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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Godzilla on October 17, 2003, 09:02:08 PM
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Each of these songs I consider to be a masterpeice and completely original. The band that wrote and performed these songs has many, many more great songs beyond this list. One of the amazing things about this band is that they not only wrote great songs, but they performed them so well that you can hardly point to a cover version that is better than the original version.
A truley GREAT band that some people still insist was "just a pop or candy" band. They also recorded these, plus MANY more number one hits in about a 7 year recording carreer.
I Saw Her Standing There
Help
Revolution
Yesterday
A Day In The Life
Hey Jude
Let It Be
Here Comes The Sun
Something
Across The Universe
While My Guitar Gentley Weeps
Strawberry Fields Forever
Penny Lane
Come Together
Day Tripper
A Little Help From My Friends
Norwegian Wood
I Am The Walrus
Dear Prudence
In My Life
She Said She Said
Tomorrow Never Knows
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And inspired some great Americans like charles Manson:D
Just kidding the Beatles will go down in music history as one of the greats.:aok
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A little more practice, and they was almost as good as Hank Williams.
Setting The Woods on Fire
Comb your hair and paint and powder
You act proud and I’ll act prouder
You sing loud and I’ll sing louder
Tonight we’re setting the woods on fire
You my gal and I’m your feller
Dress up in your frock of yeller
I’ll look swell but you’ll look sweller
Setting the woods on fire
We’ll take in all the honkey tonks
Tonihgt we’re having fun
We’ll show the folks a brand new dance
That never has been done
I don’t care who thinks we’re silly
You be daffy and I’ll be dilly
We’ll order up to bowls of chili
Setting the woods on fire
I’ll gas up my hot rod stocker
We’ll get hotter than a poker
You’ll be broke but I’ll be broker
Tonight we’re setting the woods on fire
We’ll sit close to one another
Up the one street and down the other
We’ll have a time o brother
Setting the woods on fire
We’ll put aside a little time
To fix a flat or two
My tires and tubes are doing fine
But the air is showing through
You clap hands and I’ll start bowing
We’ll do all the laws allowin’
Tomorrow I’ll be right back plowing
Setting the woods on fire.
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hmmm another beatler r the best thread.....
however should i respond?
i could start out that Led Zeppelin could give a rats arse about them "mop tops" let alone more bands than you can count from the 50-60's ...and muddy waters was more of an influence than them. or that Black soul and blues is where it all came from in the first place....
either way never get between a lennon/mcartney lover and his thoughts on music... they are always right... -or- you will get slammed by more liberal-type people than you can count.
oh well
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Wow. I thought it was Elvis or the Beatles? Now it Led Zeppelin vs. the Beatles? Hmmmmm...I take Zeppelin because they know how to catch sharks for their fans!
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Originally posted by JB73
hmmm another beatler r the best thread.....
however should i respond?
i could start out that Led Zeppelin could give a rats arse about them "mop tops" let alone more bands than you can count from the 50-60's ...and muddy waters was more of an influence than them. or that Black soul and blues is where it all came from in the first place....
either way never get between a lennon/mcartney lover and his thoughts on music... they are always right... -or- you will get slammed by more liberal-type people than you can count.
oh well
I didnt say they are the best band....just saying those songs I listed I consider to be masterpeices both in writing and performance.
I love Zep too.
But.... how many bands CAN YOU count from the 50-60's that wrote any good songs that you can list and that even come close to being as good as the songs I listed, all being from the 60's? Out of those bands, how many wrote more than a few good songs during that time period? The Beatles pretty much were the most prolific songwriters of not only that period, but ever.
Muddy Waters has more influence than the Beatles? I really doubt that. I doubt any band has had as much influence as the Beatles, with Zep being a close second.
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One Love! One Heart!
Let's get together and feel all right.
Hear the children cryin' (One Love!);
Hear the children cryin' (One Heart!),
Sayin': give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right;
Sayin': let's get together and feel all right. Wo wo-wo wo-wo!
