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[jj200]

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[CaledonianGonzo]

[Xeph1995]

20 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

fwiw The Doors are easily the whitest band of all time.

Have you seen and heard Mick Jagger sing little red rooster...

[CaledonianGonzo]

1 minute ago, Xeph1995 said:

Have you seen and heard Mick Jagger sing little red rooster...

You mean the first ever blues single to get to number one in the UK charts? That Little Red Rooster?

[Xeph1995]

2 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

You mean the first ever blues single to get to number one in the UK charts? That Little Red Rooster?

Its painful to listen too. I can't get through the rolling stones singing a blues song without cringing 100 times over. idk maybe just me..

That fact that it was a number 1 single just says it all really.

Edited December 15, 2018 by Xeph1995

[CaledonianGonzo]

I guess so.

I mean, the Stones are still obviously nice middle class boys from the Home Counties, but I think their credentials on that front are about as good as it gets.

Comparatively speaking, The Doors are pure brexit. The Donald Trump of sixties rock bands.

[Xeph1995]

3 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

I guess so.

I mean, the Stones are still obviously nice middle class boys from the Home Counties, but I think their credentials on that front are about as good as it gets.

Comparatively speaking, The Doors are pure brexit. The Donald Trump of sixties rock bands.

I guess well have to agree to disagree

[dentalplan]

25 minutes ago, Xeph1995 said:

Its painful to listen too. I can't get through the rolling stones singing a blues song without cringing 100 times over. idk maybe just me..

That fact that it was a number 1 single just says it all really.

I don’t get it. It’s not like Blues was an excursion for the Stones - it was very much their thing.

Your grievance seems to be that The Beatles and Stones were the most popular and want to demonstrate that you’ve heard blues in its more natural forms and you’ve heard more sixties music than those dominating the charts. I assure you, so has everyone else interested in Macca on here but they appreciate him as a songwriter regardless.

[Xeph1995]

6 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

I don’t get it. It’s not like Blues was an excursion for the Stones - it was very much their thing.

Your grievance seems to be that The Beatles and Stones were the most popular and want to demonstrate that you’ve heard blues in its more natural forms and you’ve heard more sixties music than those dominating the charts. I assure you, so has everyone else interested in Macca on here but they appreciate him as a songwriter regardless.

I mean your completely off the mark here to be honest, I just don't think the Beatles are very good. Almost certainty everyone here as heard the same music as me? there all pretty big names and its been what close to 60 years i don't really understand your point of view.

Edited December 15, 2018 by Xeph1995

[CaledonianGonzo]

I remember being on a Christmas night out and the vibe in the back room of the pub getting progressively spoiled when someone in the front bar put on the Best of The Doors and seemed intent in letting it play out in full.

Eventually one punter got sufficiently riled to shout out 'What c**t put on The fucking Doors?' just as someone with a man-perm, bare chest and leather trousers came in to clear the glasses.

[Xeph1995]

2 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

I remember being on a Christmas night out and the vibe in the back room of the pub getting progressively spoiled when someone in the front bar put on the Best of The Doors and seemed intent in letting it play out in full.

Eventually one punter got sufficiently riled to shout out 'What c**t put on The fucking Doors?' just as someone with a man-perm, bare chest and leather trousers came in to clear the glasses.

That is actually really quite funny

[CaledonianGonzo]

"Fur fuck's sake it's the fucking Lizard King"

[stuartbert two hats]

The thing about the Beatles is that they were the perfect storm of initially being a group of young lads for the girls to swoon over, who evolved into an incredibly eclectic act where they covered as much musical ground in one album as some bands do in a career. All in eight years.

They were the biggest band in the world and they were real* innovators. And most importantly, this musical adventurousness was matched by an innate gift for melody that's rare, yet they had it in at least two of their songwriters. A truly remarkable phenomenon. And Paul McCartney was responsible for at least for 1/3** of their success.

* I recognise that due to their massive popularity, they have eclipsed their influences to a point where it appears that they invented musical ideas they were copying. But, still.

** This involves a very complicated formula that I'm not going to explain right now, but it doesn't look good for Ringo.

[dentalplan]

43 minutes ago, Xeph1995 said:

I mean your completely off the mark here to be honest, I just don't think the Beatles are very good. Almost certainty everyone here as heard the same music as me? there all pretty big names and its been what close to 60 years i don't really understand your point of view.

Fair enough. I can’t tell you what you like or why you like it or anything, it’s just what I gleaned from what you said about Rolling Stones having a no. 1 blues song.

It’s just I used to think very similarly about The Stones and The Beatles, saying they were overrated and actually not that good, and used to think it was pointscoring to know and appreciate other bands from their era (Floyd, Doors, Cream, etc.) instead when I was in fact owning myself devastatingly.

[priest17]

The Beatles are the 2nd greatest band of all time, it's incredibly hard to over rate them.

[dentalplan]

Just now, priest17 said:

The Beatles are the 2nd greatest band of all time, it's incredibly hard to over rate them.

The Beatles > The Fall.

Mission accomplished.

[fatyeti24]

1 minute ago, priest17 said:

The Beatles are the 2nd greatest band of all time, it's incredibly hard to over rate them.

A Wings fan, eh?

I can just tell.

[Guest]

Illinoisemakers were the best band of all time.

Don't @ me.

[billum]

To say the Beatles were 'too white' is particularly odd when pretty much all of their initial influences were black - The Shirelles, Ray Charles, Chuck Berry, Phil Spector's early (female black) bands, Little Richard, Isley Brothers, Barrett Strong... OK also other rock&rollers like Elvis and Carl Perkins, but they really brought the black american RnB sound to a much wider influence with many covers of those artists, playing on the same bill as those artists when they toured the UK and Hamburg, and many of their early songs were very much in the same mold

So many other major bands of the 60s were much much whiter than them, Herman's Hermits, Freddie & the Dreamers, Cliff Richard / The Shadows - the Beatles stood out so much specifically because of their american black soul / RnB influences, obtained partly by being based in a port where the records were coming over on ships from the US every week

[Woffy]

Beatles - “We want to see Muddy Waters”

America - ”Where’s that?”

[jj200]

What are the chances of guns and roses headling

Edited December 16, 2018 by jj200

[fatyeti24]

2 minutes ago, jj200 said:

What are the chances of guns and roses headling

One in a million

[drunk pumpkin]

1 hour ago, fatyeti24 said:

One in a million

At those odds!

 

Don’t tell Slash. He’ll have a bet on it and the fuckers might do it

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

5 hours ago, jj200 said:

What are the chances of guns and roses headling

Not in this lifetime

[jj200]

I just have a sneaky feeling that the courteeners are going to be at Glastonbury 2019 you heard it here first