Posted on 02/07/2014 10:54:23 AM PST by US Navy Vet
It was 50 years ago today that The Beatles landed in America for the first time. Could any other group ever hope to top the talents of these beloved moptops? Well ...Yeah, yeah, yeah! Check out 11 bands that I think took the Fab Four’s pop revolution and made it even better, way beyond compare
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B0n0? Really?
:) LOL
I agree with Zeplin, Stones, and Rush, though!
I vote for the Rubber Band and its close cousin, the Castrating Band.
I take that back. I’ve heard of (and heard) every single one of them.
But I have to disagree with them putting Rush at only #7. I think they should be at the top, but maybe that’s just me.
With a title of “11 bands”, there is no way they could be right. Face it, most of what the Beatles generated was bubblegum. If you even compare them with the Rolling Stones, and just to the point when the Beatles broke up, the Stones were artistically much, much better, and far more creative.
And comparisons fall apart when you bring in fully orchestrated groups like Pink Floyd, or Fleetwood Mac, ELO or Blue Oyster Cult, even simpler arrangements like The Doors were far more creative. The list just goes on and on.
I always thought it was funny that Jake Holmes waited almost forty years to sue Jimmy Page for plagiarizing “Dazed and Confused.”
I agree with Led Zepplin.
But this is an excercise in futility if every there was one... not everyone likes the same music.
The Beatles started out doing Chuck Berry and Little Richard covers. They even recorded a few.
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Absolute BS! I’m betting that every member of those eleven bands would agree that The Beatles were the superior band.
The Beatles are overrated, and there’s nothing intrinsically special about them. Their fame derives from them being on the scene at the right point in time.
Bruce Stringbean?
Really?
The Beatles changed it all. Absolutely awesome. May like others better but their influence is unmatched. Altered the landscape.
Any list without the Angry Samoans isn’t worth the paper it’s written on!
Type O Negative - Day Tripper/If I Needed Someone/I Want You (She's So Heavy)
I disagree, they did add innovation, just in their own mold and style. It`s not bad stuff, I`m just a bit younger then that generation who adored them. I was a VERY little kid when they broke up and never really listened to them as an avid fan. As a little kid I was more into MoTown, till I discovered Rock.
The best he ever did, he wasn't the one "doing", much at all.
Jungleland Clarence Clemons Solo [youtube]
Sorry about the poor quality, and how the drummer seems a bit dumb, too dumb to know he needs lay back, and more lay out of this portion. Sadly enough, the best take that I know of is on the studio version of the song, which runs ten minutes of so to get about 3 of Clemons playing sax.
the phenomena known as the beatles is so much more than their mediocre musical abilities. it was their departure from the main, their hair, the way they were marketed, the things they inspired. taken together, has anybody else even a small degree of effect upon society as the beatles?
My point also. It really depends on what you grew up listening to. In my opinion, musical tastes are fairly well set by the late teens or early adulthood, barring some artistic epiphany that is.
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