Let them all pass all their dirty remarks (One Love!);
There is one question I'd really love to ask (One Heart!):
Is there a place for the hopeless sinner,
Who has hurt all mankind just to save his own beliefs?
One Love! What about the one heart? One Heart!
What about - ? Let's get together and feel all right
As it was in the beginning (One Love!);
So shall it be in the end (One Heart!),
All right!
Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right;
Let's get together and feel all right.
One more thing!
Let's get together to fight this Holy Armagiddyon (One Love!),
So when the Man comes there will be no, no doom (One Song!).
Have pity on those whose chances grows t'inner;
There ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation.
Sayin': One Love! What about the One Heart? (One Heart!)
What about the - ? Let's get together and feel all right.
I'm pleadin' to mankind! (One Love!);
Oh, Lord! (One Heart) Wo-ooh!
Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right;
Let's get together and feel all right.
Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right;
Let's get together and feel all right.
That belongs to the list also.
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Just a few other minor songs, all writen and performed between 1963 and 1969
I feel Fine
Eight Days A Week
Twist and Shout
Hard Days Night
Please Please Me
Cant Buy Me Love
Ticket To Ride
You've Go To Hide Your Love Away
We Can Work It Out
Drive My Car
Michelle
Get Back
She Loves You
Im Looking Through You
Taxman
Hello,Goodbye
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
I'm So Tired
All You Need Is Love
Back In The USSR
Long And Winding Road
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Any people in bands out there? How many of you would mind having a set list of great songs comparable to this when playing out? :)
I left out a bunch of great songs, but you get the Idea.
I'm sure most of you would rather lay claim to and play Muddy Waters songs than these POS songs. I bet most could pick a set list from "more bands than you could count" from the 50's-60's that would top this list.
I Saw Her Standing There
Help
Revolution
Yesterday
A Day In The Life
Hey Jude
Let It Be
Here Comes The Sun
Something
Across The Universe
While My Guitar Gentley Weeps
Strawberry Fields Forever
Penny Lane
Come Together
Day Tripper
A Little Help From My Friends
Norwegian Wood
I Am The Walrus
Dear Prudence
In My Life
She Said She Said
I feel Fine
Eight Days A Week
Twist and Shout
Hard Days Night
Please Please Me
Cant Buy Me Love
Ticket To Ride
You've Go To Hide Your Love Away
We Can Work It Out
Drive My Car
Michelle
Get Back
She Loves You
Im Looking Through You
Taxman
Hello,Goodbye
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
I'm So Tired
All You Need Is Love
Back In The USSR
Long And Winding Road
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I was dreaming of the past
And my heart was beating fast
I began to lose control
I began to lose control
I didn't mean to hurt you
I'm sorry that I made you cry
Oh no, I didn't want to hurt you
I'm just a jealous guy
I was feeling insecure
You might not love me anymore
I was shivering inside
I was shivering inside
I didn't mean to hurt you
I'm sorry that I made you cry
Oh no, I didn't want to hurt you
I'm just a jealous guy
I didn't mean to hurt you
I'm sorry that I made you cry
Oh no, I didn't want to hurt you
I'm just a jealous guy
I was trying to catch your eyes
Thought that you was trying to hide
I was swallowing my pain
I was swallowing my pain
I didn't mean to hurt you
I'm sorry that I made you cry
Oh no, I didn't want to hurt you
I'm just a jealous guy, watch out
I'm just a jealous guy, look out babe
I'm just a jealous guy
When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be
And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree
There will be an answer, let it be
For though they may be parted, there is still a chance that they will see
There will be an answer, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
There will be an answer, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be
And when the night is cloudy there is still a light that shines on me
Shine until tomorrow, let it be
I wake up to the sound of music, Mother Mary comforts me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, yeah, let it be
There will be an answer, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, yeah, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be
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Well then this song belongs to list :)
After all the jacks are in their boxes
and the clowns have all gone to bed
You can hear happiness staggering on down the street
footsteps dressed in red
And the wind whispers Mary
A broom is drearily sweeping
up the broken pieces of yesterdays life
Somewhere a queen is weeping
Somewhere a king has no wife
And the wind, it cries Mary
The traffic lights, they turn, uh, blue tomorrow
and shine their emptiness down on my bed
The tiny island sags down stream
'cause the life that lived is,
is dead
And the wind screams Mary
Uh-will the wind ever remember
the names it has blow in the past?
