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27 February 2017
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sir walter raleigh said
I’m currently wrestling with a dilemma. I might like Bob Dylan more than the Beatles. What do I do?
I wouldn’t call it a dilemma, I mean what does ‘favourite musician’ mean after all? It’s not as if one gives one’s favourite band a vow to always remain loyal or whatever. For me, and I think it’s actually the case for most people, musical preference comes and goes in phases. One time you have a Beatles phase than you have a Dylan phase, a Pink Floyd phase, a Beethoven phase, a Justin Bieber phase,… it’s fluent like everything in life and sometimes a bit of distance is even beneficial in the end to see things from a new perspective. I admit I’ve had some weeks this year in which I just didn’t feel like listening to Beatles and obsessed over Pink Floyd instead. But each time, when I returned to the Beatles sometime later, I had felt that I could appreciate them from yet another perspective now that I have discovered other things and my love for the Beatles had even grown.
All I’m trying to say is, the music is there for YOU not you for the music, so onto your question: what do you do? Just listen to the music you feel like listening to the most and don’t feel guilty about the things you enjoy – even if it’s not the Beatles you enjoy most. It’s not a competition. And besides, even when the Beatles are your second-favourite band, I’m sure you’re still a bigger Beatlemaniac than many, many fans out there – and that’s neither good nor bad, that’s merely a fact.
Currently, Led Zeppelin has jumped onto my number two, Pink Floyd follows on the third place, and Jimi Hendrix on the fourth position. Beatles are still my number one.
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@Martha, thou hast stolen my words
I admit I’ve had some weeks this year in which I just didn’t feel like listening to Beatles and obsessed over Pink Floyd instead. But each time, when I returned to the Beatles sometime later, I had felt that I could appreciate them from yet another perspective now that I have discovered other things and my love for the Beatles had even grown.
I admit this has happened to me a good deal as well. And possibly Led Zeppelin too, although, while I have a Whole Lotta Love for Led Zepp, I don’t think it quite approaches my adoration for either the Beatles or Pink Floyd… but it’s pretty darn close.
Anyway, @sir walter raleigh I understand if you feel a bit guilty or disloyal about loving Dylan more than the Beatles, I’ve gone through such phases as well with Pink Floyd. I was in denial for ages and ages before I could even allow them to tie with the Fabs. But it’s okay. As long as you love the Beatles, it really doesn’t matter whether you’re wrong you’re right where you belong you’re right where you belong.
The Beatles would approve, anyway; they were all massive Dylan fans, as I’m sure you know! 
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10.20am
26 January 2017
Offline Inspired by a post made by @vonbontee in this thread’s days of yore, here’s an A-Z list of favourites.
Aphex Twin, or American Football, or A Tribe Called Quest … or Against Me!… This is going to be hard, isn’t it 
Beatles (obviously), Beach Boys , Big Star, Big Thief, Björk, Boards of Canada, Bob Dylan
Car Seat Headrest, Carly Rae Jepsen, Charles Mingus, Chet Baker, Cocteau Twins
D’Angelo, David Bowie, Dead Kennedys, Death Grips, Digable Planets
Elliott Smith, Explosions In The Sky, Elvis Presley
Father John Misty, Fishmans, Flying Lotus, Fontaines DC, Frank Ocean, Frank Zappa
Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Gregory Alan Isakov, Grouper
Haruomi Hosono, Herbie Hancock, Hermit and the Recluse
Idles, Irreversible Entanglements, Iggy Pop
Janelle Monae, John Coltrane, Jeff Buckley, Jesus and Mary Chain, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Joy Division, Julia Holter
Kamasi Washington, Kendrick Lamar, Kacey Musgraves, Kero Kero Bonito, Kanye West, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk, King Crimson
LCD Soundsystem, Led Zeppelin, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, Low
Mac DeMarco, Massive Attack, Mount Eerie, The Microphones, Miles Davis, My Bloody Valentine
Nas, NWA, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Order, Nick Drake, Nico, Nina Simone, Nujabes
Ornette Coleman, OutKast, Oasis, O Paon
Panda Bear, Parquet Courts, Paramore, Pasteboard, Pat Metheny, Patti Smith, Pink Floyd, Portishead, Pixies
Queen, The Quarrymen
Radiohead, The Ramones, Ray Charles, Rolling Stones
Sigur Ros, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sleater Kinney, Slowdive, Smashing Pumpkins, The Smiths, Sonic Youth, SOPHIE, Stone Roses, Sufjan Stevens, Sun Kil Moon, Sun Ra, Swans
Talk Talk, Talking Heads, Theolonious Monk, Tom Waits, Tracy Chapman, Tyler The Creator
U2, US Girls, The Undertones, The United States of America, Uyama Hiroto
Vampire Weekend, Velvet Underground, Violent Femmes,
Wes Montgomery, Weyes Blood, Wilco, The Who, Wire
Xiu Xiu, XTC, The XX
Yellow Magic Orchestra, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yes
Zombies
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I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
1.22pm
26 January 2017
Offline I’ll do an A-Z. Looks fun. Leaving out Beatles and Dylan related as well as Zeppelin Stones and The Who to make it more interesting.
