Post new topic Reply to topic  Page 2 of 6
  [ 144 posts ] 

Board index : Music Talk : Rock/Pop

Go to page Previous  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6  Next

Print view

Previous topic :: Next topic 

Beatles or Beach Boys?
Beatles 85%  85%  [ 45 ]
Beach Boys 15%  15%  [ 8 ]
Total votes : 53
Author Message
Mick
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 2:05 pm 
Offline
Go Platinum

Joined: Sat Dec 04, 2004 1:39 am
Posts: 6365
Location: Australia
I love the Beatles, but i've liked them since forever, so i think it's a case of me getting a little tiny bit bored of them (I didn't really discover the Beach Boys till only a couple of years ago). I just love the Beach Boys' ironic attempt to create a perfect Utopian world in their music, Brian Wilson's endless pursuit of perfection and the representation of a perfect world that he never quite lived in.

I also think since it probably took longer for the Beach Boys influence to be felt, the Beatles' name has been sullied to me by many of their petty imitators.

Still, as a shallow teen surf band in their early years, i think the Beach Boys were much better than when the Beatles were a shallow brit pop band. There's very few early Beatles singles that i can stomach, whereas all the classic older Beach Boys singles still go down smooth for me, all sweetness and teenage optimism, in lyric and melody. Dennis was the only one that even surfed...

_________________
dances on all fours...

Last edited by Mick on Mon Oct 02, 2006 2:10 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Back to top
 Profile  
 
Cap'n Squirrgle
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 2:10 pm 
Offline
frostingspoon
User avatar

Joined: Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:59 pm
Posts: 24583
Location: On the gas and tappin' ass
The Beatles' skill and immense volume of work makes them a relatively obvious choice as #1 for most people. Thus, they are also an obvious target of backlash. It's extremely easy to take them for granted, so people do. I too am bored with them, but unlike some others I don't hold that against them. They did their part.

_________________
[quote="Bloor"]He's either done too much and should stay out of the economy, done too little because unemployment isn't 0%, is a dumb ingrate who wasn't ready for the job or a brilliant mastermind who has taken over all aspects of our lives and is transforming us into a Stalinist style penal economy where Christian Whites are fed into meat grinders. Very confusing[/quote]

Back to top
 Profile  
 
harry
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 2:19 pm 
Offline
Acid Grandfather
User avatar

Joined: Tue Jan 04, 2005 6:03 pm
Posts: 4144
Location: Santa Cruz, CA
Mick the Stripper Wrote:

Still, as a shallow teen surf band in their early years, i think the Beach Boys were much better than when the Beatles were a shallow brit pop band. There's very few early Beatles singles that i can stomach, whereas all the classic older Beach Boys singles still go down smooth for me, all sweetness and teenage optimism, in lyric and melody. Dennis was the only one that even surfed...


I kinda think the opposite... the later "baroque" Beatles started to lose that "back beat you can't lose it.." and much of that stuff is now unlistenable to me... some of the early and middle period are perfect pop. The early surf-music Beach Boys were pretty forgettable.. the later experiments were genious. To me.

_________________
Let's take a trip down Whittier Blvd.

Back to top
 Profile WWW 
 
paper
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 2:20 pm 
Offline
Go Platinum
User avatar

Joined: Wed Oct 27, 2004 5:48 pm
Posts: 8062
Location: yer ma
Prince of Darkness Wrote:
Dalen Wrote:
The Beatles over everyone.


And for so many reasons.
Back to top
 Profile WWW 
 
Kingfish
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 2:39 pm 
Offline
Go Platinum

Joined: Thu Mar 24, 2005 7:04 pm
Posts: 9783
Location: NOLA
Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:
The Beatles' skill and immense volume of work makes them a relatively obvious choice as #1 for most people. Thus, they are also an obvious target of backlash. It's extremely easy to take them for granted, so people do. I too am bored with them, but unlike some others I don't hold that against them. They did their part.


Sometimes I think I'm bored with them and then I put on one of their records and I'm like, "oh yeah, this is why they're better than eveyone else"

_________________
I tried to find somebody of that sort that I could like that nobody else did - because everybody would adopt his group, and his group would be _it_; someone weird like Captain Beefheart. It's no different now - people trying to outdo ! each other in extremes. There are people who like X, and there are people who say X are wimps; they like Black Flag.

