The Beatles - Candlestick Park - Part 3
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Um, let's see. Helter Skelter -Elevator Music? (invented heavy metal with this one) Come Together - Elevator Music? I am the Walrus- Elevator Musc? A day in the Life - Elevator Music? ...Yer Blues (where the Bealtles smoked the Stones at their own game?) I could go on, but you get the point.
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@Henryep10 They went from a cutesy boyband to overproduced, sterile elevator muzak. Whoopee. At least the Stones sound like real people playing real instruments, not machines talking to eachother
(and they wrote about the times around them -"who killed the Kennedys?"- instead of offering ivory-tower yuppie bullshit -"it's gonna be alright.")
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The McDonalds of Pop Music? Get your head out of your arse. Absurd. Rubber Soul, Magical Mystery Tour, Revolver, Sgt Pepper, White Album, Abbey Road, all contained far more inventive music than anything The Stones ever did....lyrics, instrumentation, vocals, musicianship,arrangements, not even close. Stones = overrated garage band. Beatles = a band for the ages. 300 years from now, they'll be thought of as the classics like Mozart and Beetohven are today....
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@Yellyist There`s in no harnomies on "Long tall Sally" or Rock and Roll music" The songs i mentioned are the ones i consider to the best beatles songs. I like ballads, and i`m not too keen on black music. Soul and motown is my cup of tea. I like pop and rock and roll. i think songs like "Helter skelter" "Back in the USSR" "Get back" "I`m down" "I saw her standing there" "Jet" "Hi Hi Hi" are brilliant examples of Pauls ability to write good rock songs! John too. He wrote "Revolution"
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@Yellyist But they watered down all those black numbers with their chipmunk harmonies so that the soul in them became pointless; the Stones weren't afraid of putting the black grit of their covers up front. All those numbers you mentioned except for Fields, Julia, Help, and the Harrison songs are just Paul elevator music: harmless, cute and dull the way the suburbs likes it, though George got pretty close with his yuppie effort Something. Julia and Fields is John slowly circling his navel. Yay.
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@steveconn The Beatles did a lot of motown numbers, and they did Little Richard and Chuck Berry songs like "long tall Sally" and "Rock and roll music" I don`t have to make the case for the Beatles. Songs like "Yesterday" "Eleanor Rigby" "Here, there and everywhere" "Let it be" "Hey Jude" "Strawberry fields forever" "Penny Lane" Blackbird" "The fool on the hill" "Julia" "Help" "Something" "While my guitar gently weeps" etc etc will live on forever cause they`re classics!
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@Yellyist Paul and the Beatles are like the McDonald's of pop music. Billions and billions served with smiley fun happy meals. If that's what you think music should be, cool. I just prefer that which isn't afraid of its black roots and doesn't water them down into non-existence so that all the white listeners are happy.
@steveconned:
Steveconned/RolandOreo: As one given to mental meltdowns on the world wide web, ludicrous claims about the Rolling Drones, and outright claims drenched in racism, ageism, misogyny, and outright stupidity, you have demonstrated a piquant penchant for the excrement of horses and bulls. As to claims about auto-acclaim, given your demonstrable resort for auto-"satisfactions," you ought not give further fuel to those who already consider you laughable, at best.
jaimeguitar50 1 year ago 11
@steveconned: you have long proved your lack of education. "Straw man" is not synonymous with hypberbolé. The strawman logical fallacy is an imaginary/contrived oppositional argument set up only to be too easily riposted. An example of the straw man: your attempt to cast the Beatles as "middle-of-the-road" because they wore suits. But this, of course, ignores the political threat the Beatles were in song, protest, and deeds. Hypocrisy and racism: you are a Drones fan.
jaimeguitar50 1 year ago 11