And with this crutch, its old age, and its wisdom
it whispers no, this will be the last
And the wind cries Mary
Love that song
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The Beatles "A" List:
I Saw Her Standing There
Help
Revolution
Yesterday
A Day In The Life
Hey Jude
Let It Be
Here Comes The Sun
Something
Across The Universe
While My Guitar Gentley Weeps
Strawberry Fields Forever
Penny Lane
Come Together
Day Tripper
A Little Help From My Friends
Norwegian Wood
I Am The Walrus
Dear Prudence
In My Life
She Said She Said
I feel Fine
Eight Days A Week
Twist and Shout
Hard Days Night
Please Please Me
Cant Buy Me Love
Ticket To Ride
You've Go To Hide Your Love Away
We Can Work It Out
Drive My Car
Michelle
Get Back
She Loves You
Im Looking Through You
Taxman
Hello,Goodbye
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
I'm So Tired
All You Need Is Love
Back In The USSR
Long And Winding Road
In My Life
The Beatles "B" List
Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band Reprise
Rain
Julia
Lady Madonna
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
All You Need Is Love
Fool On the Hill
Nowhere Man
Dont Let Me Down
Magical Mystery Tour
From Me To You
I want to Hold Your Hand
All My Loving
Girl
Paperback Writer
Good Day Sunshine
Oh Darling
Im So Tired
Sexy Sadie
The Word
Money
Mother Natures Son
The Beatles "C" List
Maxwell Silver's Hammer
Rocky Racoon
Ob-La Di, Ob-La Da
Birthday
Yellow Submarine
When Im 64
Ballad of John and Yoko
Shes Leaving Home
Martha My Dear
I Will
Listen
Run For Your Life
Your Gonna Lose That Girl
I'll Follow The Sun
Bungalow Bill
Piggies
Glass Onion
Cry Baby Cry
Mother Natures Son
Revolution 9
Can Anyone say the Beatles sucked?
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Try this list from Hank.
· ’neath a Cold Gray Tomb of Stone
· A Home in Heaven
· A House of Gold
· A House Without Love
· A Mansion on The Hill
· A Picture from Life’s Other Side
· A Stranger in The Night
· Cold Cold Heart
· Crazy Heart
· Dear John
· Everything’s Okay
· Faded Love & Winter Roses
· Half as Much
· Hey, Good Lookin’!
· Honky Tonk Blues
· Honky Tonkin’
· Howlin’ at The Moon
· I Can’t Get You Off My Mind
· I Can’t Help It
· I Don’t Care
· I Saw The Light
· I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive
· I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
· I’m So Tired of It All
· Jambalaya
· Jesus Remembered Me
· Kaw - Liga
· Lonesome Whistle
· Long Gone Lonesome Blues
· Lost Highway
· Lovesick Blues
· Mind Your Own Business
· Move It on Over
· My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It
· My Heart Would Know
· My Son Calls Another Man Daddy
· No One Will Ever Know
· Ramblin’ Man
· Setting The Woods on Fire
· Someday You’ll Call My Name
· Take These Chains from My Heart
· The Angel of Death
· The Funeral
· There’s a Tear in My Beer
· Why Don’t You Love Me
· You Better Keep It on Your Mind
· You Win Again
· You’re Gonna Change
My bucket's got a hole in it,
My bucket's got a hole in it,
My bucket's got a hole in it,
And I can't buy no beer...
snif.. snif..
absolutely beautiful...
leaves all the rest a-way back in the dust...