Back to top
 Profile  
 
Radcliffe
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 2:45 pm 
Offline
frostingspoon
User avatar

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:31 pm
Posts: 12368
Location: last place I looked
Of the two, I'd probably enjoy NOT listening to the Beach Boys more.
Back to top
 Profile WWW 
 
Cap'n Squirrgle
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 2:45 pm 
Offline
frostingspoon
User avatar

Joined: Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:59 pm
Posts: 24583
Location: On the gas and tappin' ass
Old Kingfish Lee Wrote:
Sometimes I think I'm bored with them and then I put on one of their records and I'm like, "oh yeah, this is why they're better than eveyone else"


= my on-going plan as well. A little taste every once in awhile.

_________________
[quote="Bloor"]He's either done too much and should stay out of the economy, done too little because unemployment isn't 0%, is a dumb ingrate who wasn't ready for the job or a brilliant mastermind who has taken over all aspects of our lives and is transforming us into a Stalinist style penal economy where Christian Whites are fed into meat grinders. Very confusing[/quote]

Back to top
 Profile  
 
bort
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:33 pm 
Offline
Go Platinum
User avatar

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:09 pm
Posts: 6424
Location: not in the gift shop dept.
beatles

_________________
Everyone's Invited: Sunday evenings, 7-9pm ET at www.westcottradio.org
New and old mixes: http://8tracks.com/neutralmarkhotel
Occasional random music reviews: http://www.jerseybeat.com/markhughson.html
My Scooby Doo/Henry Rollins mash up: http://retintheran.blogspot.com

Back to top
 Profile WWW 
 
bort
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:34 pm 
Offline
Go Platinum
User avatar

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:09 pm
Posts: 6424
Location: not in the gift shop dept.
oh wait, is this poll about which band was better dressed or which band made better music? if it's which band made better music then it's the Beach Boys, obviously.

_________________
Everyone's Invited: Sunday evenings, 7-9pm ET at www.westcottradio.org
New and old mixes: http://8tracks.com/neutralmarkhotel
Occasional random music reviews: http://www.jerseybeat.com/markhughson.html
My Scooby Doo/Henry Rollins mash up: http://retintheran.blogspot.com

Back to top
 Profile WWW 
 
ayah
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 4:59 pm 
Offline
Go Platinum
User avatar

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:03 pm
Posts: 6402
harry Wrote:
1. Stones
2. Beatles
3. Who
4. U2
5. Kinks
6. Los Lobos
7. Replacements
8. Beach Boys
9. Cure
10. Wilco


where's the band?
Back to top
 Profile  
 
Radcliffe
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:25 pm 
Offline
frostingspoon
User avatar

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:31 pm
Posts: 12368
Location: last place I looked
ayah Wrote:
harry Wrote:
1. Stones
2. Beatles
3. Who
4. U2
5. Kinks
6. Los Lobos
7. Replacements
8. Beach Boys
9. Cure
10. Wilco


where's the band?

That's Harry's list - I'm just surprised Wilco got in there before Jobriath.
Back to top
 Profile WWW 
 
harry
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:39 pm 
Offline
Acid Grandfather
User avatar

Joined: Tue Jan 04, 2005 6:03 pm
Posts: 4144
Location: Santa Cruz, CA
Dude... even I had to look up Jobriath... you are so esoteric you are unintelligible. Is your point I am old or that I am an old fag who likes glam rock? Or that I recently posted about Brian Protheroe... in any case Jobriath is a single, not a band. A whole different list (and yes, yes, Dylan is #1).

The Band is number 18 on my list... Pavement # 11... Broken Social Scene # 12...

_________________
Let's take a trip down Whittier Blvd.

Back to top
 Profile WWW 
 
wenchlette
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:00 pm 
Offline
The Listerine Queen
User avatar

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:22 pm
Posts: 12677
Location: vermont
Uh, that'd be the Beatles, thanks.

