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Re: The Beatles were good but extremely boring         


Author: guyanpersad
Date: Jul 28, 2008 11:09

On Jul 28, 1:43 pm, Tracy_Bar...@frontiernet.net wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:11:27 -0700 (PDT), zepflo...@yahoo.com wrote:
>>On Jul 28, 12:03 pm, "Sal Video" access.com> wrote:
>>> You mention Love Me Do and Can't Buy Me Love as "rock" songs and don't
>>> mention Helter Skelter or Yer Blues?
>
>>Both those songs suck. I have mentioned only the good ones.
>
>>> You know nothing about the Beatles.
>
>>Right, I have only heard all their songs...
>
> OK. You have heard every one, including all of their live
> performances? I tend to think that would be a miracle, considering
> you weren't alive back then.
>
> Are you alive now?

easy young lady, well written both posts, Raja is a sad loser getting
close to whisper in 'losingmagnitude -100 both of them'?
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Re: The Beatles were good but extremely boring         


Author: Steven Sullivan
Date: Jul 28, 2008 12:07

Fuck off, Raja.

--
-S
A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. -- David Hume, "On Miracles"
(1748)
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Re: The Beatles were good but extremely boring         


Author: Tracy_Barber
Date: Jul 28, 2008 12:18

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:09:18 -0700 (PDT), guyanpersad@yahoo.com wrote:
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Re: The Beatles were good but extremely boring         


Author: kipps
Date: Jul 28, 2008 13:35

On Jul 28, 3:18 pm, Tracy_Bar...@frontiernet.net wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:09:18 -0700 (PDT), guyanper...@yahoo.com wrote:
>>On Jul 28, 1:43 pm, Tracy_Bar...@frontiernet.net wrote:
>>> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:11:27 -0700 (PDT), zepflo...@yahoo.com wrote:
>>>>On Jul 28, 12:03 pm, "Sal Video" access.com> wrote:
>>>>> You mention Love Me Do and Can't Buy Me Love as "rock" songs and don't
>>>>> mention Helter Skelter or Yer Blues?
>
>>>>Both those songs suck. I have mentioned only the good ones.
>
>>>>> You know nothing about the Beatles.
>
>>>>Right, I have only heard all their songs...
>
>>> OK. You have heard every one, including all of their live
>>> performances? I tend to think that would be a miracle, considering
>>> you weren't alive back then.
>
>>> Are you alive now?
> ...
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Re: The Beatles were good but extremely boring         


Author: geminijacksonis
Date: Jul 28, 2008 13:39

On Jul 28, 12:02 pm, Raja gmail.com> wrote:
> When was the last time Beatles rocked?

Still sucking the life out of this group eh?
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Re: The Beatles were good but extremely boring         


Author: Tracy_Barber
Date: Jul 28, 2008 13:49

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:35:49 -0700 (PDT), kipps yahoo.com>
wrote:
>On Jul 28, 3:18 pm, Tracy_Bar...@frontiernet.net wrote:
>> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:09:18 -0700 (PDT), guyanper...@yahoo.com wrote:
>>>On Jul 28, 1:43 pm, Tracy_Bar...@frontiernet.net wrote:
>>>> On Mon...
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Re: The Beatles were good but extremely boring         


Author: guyanpersad
Date: Jul 28, 2008 13:59

On Jul 28, 4:49 pm, Tracy_Bar...@frontiernet.net wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:35:49 -0700 (PDT), kipps yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>>On Jul 28, 3:18 pm, Tracy_Bar...@frontiernet.net wrote:
>>> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:09:18 -0700 (PDT), guyanper...@yahoo.com wrote:
>>>>On Jul 28, 1:43 pm, Tracy_Bar...@frontiernet.net wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:11:27 -0700 (PDT), zepflo...@yahoo.com wrote:
>>>>>>On Jul 28, 12:03 pm, "Sal Video" access.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> You mention Love Me Do and Can't Buy Me Love as "rock" songs and don't
>>>>>>> mention Helter Skelter or Yer Blues?
>
>>>>>>Both those songs suck. I have mentioned only the good ones.
>
>>>>>>> You know nothing about the Beatles.
>
>>>>>>Right, I have only heard all their songs...
> ...
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Re: The Beatles were good but extremely boring         


Date: Jul 28, 2008 15:03

Raja wrote:
> When was the last time Beatles rocked? How many of their songs have
> improvisations? Sure they could make tons of cutesy melodies and
> harmonies. But that is not what I expect from a ROCK band. I need some
> jaw dropping solos and riffs, some thunderous drumming and screaming
> by the singer. In the pop and singer/songwriter world, Beatles are
> unmatched. But how exciting were they? May be for the 60s they were
> very exciting (and probably even hard rock for the early 60s) but
> most of their songs nowadays sound like nursery rhymes or plain
> constipated or "Hare Rama Hare Krishna" influenced snoozefests.
>
> Inspite of making tons of songs with brilliant melodies, The Beatles
> made only very few songs you can rock out to. That doesnt mean they
> were not great. They were truly a great band, but extremely boring.
>
> These are the only Beatles songs I can seriously rock out to.
>
> Chronologically...
>
> Album songs (14) ...
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Re: The Beatles were good but extremely boring         


Author: Tracy_Barber
Date: Jul 28, 2008 15:57

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:59:50 -0700 (PDT), guyanpersad@yahoo.com wrote:
>On Jul 28, 4:49 pm, Tracy_Bar...@frontiernet.net wrote:
>> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:35:49 -0700 (PDT), kipps yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>On Jul 28, 3:18 pm, Tracy_Bar...@frontiernet.net...
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Re: The Beatles were good but extremely boring         


Author: Bernie Woodham
Date: Jul 28, 2008 15:59

"Gracchus" hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:dcba73c5-fc1e-4c52-b199-27f8c657804f@34g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> On Jul 28, 11:02 am, Raja gmail.com> wrote:
>> When was the last time Beatles rocked? How many of their songs have
>> improvisations?
>
> This really is a stupid post. It's like saying "Why weren't the
> Beatles Led Zeppelin?" "Why can't jazz sound like rock?"
>
> If you want to "rock out," listen to a different band. There's enough
> loud garbage out there to entertain you for a lifetime.

What I find amusing is Raja says The Beatles were a great band and says they
were boring in the same breath.

Yeah, well Zeppelin was a mediocre boring band. At least The Beatles didn't
have to steal their stuff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkX7Q2J7k48

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toSGDuSuTJk

This next file opens Acrobat:

http://www.shindig-magazine.com/pdf/dazed.pdf
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