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Originally posted by Godzilla
The Beatles "A" List:
I Saw Her Standing There
Help
Revolution
Yesterday
A Day In The Life
Hey Jude
Let It Be
Here Comes The Sun
Something
Across The Universe
While My Guitar Gentley Weeps
Strawberry Fields Forever
Penny Lane
Come Together
Day Tripper
A Little Help From My Friends
Norwegian Wood
I Am The Walrus
Dear Prudence
In My Life
She Said She Said
I feel Fine
Eight Days A Week
Twist and Shout
Hard Days Night
Please Please Me
Cant Buy Me Love
Ticket To Ride
You've Go To Hide Your Love Away
We Can Work It Out
Drive My Car
Michelle
Get Back
She Loves You
Im Looking Through You
Taxman
Hello,Goodbye
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
I'm So Tired
All You Need Is Love
Back In The USSR
Long And Winding Road
In My Life
The Beatles "B" List
Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band Reprise
Rain
Julia
Lady Madonna
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
All You Need Is Love
Fool On the Hill
Nowhere Man
Dont Let Me Down
Magical Mystery Tour
From Me To You
I want to Hold Your Hand
All My Loving
Girl
Paperback Writer
Good Day Sunshine
Oh Darling
Im So Tired
Sexy Sadie
The Word
Money
Mother Natures Son
The Beatles "C" List
Maxwell Silver's Hammer
Rocky Racoon
Ob-La Di, Ob-La Da
Birthday
Yellow Submarine
When Im 64
Ballad of John and Yoko
Shes Leaving Home
Martha My Dear
I Will
Listen
Run For Your Life
Your Gonna Lose That Girl
I'll Follow The Sun
Bungalow Bill
Piggies
Glass Onion
Cry Baby Cry
Mother Natures Son
Revolution 9
Can Anyone say the Beatles sucked?
The Beatles "C" list is better than most bands have ever produced.
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Hey, Holden, You forgot, "your cheatin heart"!
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Originally posted by mrblack
the Beatles will go down in music history as one of the greats.:aok
Ya think!;)
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OK then.... who's #2.
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zzzzzzz
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i always thought the beatles were terrible...dire straits the who and the police were better...though they all fold to iron maiden...
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The Beatles & Zep were both great, But neither is on the same page as Pink Floyd.
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Course Led Zeppelin stole some of there most famous songs from earlier blues musicians. :)
Whole Lotta Love? that's a rip-off, unfortunetly I forget who wrote the original but I've heard it and, yeah they ripped it off. :) I believe they were taken to court of some of their songs and not giving credit where credit is due.
They do put an amazing stamp on the songs though, I love Zep. :)
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Garden groove by Sublime
Almost everything by The Doors
Most of Metallica
Alot from Paris (99.99% of you have no clue what this is)
Jokke og Valentinerne
Seigmen
DeLillos
To much to list actually, giving up..
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Originally posted by Soulyss
Whole Lotta Love? that's a rip-off, unfortunetly I forget who wrote the original but I've heard it and, yeah they ripped it off. :)
Page came up with the guitar lick, but the lyrics came from Willie Dixon’s “You need love.” Plant admits this and they settled out of court.
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Originally posted by midnight Target
OK then.... who's #2.
You mean behind Hank Williams? Cause he's got the top five spots.
I'd prob'ly have to give it to Sir Earl Scruggs.
caint hardly believe I fergot "Cheatin' Heart" I feel so low...
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Originally posted by mrblack
And inspired some great Americans like charles Manson:D
Just kidding the Beatles will go down in music history as one of the greats.:aok
Aren't they already in the history books.........:)
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I love most of the Beatle's songs... however, I love the lyrics of this song by Suzanne Vega
The Queen and the Soldier
The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door
He said, I am not fighting for you any more
The queen knew she'd seen his face someplace before
And slowly she let him inside.
He said, I've watched your palace up here on the hill
And I've wondered who's the woman for whom we all kill
But I am leaving tomorrow and you can do what you will
Only first I am asking you why.
Down in the long narrow hall he was led
Into her rooms with her tapestries red
And she never once took the crown from her head
She asked him there to sit down.
He said, I see you now, and you are so very young
But I've seen more battles lost than I have battles won
And I've got this intuition, says it's all for your fun
And now will you tell me why?
