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IveJustSeenAFaceo said

ivaughan said
IveJustSeenAFaceo said

 

 No, not the biggest folk fan. No, haven’t heard much of his music. 

This is why overrated/underrated discussions are so frustrating. Imagine talking to someone who wrote off the Beatles as underrated because they heard “She Loves You ,” “I Want To Hold Your Hand ,” and “From Me To You ” and said that all their songs sounded the same and that they simply wrote trivial pop songs for teenyboppers.

I see your point.

.From Me To You ,and especially She Loves You and I Want To Hold Your Hand were praised by some music critics even from the beginning,like William Mann of The London Times in December 1963 pointed out their interesting unusual chords and arrangements and London Times music critic Richard Buckle also in late 1963 called John and Paul the greatest composers since Beethoven after they wrote the music for a play Mods and Rockers. 

meanmistermustard said
Personally i think Queen needed Freddie far more than Brian but the other 3 were very muc…

 

Actually forget that, Queen needed all 4. Freddie had such charisma, not only with the press but with the audience whereas John Deacon was an incredible bass player and provided such amazing ideas and contributions to their songs.  Very underrated. And look at them now, well Brian and Roger, crapping all over their name with all that rubbish Queen + nonsense with shitty guest vocalists. 

Call the act something else and leave the Queen brand alone. The fans will turn up with Brian and Roger there so why not.

I meant to thank only Billy Rhythm for what he said about Led Zeppelin.

IveJustSeenAFaceo said
I was just coming over to mention The Rolling Stones. I can’t listen to their music, except for Gimme Shelter, which is the only one I’ve heard that I liked. They don’t sound good, and Jagger’s voice is just awful.

I don’t like The Rolling Stones that much,but I don’t dislike them either and Mick Jagger’s voice wasn’t great but he didn’t have a bad voice like Tom Petty,or worst Bruce Springsteen,and awful screaming,sreaching most of the time Robert Plant ( and at least he sang and sang good most of the time and didn’t scream etc like dreadful Robert Plant),and his voice was even better than Bob Dylan’s whose voice I can tolerate.

Since several members have included some solo artists I have to add this,

Randie said

IveJustSeenAFaceo said

ivaughan said
IveJustSeenAFaceo said

 

 No, not the biggest folk fan. No, haven’t heard much of his music. 

This is why overrated/underrated discussions are so frustrating. Imagine talking to someone who wrote off the Beatles as underrated because they heard “She Loves You ,” “I Want To Hold Your Hand ,” and “From Me To You ” and said that all their songs sounded the same and that they simply wrote trivial pop songs for teenyboppers.

I see your point.

.From Me To You ,and especially She Loves You and I Want To Hold Your Hand were praised by some music critics even from the beginning,like William Mann of The London Times in December 1963 pointed out their interesting unusual chords and arrangements and London Times music critic Richard Buckle also in late 1963 called John and Paul the greatest composers since Beethoven after they wrote the music for a play Mods and Rockers. 

Bob Dylan ,Roger McGuinn of The Byrds and music critic William Mann of The London Times as early as 1963 and 1964 pointed out that even in early Beatles songs like She Loves You and I Want To Hold Your Hand had unusual and interesting chords and they arranged them. Roger McGuinn has said that he started to play a 12 string guitar after he saw and heard George Harrison playing in in the A Hard Day’s Night movie.

 

 And John and Paul wrote one of The Rolling Stones first hits the rock n roll song, I Wanna Be Your Man in late 1963 right in front of them. And Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were impressed and said wow,how can you write a song just like that and it inspired them to start writing their own songs. 

John Lennon and Paul McCartney were such amazingly talented singer song writers that they were already writing hit songs for other artists as early as 1963 when their own song writing success was getting Off The Ground ,besides The Rolling Stones,they also wrote hit songs in 1963 for Billy J.Krammer and The Dakatos,Celia Black,and Peter and Gordon etc. 

Paul wrote his first song at age 14 and was playing guitar,John wrote heavy deep poetry but didn’t start writing songs until he met Paul and was impressed that he wrote his own songs,and he too started to write his own songs at age 17,and they wrote together and never stopped from then on.Paul wrote the very pretty song I’ll Follow The Sun at only 16.Even when The Beatles first came to America in February 1964 many people said how rare it was for *adult* rock n roll bands and solo artists to write their own songs,and Paul and John were already doing this as teenagers in the mid 1950’s.

 

And even though I wasn’t born yet in 1963  I  know what type of music was popular on the radio,non rock n roll songs like Bobby Vinton,The Four Seasons,Bobby Darin and The Beach Boys surfing hits,The early Beatles songs like She Loves You ,I Want To Hold Your Hand and I Saw Her Standing There etc were hard rock for 1963 and ahead of their time.

Also, as I’m sure most of you already know,The Beatles revolutionized popular and rock music and were very innovative,prolific and creative,more than any other group. And their great timeless songs are the most covered in music history by everyone from jazz musicians,classical,Motown,rock,pop and even heavy metal recording and playing their great timeless music.