Warren Newson wrote:
W_Z wrote:
Brick wrote:
W_Z wrote:
Well that’s the point, Brick. The band you’re referring to is the Beatles clone that was spawned by the Beatles. Even before they were the Beatles they were doing the same kind of boundary pushing as the Quarrymen.
What is the point? The Beatles were heavily influenced by others. They were then heavy influences on others. That's how it has worked for the history of humanity.
They were a great band who came around at the perfect time. That's why I used the Vince Lombardi example. He was a great coach who came around at the perfect time. That doesn't mean that it was impossible for him ever to be supplanted as the greatest coach.
They started the British Invasion. It’s likely we don’t get the Kinks, the Who or The Rolling Stones without Beatlemania coming across the pond.
You can argue all you want about how you like or dislike the music. But their impact is historic. Timing is everything, but so is having that sound.
My gripe with the way they're rated, is that they're treated as existing in a class of their own. They're not in a class of their own. They're firmly within that upper tier of bands (Stones, Led Zeppelin, etc.).
In terms of influencing bands decades on later, they are in a class of their own. The vocal melodies and harmonies of the Beatles is one of the biggest aspects of making them the top of that class. They continued to evolve and create along the way.
I hate that I'm sitting here defending the Beatles cause like many...I don't ever need to hear them again in my lifetime. Still....they're treated and rated just as they should be. We can take the others like Animals, Stones, Dave Clark Five, Moody Blues, Manfred Mann, and the Kinks....they just don't have the body of work and impact as the Beatles did. The Stones MIGHT be close and I prefer them to the Beatles, but it's a really tough sale arguing they influenced more bands than the Beatles.
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This Ends in Antioch wrote:
brick (/brik/) verb
1. block or enclose with a wall of bricks
2. Proper response would be to ask an endless series of follow ups until the person regrets having spoken to you in the first place.