion. The Who is a band that I dig almost as much, I just get kinda tired of hearing Roger Daltrey's voice after a while, though. Doesn't stop me from loving the music.
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Greg the White
Joined: Apr 09 2008
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And to clarify, I wasn't going on that whole Green Day thing because they weren't "PUNX" or whatever. It was mostly that idol worship of Armstrong, a decent songwriter, that led to the new album, which just felt so lifeless compared to a lot of their work.
Anyhow, I'm also pissed at myself for constantly hating on the Andrew Jackson Jihad after only listening to a few songs. I just listened to People II: The Reckoning the other day, and I think it may be my favorite song right now.
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So here's to you Mrs. Robinson. People love you more- oh, nevermind. |
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Valdronius
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Title: SydLexia COO
Joined: Aug 22 2005
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Lady Gaga playing at lollapalooza. Kurt Cobain must be spinning in his grave.
Er, his ashes must be spinning in the...
Ah fuck it.
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JRA
Joined: Sep 17 2007
Location: The Opium Trail
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| joshwoodzy wrote: |
I am not the biggest Beatles fan, I mean I get their influence on certain bands and shit, blah blah. But I don't think putting a band that was only making records for like 6 years on a pedestal does anyone any good. I mean, if I can listen to damn near every song a band recorded in a relatively short period of time, then their influence may be a tad overstated.
That said, I enjoyed "Revolver" and "Abbey Road" a little bit. |
Ever since reading Jim DeRogatis's scathing modern review of "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" I've never been able to like it the same way again.
Mind you I never thought it was the best album ever to begin with, but now I merely see it as a mish mash of wondering nonsense sandwiched between an awesome opener and closer.
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There are a lot of what if's in life Donny. What if I hit you really hard in the face, knocked yo shit to the back of yo skull? What if I....had you girl gargle my nuts? The fact remains, you are a fuckin mutant. |
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nihilisticglee
Joined: Oct 12 2007
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| Lady Gaga playing at lollapalooza. Kurt Cobain must be spinning in his grave. |
Eh, so long as she does her piano stuff it should be fine...
Who am I kidding. She may be freakishly talented but she hasn't looked back since selling her soul to pop music.
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Captain_Pollution
Title: Hugh
Joined: Sep 23 2007
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| joshwoodzy wrote: |
| But I don't think putting a band that was only making records for like 6 years on a pedestal does anyone any good. I mean, if I can listen to damn near every song a band recorded in a relatively short period of time, then their influence may be a tad overstated. |
That reasoning seems silly to me. It doesn't matter how much work they put out, it matters the balance of popularity and individuality the work they do put out has, the influence. Their music certainly wasn't radically different from the music scene they emerged from, but they did introduce a lot of things to a lot of people.
Referring to someone else, I also think it's a bit silly to say the Beatles were just four white guys who repackaged black music. The original, white rock and roll artists of the fifties can be criticised for this, but the Beatles grew up listening to both the black and the white artists. Elvis had been around for almost a decade when their debut came out. And when people call the Beatles innovative, anyway, they usually aren't talking about their early work.
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<Drew_Linky> Well, I've eaten vegetables all of once in my life.
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nihilisticglee
Joined: Oct 12 2007
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The fact that " Tight" routinely goes for $150-$200 on ebay. I really want to own this album and refuse to download it. Apparently it can be found for around $80, but I never seen it go that low.
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Cameron
Title: :O � O:
Joined: Feb 01 2008
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| The fact that "Tight" routinely goes for $150-$200 on ebay. I really want to own this album and refuse to download it. Apparently it can be found for around $80, but I never seen it go that low. |
I know how you feel; one of my favorite albums of all-time goes for like sixty bucks on eBay, but sometimes downloading is the only option.
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eatpork
Joined: May 24 2010
Location: Detroit, Michigan
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I hate when I'm driving and there's a song that has horn honking sound effects, that should be illegal.
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JStrangiato
Title: El Hombre Strangiato
Joined: Jun 12 2007
Location: Texas
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| I hate when I'm driving and there's a song that has horn honking sound effects, that should be illegal. |
What's worse is cop sirens. I almost crashed by car this one time by jerking my head around trying to see if there was a cop behind me.
