Does anyone like the beatles

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Share this article via comment Share this article via facebook Share this article via twitter. More Stories. In reply to knthrak How can you not like the beatles, they are AMAZING, and dont know how people can think john lennon is overrated either, they are the best thing that had happened to the britian, since sliced bread.

Never darken my door again with that crap Well it sometimes brightens me up, whereas going to some gigs now I might walk at and call them crap. Oasis, crap. Spice girls, well they are not even a group, just sing. In fact half the so called 'groups' can't play a gig without other musicians. Name me a good group that does sing and play and sell millions of records. In reply to knthrak There is not any my fellow Forum writing person. In reply to Ryan: You're probably one of those people who think that Imagine is some kind of work of genius too.

The B side was OK apart from the massive irony of Lennon thinking he any longer had any idea what working class meant, of course. In reply to sutty: I agree - to a certain extent.

And look at Westlife, and Girls Aloud, and crap like that. It's just that "She loves me" really irritated me. And the tv stuff I saw about beatlemania with screaming girls was just so over the top that it defied belief. Gordon Stainforth 10 Sep In reply to knthrak My take on this is that the two greatest pop music phenomena in history are Elvis and the Beatles. The former for his unique voice, his innate musicality and his performance; the latter for their originality, musicality and, really, their 'new sound' that was somehow perfectly attuned to the 60s, making them perhaps the icons of that extraordinary decade.

In reply to knthrak Just wondering if any of you play guitar? Subtle - but important - difference. Minneconjou Sioux 10 Sep In reply to knthrak Appart from the very occassional song I find them mediocre at best and have never understood the hype.

In reply to sarah I used to loathe them with a vengeance, too. Some of it is twee, over-rated, put up on a pedestal - and it's the pedestal viewpoint I found was as musch offputting as some of the music. And the films. Oh dear. But there are some interesting bits, you just have to find them. I have the same problem with Led Zeppelin Some of it is absolutely dire. Some isn't. Can you imagine just what a headlong collision everything that was happening then was with the whole ethos and culture of the 50s?

It was an amazing, revolutionary time in social and cultural terms. Everything then got reevaluated, even turned on its head. I'm very glad to have been fortunate enough to have lived through that in my teens. I think historians will agree that it was an extraordinary turning point in western history, from multiple angles. The 70s: very sad, troubled, everything in GB in decline; the 80s a complete nightmare of an extreme right-wing resurgence; the 90s, better, but dull, dull, dull, with culture in a kind of spiral dive really ;.

In reply to Dominion: I'm sorry, the s were a complete, unending, iiving nightmare. Full stop. We've been clawing our way up out of that wreckage ever since.

It's now like a very dangerous, recently avalanched scree slope complete with precariously poised boulders. We're only about a quarter of the way back up it, in my judgement. In reply to knthrak You can personally not like their music as a matter of taste but that doesn't affect their greatness as musicians adn By people who grew up as kids liking The Beatles, and then went on to be major players in radio and tv, and the newspapers.

Bonesaw 10 Sep In reply to knthrak Personally i find the beatles to be the most over rated pop bands of all time, nothing special. Pids 10 Sep In reply to Gordon Stainforth: I completey agree with Gordon and Sutty here, and its not just an old farts convention, the 60's changed more than just rock culture, it changed the whole perception of not just the youth culture of the 60's but all that followed it, nothing, no nothing, changed the influence that the 60's had on the world, and The Beatles and the rock culture of the era was a massive part of that.

In plain text, it looks like a weird self-aggrandising tactic, to back up your opinions on music by ostentatiously pontificating about "grander things".

Embarrassingly so". In reply to Blue Straggler: Sinatra was not a group, unless I missed something. The Supremes were a singing group of their time, and will still outsell any of the groups you mentioned in 20 years time, unless they change their style as much as the Beatles did over the years. Personally I just do not 'get' any of the modern groups, but then I am not supposed to do, they are of your time and style. I think us oldies will give you best when they take sounds of the 60s off radio 2 on Saturday mornings and get to the 70s, 80s, 90s.

Will it happen, doubt it. In reply to Gordon Stainforth: I meant "grander themes", sorry. But really, all Dominion said was "And the tv stuff I saw about beatlemania with screaming girls was just so over the top that it defied belief.

That's all. Well I have work in the morning and a big weekend ahead so I bid thee goodnight. Gordon Stainforth 11 Sep LastBoyScout 11 Sep In reply to knthrak I don't dislike them personally, but their music doesn't really do anything for me, generally.

As with so many other bands, they did a few songs I really do like, though. In reply to knthrak This makes me really feel like crying, it's just so intensely innocent and so much of the period.

Wee Davie 11 Sep In reply to knthrak I love their psychedelic era stuff. The early stuff is ok but doesn't float my boat. Some of my earliest memories are of listening to the 'Lucy in the Sky' etc in my Dad's car aged about 5.

I used to find their music hypnotising. Listening to it now, I still find the weirder stuff awesome. The production is still running to this day. On the same day that the catalog was reissued, the Beatles: RockBand video game was also released. Although all of these steps have helped keep the group in the public eye, two of the most significant measures to ensure the band's continued relevance took place only a few years ago. As its name implies, the Sirius channel plays nothing but the Fab Four, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

However, putting their music on streaming services may prove to be the most crucial move in terms of the band's longevity. While it's true that streaming services pay artists only a fraction of a cent in royalties for every song streamed, it's nonetheless the way the overwhelming majority of people listen to music today.

Any artist hoping to be heard by millions of new fans has to have their catalog available on these services or risk becoming an archaic obscurity. All of these steps have been necessary, in part because the possibilities for releasing and re-releasing the group's catalog on physical media may have been exhausted with the recent "Abbey Road" reissue. The album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band " received the same deluxe treatment for its 50 th anniversary, followed the next year by a similarly opulent 50 th anniversary edition of "The Beatles," better known to fans as "The White Album.

Mara Kuge, president and founder of Superior Music Publishing, said that Apple Corps' strategies are essential to the group's ongoing viability, which is something that should not be taken for granted. If the same thing starts happening to The Beatles, she said that there are ways of recapturing their former glory. She also noted that just because the group's catalog has been released and re-released several times over, it doesn't mean the record companies will refrain from double-dipping and triple-dipping yet again, should the opportunity to do so arise.

It'll sustain them for a few generations going forward. While all of these strategies should keep the group's catalog in good standing, no one should underestimate the power of the music itself. Michele Fox, a freelance publicist from Needham, Massachusetts, said that the next generation of Beatles fans is as enthusiastic about the group as any that came before it, and they have the group's Sirius XM channel to thank for it.

I could go on and on.