Allman Brothers
Beach Boys
CSN
Dire Straits
Elton John
Fleetwood Mac
Grateful Dead
Harry Nilsson
Indigo Girls
J is too hard to choose
King Crimson
Little Feat
The Meters
Neil Young
Outkast
P is too difficult to choose so many all time greats
The Quarrymen (anything but Queen)
R.E.M
Simon and Garfunkel
Tom Petty
Van Morrison
Widespread Panic
Yo Yo Ma
Zombies
.38 Special
the best letters are B J and P
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Haha I thought you’d’ve said Phish for P!
I’ve found that B, M, and S are where the most treasures are.
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
3.03pm
26 January 2017
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Haha I thought you’d’ve said Phish for P!I’ve found that B, M, and S are where the most treasures are.
Wouldve loved to pick Phish but they’re competing with all of the Petes and Pauls as well as Pink Floyd
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3.08pm
26 January 2017
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Haha I thought you’d’ve said Phish for P!I’ve found that B, M, and S are where the most treasures are.
B, K, J and S for me
I've been up on the mountain, and I've seen his wondrous grace,
I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
3.22pm
1 December 2009
Offline But you anarchists are taking inviduals’ first names!
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
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15 November 2018
Offline *looks at thread title* Yes.
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6 May 2018
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*looks at thread title* Yes.
Agreed! 
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6.18pm
26 January 2017
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But you anarchists are taking individuals’ first names!
Guilty as charged, but at least I didn’t put all ‘The Plurals’ type bands under T.
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I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
6.16pm
28 April 2019
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YEEEEEEEEEEEES
EDIT: I just saw @50yearslate ‘s post. Great minds think alike!
just kidding I’m not a great mind 🙂
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Offline Don’t sell yourself short @ThatWeirdBeatlesGirl! I’ve seen your YouTube channel 
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28 April 2019
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Offline 50yearslate said
*looks at thread title* Yes.
A big yes. I like other musicians but the Fabs are immovable at the top.
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Offline @QuarryMan What a fantastic array of bands/artists you’ve chosen there.
Limiting myself to bands/artists where I own at least two studio albums (otherwise I’d be here forever). Also, blame iTunes for solo artists being under their first name
A – Aberfeldy, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Aretha Frankin, Athlete.
B – The Band, Bat For Lashes, The Beastie Boys , The Beatles, The Beautiful South, Belle & Sebastian, Ben Kweller, Bill Ryder-Jones, Bjork, Blur, Boards of Canada, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Brian Eno, British Sea Power, Broken Records, Bruce Springsteen, The Buzzcocks.
C – Camera Obscura, Charles Mingus, Christine & The Queens, The Clash, Cocteau Twins, Coldplay, The Coral, Courtney Barnett, Crosby Stills and Nash (and Young), The Cure.
D – Daft Punk, David Bowie, The Decemberists, Devon Sproule, Dexys Midnight Runners, The Divine Comedy, The Doors, Doves, The Duckworth Lewis Method, Dusty Springfield.
E – Echo and The Bunnymen, Editors, Eels, Elbow, Elvis Costello, Eminem, Everything Everything.
F – Fairport Convention, Father John Misty, Field Music, A Fine Frenzy, The Flaming Lips, Fleet Foxes, Fleetwood Mac, Florence & The Machine, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Frank Sinatra, Frank Turner, Franz Ferdinand, Funkadelic.
G – Girls Aloud, Goldheart Assembly, Grinderman.
H – Haim, Half Man Half Biscuit, Hefner, Hole, Hot Chip, Hot Club de Paris, The Housemartins.
I – Iggy Pop
J – The Jam, Janelle Monae, Jay-Z, The Jesus and Mary Chain, John Grant, John Lennon , John Martyn, Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchell, Joy Division.
K – k.d. Lang, Kanye West, Karine Polwart, Kate Bush, Kendrick Lamar, King Creosote, The Kinks, Kraftwerk, KT Tunstall.
L – The Last Shadow Puppets, Laura Marling, Led Zeppelin, The Leisure Society, Leonard Cohen, The Libertines, Lily Allen, Lou Reed, Low Anthem, Lykke Li.
M – Madonna, Manic Street Preachers, Marvin Gaye, Maximo Park, Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Muse, My Latest Novel.
I’ll save N to Z for another time.
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26 January 2017
Offline A great list there too There are quite a few who I’d love to hear more from, particularly Daft Punk and Lykke Li.
I've been up on the mountain, and I've seen his wondrous grace,
I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
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14 December 2009
Offline Great great names up there, always nice to see love for Buzzcocks and Mingus and the United States of America – but you know you guys are supposed to choose one per letter, right?
(Beatles = favourite among favourites)
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4.26am
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Offline The Beatles are not just my favourite band, but my favourite outlook on life. Beatles fans emulate the Fabs either consciously or subconsciously.
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