Biggest Beatles shocker: Never won top Grammy for best record

[Avatard]

http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2009/09/the-beatles-rock-band-music-entertainment-news-video-game.html

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[goof2]

It doesn't really surprise me. The Grammys aren't exactly on the cutting edge. I think the bigger shocker with the Grammys and the best record category is that no rap song has ever won, unless Beat It is thrown in, which I don't think it should be.

[karl_1052]

the bigger shocker with the Grammys and the best record category is that no rap song has ever won

That is because the Grammys award music.

[tommymac]

Lets not forget the whole jethro tull thing with metallica as well. Besides all these awards are a crock of shit anyway since there are so many of them whats any of it mean aside from higher record sales for the winners.

Tom

[Yamerhaw]

IMO the beatles suck, except for Hey Jude

[Homeslice]

That is because the Grammys award music.

:lol:

[Apoc]

IMO the beatles suck, except for Hey Jude

You say the greatest band of all time, sucks. Then you pick one of the worse songs they ever wrote and call it good...

:lol

[Yamerhaw]

You say the greatest band of all time, sucks. Then you pick one of the worse songs they ever wrote and call it good...

:lol


maybe the greatest at sucking, honestly about the gayest shit i've ever heard, but that's just my opinion, you can love them if you wanna :lol

[Dave]

You say the greatest band of all time, sucks. Then you pick one of the worse songs they ever wrote and call it good...

:lol

uh how? i like them and all but they really arent very special. hell none of them even have much in the way of a vocal range. except maybe paul and hes the only one i thought had any real talent

[Apoc]

uh how? i like them and all but they really arent very special. hell none of them even have much in the way of a vocal range. except maybe paul and hes the only one i thought had any real talent

Their personal abilities were unimportant, together they made the best albums of all time (magical mystery tour, white, Sgt. Peppers), along with tons of single hits on other albums (help, hard days night, a little help from my friends, glass onion, get back, Helter Skelter, I can go on and on with em).

Best rock band ever.

I suspect all Yamerhaw has heard of them is I wanna hold your hand, love me do, and other gay shit they wrote before they got into heavy drugs. Which is what most people think of when they hear the name The Beatles. But thats the smallest part of the music they made, and far from the reason they were so great.

Like the pedophile (dont mistake with PDF file) MJ, they changed the face of the genre they chose. There has been no one bigger since.

[was92v]

In context, listen to any of the music that was popular in the same time frame. There was a lot of good music then as now. Warm up with some "Hits" from 65', maybe toss a few Beach Boys in there, some Stones, Yardbirds, Johnny Rivers ect.. then pop on your headphones and listen to Rubber Soul (1965) and you will immediately figure it out. Pick any year going forward til they quit in 69' and the results will be the same. Although if you think they suck anyway, why waste the time?

[Dave]

Their personal abilities were unimportant, together they made the best albums of all time (magical mystery tour, white, Sgt. Peppers), along with tons of single hits on other albums (help, hard days night, a little help from my friends, glass onion, get back, Helter Skelter, I can go on and on with em).

Best rock band ever.

I suspect all Yamerhaw has heard of them is I wanna hold your hand, love me do, and other gay shit they wrote before they got into heavy drugs. Which is what most people think of when they hear the name The Beatles. But thats the smallest part of the music they made, and far from the reason they were so great.

Like the pedophile (dont mistake with PDF file) MJ, they changed the face of the genre they chose. There has been no one bigger since.

In context, listen to any of the music that was popular in the same time frame. There was a lot of good music then as now. Warm up with some "Hits" from 65', maybe toss a few Beach Boys in there, some Stones, Yardbirds, Johnny Rivers ect.. then pop on your headphones and listen to Rubber Soul (1965) and you will immediately figure it out. Pick any year going forward til they quit in 69' and the results will be the same. Although if you think they suck anyway, why waste the time?

if your kid graduates high school with a straight C average and all the other kids got F's that doesnt make him valedictorian ;)

buddy holly influenced the shit out of the rock genre and he only had four years to do it

[Homeslice]

In context, listen to any of the music that was popular in the same time frame. There was a lot of good music then as now. Warm up with some "Hits" from 65', maybe toss a few Beach Boys in there, some Stones, Yardbirds, Johnny Rivers ect.. then pop on your headphones and listen to Rubber Soul (1965) and you will immediately figure it out. Pick any year going forward til they quit in 69' and the results will be the same. Although if you think they suck anyway, why waste the time?

Now flash forward 10-15 years and see if they can stand up to the raw talent of groups like Styx, Queen, Kansas, Blue Oyster Cult, or Deep Purple?

Jigga please.

Impact, sure. Talent? Not the best by any stretch of the imagination.

[Dave]

Now flash forward 10-15 years and see if they can stand up to groups like Styx, Queen, Kansas, Blue Oyster Cult, or Deep Purple?

