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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
How many Nirvana songs are hummed by the average music listener? Two? Three? and of course one is the boring as fuck Heart Shaped Box....
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What is funny, is I hardly ever listen to the radio, and even then every time I randomly have a radio on its more likely to have a Nirvana song playing than a Beatles song. Interesting
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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
The Beatles, like I said earlier, influenced how people saw rockers, how rock music could be a creative ART, and the expectation that a band should write all their songs. NEW SONGS.
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AGAIN, THIS WAS NEVER IN DISPUTE. My argument is that bands in the mid-1960s weren't trying exactly to
sound like Beatles records. Further, nobody here as supported their claims with substantive rather than anecdotal evidence (i.e. a list of bands from the 1960s mainstream that
sounded like Beatles copy-cats the way dozens of bands like Bush tried to sound like Nirvana
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In terms of influence on the entire musical spectrum of the last 50 years? come on, MAN.
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THAT WAS NEVER WHAT THE FUCK I WAS TALKING ABOUT. I SAID BANDS CONTEMPORARY TO THE BEATLES WEREN'T TRYING TO SOUND LIKE THE BEATLES. I mentioned nothing about their massive influence
after the 1960s..
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Originally Posted by evollove
This is just fucking stupid. I whistle Beatle's tunes in the shower, not their image.
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That is great and all, but I didn't realize
you played in a band in the 1960s, which was what
I was talking about. The musical influence of the Beatles on early-to-mid-1960s bands, and again, it was mostly image not sound. Bands didn't all sound like the Beatles, but plenty tried their best to look like them
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Regardless of how you personally feel about the Beatles, you must admit there have been literally billions of people in the world who have felt otherwise. Some of them started a band. (One of those people was Kurt Cobain.)
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(a) Did you actually read what I posted? I precisely said that the influence of the Beatles was to inspired so many bands to form and start bands. However, there is a world of difference between being inspired to start a band and being inspired to sound like a band.
(b) I was talking about bands contemporary to the early Beatles, you're talking about EVERY band since the Beatles and that was not what I was saying at all. Yes, of course many bands have been influenced after the Beatles, but I was talking about the musical (i.e. instrumentation) influence on the sound of the 1960s, and simply put, from 1964-1968 I can't think of even a handful of mainstream bands that
sounded like the Beatles.
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The influence of the Beatles musically and culturally is massive, and I don't know how I got suckered into responding to something so stupid. Must be bored.
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Maybe next time you should read more carefully before totally trash talking me and being a total prick about it
