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Solo john lennon is boring. beatles are not. u fuckers are forgetting yr roots.
ya the beatles were a boy band as far as the lyrics go, when they first started...but who gives a shit? yeah almost every song on please please me uses the same words, but who gives a shit?
Some of those songs are pop masterpieces, blending buddy holly and motown.
You can't fuck with Anna.
and personally, I like Please Please Me better than SGT Peppers.
I dunno, personally I feel the same way about the beatles as I do with sonic youth.
When I first heard them I wasn't too impressed, then started listening on my own, fell in love with them, tried to study their catalogue best I could (moreso with beatles than sy) and learned all their songs, studied their song structures, harmonies, melodies, solos, etc. put them on a pedastol and they became my fav band for a few years each...
but with everything, you reach a certain point when u realize not everything they do is gold, some of their stuff sucks, and sometimes YOU have written a better song than the idol you are trying to channel.
Kill yr idols, ya know?
Doesn't mean their work was overrated, or short of genius, and can't be enjoyed. I feel like aspects of the beatles and sonic youth were UNDERRATED. The Beatles were not a bunch of boy band pussies and Sonic Youth arent a bunch of assholes. Ringo was in one of Liverpool's biggest knife gangs for fuck sake, they were the first pop band to start doing heavy heavy drugs and incoorperate it's affects in their music...and still sell tons of records...
Get fucked if you don't agree with everything I've just said.
I'm serious :-)
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