Jigga please.

see? we started this morning at odds and by the end of the day we're full circle :lol:

[Homeslice]

see? we started this morning at odds and by the end of the day we're full circle :lol:

Now how about that gay-ass Honda :lol

[Dave]

Now how about that gay-ass Honda :lol

gay like that 929 in your moto slot? ;)

[Homeslice]

gay like that 929 in your moto slot? ;)

Yours and mine were made b4 honda went off the deep end with their styling

[Dave]

Yours and mine were made b4 honda went off the deep end with their styling

ahh, granted. yes id agree that the baba blades > any others.

at least in looks anyway

[was92v]

Now flash forward 10-15 years and see if they can stand up to the raw talent of groups like Styx, Queen, Kansas, Chicago, Blue Oyster Cult, or Deep Purple?

Jigga please.

Impact, sure. Talent? Not the best at all.

I wonder how the members of those bands would answer that question?

[Homeslice]

I wonder how the members of those bands would answer that question?

They would probably say they were heavily influenced by the Beatles, sure.......But if they tried to say the Beatles were better than them, then it would just be false modesty IMO.

[askmrjesus]

Now flash forward 10-15 years and see if they can stand up to the raw talent of groups like Styx, Queen, Kansas, Blue Oyster Cult, or Deep Purple?

Jigga please.

Impact, sure. Talent? Not the best by any stretch of the imagination.

I'm no BeatleManiac, but for fuck sakes, Styx? Kansas? Over produced, formulaic, big hair, stadium rock pablum. The Beatles B sides were better than anything those bands ever put out.

It's a good thing you know fashion, because your taste in music blows hairy chunks of dick.

I do, of course, mean that in the kindest way possible.

Styx.

Kansas.

Bwahahahaha. :lol:

JC

[Homeslice]

Over-produced? Stadium rock? No shit, that was what 80% of bands were back then! Tell me something I don't know.

So then what did you listen to in those years? John Denver? :lmao:

[askmrjesus]

Over-produced? Stadium rock? No shit, that was what 80% of bands were back then! Tell me something I don't know.

So then what did you listen to in those years? John Denver? :lmao:

The other 20%.

The Clash, Zappa, Zevon, Black Flag, Jeff Beck- basically anything they wouldn't play on commercial radio.

JC

[Apoc]

The other 20%.

The Clash, Zappa, Zevon, Black Flag, Jeff Beck- basically anything they wouldn't play on commercial radio.

JC

Smart man, this one. Just dont tell anyone I said so.

[Homeslice]

The other 20%.

The Clash, Zappa, Zevon, Black Flag, Jeff Beck- basically anything they wouldn't play on commercial radio.

JC

Uh, when didn't they play that stuff on commercial radio? I remembered all of that stuff being on the air in the early 80's.

[Dave]

his home stations must have sucked

[Apoc]

well, I dont remember much of the 80's (not because i was stoned, I was a child, born in 81, its the late 90's on that I lost to drugs), but I dont remember a lot of anything that wasnt metallica or mainstream metal and hair bands on the radio.

Then came MC Hammer, Vanilla Ice, and other great flavors of the 90's :lol

[Avatard]

I do like the Beatles. When I was a kid, and "Revolver" had just come out, it was my favorite record. My mom was pretty cool about it, especially since she hated them [not really, just friendly rivalry], and after all, they had her best new artist Grammy [kidding].

I liked pretty hip shit as a kid, though; Stones (Let It Bleed), Grand Funk, Steppenwolf, Cream...these were my favorites at around 10-11 years old. My Stepfather used to do the jukes for a number of the black bars in Philly, and I'd get the old 45s coming out of rotation; wonderful Motown shit from the Philly area.

I, like AMJ, realized that I apparently didn't listen to nearly ANY commercial radio in the late 70-80s though when recently these Time-Life music collections of those eras started coming out, and I realized they contained all the bands I thought were totally fucking gay in one convenient music collection. I feel like I slept through an entire musical era. Thankfully nothing much important happened in pop while I was out.

I listened instead to Zappa, Dregs, Jeff Beck, Alan Holdsworth, Steely Dan, Bill Bruford, Brecker Brothers...

[Homeslice]

Dokken FTW



:lol:

[Dave]

Dokken FTW



:lol:

fuck yeah!

[askmrjesus]

his home stations must have sucked

I lived in LA during the 80's, and there was one halfway decent station (KROQ), that would crank out some Clash, and even some Nina Hagen, but it was so interlaced with crap like the Pet Shop Boys and Depeche Mode, I couldn't fucking take it.

Commercial radio sucks major ass. I can't even listen to what passes for "Classic Rock". It would seem that the dickless bastards who call themselves program managers, are so wrapped up in the computerized printouts of top 40 sales records, they don't dare take any chances.

If I hear Hotel California one more goddamn time, I'll set my hair on fire.

JC

[defector]

the Clash
JC

Very high on my most overrated bands list.
Agree with Hotel California, though. I hate that fucking song.

[was92v]

At least this thread prompted me to dig around and make a list of tapes and CD's have. Now I can plainly see what a tasteless, screwed up, ghey ass, fucktard I really am. Its a good thing that milk crate full of old albums is out in the storage building where I can't get to them. The only one I remember being out there for sure is Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. That shit might have pushed me right over the edge. :lol