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Jim Rockford 
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| It's 1964. The Beatles are coming to America for the first time (Posted on 4/2/12 at 8:21 am)
Do you recognize their greatness, or dismiss them as a bubble gum group for teenage girls? Hell, maybe in ten years, Bieber will be hailed as a musical genius. Ok, maybe not. 
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RollTide1987 
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| re: It's 1964. The Beatles are coming to America for the first time (Posted on 4/2/12 at 8:49 am to Jim Rockford)
I think the difference between The Beatles and Bieber is quality. Even in the 60s, critics and musicians alike acknowledged how good their music was. It wasn't like Led Zeppelin who received belated praise from magazines like Rolling Stone.
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| re: It's 1964. The Beatles are coming to America for the first time (Posted on 4/2/12 at 8:56 am to RollTide1987)
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I think the difference between The Beatles and Bieber is quality.
Well that and the Beatles could actually play instruments.
I've always wondered why they get compared to boy bands who just dance and lip sync.
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| re: It's 1964. The Beatles are coming to America for the first time (Posted on 4/2/12 at 9:00 am to constant cough)
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Well that and the Beatles could actually play instruments.
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GeorgeTheGreek 
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| re: It's 1964. The Beatles are coming to America for the first time (Posted on 4/2/12 at 9:25 am to RollTide1987)
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Even in the 60s, critics and musicians alike acknowledged how good their music was.
Man, do i disagree with them.
WE ALL LIVE IN A YELLOW SUBMARINE, A YELLOW SUBMARINE, A YELLOW SUBMARINE.
brilliant!
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GCTiger11 
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| re: It's 1964. The Beatles are coming to America for the first time (Posted on 4/2/12 at 9:35 am to GeorgeTheGreek)
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WE ALL LIVE IN A YELLOW SUBMARINE, A YELLOW SUBMARINE, A YELLOW SUBMARINE.
Yeah, let's pick that one song of over 200 in their catalog as an example of their songwriting. 
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GeorgeTheGreek
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| re: It's 1964. The Beatles are coming to America for the first time (Posted on 4/2/12 at 9:44 am to GCTiger11)
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob
that whole song is just as bad
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RollTide1987
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| re: It's 1964. The Beatles are coming to America for the first time (Posted on 4/2/12 at 9:47 am to GeorgeTheGreek)
Not every band is infallible. Yellow Submarine and Magical Mystery Tour weren't their best albums. But they recovered with two of the greatest albums of all-time in The Beatles (White Album) and Abbey Road.
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GeorgeTheGreek
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| re: It's 1964. The Beatles are coming to America for the first time (Posted on 4/2/12 at 9:50 am to RollTide1987)
Meh, i think they aren't very good.
I know i'm in the 1%.
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MontanaMax 
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| re: It's 1964. The Beatles are coming to America for the first time (Posted on 4/2/12 at 9:50 am to Jim Rockford)
I would probably be amazed by their talents but at the same time would probably hate them because they are taking our women.
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GCTiger11
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| re: It's 1964. The Beatles are coming to America for the first time (Posted on 4/2/12 at 10:14 am to GeorgeTheGreek)
Hey Jude, Yesterday, Let it Be, A Day in the Life, Strawberry Fields, Norwegian Wood, Come Together. Yeah let's just ignore those 
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VOR
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| re: It's 1964. The Beatles are coming to America for the first time (Posted on 4/2/12 at 10:15 am to GeorgeTheGreek)
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Meh, i think they aren't very good.
I know. How could they have the balls to release such crap as:
In My Life
Something
I'm Looking Through You
And Your Bird Can Sing
She's Leaving Home
A Day in the Life
Yesterday
We Can Work it Out
Blue Jay Way
Here Comes the Sun
Get Back
Let it Be
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GeorgeTheGreek
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| re: It's 1964. The Beatles are coming to America for the first time (Posted on 4/2/12 at 10:34 am to VOR)
I could list a bunch too ...
next two examples:
Good Day Sunshine and Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
good grief those are terrible.
i can keep going.
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| re: It's 1964. The Beatles are coming to America for the first time (Posted on 4/2/12 at 11:20 am to Jim Rockford)
There are all sorts of videos of them playing live on YouTube. Watch them perform, and you will see that they were talented musicians. Their song writing early in their career followed the formula of rock and roll songs from the 1950's. They had an energy and intensity to them that fired up an audience when played live. Check out their covers of classic songs by American artists.
As they developed they grew much more creative in their song writing. It's a shame they had to stop performing live after 1966, but when you see how crowds reacted to their performances they didn't have much choice.
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RollTide1987
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| re: It's 1964. The Beatles are coming to America for the first time (Posted on 4/2/12 at 11:25 am to GeorgeTheGreek)
For every bad song you name I can name 10 good ones. I can't say the same for The Rolling Stones. There's another band who put more effort into their singles than into the actual album itself.
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| re: It's 1964. The Beatles are coming to America for the first time (Posted on 4/2/12 at 11:50 am to GeorgeTheGreek)
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good grief those are terrible.
No, they are not. Good Day Sunshine won high praise from Leonard Bernstein among other commetators. What is wrong with simple songs that express joy or happiness? Are the melodies offensive or the sounds discordant to you?
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VOR
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| re: It's 1964. The Beatles are coming to America for the first time (Posted on 4/2/12 at 11:53 am to GeorgeTheGreek)
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GeorgeTheGreek
List five recording teams/artists in the rock or pop fiels who are/were more talented in terms of songwriting.
By the way, it is only fair to consder the fact that The Beatles wrote and performed in the sixties through 70 in entirely different age in terms of music sophistication and culture. Popular music was still evolving and The Beatles only wrote and performed together for less than a decade. Yet they were far ahead of the curve in terms of sophistication AND accessibility at the same time.
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| re: It's 1964. The Beatles are coming to America for the first time (Posted on 4/2/12 at 11:54 am to GeorgeTheGreek)
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GeorgeTheGreek
I stand with the 1 percent. I hate the Beatles, bunch of pussies.
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VOR
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| re: It's 1964. The Beatles are coming to America for the first time (Posted on 4/2/12 at 12:15 pm to Stonehog)
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Stonehog
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I hate the Beatles, bunch of pussies.
That's legitimate. By the way is that a Slipknot or Staind t-shirt you're wearing?
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| re: It's 1964. The Beatles are coming to America for the first time (Posted on 4/2/12 at 12:27 pm to GeorgeTheGreek)
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George The Greek
You sort of sound like someone who thinks The Doors were geniuses over the Beatles because they were melancholy and drunk and miserable and wrote long-winded blowhard songs.
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