Sir-Ex

In my case it doesn't matter, cuz I'm gay for Ringo.


What, ringo wasn't even in the poll. The poll should have had all the Beatles.

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Smile

Ditch the cigs!!!!!!

hijabihippie

None of the Beatles were gay, to the best of my knowledge.

kitch

AHHH ASIAN LONGHORN!

call up the EPA!

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Purd Hupley

George. "My Guitar Gently Weeps" trumps it all. He quietly perfected his craft. Plus he just about killed that guy that broke into his house a year or so before he died. Major kudos for that.

Ringo was just along for the ride. Musically the weakest Beatle. But he made the most of it.

Paul. Well, Paul wrote great poppy, hooky songs.

John was a pretentious, self absorbed ass. He wrote nice litle songs at first, but the post- Beatle stuff was mostly garbage. The avant guarde stuff was terrible, but the more commercial stuff, like his stuff with Harry Nillson was pretty listenable.

I was watching a documentary about the Manson murders a few days ago, and they focused a bit on the White Album. It made me wonder about how many other acts managed to go from one extreme to another in such a short time and still stay relevant. I mean, from "She Loves You" (which is an incredible pop song) to the White Album and beyond. I mean, that was just a huge leap of styles in less than a decade. And through it all, they were the biggest band in the world. Hell, they were the biggest band in the when they broke up. I just can't think of any other act like that.

Tim

I liked George too.

Bearsy

If I quote this quote of a quote will that cause a singularity?!

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PhishDude

yup either him or John. I like Yoko's music.

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Waves

They all have their merits and it was the sum of all their strengths that led to the formation of the greatest band of all time

When it comes to creativity and originality john is miles ahead of anyone else. still today even, the guy was that ahead of his time. you can see how far ahead he was from paul in especially the later stuff. compare 'i want you (shes so heavy) with say, "long and winding road" (paul song). paul is singing traditional piano melodies at the end of their career while john is writing these epic rock songs that were years ahead of their time. fuckin 'i dig a pony' bitches.

Paul was a god on bass and changed the way bass worked in rock music for the most part. but his compositional skills were more traditional and less original than johns. this is best exemplified in that one song where he sings "i like that kind of music" over a really old fashioned sounding melody. john used to actually make fun of him for what he perceived as a stale musical taste and approach. but it was their sense of competition between them that led to such great music. Paul was also a better singer than John, who was not confident in his voice throughout the beatles career.

Anyway, George didnt know shit but had an amazing amount of natural talent and potential. Everything he learned he picked up from being around the greatest songwriting team in history. that shit tends to rub off. add his talent to that and you can see how he made such great music post-beatles. and even the shit he wrote with the guys, while my guitar gently weeps, etc, is amazing. he just had the unfortunate circumstance of having to compete with john n paul.

fuckin ringo is just a jackoff they hired from some band they saw so he could keep time and play the basic rock riffs and maybe some special indian-sounding shit every once in awhile. he doesnt write his own music and is overall just in it for the paycheck.

And yes, i went to beatles college and got the PHD.

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drilla

ok who's idea was sgt pepper? paul's? case closed!

Waves

wrong. lsd came up with sgt pepper.

:P

naw i will give paul that one, but 'magical mystery tour' was by far the worst beatles move/venture/album and he was also at the helm of that whacky shit.

makes me wonder about how well sgt pepper would have done if it werent made at the height of the psychedelic era. i wonder if the fact that everyone was on acid has anything to do with people seeing that as the greatest album of all time.

or maybe it was just some of john's best songwriting ever that did it. i mean do people remember 'when im 64' or do they remember 'a day in the life?'

i could talk about beatles forever i should stop

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drilla

one thing still stands, paul had a douche bag upper lip growth for the sgt pepper cover.

Waves

i think this is one of the best beatles photos/photosets ever too

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drilla

so THAT is how it got started being called a left handed cigarette!!!

HTAM

Look at that. Sir Ex looks a little like Paul McCartney, maybe?

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Man in Black

page and McCartney's mutant offspring

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farmergiles

The Beatles wouldn't have been up to much without Lennon and McCartney.

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Bearsy

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Man in Black

lol andy warhol

edit- yoko looks like the only frigid one in this pic, she's barely touching andy's knee but andy and john both got a fucking handful

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Waves

john went off the deep end with yoko for sure

what the fuck was he thinking

he made, and still is making, the entire world go "wtf dude?"

my only explanation is the dude took wayyyy too much acid. he said he took like 1000 trips from 66-69 or some gigantic number like that

he clearly had mom issues, his mom pretty much abandoned him as a youngster and then died when he was a teen, got hit by a car outside their home

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Grieves

Not to mention the scene was full of cocaine and heroin, which i think had a bigger impact during those years than the lsd....Makes sense, seeming as though they never came out of bedrooms while making terrible racket in their drug stupors...

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