I'll agree with that. Popularity and cult status aside, they are actually very limited musically. some of their stuff from the drug era such as yellow submarine is flat, completely out of tune and an affront to music.
When you start to play the Beatles music, you find it isn't by any means as simple as all that. While they did produce vile ditties like Yellow Submarine, and you might find the early stuff a bit tedious, later songs were really good. They were in many respects more innovative than the Stones (even if I prefer the Stones) as the latter were a blues band essentially - that's what they wanted to be - rock and roll. The Beatles were more subtle, less obvious it seems to me.
Aye, I like the Stones as well (who doesn't) but there's a time and place for them and the Beatles. Stones are great for partying and doing stuff to but as Glidd says the Beatles are more subtle. The white album and abbey road I come back to time time again as I find it a new experience virtually every time I listen to them. At the risk of going off thread the Blur/Oasis thing rises to the surface again, Stones/Blur - Oasis/Beatles If I had to jump down on one side, well you know which way I'm going
I'd definitely disagree with those groupings. Blur are more akin to the Beatles with their tunes and ditties.
Don't forget the Animals......I reckon their venture into Brit Blues was more andanced than the Stones, although I think in the end the Stones came out on top.... ....however, the best Brit Blues singer was never in the Animals or the Stones...........Paul Rodgers. AL
Tel? What drugs you on mate??? Even Gallagher said we ripped off the Beatles - he just moved reversed changed stuff to suit him
That'll be Noel then, hard little bastard as well, threw his old man down the stairs when he was 12, beating up on him and Liam.
Noooo, wasn't making that comparison at all, just the popularity angle and the fact that the beatles and oasis make more comfy bed fellows than the stones and blur ...
60 music? The Doors. The Velvet Underground. I listen to both a lot more than either The Stones or The Beatles.
"Supersonic" and "Shakermaker" "Live Forever" "Cigarettes & Alcohol" = "i wanna hold your hand" " help" " yellow submarine" ? Oasis like beatles? what am i missing here that they so alike , also like EL T , not into them either , maybe liam tried to look like lennon, but then again he looked like weller, now thats a band, also beatle influenced, but sounded nothing like the beatles
You can tell the weather is crap for biking with people digging up old threads from 2 years ago. Not that there is anything wrong with that. A miserable 2 pages to discuss the music of the 60s? That's a bit like your school essay only running to half a page of A4.
If you haven't heard of Arthur Alexander, he wrote/sang some very good songs, which were covered by bigger artists. He drifted out of the music business, becoming a bus driver. He suffered a fatal heart attack aged 53. Arthur Alexander (May 10, 1940 – June 9, 1993) was an American country songwriter and soul singer. Jason Ankeny, music critic for Allmusic, said Alexander was a "country-soul pioneer" and that, though largely unknown, "his music is the stuff of genius, a poignant and deeply intimate body of work on par with the best of his contemporaries."[1] Alexander wrote songs publicized by such stars as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Otis Redding, Tina Turner and Jerry Lee Lewis