The young queen, she fixed him with an arrogant eye
She said, You won't understand, and you may as well not try
But her face was a child's, and he thought she would cry
But she closed herself up like a fan.
And she said, I've swallowed a secret burning thread
It cuts me inside, and often I've bled
He laid his hand then on top of her head
And he bowed her down to the ground.
Tell me how hungry are you? How weak you must feel
As you are living here alone, and you are never revealed
But I won't march again on your battlefield
And he took her to the window to see.
And the sun, it was gold, though the sky, it was gray
And she wanted more than she ever could say
But she knew how it frightened her, and she turned away
And would not look at his face again.
And he said, I want to live as an honest man
To get all I deserve and to give all I can
And to love a young woman who I don't understand
Your highness, your ways are very strange.
But the crown, it had fallen, and she thought she would break
And she stood there, ashamed of the way her heart ached
She took him to the doorstep and she asked him to wait
She would only be a moment inside.
Out in the distance her order was heard
And the soldier was killed, still waiting for her word
And while the queen went on strangeling in the solitude she preferred
The battle continued on...
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
Try this list from Hank.
· ’neath a Cold Gray Tomb of Stone
· A Home in Heaven
· A House of Gold
· A House Without Love
· A Mansion on The Hill
· A Picture from Life’s Other Side
· A Stranger in The Night
· Cold Cold Heart
· Crazy Heart
· Dear John
· Everything’s Okay
· Faded Love & Winter Roses
· Half as Much
· Hey, Good Lookin’!
· Honky Tonk Blues
· Honky Tonkin’
· Howlin’ at The Moon
· I Can’t Get You Off My Mind
· I Can’t Help It
· I Don’t Care
· I Saw The Light
· I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive
· I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
· I’m So Tired of It All
· Jambalaya
· Jesus Remembered Me
· Kaw - Liga
· Lonesome Whistle
· Long Gone Lonesome Blues
· Lost Highway
· Lovesick Blues
· Mind Your Own Business
· Move It on Over
· My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It
· My Heart Would Know
· My Son Calls Another Man Daddy
· No One Will Ever Know
· Ramblin’ Man
· Setting The Woods on Fire
· Someday You’ll Call My Name
· Take These Chains from My Heart
· The Angel of Death
· The Funeral
· There’s a Tear in My Beer
· Why Don’t You Love Me
· You Better Keep It on Your Mind
· You Win Again
· You’re Gonna Change
My bucket's got a hole in it,
My bucket's got a hole in it,
My bucket's got a hole in it,
And I can't buy no beer...
snif.. snif..
absolutely beautiful...
leaves all the rest a-way back in the dust...
My Grandfather played Hank All the time and so did my Dad when I was growing up. I could never really get into Hank that much.
I understand why he is a legend and re-defined country music in the late 40's - mid 50's though.
A lot of his songs, IMO are pretty much the same sounding to me and pretty basic. The Beatles songs, to me, seem more diverse and interesting ..... they seem more unique than Hanks tunes.
That songs "My Bucket's Got A Hole In It" absolutely drives me nutz..... I cant stand the lyrics. You can't deny the guy was great at what he did though.
I like a lot of different music though.
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Ok, now you we are talking history. So, you dont think that Hank Williams did effrect the musical style of the 50´s, 60´s?
I have to admit that beatles had a Unconventional way of writing music, both lyrics and music, in the late 60´s. But they where widely inspired by the heros from the 50´s : From chuck Berry, williams to Buddy Holly .Buddy Holly and the Crickets, more then anything. This guy didnt live long enough to write and record more then some songs. Same with Hank Williams. They died fairly young and the "king" Doing military service, Jerry Lee doing time, Chuck berry Doing time, left a Hughe "vacuum" on the Musical scene. The raw rock and roll where smoothed out and became "pop".
Like a flash, doing something diffrent, The Beatles hit the Charts.
They did nothing new, really, but they filled the "vacuum".
Dylan, Stones pushed through and together they represented the youth, Music for youth. But all they did, was really to recreate what had been, Beatles/Buddy Holly, Stones/Waters, Berry, Dylan/Guthrie.
