How would the world be without the Beatles?

[thoro86]

stairway to heaven FTW

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: AnyMal

Originally posted by: AbAbber2k

Originally posted by: AnyMal

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats

Originally posted by: AnyMal
Hard to imagine. IMO, there has been nothing new in rock or pop music since The Beatles.

:roll:

Best you can do? Fel free to prove me wrong :roll:

You said nothing "new" not nothing "good". Define "new" and try again. You'd still come off as a pretentious moron living in the past though. Just because you don't like (or haven't taken the opportunity to experience) anything in the 30+ years since the Beatles doesn't mean there isn't anything "new" or worth listening to out there. Granted you did preceed your statement with "IMO."

Still, I'm willing to chalk your post up to flamebait-focused sarcasm. Probably just to get little Nickleback/50Cent/Emo/insert genre stereotype fanbois all riled up though.

And yes... the Monkees were superior to the Beatles in every way...



:laugh:

I use to ask my step-dad if the Beatles were ripping off the Monkees... he'd get so pissed. No sense of humor when it came to his cherished Beatles.

If you want to see a moron, look in a mirror :roll: Reading comprehension is not your trait, is it?

http://www.fakebands.com/fakeband_m.html
"Monkees, The - Bert Schneider and Bob Rafelson created this band for the TV series, inspired by the Beatles' Hard Day's Night movie. One presumes the Beatles weren't available for a weekly series themselves. Peter Tork, Mike Nesmith, Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones formed the granddaddy of fake bands and one of the most successful, at least during the run of their 1966-1968 TV series. They gave the teenyboppers something to bob their heads and tap their toes to after the Beatles and other groups started dropping acid and making weirdo, undanceable concept albums. Has their formula been as successfully repeated? "

yeah, I know, they eventually meshed and actually became a "real band", but their hay-day was as phony as they get...

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Originally posted by: shortylickens

Originally posted by: AbAbber2k
I use to ask my step-dad if the Beatles were ripping off the Monkees... he'd get so pissed. No sense of humor when it came to his cherished Beatles.

Thats strange, my dad is a connoisseur of music and he thought that in the grand scheme of things the Beatles were really nothing special.
This came from a guy that owned most albums from the 40's through the 80's. (Which is a whole new discussion that we dont want to have here.)

I guess I feel the same way about Britney Spears. She's an icon and horribly famous and I cant figure out why other than really good promotion from her manager.

Yep, all the superbands had visionary promotional management. Elvis had Col. Tom Parker, the Beatles had George Martin. Quincy Jones, etc, etc etc

 

[SlitheryDee]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
http://www.fakebands.com/fakeband_m.html
"Monkees, The - Bert Schneider and Bob Rafelson created this band for the TV series, inspired by the Beatles' Hard Day's Night movie. One presumes the Beatles weren't available for a weekly series themselves. Peter Tork, Mike Nesmith, Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones formed the granddaddy of fake bands and one of the most successful, at least during the run of their 1966-1968 TV series. They gave the teenyboppers something to bob their heads and tap their toes to after the Beatles and other groups started dropping acid and making weirdo, undanceable concept albums. Has their formula been as successfully repeated? "

yeah, I know, they eventually meshed and actually became a "real band", but their hay-day was as phony as they get...

They had some really awesome musicians writing their songs. Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart, Carole King, Gerry Goffin, and Neil Diamond all wrote songs for the Monkees and they also wrote a lot of their own stuff.

 

[AbAbber2k]

Originally posted by: shortylickens

Originally posted by: AbAbber2k
I use to ask my step-dad if the Beatles were ripping off the Monkees... he'd get so pissed. No sense of humor when it came to his cherished Beatles.

Thats strange, my dad is a connoisseur of music and he thought that in the grand scheme of things the Beatles were really nothing special.
This came from a guy that owned most albums from the 40's through the 80's. (Which is a whole new discussion that we dont want to have here.)

I guess I feel the same way about Britney Spears. She's an icon and horribly famous and I cant figure out why other than really good promotion from her manager.

I don't quite understand what's strange. There are a lot of aging Beatles fanboys (fan-grandparents? ). I would agree, I don't think they're that great. They have a lot of songs that I really enjoy, and they were incredibly influential, but that alone doesn't mean they're LIEK ZOMG TEH BEST BAND EVAR!!!1eleven. Regardless, I just find it absurd when people can't look past the merits of whatever they grew up with (including music) to see that there are infact many thing that have come and gone since their youth that could arguably be of equal or greater value. The same could be said for looking back of course. Way too many ignorant kids who won't listen to it if it isn't on MTV.

And WTF... are people actually taking my Monkees comment seriously? Christ are people gullible. Has no one heard of sarcasm? No sh1t they weren't a real band (initially), I use to watch the show all the time. They were put together out of almost 500 hopefuls for a fvcking TV show.

Can you imagine if they had televised that? It'd be the American Idol of the 60s.

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: AnyMal

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats

Originally posted by: AnyMal
Hard to imagine. IMO, there has been nothing new in rock or pop music since The Beatles.

:roll:

Best you can do? Fel free to prove me wrong :roll:

Led Zepplin

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[MartyMcFly3]

Originally posted by: NTB

Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy

Originally posted by: Gatecrasher3
i think the real question should be "what would the world be like without chuck berry"

Judas Priest would have never made an awesome cover of Johnny B. Goode.

and Back to the Future just wouldn't be the same

Nate

And if BTTF wasn't the same as it is now, I wouldn't be here. :shocked: