The beatles were fucking fantastic!

[Rum]

VS

As the day begins
Silently closing her bedroom door
Leaving the note that she hoped would say more

She goes downstairs to the kitchen
Clutching her handkerchief
Quietly turning the backdoor key
Stepping outside, she is free

She...(we gave her most of our lives)
Is leaving (sacrified most of our lives)
Home (we gave her everything money could buy)
She's leaving home, after living alone, for so many years (bye bye)

Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown
Picks up the letter that's lying there
Standing alone at the top of the stairs
She breaks down and cries to her husband
"Daddy, our baby's gone.
"Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly?
How could she do this to me?"

She...(we never thought of ourselves)
Is leaving (never a thought for ourselves)
Home (we struggled hard all our lives to get by)
She's leaving home, after living alone, for so many years

Friday morning, at nine o'clock
She is far away
Waiting to keep the appointment she made
Meeting a man from the Motortrade

She (what did we do that was wrong)
Is Having (we didn't know it was wrong)
Fun (fun is the one thing that money can't buy)

Something inside, that was always denied, for so many years...
She's leaving home...bye, bye.

[Azathoth]

Sone of their later stuff after they discovered acid was pretty decent but the bulk of their output was saccharin tripe.

[Rum]

Well it wasn't compared to what was around at the time. Apart from possibly Dylan and the 'folk tradition' they were one of the first bands to write their own songs and one of the first to sing about stuff other than boy meets girl/loses girl/misses girl etc. Pretty early on too.

[Azathoth]

nonsense. Name a year that the beatles released an album and I will find you 10 better ones

[Rum]

Its all a bit subjective really isn't it, but how about 1965. Help and Rubber Soul.

[cronus]

They sound increasingly dated. Their simplistic lyrical structure probably still appeals to a much much younger audience. Yellow submarine is a timeless classic, yet even it is showing wrinkle lines with a lack of modern advanced synthetic possibilities and over reliance on trumpets. The Beatles were over-hyped at the time and their drug induced music is meaningless, and rather pathetic. I listen to them once in a while. Have their complete discography. Each time I listen I come away with less and less admiration unlike some of my classical stuff.

[Jason]

I grew up with the Beatles.. I have their complete discography, including the unreleased & rare stuff.

[Azathoth]

Without repetition of artists. Quite a few of these brought out several albums in 1965:

Maiden Voyage Herbie Hancock
Out of Our Heads The Rolling Stones
Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan
Otis Blue Otis Redding
Om John Coltrane
E.S.P. Miles Davis
My Generation The Who
Pastel Blues – Nina Simone
Speak No Evil – Wayne Shorter
Farewell Angelina Joan Baez

[Tero]

Where is the parody? 'The Beatles were fantastic at fucking'

[Rum]

Without repetition of artists. Quite a few of these brought out several albums in 1965:

Maiden Voyage Herbie Hancock
Out of Our Heads The Rolling Stones
Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan
Otis Blue Otis Redding
Om John Coltrane
E.S.P. Miles Davis
My Generation The Who
Pastel Blues – Nina Simone
Speak No Evil – Wayne Shorter
Farewell Angelina Joan Baez

We can play a 'my band is better than your band' game but it is a bit pointless. I would grant you from your list that Coltrane is up there and Bob Dylon too, but when I think of the Beatles it is not simply as a music making unit (which of course they were) but of the influence they had on the whole culture and of the feelings they created in me, listening to them in my bedroom as a teenager thinking that somehow the world had suddenly woken up to something. They were part of - perhaps even created, using that overused word - Zeitgeist of the time. Nobody else really did that.

[cronus]

Without repetition of artists. Quite a few of these brought out several albums in 1965:

Maiden Voyage Herbie Hancock
Out of Our Heads The Rolling Stones
Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan
Otis Blue Otis Redding
Om John Coltrane
E.S.P. Miles Davis
My Generation The Who
Pastel Blues – Nina Simone
Speak No Evil – Wayne Shorter
Farewell Angelina Joan Baez

We can play a 'my band is better than your band' game but it is a bit pointless. I would grant you from your list that Coltrane is up there and Bob Dylon too, but when I think of the Beatles it is not simply as a music making unit (which of course they were) but of the influence they had on the whole culture and of the feelings they created in me, listening to them in my bedroom as a teenager thinking that somehow the world had suddenly woken up to something. They were part of - perhaps even created, using that overused word - Zeitgeist of the time. Nobody else really did that.

Like me and The Clash twenty years later Rum. We are not so different after all. Sandinista was my Sgt. Peppers.

[tattuchu]

To me, the early solo stuff is more satisfying because it's more personal. But The Beatles' music is timeless. From their very earliest stuff to the very end of their output, it all holds up remarkable well to this day

[Animavore]

Not sure how The Beatles' music is "timeless". It sounds like something my father would listen to.

[tattuchu]

Not sure how The Beatles' music is "timeless". It sounds like something my father would listen to.

It transcends time. It never gets old, never sounds out of date. But you wouldn't understand because you're a well-known Beatles hater

Oddly enough, I love The Beatles but have little use for their supposed masterpiece, Sgt Pepper. Leaves me cold

[Hermit]

people today do not quite get it what it was to hear it back then. It was competing with really cheezy pop with pat Boone, Fabian et al. Kind of like pop today.

Quite so. Repeating what I posted about a year ago: "I can't describe how much I welcomed the smashing down of the buttoned-up, straight-laced culture that had anaesthetised the fifties and the early sixties. There was nothing more depressing than the mindset typified by shows like Father knows Best. Yes, the Beatles, the Stones and the rest of the storm that blew the doilies off the occasional tables in the living rooms had precursors like Elvis Presley and Bill Haley, and it is not easy to pinpoint when the fresh breeze turned into a cyclone, but for me the crooners and Mantovani's cascading violins were being banished from my radio's loudspeaker (yes. mono.) by the sound of "She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah." The lyrics were by no means revolutionary, but the Beatles were the harbingers of forces that would overthrow the ancien régime. Or so it seemed until The Who made their wake-up call with "Won't get fooled again."

No, the sixties, with their hippie movement, the socialist student movement and whatnot were not the radical change we imagined them to be at the time, and yes, many participants slid back into a suburban life style, sipping martinis after work and looking forward to their pensions after their brood had flown the coop, but at least the felt-hatted conformism that squeezed the life out of so many shoots of creativity had been vanquished - until the greed is good brigades arrived on the scene a couple of decades later. [/hyperbolic ramble]"