The only guy that was really "original" in the 60´s was Hendrix and he turned the whole concept of Rock´n Roll, upside down, changing it forever.
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The Beatles & Zep were both great, But neither is on the same page as Pink Floyd.
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The Beatles donated the Sperm for Pink Floyd.
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Originally posted by crabofix
Ok, now you we are talking history. So, you dont think that Hank Williams did effrect the musical style of the 50´s, 60´s?
I have to admit that beatles had a Unconventional way of writing music, both lyrics and music, in the late 60´s. But they where widely inspired by the heros from the 50´s : From chuck Berry, williams to Buddy Holly .Buddy Holly and the Crickets, more then anything. This guy didnt live long enough to write and record more then some songs. Same with Hank Williams. They died fairly young and the "king" Doing military service, Jerry Lee doing time, Chuck berry Doing time, left a Hughe "vacuum" on the Musical scene. The raw rock and roll where smoothed out and became "pop".
Like a flash, doing something diffrent, The Beatles hit the Charts.
They did nothing new, really, but they filled the "vacuum".
Dylan, Stones pushed through and together they represented the youth, Music for youth. But all they did, was really to recreate what had been, Beatles/Buddy Holly, Stones/Waters, Berry, Dylan/Guthrie.
The only guy that was really "original" in the 60´s was Hendrix and he turned the whole concept of Rock´n Roll, upside down, changing it forever.
All well and good, but I was talking about great songs, not "icons".... though the Beatles were both great songwriters, great performers and huge icons. The Beatles had about the same amount of recording years as Hank, and when the Beatles Broke up, John Lennon was only 29 ( same age Hank Died) and McCartney was only 27.
Hendrix was a great guitar player, but can you list a few great songs he wrote?
The Beatles, IMO, had more talent than any band that has ever been. They did make original music, and it doesnt matter what influenced them. The artists that influenced the Beatles also influenced millions of others....but that doesnt translate into millions of bands as good as the Beatles.
All Music is influenced by artists that came before.
The Early Beatles songs are straight rock n roll : I Saw Her Standing There, Money, I'm Down, Twist And Shout...excellent covers of Roll Over Bethoven, Long Tall Sally, Rock N Roll Music, You Really Got A Hold On Me.
They started out very early as simply a rock band, then progressed to write some of the best songs any band has written, IMO.. and all over about a 7 year recording carrer
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Originally posted by Godzilla
Hendrix was a great guitar player, but can you list a few great songs he wrote?
The Beatles, IMO, had more talent than any band that has ever been. They did make original music, and it doesnt matter what influenced them. The artists that influenced the Beatles also influenced millions of others....but that doesnt translate into millions of bands as good as the Beatles.
All Music is influenced by artists that came before.
A few great songs? Ok
Wind Cries Mary.
Little Wing
Purple haze
Foxy lady
MACHINE GUN
To say that one "band" is more talented then another is wrong, cause in the end it all comes down to indiveduals.
Booth Ringo And George did a couple of great songs, IMO.
Ringo (the ****) is just way to much though. He is a real funny guy. But always drunk, always.
I have my own personal Favourites when It comes to the 1963-2003. Still going strong and they are/where miles ahead of Beatles.
I can counter your list, but this post would get so silly, it would become unbearable.
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Originally posted by crabofix
A few great songs? Ok
Wind Cries Mary.
Little Wing
Purple haze
Foxy lady
MACHINE GUN
To say that one "band" is more talented then another is wrong, cause in the end it all comes down to indiveduals.
Booth Ringo And George did a couple of great songs, IMO.
Ringo (the ****) is just way to much though. He is a real funny guy. But always drunk, always.
I have my own personal Favourites when It comes to the 1963-2003. Still going strong and they are/where miles ahead of Beatles.
I can counter your list, but this post would get so silly, it would become unbearable.
That's cool, music is all relative to one's tastes. I was just posting about songs I consider to be masterpeices.
