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To really hate The Beatles?

183 replies

notnowbernard · 20/11/2010 20:34

I find them a bit like a secret I've not been let in on

Find the music tres dull

I get the cultural significance etc but fucking hell, it's been 40-odd years...

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MsHighwater · 20/11/2010 22:42

DH says (and he was there so should know) that, without the Beatles, most of what actually followed would not have happened, musically speaking. Since I am much younger than him, I will take his word for it. Grin

Kaloki · 20/11/2010 22:43

Except for all the music produced before the beatles maybe..?

ZZZenAgain · 20/11/2010 22:51

LIke Revolution too come to think of it. Also some of the slower ones . More than I thought actually.

So I am a convert

daftpunk · 20/11/2010 22:52

Well the Beatles were influenced by artists of the 50's and early 60's ( they didn't just appear from nowhere) they were influenced by Elvis, chuck Berry, Motown ... infact most music can be traced back to early Motown.

BlueHerring · 20/11/2010 22:54

Welcome to the ultimate musical experience. And kudos for actually listening to it before giving a final opinion.

Kaloki · 20/11/2010 22:59

Yeeah daftpunk... the point still stands that it is not necessary to be grateful to the Beatles for their "contributions to music", especially when we are talking music pre beatles.

UnquietDad · 20/11/2010 23:02

The pop album as we know it, or have done for the past 40-odd years - i.e. 12 or so songs mostly written and all performed by the one named artist - didn't really exist before "A Hard Day's Night". Easy to take it all for granted.

But easy too, I agree, to over-rate them. Not everything they did was great! You only need to listen to the "A-Z of the Beatles" on Sounds of the 60s to realise that...

2shoes · 20/11/2010 23:07

I think the idea that you have to like one particular band to know about music is ......well daft.
music is personal, it is what you like, not what you are told to like.

daftpunk · 20/11/2010 23:11

The Beatles had their influences of course - but what you appreciate is what they did as a band.... and it was damn good.
I love 60's music - especially Motown, even though my "era" was 80's through to 90's ( actually loved 70's punk best of all )

SuePurblybiltByElves · 20/11/2010 23:12

I'd marry Paul McC. In fact I think I should as I'd stop him doing all that "Tonight we're gunna dance" Cliff-esque nonsense.

2shoes · 20/11/2010 23:13

oh I love motown

ZZZenAgain · 20/11/2010 23:13

Come Together and Get Back are two I really like. Interesting since they are giving you a totally opposite message!

Kaloki · 20/11/2010 23:14

If you like that kind of music, yes it was good. If you don't, then it isn't.

For me, I especially love the 20's to 40's, and goth from the 80's. The 60's is about the only decade which I really struggle to appreciate - it just passes by me.

daftpunk · 20/11/2010 23:15

2shoes - you are a philistine....
And I didn't say you had to "like" them, I said you should appreciate them - there is a difference.

ZZZenAgain · 20/11/2010 23:16

well I think that's fair enough. There's a type of singing too which goes with different periods quite apart fom anything else , which sometimes grates on you, sometimes appeals. Cannot offhand think of any tunes/songs from the 20s tbh but see your point

Chil1234 · 20/11/2010 23:16

UnquietDad's hit it on the head. It's difficult to appreciate how ground-breaking and exciting a lot of Lennon and McCartney's music once was. So many people have covered the songs or copied their various styles (yes Liam and Noel, I'm talking to you) that they seem hackneyed now. Doesn't mean anyone has to like it of course. ... :)

As for Imagine... I still remember the terrible shock of hearing John Lennon had been gunned down in NYC. They played 'Imagine' and 'Woman' over and over again. It's more than just a song to some of us.

Tidey · 20/11/2010 23:24

YANBU. I've been thinking the same thing for some time but you get shouted down for such blasphemy.

SpringHeeledJack · 20/11/2010 23:30

I love them. Especially all the ones with sitars on 'em

still think Macca should have had the presence of mind to go off and live quietly and modestly after the split. On a farm in Wales, perhaps

my order of preference:

John
George
Ringo
Paul

daftpunk · 20/11/2010 23:37

George
Paul
John
Ringo

& agree - Paul should have quit after Wings ( Band on the run was v.good)...... He's a bit embarrassing now

2shoes · 21/11/2010 00:03

daftpunk calling people names is childish,
do grow up.
just because people don't like the same music as you do, does not make them a philistine , just means they have their own taste,
god the world would be so boring if we all like the same music.

MutantPumpkin · 21/11/2010 00:15

People don't realise how ground breaking they were in their day and the fact that most "new" music has origins in what the beatles were doing 40yrs ago. If you really need to appreciate how different they were, buy The White Album.

AnotherMumOnHere · 21/11/2010 00:26

So happy to hear that I'm not the only one who despised and hated listening to the Beatles music.

Many people looked at me as an alien cos I didnt like it.

To me it was all a drone ...............

on and on and on ............. about nothing interesting ............. as for 'Hey Jude' htf could anyone enjoy listening to that. One of the worst songs Ive had the misfortune to have to listen to.

mangoandlime · 21/11/2010 08:00

Yabu

I love the Beatles.

Run for your Life, I want you (she's so heavy) & the Night Before to name three worth a listen.

I'm currently in live with 'We Love You' by the Stones ATM too. I think I should have been a 60s child!

mangoandlime · 21/11/2010 08:13

Baby you're a rich man, Hey Bulldog & Things We Saud Today, dischordant beauty! Paul wrote for Jane Asher because he was away so much.

Music us very subjective, I don't like every Beatles' song but they do the sort of music I like best - not a fan of slow
ballads though.

daftpunk · 21/11/2010 09:37

2shoes;
It was sent with friendly affection .... xx