The Beatles..the worst thing to happen to music?

[Love'sReject]

Morrissey is violent? Well, towards certain royalty perhaps I could grant that.. but scathing satire is deeper than songs about walruses, or love peace and hypocrisy..

Don't know Oasis?! One of the biggest bands of the 90s? Every girl plays "Wonderwall" after a breakup.

[smackie9]

You're kidding right? Genius lyrics.



I read the news today oh boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph
He blew his mind out in a car
He didn't notice that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They'd seen his face before
Nobody was really sure
If he was from the House of Lords
I saw a film today oh boy
The English Army had just won the war
A crowd of people turned away
But I just had to look
Having read the book
I'd love to turn you on

Woke up, fell out of bed
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup
And looking up I noticed I was late
Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke
And somebody spoke and I went into a dream

I read the news today oh boy
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall
I'd love to turn you on

Not to mention the longest note played in a song.

[Love'sReject]

Yeah, but what does it SAY? Not what it means (which frankly, not being fluent in potspeak, I have no idea what he's attempting to say)..

[smackie9]

Yeah, but what does it SAY? Not what it means (which frankly, not being fluent in potspeak, I have no idea what he's attempting to say)..

This is how John and Paul wrote....they got ideas from everything that was around them. Like an old circus poster, to the newspaper.


The beginning of this song (a day in a life) was based on 2 stories John Lennon read in the Daily Mail newspaper: Guinness heir Tara Browne dying when he smashed his lotus into a parked van, and an article in the UK Daily Express in early 1967 which told of how the Blackburn Roads Surveyor had counted 4000 holes in the roads of Blackburn and commented that the volume of material needed to fill them in was enough to fill the Albert Hall. Lennon took some liberties with the Tara Browne story - he changed it so he "Blew his mind out in the car."
John Lennon stated this regarding the article about Tara Browne: "I didn't copy the accident. Tara didn't blow his mind out. But it was in my mind when I was writing that verse." At the time, Paul didn't realize the reference was to Tara. He thought it was about a "stoned politician." The article regarding the "4000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire" was taken from the UK Daily Express, January 17, 1967 in a column called "Far And Near."
John's friend Terry Doran was the one who completed John's line "Now they know how many holes it takes to fill..." Terry told him "fill the Albert Hall, John."

The part about "I love to turn you on" is not a sexual reference to a person. It's a comment in regarding how the media "love to turn on the public" with gossip, tragedies as it creates greed amongst the newspapers to sell more papers.

So basically they are writing a story of a day in a life of a Londoner.

[Love'sReject]

So it appears they nearly had decent social commentary...except they're hypocrites because their greed resulted in their whoring out their artistic integrity. Just look at Beatles merch.

A commendable effort for an otherwise sophomoric lyricist, though.

[IndiReloaded]

No. You have Michael Jackson to thank for that. They were naive hippies and got screwed over by the machine.

[Love'sReject]

Pray tell, how is MJ involved? I know he bought a few records or something.

[IndiReloaded]

Don't know Oasis?! One of the biggest bands of the 90s? Every girl plays "Wonderwall" after a breakup.

That song sucks. Sorry.

[IndiReloaded]

Pray tell, how is MJ involved? I know he bought a few records or something.

Sony Music now, I guess. Bloody thieves. How dare they do this when the original artists are still alive?

[Love'sReject]

That song sucks. Sorry.

"Champagne Supernova" is their best, both of which are off one of the 90s great albums.

[Love'sReject]

Sony Music now, I guess. Bloody thieves. How dare they do this when the original artists are still alive?

The Beatles were the biggest ho's even when they were all still alive: they were like the George Lucases of rock n roll, that they had no shame in attaching their names to such a capitalist cow is shocking.

[smackie9]

So it appears they nearly had decent social commentary...except they're hypocrites because their greed resulted in their whoring out their artistic integrity. Just look at Beatles merch.

A commendable effort for an otherwise sophomoric lyricist, though.

There's a difference between making money off the tragic misfortune of others vs making a fortune off your artistic ability.

[Love'sReject]

Yeah, but The Beatles were milking the cash cow way before they disbanded: The amount of half-assed merchandise they were pushing makes George Lucas look modest.

[smackie9]

I don't know why you are pinning them for it...Elvis and other artists were doing it long before the Beatles existed. Elvis merchandise sold more and so did his LPs.

[Love'sReject]

Good point. Somehow, I'm more fond of Elvis (then again, he wasn't pretentious like Lennon and he actually was better a singer, technically speaking). I think both are overrated but I could stand to listen to Elvis.

There are bands like Led Zeppelin who refuse to allow their names to be plastered over a ton of shoddy merchandise. I think Pink Floyd also refused to really sell out their name, too. Some bands were still colossal but didn't pander.