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Old 24-12-2016, 23:40
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No I'm not. If we posted lyrics from all of these artists, we'd see a lot of similarities. Many of The Beatles songs were quite fickle in my opinion and some of the songs from Banarama, for example, were quite poignant.
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"In my opinion" of course - which means I'm right and you're wrong in the world of Achtung.
Wasn't Banarama a current affairs program?
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Old 24-12-2016, 23:44
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some of the songs from Banarama, for example, were quite poignant.
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Old 24-12-2016, 23:47
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There were four of them. The Jackson Five were undoubtedly bigger
There's about 50 in the London Philharmonic and they still can't manage to write their own songs.
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Old 24-12-2016, 23:53
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I just hope Achtung has had a few !
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Old 24-12-2016, 23:54
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Point proven - dafter each post.
"In my opinion" of course - which means I'm right and you're wrong in the world of Achtung.
Wasn't Banarama a current affairs program?
The superiority complex of Beatles fans knows no bounds. Get down off your high horse and stop insulting people who don't agree with your point of view about The Beatles by calling their opinions "daft". If I find them mediocre, that's my opinion, if you love them, that's up to you. If I preferred a song by Pepsie & Shirley, I'd buy that rather than a Beatles record, some people aren't snobbish/elitist about music.
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Old 24-12-2016, 23:58
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Point proven - dafter each post.
"In my opinion" of course - which means I'm right and you're wrong in the world of Achtung.
Wasn't Banarama a current affairs program?
Really? I thought that "In my opinion" means your mileage may vary or WTTE. Not everybody likes The Beatles.
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Old 24-12-2016, 23:58
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The superiority complex of Beatles fans knows no bounds. Get down off your high horse and stop insulting people who don't agree with your point of view about The Beatles by calling their opinions "daft". If I find them mediocre, that's my opinion, if you love them, that's up to you. If I preferred a song by Pepsie & Shirley, I'd buy that rather than a Beatles record, some people aren't snobbish/elitist about music.
You're just the kind of feller who thinks Mozart is better than Beethoven

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Old 24-12-2016, 23:59
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I just hope Achtung has had a few !
I'd never go in a pub with a load of Beatles fans, I'd be garrotted, even though I don't mind them.
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Old 25-12-2016, 00:03
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Point proven - dafter each post.
"In my opinion" of course - which means I'm right and you're wrong in the world of Achtung.
Wasn't Banarama a current affairs program?

I preferred World In Action.
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Old 25-12-2016, 00:04
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You're just the kind of feller who thinks Mozart is better than Beethoven

I do like Falco's Rock Me Amadeus.

... but give me the Pogues & Kirsty any day.

Merry Christmas,
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Old 25-12-2016, 00:10
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I do like Falco's Rock Me Amadeus.

... but give me the Pogues & Kirsty any day.

Merry Christmas,
Merry Christmas to you too, Achty

hope you're keeping well !............
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Old 25-12-2016, 00:23
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If you lived through something, you feel it more...
Well obviously! You also have a more accurate view of it that merely relying on occasional film clips, books and Wikipedia. What you conveniently overlook is that those of us who lived through it... and what went before (the 1950s) have also lived through and experienced everything else since then. So we can readily compare and contrast the effects on popular culture of the various phenomena of the time.
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Old 25-12-2016, 00:25
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Well obviously! You also have a more accurate view of it that merely relying on occasional film clips, books and Wikipedia. What you conveniently overlook is that those of us who lived through it... and what went before (the 1950s) have also lived through and experienced everything else since then.
Tell that to John Lennon.
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Old 25-12-2016, 00:27
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The superiority complex of Beatles fans knows no bounds. Get down off your high horse and stop insulting people who don't agree with your point of view about The Beatles by calling their opinions "daft". If I find them mediocre, that's my opinion, if you love them, that's up to you. If I preferred a song by Pepsie & Shirley, I'd buy that rather than a Beatles record, some people aren't snobbish/elitist about music.
Pepsie and Shirley, Kylie, Banarama .........
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Merry Christmas, have a good one!
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Old 25-12-2016, 00:29
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I dont think there will be anyone in the next fifty years that will be bigger than them. Not even Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones or the Beach Boys. They are still the biggest band in the world even though they are not together anymore
They were this side of the pond, but only for the time they stayed together. Queen and Freddy Mercury became bigger than the Beatles, and there's no one to beat Queen. Same could be said re the Beach Boys.
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Old 25-12-2016, 00:29
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Tell that to John Lennon.
You don't really want me to edit in to my post the words "who are still alive" do you? Sad loss though he was, of course.
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Old 25-12-2016, 00:38
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Many of The Beatles songs were quite fickle in my opinion.
How on earth can lyrics be fickle? Some were deliberately trite or obtuse as a way of taking the piss out of pretentious journalists who were constantly trying to attach their own interpretations to them. I remember being very confused by the non-lyrics when Hello Goodbye first came out, but now I simply see it as an incredibly joyous song which never fails to give me a lift.