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i'll_bite_your_ear
Title: Distillatoria
Joined: Jun 09 2010
Location: van down by the river
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that folks on my age dislike elvis. i could kill these suckers!
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it was the best of times
it was the blurst of times |
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Drew Linky
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Pot heads who claim that 'Dark Side of the Moon' is SOOOOOO much better to listen to while high. Fuck you, I like the deep lyrics to remain deep, not funny.
And don't get me wrong, I don't mind pot heads. Prefer them, actually. But it pisses me off when they try to invade my music bubble.
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https://discord.gg/homestuck is where you can find me literally 99% of the time. Stop on by if you feel like it, we're a nice crowd. |
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JoshWoodzy
Joined: May 22 2008
Location: Goshen, VA
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Don't assume any zonked out 60's or 70's bands lyrics are deep. Assume they are a zonked out lyrics that probably don't mean shit.
It's hard to swallow that, but after hearing so many musicians and song writers flat out say that songs that I thought for the longest time had some deep meaning were just shit they scribbled out to fill an album out, it's hard to picture any musician as all knowing or profound. It sucks when that reality bites you.
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i'll_bite_your_ear
Title: Distillatoria
Joined: Jun 09 2010
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that the shangri-las only got 1 really good song, wich is "Give him a great big kiss". Those girls did have so much potential...
@josh: yeah its really like that. even bob dylan was an ordinary dude who spent his money on leather jackets and motorcycles. I guess all people are equal in what they can say, or how much the can say.
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it was the best of times
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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fuck. i hate getting paid late
due to that, i was unable to buy tickets to the Talib Kweli show tonight. 
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Derpalicious
Title: Fueled by Ramen
Joined: Apr 23 2011
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Excessive auto-tune.
One or two lines in a song can add a nice, quirky effect to the song. When the whole damn thing is fucking SATURATED with it... I want to kill things.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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Excessive auto-tune.
One or two lines in a song can add a nice, quirky effect to the song. When the whole damn thing is fucking SATURATED with it... I want to kill things. |
My wife was trying to remember the name of a song.
I suggested that she use www.midomi.com to find it. Her reply was that there was no way that she could hum or sing it. A few days later she heard it and told me to listen. It was an entire song super auto-tuned. She was right... there is no way to sing or hum that shit.
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pi0x
Title: Nerd
Joined: May 14 2011
Location: www.sydlexia.com
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That artists put out lots of good music and get popular, and then put out really sucky music just to make more money...
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Greg the White
Joined: Apr 09 2008
Location: Pennsylvania
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As a punk fan, I hate fucking Rolling Stone-esque music writers who feel like they have to cram all of their classic rock heroes who are losing relevance into my favorite genre. We've worked for 30 years for people to finally get that the Sex Pistols suck and Hipsters (the pre-2007ish kind) that The Ramones never sold out, and now these magazine assholes are trying to tell us that The Talking Heads and Elvis Costello are punk, and all of these early 60's bands actually invented punk? Fuck off.
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So here's to you Mrs. Robinson. People love you more- oh, nevermind. |
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King
Title: CTE
Joined: Apr 27 2008
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I agree, Even Elvis Costello, while I am a fan of his, would never say he is punk
You can argue when the talking heads first STARTED, they were punk, but what they are most known for certainly is not
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Fighter_McWarrior
Title: Gun of Brixton
Joined: Jun 05 2011
Location: Down by the River
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I agree that Elvis Costello and the Talking Heads aren't punk, but punk was pretty much invented by MC5 and The Stooges in the 60s. I mean, listen to Kick out the Jams or Search and Destory and tell me those aren't punk songs.
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Cameron
Title: :O � O:
Joined: Feb 01 2008
Location: St. Louis, MO
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When something totally awesome starts happening in a song...and then it fades out.
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Rayk
Title: just got here
Joined: Oct 20 2011
Location: the states
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Pot heads who claim that 'Dark Side of the Moon' is SOOOOOO much better to listen to while high. Fuck you, I like the deep lyrics to remain deep, not funny.
And don't get me wrong, I don't mind pot heads. Prefer them, actually. But it pisses me off when they try to invade my music bubble. |
...dark side of the moon is so much better on mushrooms.
Anyhow, music that pisses me off is any three cord bands that some how made it big(nickleback) and all the teenies that disney is pimping out with autotuner.
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