Can you counter my list by only one band's songs? Let alone one band limited to 1962-1969 time period. Infact I wouldnt consider it silly to post a list of songs better than the Beatles 1962-1969, by one band or artist, that they wrote and recorded. I don't imagine the list would be that long.
The Beatles wrote more monster songs than most in my opion.
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Originally posted by Yeager
The Beatles & Zep were both great, But neither is on the same page as Pink Floyd.
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The Beatles donated the Sperm for Pink Floyd.
Amen
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I like PF too, but they really hit and miss with good songs. I love some, hate most of their music.
I like Zep a lot..... but even they went into a lot of crappy 20 min. songs.
Zep has better songs than Floyd overall.
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Who are the best selling artists of all time?
The Best Selling Artists of all time (based on combined RIAA certifications of all albums) are the Beatles, Garth Brooks, and Led Zeppelin. Garth moved back ahead of Led Zeppelin with the release of Sevens and threatens to overtake the Beatles. Other artists who have sold more than 50 million albums include: the Eagles, Billy Joel, Barbra Streisand, Aerosmith, Elton John, and Elvis Presley. As of August 1998, Elton John became the second best selling solo artist of all time. The next three solo artists on the list are Billy Joel, Barbra Streisand, and Elvis Presley. The Beatles have the most consecutive #1 albums with 8 scored between 1965 and 1968.
Based on Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums 1955-1996 and subsequent RIAA certifications, these artists have the most gold and platinum albums (each album is counted only once even if the album was certified gold, platinum, and multi-platinum):
Elvis Presley (80)
Barbra Streisand (46) [the female with the most multi-platinum titles]
The Beatles (39)
The Rolling Stones (38)
Neil Diamond (37)
Elton John (32)
Kenny Rogers/First Edition (28)
Frank Sinatra(26)
Bob Dylan (28) [two with the Band]
Willie Nelson (24)
George Strait (24) [all 24 have gone gold and platinum]
Kiss (23)
Rush (22)
Alabama (22)
Top Pop Singles 1955-1999 listed these artists as having the most gold and platinum singles. I'll update the list with subsequent RIAA certifications.
1. Elvis Presley (24+28)
2. The Beatles (18+6)
3. Whitney Houston (14+6)
4. Janet Jackson (16+3)
5. Elton John (13+6)
6. Madonna (18)
7. Michael Jackson (7+9)
8. Temptations (10+6)
9. Mariah Carey (7+8)
10. Aretha Franklin (15)
Clearly The Beatles out perform Led Zep!
Sorry "Hank whatever" makes few top lists!
Neither does Metal_licka make few lists..
Our personal opinions are just that, but sales figures arn't biased
towards regional influences or age influences...
And John Lenon's death was more influential on history than John Bonhams Drug overdose!!!!
After the Break up of Zepplin we have very few post zep members albums to rave about, but the x-members of the beatles solo album projects have gone platinum...
But because of John we have Yoko and history doesn't look favorable to him on that note!
I didn't look for data to back up that last comment but I would like to see if I was wrong about that... I bet I am not wrong!
1K0N
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Originally posted by crabofix
Hey, Holden, You forgot, "your cheatin heart"!
and you forgot "Lost on the River" wasn't released back then, was a demo tape with false start; recently dug up and released, man that song is a good one :aok
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Not being a "die hard" Zep. fan.
Did Page/Plant ever finish their "RockaBilly" project they where working on in NY when 9/11 accured?
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Originally posted by 1K0N
Our personal opinions are just that, but sales figures arn't biased
towards regional influences or age influences...
1K0N
Yes, as I said, it is very difficult to "compete" in music. But, to reach a "hit" or to make it, you need to have loads of money behind you. Look at Metallica and what made them make it: their fans trading cassettes finelly got them a record deal.
Dire Straits first single where never to be released outside UK. A Dutch Discjokey played "the Sultans of swing" and it was a boom hit all over the world. But theese are rare things, that only happends one time in a million. Theres loads of good music out there, that never made it, just because someone decided "not a hit".
It is just pure luck, belive me.