Help! - The Beatles film Page 2

Quote: David Chapman @ October 28, 2007, 12:10 AM

You really can't say the Beatles were overrated.

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I certainly can. Or at very least, they are now.

Quote: David Chapman @ October 28, 2007, 12:10 AM

Granted half of Sgt Pepper is total crap but .......the other half is total genius and if it hadn't happened you'd get stuff like Aqua.

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I think that's a typo somewhere...?

The Beatles had a handful or truly good tracks. The rest, whilst yes, as Cinnamon says, were influential - but taken out of the 'groundbreaking' (ahem) context, are utter shite.

Quote: Aaron @ October 28, 2007, 11:36 AM

I certainly can. Or at very least, they are now.

I think that's a typo somewhere...?

The Beatles had a handful or truly good tracks. The rest, whilst yes, as Cinnamon says, were influential - but taken out of the 'groundbreaking' (ahem) context, are utter shite.

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Wow, I can only assume you haven't heard much of their stuff.

By the way, while we're on the subject, what does everyone think of The Rutles?

Quote: catskillz @ October 28, 2007, 6:52 PM

Wow, I can only assume you haven't heard much of their stuff.

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Enough to know it's not for me.

Quote: catskillz @ October 28, 2007, 6:52 PM

Wow, I can only assume you haven't heard much of their stuff.

By the way, while we're on the subject, what does everyone think of The Rutles?

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As if you hadn't guessed I've got the album and the video.

The Beatles?

Truly ground-breaking in so many areas, to the extent that the word should be 'revolutionary' even.

Iconic (they summed up the 60s in the same way Warhol's work did).

Massively commercial in the amount of people covering the songs, in terms of sales, chart positions, consistency in singles / albums placings over 8 years.

Few bands have metamorphosed into so many different (and strikingly different at that) phases. Who thought the Fab 4's Mersey Beat would spawn 'I am the Walrus' psychedelia or a metal 'Helter Skelter' 10 years before metal was born?

The most analysed band, in lyrics, musicology, and actions.

No other band has had such an impact on a whole generation, leading (often down blind alleys) and shaping public opinion on controversial areas.

Over-rated? Not rated enough.

They were not only a band but a cultural phenomenum that will possibly never be seen again.

And I have the Rutles too. A study in how musical parody can become an artform in itself.

Quote: SlagA @ October 29, 2007, 4:48 PM

They were not only a band but a cultural phenomenum that will possibly never be seen again.

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Someone has obviously never heard of Busted.

The only things that defined the eighties and nineties were Yuppies, Oasis and a hand eternally smashing the human head into a brick wall.

Quote: Leevil @ October 29, 2007, 4:54 PM

Someone has obviously never heard of Busted.

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Who?

Quote: Leevil @ October 29, 2007, 4:54 PM

Someone has obviously never heard of Busted.

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Quote: Leevil @ October 29, 2007, 4:54 PM

Someone has obviously never heard of Busted.

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Chris Langham has, he got busted.

Well it's just come out on DVD - "HELP" that is. It may even be the first time.