The articles actually half-way funny. For an Australian. (sorry, mates) I agree about the endless "anniversaries" and it does have a couple good knocks at Yoko.
Wait a minute. You mean there are actually people that don't spend every waking hour listening to or reading about The Beatles? Can't be. And who among us hasn't wondered about the color of John's underwear when recording such classics as Strawberry Fields? Or whether they preffered boxers or briefs. Perhaps they never even wore underwear. These are all topics worth exploring in great detail if you ask me.
Who cares? The guy has an opinion,,,thats all. Its not our opinion, but he's entitled. Hell, my brothers hate the Beatles too (although I pass that off as ignorance), but I still drink a beer with them. I hate Van Halen, AC/DC, The Eagles, CCR, etc,,,so I guess i'm not innocent either.
Who cares? The guy has an opinion,,,thats all. Its not our opinion, but he's entitled. Hell, my brothers hate the Beatles too (although I pass that off as ignorance), but I still drink a beer with them. I hate Van Halen, AC/DC, The Eagles, CCR, etc,,,so I guess i'm not innocent either.
*Any* Beatles hater is really ignorant! I found over 40 former Beatles haters on message boards and web sites that are now big Beatles fans! I didn't communicate with them at all but they wrote that they had a lot of misperceptions about them and hadn't even heard most of their songs and albums before. Most people don't hate The Beatles to begin with,and most people of all ages love or at least like their music worldwide,but most people don't go from hating a group to becoming big fans. This just goes to show how great The Beatles really are! If you type in quotes on the google.com search engine"I used To Hate The Beatles" you will find many of these people!
Man, you've got to calm down about this. I know loads of people really into music who don't care for The Beatles, and I know people who think Bruce Springsteins voice is great. Personally I love Petty's laconic style, and I think Dylan's perfectly suit his style. His vocal is magnificent on Like A Rolling Stone.
1 - OB LA DI OB LA DA OK, so Ob La Di, Ob La Da wasn't their finest moment, but I could (seriously) list at least a thousand songs that are worse.
2 - THEY INVENTED EVERYTHING Not everything, but surely a lot. I think pop music today wouldn't sound the way it does if the Beatles had never excisted.
3 - RINGO STAR Name ONE band with four equally brilliant members...
4 - BEATLES BORES Name ONE million selling band without any obsessed fans...
5 - THE BALLAD OF JOHN AND YOKO OK, he's got a point here.
6 - YOKO ONO Disliking the wife of one of the members is hardly a reason to dislike the band.
7 - I AM THE WALRUS It was the late 60s. Everyone wrote silly lyrics.
8 - ABBEY ROAD AND THAT ZEBRA CROSSING Whatever...
9 - REVOLUTION NUMBER 9 It was the late 60s. Everyone experimented.
10 - BEATLES ANNIVERSARIES I think this guy's just pissed because everyone forgot his last birthday.
So that's one good point out of ten. Not a very good average.
Just read the article and have to agree with Adamzero - it's actually quite funny, and I think more of a dig at Beatle obsessives than the band itself. Like religion, we need to be able to laugh at ourselves, or we will become a terrible bunch of bores. I like your comment about Ballad Of J&Y BP.
Like religion, we need to be able to laugh at ourselves, or we will become a terrible bunch of bores. I like your comment about Ballad Of J&Y BP.
I would love to read a funny "Why the Beatles are crap" article, but unfortionately this isn't one. I think it's a lousy article. If it actually would've been funny, I would've been the last one to deny it. If this guy's a professional he's gotta be able to do better than this.
I read a more or less similar kind of article about the Beach Boys a while ago, and while I consider any negative comments about the Beach Boys blasphemy I thought it was hilarious that the writer accused Brian Wilson of writing christmas songs (with sleighbells and all) and disguising them as summer songs. He actually had a point there.
I read a more or less similar kind of article about the Beach Boys a while ago, and while I consider any negative comments about the Beach Boys blasphemy I thought it was hilarious that the writer accused Brian Wilson of writing christmas songs (with sleighbells and all) and disguising them as summer songs. He actually had a point there.
