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Post by VBCOACH on Apr 20, 2009 7:26:34 GMT -5
The Beatles songs I like tend to be the non-hits, the ones hardly played on the air, or the ones people hardly know much about. For example, I like "I'm So Tired" and "Polythene Pam" and "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" and "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" I hate the hits. Every time I hear "Let it Be" or "Hey Jude", I go into a rage and start breaking brick walls and stuff. Actually, two of my favorite Beatle songs are non-hits also. What do you think of "There's A Place" and their cover of Buddy Holly's "Words Of Love?"
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2009 8:06:53 GMT -5
Across the Universe. Very nice.
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Post by bunnywailer on Apr 20, 2009 11:44:15 GMT -5
The whole Beatles phenomenon in pop culture history is overblown. Their music is non-descript from a musical standpoint.
They were the right group, in the right place, at the right time. That's about the gist of it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2009 12:17:09 GMT -5
Unlike REO Speedwagon. Wrong group, wrong place, wrong time.
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Post by bunnywailer on Apr 20, 2009 14:57:55 GMT -5
Unlike REO Speedwagon. Wrong group, wrong place, wrong time. Yeah, it was sorta over for them after the drummer lost his arm in that tragic accident...
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Post by standingroomonly1 on Apr 20, 2009 14:59:24 GMT -5
The whole Beatles phenomenon in pop culture history is overblown. Their music is non-descript from a musical standpoint. They were the right group, in the right place, at the right time. That's about the gist of it. You must remember, too, that the Beatles wrote songs for others like Peter and Gordon, The Cyrkle and Badfinger, for instance, who all had hits with the songs. It seems due to 'professional jealousies' the Beatles stopped writing for them, hence, job security.
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Post by m on Apr 20, 2009 16:16:46 GMT -5
Unlike REO Speedwagon. Wrong group, wrong place, wrong time. Yeah, it was sorta over for them after the drummer lost his arm in that tragic accident... Not sure if you were kidding or not, but, in case you weren't, none of REO Speedwagon's drummers (The group had two, first was Alan Gratzer, who retired, and was replaced by Lear. I forget what his first name is) lost their arm in a tragic accident. Def Leppard's drummer, however did. Too bad too, I actually liked a lot of their songs.
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Post by m on Apr 20, 2009 16:21:25 GMT -5
The thing I liked about The Beatles was how they evolved with their music. Not many groups do that. Most find one sound and keep creating it over and over and over again. I lose interest in groups like that.
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 20, 2009 17:07:55 GMT -5
It depends on the direction of the evolution. I'd hate for rockers to suddenly switch to gangsta hip-hop crap.
Also, if you, as listeners, evolve in your musical tastes, I can't see how it doesn't enter the realm of jazz and classical music. I'm not talking about casual late night Miles Davis to get in the mood for sleepin' and stuck-in-commute-traffic Mozart Piano Concertos. I'm talking about actually listening to and studying jazz, knowing the players and their styles, and keeping track of your favorite classical composers' respective birthdays. Know what I'm sayin'?
I personally went from Barry Manilow and the Carpenters when I was young to Led Zeppelin and then broke into Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms. They were fine but then I got into Prokofiev and Rachmaninov. Jazz was inevitable. Miles Davis and Dave Brubeck and Monk and Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner and Charlie Parker and John Coltrane. Then, back to the 1920s-50s standards from the likes of Mel Torme, Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Blossom Dearie.
I don't see how anyone can stick to just one narrow segment of music. I'd go crazy!
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Post by cruncher on Apr 20, 2009 18:03:24 GMT -5
Yeah, it was sorta over for them after the drummer lost his arm in that tragic accident... Not sure if you were kidding or not, but, in case you weren't, none of REO Speedwagon's drummers (The group had two, first was Alan Gratzer, who retired, and was replaced by Lear. I forget what his first name is) lost their arm in a tragic accident. Def Leppard's drummer, however did. Too bad too, I actually liked a lot of their songs. Not to be confused with the Spinal Tap drummers: * John "Stumpy" Pepys (1964–1967) Died in a bizarre, unexplained gardening accident * Eric "Stumpy Joe" Childs (1967–1974) Choked on vomit of unknown origin * Peter "James" Bond (1974–1977) Spontaneously combusted onstage * Mick Shrimpton (R. J. "Ric" Parnell) (1977–1982) Onstage explosion * Joe "Mama" Besser (1982) Quit the band, claiming he "couldn't take this 4/4 %*$#"; according to an MTV interview with Spinal Tap in November 1991, he disappeared under mysterious circumstances * Richard "Ric" Shrimpton (1982–1999) Allegedly sold his dialysis machine for drugs, presumed dead * Scott "Skippy" Scuffleton (2001–2007) Fate unknown * Plus 14 other drummers at various times all of whom are dead
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Post by m on Apr 20, 2009 18:26:04 GMT -5
Not sure if you were kidding or not, but, in case you weren't, none of REO Speedwagon's drummers (The group had two, first was Alan Gratzer, who retired, and was replaced by Lear. I forget what his first name is) lost their arm in a tragic accident. Def Leppard's drummer, however did. Too bad too, I actually liked a lot of their songs. Not to be confused with the Spinal Tap drummers: * John "Stumpy" Pepys (1964–1967) Died in a bizarre, unexplained gardening accident * Eric "Stumpy Joe" Childs (1967–1974) Choked on vomit of unknown origin * Peter "James" Bond (1974–1977) Spontaneously combusted onstage * Mick Shrimpton (R. J. "Ric" Parnell) (1977–1982) Onstage explosion * Joe "Mama" Besser (1982) Quit the band, claiming he "couldn't take this 4/4 %*$#"; according to an MTV interview with Spinal Tap in November 1991, he disappeared under mysterious circumstances * Richard "Ric" Shrimpton (1982–1999) Allegedly sold his dialysis machine for drugs, presumed dead * Scott "Skippy" Scuffleton (2001–2007) Fate unknown * Plus 14 other drummers at various times all of whom are dead I remember watching that movie This Is Spinal Tap.
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Post by bunnywailer on Apr 20, 2009 18:42:01 GMT -5
* Joe "Mama" Besser (1982) Quit the band, claiming he "couldn't take this 4/4 %*$#"; according to an MTV interview with Spinal Tap in November 1991, he disappeared under mysterious circumstances Haha. Someday I'm gonna write a rock song in some weird time signature...like 12/8ths. Yeah...yeah...before all you wannabee rock snobs rush to post, I already know about Tool.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2009 19:14:53 GMT -5
12/8ths? Can't we reduce that?
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Post by bunnywailer on Apr 20, 2009 19:21:36 GMT -5
12/8ths? Can't we reduce that? Maybe. But writing everything out in triplets or derivatives of triplets would suck.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2009 19:28:34 GMT -5
Had some of my buddies over for my b-day bash:
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