The Beatles

Regarding "She Loves You", John Lennon said in an interview in 1980:


Regarding "I Want To Hold Your Hand", Lennon said in a Septeraber 1980 interview with Playboy magazine (published in Deceraber of that year):


In 2007, Tirabo said:


Conclusion: Tirabo thought and "felt" wrong.
 
I'm not going to bother reading all that because boo boo is right, George Harrison is a much better guitarist and musician. You can go on about how McCartney played so many instruments on his albums but his albums aren't held in anywhere near the favor that All Things Must Pass or most Harrison albums are. You know you spend most of that post just naming lists they appeared on, you really is how little those things actually matter right?
 
On a technical level he may be better than Slash, but I prefer Slash's manic engergy to Harrison's careful strumming. He was by far the best guitarist in the Beatles though. I disagree that Harrison is a better player than Simon. Don't forget that Simon had to sing and play guitar, while Harrison(Mainly) just played. It's an entriely different type of guitar plaing , so it's hard to compare.
 
John Lennon *NEVER* said this garbage about Ringo's drumming! Go look up a great UK John Lennon fan site,You Are The Plastic Ono Band and read his Septeraber 1971 interview at the ST.Regis Hotel and John was asked what he thought about Ringo's drumming and he said that Jim Keltner is a little bit more technical but he feels that Ringo is still one of the best rock drummers! John used Ringo on his first brilliant solo album,John Lennon Plastic Ono Band and he could have gotten any other rock drummer and most would have jumped at the chance to play the drums on a John Lennon album! And Ringo's drumming is very good on this album just like it is on all of The Beatles albums!

John also said Ringo had the best back beat drumming in rock! And Ringo's drumming is great on an early Beatles song Thank You Girl especially at the end it's noticeable,and on Tomorrow Never Knows,Rain which he says is his best work,Strawberry FielRAB Forever,A Day In The Life which George Martin says it was Ringo's idea to use tom toms giving the song a unique percussion sound,which Phil Collins says is so complicated that he and no other drummer could repeat it! His druming is great on The White album and Abbey Road too including the End solo!

Also Ringo was the drummer for 5 years for the most successful Liverpool group at the time Rory Storm And The Hurricanes and The Beatles and George Martin wanted Pete Best out because he wasn't as good or experienced as Ringo and they wanted to make it big and go up not down so they got a very good successful drummer,Ringo Starr! Also Mark Lewisohn says in his excellent thorough detailed music diary of The Beatles, The Beatles Recording Sessions,where many of their recording engineers and tape operators were interviewed and it truly demonstrates just how creative,innovative and prolific THe Beatles were especially John and Paul,he says in all of the 100's of hours of session tapes,where John and Paul as the perfectionists they were would do everything over so many times,Ringo only made a few mistakes. Mark says Ringo's drumming was remarkably consistent and excellent from 1962-1970.
 
The Beatles are phenomenal. Abbey Road is my favorite without question. Whether or not it's their "greatest" is debatable. For me in terms of what I enjoy listening to it goes

Abbey Road
Sgt. Peppers
White Album
Help
Revolver
Let it Be
Magical Mystery Tour (American Version)
Please Please Me
Rubber Soul (although I get angry with this album, there are times I really appreciate it.)
Hard Day's Night
Beatles for Sale
With the Beatles
Yellow Submarine

And for the Record George Harrison had the best solo material of any of them.
 
The Beatles were innovative. While I agree that maybe early Beatles was pop trite their later material had so much going for it. They wrote what is probably the first hard rock song, they pushed a weird gimmick to its limits, they wrote some of the earliest concept albums, and they wrote Eleanor Rigby.

What did Tool do? Put good drumming behind nu-metal riffing and mixed it with bits of arabient? Yeah, lame. While I find Tool moderately enjoyable I can't stand Maynard's vocals or his lyrics, and I most certainly don't understand the hype.
 
Blackbird and Hide Your Love Away are two totally different perioRAB. It would be hard to tell you an album that would reflect those styles since they were on vastly different albums. I suggest Let it Be. You would love Across the Universe and most of the songs on that album. The White Album is always good, Sgt Pepper. All good.
 
I happen to like both , I just think the Stones are better.

I just think it's a shame that Beatles fans have to knock the Stones all the time just to prove the greatness of The Beatles ,when if they really were that great they wouldn't need to.
 
a lot of musicians have they're head up their ass. I thought it was to signify the whole stay at home and be yourself, screw going to work, be lazy if you want to type of thing. But i tend to interpret these things wrong.

I think he came off being more arrogant simply because they people who would interview him were biased, and mad that he wasn't the same guy he was in the beatles. And posing naked on photshoots didn't help

I personally listen to his solo stuff way more then i do the beatles.
 
:stupid::stupid::bonkhead::bonkhead: Stupid stupid Stupid thats what you are and everything you have said is! You are a total ignoramous and I'm done trying to get through to you or anybody else like you on here!
 
In My Life is forgettable. Norwegian Wood is easily their most overrated song.

I've Just Seen a Face was on the British version of Help! first, and is easily one of their best songs.
All the early albums had solid material, which I think Rubber Soul is mostly lacking (though I by no means dislike the album, which it probably comes across like)

If they had included Day Tripper and We Can Work It Out on the album, it'd probably be in my top 5
 
No, he actually did help with some of the songwriting, people need to get off the 'its cool to hate Ringo' train and realize he did contribute, and even if he didn't who cares? Most drummers don't write songs.
 
As far as influence goes, I really don't think that any band has really come greater than The Beatles.
Elvis maybe, since he was The Beatles main influence, and he influenced a lot of country.
 
George Harrison gets no love, in addition to being better solo than McCartney and Lennon he wrote alot of amazing songs with the Beatles. Here Comes the Sun? While My Guitar Gently Weeps? Something? I Me Mine? Taxman? Some of my favorite songs by them.
 
I put em right up there with these guys.
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"I'm Only Sleeping" is actually my favorite song on the album. I love George's backwarRAB guitar solo, and Paul's dotty bass sound is sort of a precursor to the style he used on Sgt. Pepper's.
 
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