You know that I only heard Pet Sounds in its entirety a short while ago, and I remember thinking " Brian REALLY likes sleigh bells."
And as for the article, the guys Australian, and they think dwarf-tossing is hilarious. I think that guy probably is near the pinnacle of Auzzie humour (forgive me, I'm a New Zealander)
1. The brainwashed the American youth. Elvis said so.
2. They insulted Imelda Marcos! What on earth did she do to deserve that?
3. By changing the original lyrics to “Yesterday”, Paul robbed us of the chance of ever hearing Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and Boyz II Men sing "Scrambled eggs, Oh, baby how I love your legs".
4. Their name is one of the worst ever. “Hey, let’s name ourselves after some disgusting insects but change the spelling so that we have the name of our genre in our name!”. It’s kind of like calling a soul group Soult & Pepper or a funk band Funk Off or something. Lame.
5. They wanted to make a raw, unpolished ‘live’ sounding album. So what did they do? They added an orchestra and a choir to their raw, unpolished ‘live’ sounding recordings.
6. Two of it’s members recorded a song about how much of a wanker one of the other members was.
7. They made a 30 song album but forgot that they had to release another album two months later, so they had to fill that one with crap and some orchestral stuff by their producer.
8. They recorded 15 songs for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and then decided to leave the best two off the album.
9. They did one live performance after 1966 and even thought a billion people wanted to see that, they did it at a location where about two dozen people could see them.
10. Just one out of three deaths in the band turned out to be a hoax.
BiscuitPower, I was really grooving on your list until I got to the last one-- too sad! But the rest of your list is brilliant and very funny. You are cruel; now I'm trying to come up with my own top 10 reasons! (Although, FWIW, I think Funk Off is a cute name...)
I agree with Kevin and Adamzero on this one: I thought the article was hilarious. It made me LOL a couple of times. Surely not the most enduring piece of wit to hit the publishing industry, but good for a laugh. We must recall that the author was drunk and says so. My personal theory is that he is a closet Beatles admirer (he admits he knew the "clues" about Paul's death--I rest my case), but he can't admit this while sober. Only alcohol will loosen his tongue and get him to address directly the issue (closet Beatle worship) that he tries so strenuously to deny. I think the only humane thing to do is take up a collection and get him a little therapy. In time he may come to realize that he's a Beatle lover too, and it's okay. *gives him a hug*
All you've got to do is choose love. That's how I live it now. I learned a long time ago, I can feed the birds in my garden. I can't feed them all. -- Ringo Starr, Rolling Stone magazine, May 2007
For all I know, Ringo might be a yogi disguised as a drummer! - George Harrison
All you've got to do is choose love. That's how I live it now. I learned a long time ago, I can feed the birds in my garden. I can't feed them all. -- Ringo Starr, Rolling Stone magazine, May 2007
For all I know, Ringo might be a yogi disguised as a drummer! - George Harrison
1. The brainwashed the American youth. Elvis said so.
2. They insulted Imelda Marcos! What on earth did she do to deserve that?
3. By changing the original lyrics to “Yesterday”, Paul robbed us of the chance of ever hearing Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and Boyz II Men sing "Scrambled eggs, Oh, baby how I love your legs".
4. Their name is one of the worst ever. “Hey, let’s name ourselves after some disgusting insects but change the spelling so that we have the name of our genre in our name!”. It’s kind of like calling a soul group Soult & Pepper or a funk band Funk Off or something. Lame.
5. They wanted to make a raw, unpolished ‘live’ sounding album. So what did they do? They added an orchestra and a choir to their raw, unpolished ‘live’ sounding recordings.
6. Two of it’s members recorded a song about how much of a wanker one of the other members was.
7. They made a 30 song album but forgot that they had to release another album two months later, so they had to fill that one with crap and some orchestral stuff by their producer.
8. They recorded 15 songs for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and then decided to leave the best two off the album.
9. They did one live performance after 1966 and even thought a billion people wanted to see that, they did it at a location where about two dozen people could see them.
10. Just one out of three deaths in the band turned out to be a hoax.
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But the rest of your list is brilliant and