malice wrote:I think with a band like the Beatles, most people have a healthy respect for their influence and I don't really need everyone to also worship their music too - I was only making an observation
Agree. This is where I'm at and it's the point I was trying to make so many pages ago when Burt threw out the word "foaming."
Re: So who here doesn't really like the Beatles
Posted: Sat October 19, 2013 6:30 pm
by epilogue
malice wrote:
Soma. wrote:I feel like people are still going to be talking about McParadigm 100 years from now. For whatever reason.
he's pretty spot on most of the time (to me).
Me, too.
Even when he hates me, he's right.
Re: So who here doesn't really like the Beatles
Posted: Sat October 19, 2013 6:31 pm
by epilogue
harmless wrote:
To be honest, I think the entire forum could do with less snark when it comes to people's opinions.
Totally agree. And I've gotten sucked away from that. But that's the way I used to post, almost exclusively. And I got ribbed for it from time to time, but it was a better way to be.
Re: So who here doesn't really like the Beatles
Posted: Sat October 19, 2013 6:31 pm
by Sarah.
As a non Beatles fan who kind of likes them, can I suggest 'she's leaving home', stip? That gets me right in my feels every time.
Re: So who here doesn't really like the Beatles
Posted: Sat October 19, 2013 6:32 pm
by epilogue
Soma. wrote:Anyway, The White Album and a bourbon for me. Thanks.
Jealous.
Re: So who here doesn't really like the Beatles
Posted: Sat October 19, 2013 6:33 pm
by stip
Baby You're A Rich Man
I kind of like the bass. I think the falsetto is distracting. The chorus is irritating. How can people like this and bitch about a song like Let the Records Play. I always feel like some snotty spolied brat is yelling at me whenever the beatles judge people in their songs.
I also pretty much hated this one.
Re: So who here doesn't really like the Beatles
Posted: Sat October 19, 2013 6:33 pm
by McParadigm
Ha ha. Wow. I think a thread where stip listens to the entire Beatles catalog and reviews every song would be the hottest shit the internet has ever proffered.
And it would have roughly 11,000 times more replay value than Lightning Bolt.
Re: So who here doesn't really like the Beatles
Posted: Sat October 19, 2013 6:34 pm
by epilogue
stip wrote:
malice wrote:
stip wrote:i wonder if I could use the experience of not liking the beatles to help explain white privilege.
I'm both afraid to ask what you mean and really curious - please could you explain?
How being a beatles fan means you never have to explain or justify yourself, how your opinions are automatically valid by virtue of liking the Beatles, and how someone who doesn't is suspect, other, existing outside, and having to fight for their inclusion.
Didn't we debunk this a thousand pages ago, though?
Re: So who here doesn't really like the Beatles
Posted: Sat October 19, 2013 6:35 pm
by stip
Sarah. wrote:As a non Beatles fan who kind of likes them, can I suggest 'she's leaving home', stip? That gets me right in my feels every time.
you may. It has the added bonus of being referenced in a simpsons episode
Re: So who here doesn't really like the Beatles
Posted: Sat October 19, 2013 6:35 pm
by stip
durdencommatyler wrote:
stip wrote:
malice wrote:
stip wrote:i wonder if I could use the experience of not liking the beatles to help explain white privilege.
I'm both afraid to ask what you mean and really curious - please could you explain?
How being a beatles fan means you never have to explain or justify yourself, how your opinions are automatically valid by virtue of liking the Beatles, and how someone who doesn't is suspect, other, existing outside, and having to fight for their inclusion.