_________________
i haven't heard of that

Back to top
 Profile YIM 
 
Z
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:16 pm 
Offline
Go Platinum

Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm
Posts: 7979
riyl?
Back to top
 Profile  
 
Prince of Darkness
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:22 pm 
Offline
frostingspoon
User avatar

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:41 am
Posts: 11048
Z Wrote:
riyl?


The Beatles

_________________
Flying Rabbit Wrote:
I don't eat it every morning, I do however, pull it out sometimes.

Back to top
 Profile  
 
Dalen
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:22 pm 
Offline
Natural Harvester
User avatar

Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm
Posts: 23083
Location: Portland, OR
alongwaltz Wrote:
Pretty much anyone over the Beatles.

Definitely Beach Boys and Stones. Hell, even the Monkees.


someone please ban this idiot.
Back to top
 Profile  
 
Dalen
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:24 pm 
Offline
Natural Harvester
User avatar

Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm
Posts: 23083
Location: Portland, OR
Mick the Stripper Wrote:
Still, as a shallow teen surf band in their early years, i think the Beach Boys were much better than when the Beatles were a shallow brit pop band


ban this kid as well.
Back to top
 Profile  
 
Prince of Darkness
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:26 pm 
Offline
frostingspoon
User avatar

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:41 am
Posts: 11048
hahahaha

_________________
Flying Rabbit Wrote:
I don't eat it every morning, I do however, pull it out sometimes.

Back to top
 Profile  
 
Elvis Fu
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:30 pm 
Offline
frostingspoon
User avatar

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:50 pm
Posts: 15260
Location: Raised on bread and bologna.
Dalen Wrote:
alongwaltz Wrote:
Pretty much anyone over the Beatles.

Definitely Beach Boys and Stones. Hell, even the Monkees.


someone please ban this idiot.


[img][376:500]http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/4124/handbn0.jpg[/img]

_________________
A poet and philosopher, Mr. Marcus is married and is a proud parent.

Back to top
 Profile  
 
rogneeb
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:30 pm 
Offline
frostingspoon

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm
Posts: 12618
lol - funny part is that fu had this as his computer background for the past 2 weeks.

_________________
dumpjack: "I haven't liked anything he's done so far, but I'll still listen."

Back to top
 Profile  
 
Elvis Fu
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:30 pm 
Offline
frostingspoon
User avatar

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:50 pm
Posts: 15260
Location: Raised on bread and bologna.
On second thought, just send that pic to Mark Foley, and everything will take care of itself.

_________________
A poet and philosopher, Mr. Marcus is married and is a proud parent.

Back to top
 Profile  
 
Elvis Fu
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:32 pm 
Offline
frostingspoon
User avatar

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:50 pm
Posts: 15260
Location: Raised on bread and bologna.
seventyfour Wrote:
lol - funny part is that fu had this as his computer background for the past 2 weeks.


Who the fuck are you?

_________________
A poet and philosopher, Mr. Marcus is married and is a proud parent.

Back to top
 Profile  
 
Kevllis
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:38 pm 
Offline
Street Teamer
User avatar

Joined: Fri Aug 04, 2006 9:47 pm
Posts: 28
Location: Vermont
How can you go against The Beatles?
Back to top
 Profile  
 
Dalen
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:42 pm 
Offline
Natural Harvester
User avatar

Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm
Posts: 23083
Location: Portland, OR
Brother Fouzone Wrote:
Dalen Wrote:
alongwaltz Wrote:
Pretty much anyone over the Beatles.

Definitely Beach Boys and Stones. Hell, even the Monkees.


someone please ban this idiot.


[img][376:500]http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/4124/handbn0.jpg[/img]


ImageImageImageImage
ImageImageImageImage
Back to top
 Profile  
 
shmoo
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 11:34 pm 
Offline
Go Platinum
User avatar

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:16 am
Posts: 5271
Location: Right behind you! Boo!
Preferring the Monkees to the Beatles is like preferring Blink 182 to Black Flag.

_________________
Half-insane and half-god

Back to top
 Profile  
 
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  Page 2 of 6
  [ 144 posts ] 

Board index : Music Talk : Rock/Pop

Go to page Previous  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6  Next

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 31 guests

You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum

Search for:
Jump to:  
Style by Midnight Phoenix & N.Design Studio
Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group.