As has previously been mentioned by others, unless you were lucky enough to live through that period it is absolutely impossible to imagine the scale of their dominance over just about every walk of life. It was just staggering and will almost certainly never be equalled.
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Old 25-12-2016, 00:48
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You don't really want me to edit in to my post the words "who are still alive" do you? Sad loss though he was, of course.
He was a very sad loss, and was greatest of all of the Beatles, and was to me. Heard Julian singing one time and he sounded so like his dad. Another sad thing is the type of singers XF gets as none of them sound like John Lennon, whose voice quality wasn't a shouting one.
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Old 25-12-2016, 00:48
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I wanna hold your hand, we all live in a yellow submarine etc are akin to Kylie's I should be so lucky, so, in my opinion, no, they're not the greatest band that's ever been, they had some nice songs and melodies, yes, but so have Sinitta and Bananarama with their catchy little "ditties". It was lucky that they sold vast volumes at the time which was down to good promotion/propaganda, not much competition and just sheer luck. If he were still around, ask John Lennon and he'd probably say the same thing. I know Beatle's obsessives don't like to see things from any other angle and that's fine. This is just my opinion, keep living in your bubble if that's what makes you happy.
They probably are as far a pop singles go but has Kylie, Sinitta and Bananarama ever brought out an album to match Sgt Pepper's for example?

Did any of those write their own material btw, successful material that is.?
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Old 25-12-2016, 00:53
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They were this side of the pond, but only for the time they stayed together. Queen and Freddy Mercury became bigger than the Beatles, and there's no one to beat Queen. Same could be said re the Beach Boys.

I bet they were bigger in the US than Queen and who says Queen were bigger here anyway?
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Old 25-12-2016, 00:53
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How on earth can lyrics be fickle? Some were deliberately trite or obtuse as a way of taking the piss out of pretentious journalists who were constantly trying to attach their own interpretations to them. I remember being very confused by the non-lyrics when Hello Goodbye first came out, but now I simply see it as an incredibly joyous song which never fails to give me a lift.

As has previously been mentioned by others, unless you were lucky enough to live through that period it is absolutely impossible to imagine the scale of their dominance over just about every walk of life. It was just staggering and will almost certainly never be equalled.
Maybe for teens, but not for adults!
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Old 25-12-2016, 01:00
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They were this side of the pond, but only for the time they stayed together. Queen and Freddy Mercury became bigger than the Beatles, and there's no one to beat Queen. Same could be said re the Beach Boys.
Brian Wilson was driven by Lennon/McCartney.
They transformed his music when he realised the Beach Boys were becoming cliched surfies.
As great as they were at what they did they stepped up to a higher level.
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Old 25-12-2016, 01:07
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I bet they were bigger in the US than Queen and who says Queen were bigger here anyway?
I know they went to the US, not that I was ever there ye ken. I can only talk about this side of the pond, and once they split up, going their separate ways, other bands/groups became more noticeable and the Stones was one of them, then came Queen and Freddy Mercury and he took the world by storm. I was in that era you know, so do remember what it was like, and more excitement than XF have ever mustered!

Some of the Beatles songs weren't that great, but what they had was sound, and how they looked, which got the teens worked up into fainting fits! All they had to do was open their gobs and the whole audience, erupted into mayhem!
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Old 25-12-2016, 01:13
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Brian Wilson was driven by Lennon/McCartney.
They transformed his music when he realised the Beach Boys were becoming cliched surfies.
As great as they were at what they did they stepped up to a higher level.
That's as may be, but I liked the style of the Beach Boys and some of their songs, and one I still like today. The idea of their surfing in CA went a long way from weather where one lived, seeing nice sunny days is very welcome.
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Old 25-12-2016, 01:19
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I think they will be put in perspective - they did copy from other groups. But I don't expect to see another band as phenomenal or as creative in my lifetime. There is such a wealth of music to be re-discovered - I watched Pointless recently and hardly anyone knows anything on the White Album anymore.
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