Didn't we debunk this a thousand pages ago, though?
the white people told the black people to get over it, and that they all had at least one black friend
Re: So who here doesn't really like the Beatles
Posted: Sat October 19, 2013 6:35 pm
by epilogue
stip wrote:Okay: if I fell
I don't like the plinking sing songy guitar. I don't like the reedy sweetness in the vocals. I think it is a nice melody, and the harmonies would be great if I liked the vocals. As is they definitely soften the stuff I don't like. I hate the start until they start singing together. There's something cloyingly sentimental about this song that is unappealing, because it also feels inauthentic. Parts like" 'Cause I couldn't stand the pain and I would be sad if our new love was in vain' seem way too Hallmarkish for me. I can't imagine the people signing this song ever feeling pain, and so in that respect it almost makes me feel like the song is being, I don't know, disrespectful in some way. Like it's a joke at my expense. Not quite mocking, but approaching that. Actually, there's something curiously courtly about this song. Like someone read about love in a book and decided 'gee that would be swell, I'll go ask someone to be in love with me' Innocent in a way, but not innocent enough to be charming.
Have you listened to I've Just Seen A Face? I know it's not one of the three evenslow posted, but check that out, if you still have any stomach for this at all.
Re: So who here doesn't really like the Beatles
Posted: Sat October 19, 2013 6:36 pm
by McParadigm
This just happened.
Re: So who here doesn't really like the Beatles
Posted: Sat October 19, 2013 6:36 pm
by epilogue
theplatypus wrote:Haha, I fucking love "And Your Bird Can Sing". What a song.
Aw huh
Re: So who here doesn't really like the Beatles
Posted: Sat October 19, 2013 6:36 pm
by epilogue
bart wrote:A new low was set
Bells tolled throughout the forums
OB ate itself
BART!
Re: So who here doesn't really like the Beatles
Posted: Sat October 19, 2013 6:37 pm
by bart
durdencommatyler wrote:
stip wrote:
malice wrote:
stip wrote:i wonder if I could use the experience of not liking the beatles to help explain white privilege.
I'm both afraid to ask what you mean and really curious - please could you explain?
How being a beatles fan means you never have to explain or justify yourself, how your opinions are automatically valid by virtue of liking the Beatles, and how someone who doesn't is suspect, other, existing outside, and having to fight for their inclusion.
Didn't we debunk this a thousand pages ago, though?
Ugh, those people, always complaining about this stuff.
Re: So who here doesn't really like the Beatles
Posted: Sat October 19, 2013 6:38 pm
by Sarah.
stip wrote:
Sarah. wrote:As a non Beatles fan who kind of likes them, can I suggest 'she's leaving home', stip? That gets me right in my feels every time.
you may. It has the added bonus of being referenced in a simpsons episode
I don't know how anyone can fail to be moved by those strings. I could drown in them.
Re: So who here doesn't really like the Beatles
Posted: Sat October 19, 2013 6:38 pm
by epilogue
McParadigm wrote:Ha ha. Wow. I think a thread where stip listens to the entire Beatles catalog and reviews every song would be the hottest shit the internet has ever proffered.
Seconded. Let's get a Stip Actually Listens to the Beatles thread going.
Re: So who here doesn't really like the Beatles
Posted: Sat October 19, 2013 6:39 pm
by stip
stip wrote:
Sarah. wrote:As a non Beatles fan who kind of likes them, can I suggest 'she's leaving home', stip? That gets me right in my feels every time.
you may. It has the added bonus of being referenced in a simpsons episode
this wasn't bad. I kinda like the verses with the strings and the attention to detail that makes it seem important without drawing attention to the fact. I know the chorus is supposed to be beautiful and moving, but it turns it into melodrama/
I don't like this song, but if someone told me they loved it I could understand why.
Man, I REALLY don't like their voices.
Re: So who here doesn't really like the Beatles
Posted: Sat October 19, 2013 6:39 pm
by evenslow
Wow. Alright.
I tried everyone. I tried.
Re: So who here doesn't really like the Beatles
Posted: Sat October 19, 2013 6:39 pm
by malice
durdencommatyler wrote:
malice wrote:
Soma. wrote:I feel like people are still going to be talking about McParadigm 100 years from now. For whatever reason.
