Hey! Beatles-haters!

[swee'pea99]

Today's Guardian list of 1,000 songs everyone must hear includes a half-dozen from everyone's favourite popsters, with the description of Eleanor Rigby suggesting: 'Producer George Martin's arrangement for string octet buoys Paul McCartney's bleak view of elderly loneliness, which reaches a peak of profundity when the titular character puts on "the face that she keeps in a jar by the door" to cope with a disinterested outside world.'

Is that or is that not one of the most striking images to appear in popular music, ever? Never mind the company it was keeping, in the '66 ToTP.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

it certainly is.

 

[ChrisKH]

Yes, but the list is in the Guardian, innit.

Case dismissed.

 

[ianrauk]

I'm not a Beatles hater, just that I think they are vastly overrated and are continually over hyped.

They changed the face of music and there is a place for them in music history.. of course, I acknowledge that... but to be continually force fed a huge diet of Beatles propaganda through the media year after year after year is mind numbingly dull.

BUT... I do hate Beatles fascists, who really can't (don't want to) understand how anyone could not like their music. To them it's almost a sin and punishable by death anyone who dares say that they don't like Beatles music.

BUT Pt 2... The 2 Beatles tracks I do like.
Yellow Submarine & OoBlaDiOoBlaDa.

 

[Mr Pig]

It's a good line. However I think that, although The Beatles were a good band, their success had as much to do with being in the right place at the right time as anything else.

 

[swee'pea99]

To them it's almost a sin and punishable by death anyone who dares say that they don't like Beatles music.

Off with his head!

BUT Pt 2... The 2 Beatles tracks I do like.
Yellow Submarine & OoBlaDiOoBlaDa.

Ooh, you are a tease.

 

[beancounter]

BUT Pt 2... The 2 Beatles tracks I do like.
Yellow Submarine & OoBlaDiOoBlaDa.

I think you forgot Maxwell's Silver Hammer

bc

 

[swee'pea99]

Octopus's Garden?

 

[Fnaar]

I like the Beatles generally, through all their eras, but i haven't deliberately listened to them in about 3 yrs. There's always at least one twee/childish/utter cr@p song to spoil each album.

 

[swee'pea99]

I rather like Rita.

Revolver is reasonably crap-free, tho' it does feature the rather whiney and contemptible Taxman. ('Hey, let's do a song about what a bitch it is to be so super-rich you pay shitloads of tax.')

 

[Fnaar]

[quote name='swee'pea99']Revolver is reasonably crap-free, tho' it does feature the rather whiney and contemptible Taxman. ('Hey, let's do a song about what a bitch it is to be so super-rich you pay shitloads of tax.')[/QUOTE]
Yellow Subma-bloody-rine?

 

[ChrisKH]

I'm not a Beatles hater, just that I think they are vastly overrated and are continually over hyped.

They changed the face of music and there is a place for them in music history.. of course, I acknowledge that... but to be continually force fed a huge diet of Beatles propaganda through the media year after year after year is mind numbingly dull.

BUT... I do hate Beatles fascists, who really can't (don't want to) understand how anyone could not like their music. To them it's almost a sin and punishable by death anyone who dares say that they don't like Beatles music.

BUT Pt 2... The 2 Beatles tracks I do like.
Yellow Submarine & OoBlaDiOoBlaDa.

It's because all I heard during the 60's was Yellow Submarine and OoBlaDi....that I hate them so much. I have a grudging respect for what they did at the time though, but Beatles music was so overplayed that it put me off music altogether until I was about 12 and discovered Sweet and T-Rex. Then I waged war on the Bay City Rollers and David Essex (my sisters faves). Her other music influences, Barry White and Alice Cooper, were preferable.

 

[beancounter]

[quote name='swee'pea99']I rather like Rita.

Revolver is reasonably crap-free, tho' it does feature the rather whiney and contemptible Taxman. ('Hey, let's do a song about what a bitch it is to be so super-rich you pay shitloads of tax.')[/quote]

If you listen to the words you'll find that the beatles were paying 95% tax on their earnings ("one for you nineteen for me") which is a bit strong, wouldn't you agree?

bc

 

[tyred]

If you listen to the words you'll find that the beatles were paying 95% tax on their earnings ("one for you nineteen for me") which is a bit strong, wouldn't you agree?

bc

A bit stong maybe but it still left them with more money than the average guy in the street, I'm sure.

 

[beancounter]

A bit stong maybe but it still left them with more money than the average guy in the street, I'm sure.

And rightly so.

bc