Haha sorry, I always think their careers were longer. Still, they didn't tour in 4 years, which is a long time by today's standards.

Yes indeed. Not touring these days would be career suicide.

[QUOTE=HighVoltageRockNRoll]That doesn't make you diverse, talented yes (not as much as the beatles), but diversity would depend on how many styles of music you actually play.[/QUOTE]
Jazz (including funk, cool jazz and fusion), blues, metal (including elements from '80s and '90s metal), rock ('90s mostly, but '60s/'70s too), classical (especially Bach-style Baroque stuff and Chopin/Rachmaninoff-influenced Romantic stuff) and pop (as far as songwriting is concerned). Anyway, I was talking about [i]instrumental[/i] diversity.

[QUOTE=HighVoltageRockNRoll]I'm not making a flamefest, just having a debate.[/QUOTE]
I know, I'm just ending this before it becomes one. I know it's not nice dissing a band in their thread.

But I respect you. You make valid points. :thumb:

i believe greatest is defined by size of impact and influence. Beatles have sold more than anyone else, therefore have the most influence (in theory i spose) and therefore are greatest. greatest isnt necessarily best.

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My band also consists of four people. I play guitar, piano and sax in the band, and do lead vocals. Bread (the Beatles fan) plays bass, piano, recorder and sax, and does the Frusciante backing falsetto thing. Johan does turntables and MCing. David plays drums and guitar and has a good singing voice too. So there, [B]a little high school band has just as much instrumental diversity/talent[/B] as the Beatles.


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Wow you're a cocky cu[B]n[/B]t
John Lennon- Guitar, Harmonica, Piano, Vocals.
Paul McCartney- Guitar, Bass, Drums, Piano, Vocals, Uke, Trumpet.
Ringo- Drums
George- Uke, Guitar, Sitar.
Their musical talent and diversity ****en out strips you in every way posible
how can you possibley compare your group to the beatles and say that you are just as instrumentally diverse and just as talented as they were?

you are wrong, its easy to say the beatles wernt the greatest rock band in history.. but if no-one has selled more records.. been more influencial and creative.. as well as been chasimatic who the **** is the greatest rock band in history?

[QUOTE=Sgt._Joker]who the **** is the greatest rock band in history?[/QUOTE]


No one, it's all about opinions, there can't be a best in music or any other thing that is artistic(painting etc) it's all opinions

[QUOTE=Sgt._Joker]Wow you're a cocky cu[B]n[/B]t
John Lennon- Guitar, Harmonica, Piano, Vocals.
Paul McCartney- Guitar, Bass, Drums, Piano, Vocals, Uke, Trumpet.
Ringo- Drums
George- Uke, Guitar, Sitar.
Their musical talent and diversity ****en out strips you in every way posible
how can you possibley compare your group to the beatles and say that you are just as instrumentally diverse and just as talented as they were?

you are wrong, its easy to say the beatles wernt the greatest rock band in history.. but if no-one has selled more records.. been more influencial and creative.. as well as been chasimatic who the **** is the greatest rock band in history?[/QUOTE]

:rolleyes: the flames have begun...suprisingly after the non flaming, clean debate.

[QUOTE=Seafroggys]Its awesome. I got it almost 6 years ago, and it has everything, from all the music from all the instruments, to tabs, to chord changes, etc. It is pretty small though, so they can fit like 10 staves on a page.[/QUOTE]

x2. I got it when i was 5, cause i thought it was a beatles biography. sat unused for 10 years till i learned to play guitar and i love it. the texts a little small since it has arangements for all the instruments, but its completely legible and understandable. get it you wont be sorry

Am I the only one who is a huge fan of Please Please Me? That's a really great album, all the songs are insanely catchy...and it closes with one of the best vocal performances from John ...Twist and Shout!

[QUOTE=Med57]My review of the album.[/QUOTE]

Good job.

It's chrismas, and I got, 3 beatle shirts, 7 beatle albums, Anthology disc one, Yellow submarine action figures adn yellow submarine playing cards. I'm so happy. :p

7 albums? Awesome. Please Please Me is a good album. The Beatles related things I got were The White Album, With The Beatles, Hard Day's Night, Help!, that Guitar World John Lennon magazine and a Revolver calendar. The only action figure I got was Slash, which looks awesome, haha.

I got Revolver and Magical Mystery Tour for Xmas, and the only other thing I asked for that was Beatles related was Yellow Submarine, so I'm pretty satisfied.

