Convince me why I should like The Beatles

Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Crackerjack on the Paul McCartney thread: "Fair enough if you don't like The Beatles - I mean, you're wrong, deaf and stupid, but that's your call".

I really don't see what all the fuss is about as far as the Fab Four are concerned.

If you think I'm wrong, post five Beatles songs that will make me think otherwise.

Please.

Thanks.
 
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Diggedy Derek

Stray Dog
how familiar are you with their work? Because there's no point in us suggesting the (undoubtedly amazing) "Strawberry Fields Forever" if you're already over-familiar to the point of contempt with it.
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
The sweetest and most appropriate response. :)

Personally, listen to Day in the Life or Things We Said Today and tell me they're not earth-shatteringly good...
 
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mistersloane

heavy heavy monster sound
Tomorrow never knows


Daytripper


Helter Skelter


Here Comes The Sun


probably some others, but those four.

Ah yeah, like baboon says, Day in The Life too
 
luka

luka

Well-known member
dont do much for me either. not unpleasant though. think it depends a lot on whether your parents played them a lot when you were a kid. mine didn't ever listen to them so the songs aren't tied up with my personal history in any meaningful way. i think that puts me in a minority
 
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Ach!

Turd on the Run
^^

Same, although I do like some of their songs. My only childhood memory of them is the Yellow Submarine film.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Cheers everyone who posted stuff.

I think it's true that whether you were exposed to them as a kid makes a big difference to your opinion of the in later life. I used to think I must have grown up in the only family in the country that didn't own any Beatles at all, not so much as a copied Best Of cassette. It's quite nice to know I'm not alone in this. :)

Right, well I like 'Day Tripper' because it has a cool riff, and 'Paperback Writer' too. Also 'Helterskelter' for its proto-metal freakout craziness. And I know some people call the sitar the instrument that ruined The Beatles, but I do quite like their some of their later, more trippy-hippy stuff (even if it's impossible to hear it these days without thinking of Austin Powers).

The stuff that really puts me off is a lot of their very simple, merely 'pleasant' songs that I find irksomely anodyne. OK, so there's probably all sorts of musical complexity going on under the apparent simplicity, but I can't really be arsed to listen hard enough to make it out, because those kinds of song just don't hold any interest for me.

Oh, and 'Yellow Submarine' can fuck RIGHT off.
 
Tentative Andy

Tentative Andy

I'm in the Meal Deal
Well, plenty of good songs posted already, in particular Strawberry Fields, Day in the Life, Tomorrow Never Knows and She Said, She Said would def get my seal of approval.
However, after a little bit of reflection, here is a list of 5 of my favourites that haven't been mentioned yet (unless someone mentions them while I'm still putting together this post, of course):
Ticket To Ride

Nowhere Man

I'm Only Sleeping

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Oh Darling


Can't be sure if these will be the ones to convert a non-fan, but worth giving a shot I'd say.
 
Z

zhao

there are no accidents
TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS

HELTER SKELTER

BACK IN THE USSR

HARD DAYS NIGHT

I SAW HER STANDING THERE

POST MAN

COME TOGETHER

ACROSS THE UNIVERSE

BLACK BIRD



it was the first music that i ever really liked, and still love every bit of it today.
 
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Buick6

too punk to drunk
You should like thee Beatles because they had a few really good songs and since most of you are English and European they were the first group to really overtake the evilAmerican dominant capatalistic paradigm of just making better more original and influential music than the fucken Poms.

But the Beatles were VERY influential since they didn't really have an Afro American thing, they started the first fucking simpy, Limey WHITEY thing, were absolutely seminal via that SHMUCK PAUL McCARTNEY (man have you heard that song THE GIRL Is MINE?? he did with Jacko! What a fucken killer track!). Shit if it wasn't for Porl you wouldn't have teabaggers like the Baby Shitty Rollers and C90 music and Racey and Menswear!

They made it acceptable to have music with no testicles!

HAIL BRITANNICA!

You also must like the Beadles because John Lennon would do the PLASTIC ONO BAND record, which remains one of the greatest avant-rock records of all time. Alot better than the shite they rite about in the WIRE.
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
Mr. Tea said:
I think it's true that whether you were exposed to them as a kid makes a big difference to your opinion of the in later life. I used to think I must have grown up in the only family in the country that didn't own any Beatles at all, not so much as a copied Best Of cassette. It's quite nice to know I'm not alone in this. :)
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My parents never played any pop music (though my father did once say that Don MacLean's American Pie was 'okay', his one sop to popular culture). So I don't think the kiddie exposure is that relevant.

They're obviously wonderful. Anyone who doesn't like (for example) Hard Day's Night and Help! (the albums).....I worry about. There's joie de vivre and beauty there that occurs elsewhere, but rarely with such frequency.
 
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