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Group: rec.music.progressive · Group Profile
Author: zzbunkerzzbunker Date: Jul 29, 2008 01:46
On Jul 28, 12:02Â pm, Raja gmail.com> wrote:
> When was the last timeBeatlesrocked?
1969, as the story goes. Since everything after that was
remizes of tapes.
How many of their songs have
> improvisations?
Only one: A Day in the Life.
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. Â In the pop and singer/songwriter world,Beatlesare
> unmatched. But how exciting were they? May be for the 60s they were
> very exciting (and probably even hard rock for the early 60s) Â but
> most of their songs nowadays sound like nursery rhymes or plain
> constipated or "Hare Rama Hare Krishna" influenced snoozefests.
That's mostly because most of today's hard rock isn't even music
anymore.
It's crashing jets into skyscrapers. They don't even bother with
tickets anymore.
It's just drills and drugs.
> Inspite of making tons of songs with brilliant melodies, TheBeatles
> 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 onlyBeatlessongs I can seriously rock out to.
>
> Chronologically...
>
> Album songs (14)
> ______________
> Twist And Shout
> Love Me Do
> Please Please Me
> I Wanna Be Your Man
> A Hard Days Night
> Cant Buy Me Love
> Eight Days A Week
> Help
> Ticket to Ride
> Got to Get You Into my Life
> Back in the USSR
> Hey Bulldog
> Come Together
> Get Back
>
> Non album songs (8)
> _________________
>
> From Me To You
> She Loves You
> I Want To Hold Your Hand
> I Feel Fine
> Im Down
> Day Tripper
> Paperback Writer
> Lady Madonna
>
> So there are 22Beatles' songs (of their gazillion songs) out there
> which are truly entertaining. I know there might be some other songs
> which others might find exciting but none of the others I can think of
> truly excite me. Coincidently majority of their exciting songs were
> released as singles and you can probably find most of these songs on
> the TheBeatles#1 collection. I guessBeatles#1 is the most exciting
> CD ofBeatlessongs out there. No wonder it sold a lot.
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