I finally have Revolver!! Hurray!!!

Revolver is so amazing. There is not a bad song on the album, seriously. I'm a big fan of MMT as well. I think you'll like them both.

Yeah I love MMT with a passion(already have it on vinyl but wanted a cd). But with the exception of a few songs, I don't know much of Revolver so with all that I've heard I'm really excited to listen to it.

I think that sometimes too, but then I come to my senses:p

Never heard of them.

I got Hard Day's Night for Christmas (the album, got the DVD three years ago for christmas)

so my Beatles collection as of right now on CD:

Anthology 1
Hard Day's Night
Help
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Sgt. Pepper's
Magical Mystery Tour
White Album
Yellow SUbmarine (the newer one)
Let it Be Naked
ABbey Road
1
6 CD set of a bootleg from a BBC radio program on The Beatles

All I need are Past Masters 1 and 2, Please Please Me, With the Beatles, and Beatles for Sale (I don't really care about getting the other anthologies) and I will have every Beatles song ever realeased.

EDIT: oh **** except for Real Love but I've downloaded that one already

What's the newer Yellow Submarine?

And I've never heard of Jellyfish either.

Oh okay. I have the newer one then.

What's some good songs by that band?

/searches jellyfish and expects to get nothing but spongebob related songs

MMT is denintly my fav Beatle album. So many great songs are on it (excluding Blue Jay Way, Flying and Baby your a rich man, never really liked any of those songs).

[QUOTE=Magical_Mystery_Tour]MMT is denintly my fav Beatle album. So many great songs are on it (excluding Blue Jay Way, Flying and Baby your a rich man, never really liked any of those songs).[/QUOTE]I never would have guessed that MMT was your favorite. I like those songs you mentioned.

I love the song blue jay way..."please don't be long, please don't you be very long"

Magical Mystery Tour is a fantastic album. Wow, 1967 was a dam[B]n[/B] good year for the Beatles, and music in general for that matter.

I thought that was 1969...

[QUOTE=leppermessiah]I thought that was 1969...[/QUOTE]Hah that would make sense. But wikipedia is probably right.

From Wiki:"(Some people mistakenly believe the Summer of Love was in 1969, perhaps because that was the year of Woodstock.)"

/some people:(

[QUOTE=clown_phobia]Yeah, definately. Did you know that when it was released some people thought it was harrison telling them to drop out of society! ("please don't belong") :lol:

it was actually about him waiting for someone.[/QUOTE]

Did they not listen to the line right after that "please don't you be very long" lol...that very ruins the belong idea.

What did they do for music? I know this is an extremely idiotic question, but I'm really not sure. I know they did SOMETHING, and I absolutely love listening to them, but I want to know what all of you think they did for music. Personally, I believe they were compositional geniuses, but that still leaves the question of what they did.

[QUOTE=Slight Return]What did they do for music? I know this is an extremely idiotic question, but I'm really not sure. I know they did SOMETHING, and I absolutely love listening to them, but I want to know what all of you think they did for music. Personally, I believe they were compositional geniuses, but that still leaves the question of what they did.[/QUOTE]
For the music industry? Well they were the first band to do many things in the studio and try new things, they were one of the first bands to be open about drugs which helped psychedelic music become popular and paved the way a lot of bands. They made the music scene do a 360 and sorta start leading away from the Hermins Hermits and other bands of that sort and more in the direction of rock and roll written and performed by the bands. And of course they were the first band from the 60's to 'conquer' America which lead to other bands.

What Med said may not seem like too much different then now, but in the early 60s was an astronomical difference in the way music was created. I believe of all the great points Med pointed out, the studio experimentation was the biggest.

Before then, and the Beatles themselves showed it pre Rrevolver, All bands had one uniform outlook of who they were and what songs they made. Every song was pretty much the same structure, lyrical outlook, and style. Though this may not be 100% true, It generally stood as a conception of music of that era. When The Beatles took there songs, and changed the whole way they were developed, and even through crazy effects in there to develop a fuller more meaningful construction to each one, it was amazing, though some may view this at the time as Satanic (Revolution 9 anyone?). The 60s were a time of change and the Beatles are largely responsible for the start of it. When the Who were homewrecking punks, Stones were mind polluters, Led Zeppelin were Satan Worshippers, the Beatles stood out with there unending proggresive songwriting skills to break away from all that was right in 60s music and pave for everything to come.

Might not seem like much to do, but for the era they exsisted they did a damn good job