The Beatles

[Anark]

For some reason, lately I have become a Beatles fan, it's just some of the greatest music ever  :D

Anybody else like them?

[dcunning30]

....no, not really.  But lately, I've been listening to certain black metal bands and I'm sure most would disaprove of that music, so I think we're all good here.  

[Omag 2.0]

It's amazing how much popular music still sounds good at this date... so why not! Enjoy it!

[alrot]

Beatles ,beatles mmm :-? The beatles, I never heard of that band before
I heard of the Bee Gees...and Rolling Stones as the opossite of the Bee Gees..








Anyone who has a good taste for the music has to like them , to Love the Beatles Music ,There won't be another band like this one, they were unique, I think every song their made are not a classic ,Are Masterpieces, I love all the music made WITH Talent, and I hate Yoko ..

[cspyro21]

Bee Gees

Now THAT is a good band - I love the Bee Gees 8-)

The Beatles were great musicians too - "old skool" music has a certain something to it, not like a lot of modern music (which is absolutely awful in general)!

[Apex]

Rock & pop music was in a backwater in the early 60.'s.  The wave of rock 'n' roll started by Elvis Presley and many other 50's rock 'n' roll and doo wop groups had pretty much leveled off.  Don Kirshner's brand of rock/pop, characterised by his "wall of sound" concept, took hold for awhile.  In 62-63, surf music, led by the likes of the Beach Boys, rode rather high until one group came along and knocked everything aside.  That group was the Beatles.  They started a whole new genre of rock music, practically re-creating it, and the so-called 'British Invasion', with British groups becoming super popular in the U.S.,  which occurred soon after the Beatles hit the airwaves on the Ed Sullivan show in February 1964 (or January, I forget), is now legendary.  The Beatles, who were themselves influenced by early U.S. rock, turned around and then influenced all rock in a way that has continued to this day.  We all owe much, maybe even everything, to the Beatles.  Those of you who are too young did not see or hear the amazing popularity of them; every week for several years, they were on the charts, continually coming out with hit after hit and album after album, and early on, quit concertising in order to be able to better concentrate on recording (there were other reasons for them stopping concerts also, I'm sure).  For several years it was Beatles this and Beatles that, and rightly so.  

The Rolling Stones also rode the wave that was started by the Beatles and, like the Beatles, were greatly influential on all musicians listening and learning back then.  Unlike the Beatles, the Stones' very early material was not original.  They soon caught on, however, and British Rock was never the same after that.  

Two asides here:  

> The Beatles not only revamped rock music, but also started the great popularity of the guitar.  Many of us took up the instrument soon after the Beatles gained popularity and as a direct result of that popularity.

> After the Kennedy assassination in November 1963, the U.S was stunned into a shock mode.  The Beatle helped us get out of that state of mind and back on track.  They were wholesome, happy, refreshing, young, funny, and something new, all of which we needed here and to which everybody eventually took to.

[Cobra]

For some reason, lately I have become a Beatles fan, it's just some of the greatest music ever  :D

Anybody else like them?

Shamefully, same story here!! My girlfriend dragged me along to some tribute band a while ago...I am a bit of a fan now

[dcunning30]

It ain't music unless the drummer is doing blast beats!  

Can you imaging Ringo Starr doing blast beats on She's Got A Ticket To Ride?  If he did, then the Beatles would have a chance with me.  

[eno]

It ain't music unless the drummer is doing blast beats!  

Can you imaging Ringo Starr doing blast beats on She's Got A Ticket To Ride?  If he did, then The Beatles would have a chance with me.  

One who doesn't understand that without the Beatles you wouldn't have any of the Rock and Pop music of today. There is a natural lineage from the 50s into the very early 60s which because of The Beatles and later The Rolling Stones the path continues through to today. Take The Beatles out of the chain here in the UK and in the US and guitar based bands would have died out completely by the mid 60s ....and certainly by the mid 70s, just look how Elvis developed.

I bet that the members of some of the bands that you listen to will list The Beatles or The Stones as some sort of inspiration.

[Alonso]

I really LOVE the Beatles.... It just sounds great! Lucy in the skyyyyy with diaaaaamondss 8-) 8-) 8-)

[ATI_7500]

Don't like 'em and "Hey Jude" is one of the fugliest songs of all times. That annoying, repetetive "Na na na nanananaaaaaa"...*Shivers*

[alrot]

The Beatles was so suscesful that many bands came out to take advantage of what was the Beatles started,I call it "Beatles" effect, and this are some of this examples,The Beach Boys,The Bee Gees, the Rolling stones,mamas and Papas , and

[Souichiro]

The beatles are ok. But if we're talking about old music that still rocks Supreme.... The Ramones are my favorite...

Currently listening to Sheena is a Punk Rocker

[dcunning30]

Byrds
Jefferson Airplane
Cream
Stones
The Association
The Mamas and the Papas
The Turtles
The Monkeys
The Strawberry Alarmclock
Crosby Stills & Nash
? & The Mysterians
The Who
The Guess Who
The Zombies

but definately not The Beatles!

....running for cover now!  

[Anark]

....running for cover now!  

*fires mortars*