Mocking the Beatles is fun + makes you a rebel against the "establishment"

[JVS]

Let's all really cheese off those geezers
by comparing the Beatles unfavorably to Weezer

[skygazer]

1. Watch who you're calling a geezer, kid. n/t

[saltpoint]

2. Dish. Tape. Temperature. Dogfood.

What can be done?

[edbermac]

3. Let's cheese off the REALLY old geezers and mock Mozart....

I mean his music is so OLD fer chrissakes...

[JVS]

4. The people who liked him are long dead, only a few holdouts left

Mocking the Beatles is today what mocking the Glenn Miller band was 30 years ago

[McKenzie]

5. I've got loads of Beatles in my garage

but I stomp on 'em...SHHHTOOOMP!

snigger

[jpgray]

6. Clutching feverishly to an ideal of artistic perfection that never existed

That's much more pathetic in my view.

:D

[JVS]

7. Do you mean to say that the Beatles were not perfect?

Oh you slaugterer of sacred cows, you!

[dolo amber]

8. He's like that...

You gotta watch him...he'll be going after Carrot Top next! :o

[JVS]

13. Wooooo, the sacred cows' corpses shall be strewn around the altar!

Glory to the new era!

[jpgray]

9. Even worse, I'd say some high points of other artists surpass theirs

They were great, but they aren't the high watermark of popular music to me. Maybe they're the high watermark of a particular style of popular music?

[JVS]

11. Shine on you crazy diamond!

[UdoKier]

10. Even if you love the Beatles (I did at age 10)

There isn't a song in their discography that I haven't heard a thousand times.

I recognize their greatness, but I could die without ever hearing another Beatles song and I would be okay with that.

And Weezer are a fun band.

[htuttle]

12. Ringo was a mocker

[Beaverhausen]

20. LOL!!!

good one.

[paineinthearse]

14. Best Beatles parody.......the Rutles

Especially so due to George Harrison's participation.....

The Rutles - http://www.rutles.org/






George Harrison in All You Need Is Cash

Listen - http://www.mp3.com/the-rutles/artists/186/summary.html

[HEyHEY]

15. John Lennon stole all his tunes from Charles Manson

[JVS]

16. And chuckie is stealing them back!

[DrGonzoLives]

17. The Beatles are nothing compared to Warrant!

SHE'S MY CHERRY PIE!

[JVS]

18. ROCK!

:headbang:

[RandomKoolzip]

19. Mocking the Beatles is a tired old trope of the post-punks.

"Oh, my parents listened to that! It doesn't speak to MY generation!" Blah blah blah, dickheads.

The REAL establishment that needs to be railed against is the post-punkers who deny that anything good ever happened before The Sex Pistols (Or Throbbing Gristle)...these geeks have ruled music journalism for twenty-plus years and it's time for them to leave the stage so that the more catholic critics can come to the fore and re-establish some standards ("DIY" is the most destructive myth of the punk generation and needs to be destoyed, post haste.)

[St. Jarvitude]

21. My thoughts exactly (nt)

[JVS]

22. "so that the more catholic critics can come to the fore"

Do we really want the Pope to be the source of judgement on music.

Besides I don't see why we can't shit on both the post-punk and the really old stuff. Replacing one entrenched party with another is not advancement.

[RandomKoolzip]

23. Well, when one group keeps fighting the "rock wars" of the 70's....

....and it's 2005, they deserve to be shat upon. Let it go, people. Prog rock is no longer a threat to you.

[JVS]

24. WTF are you talking about? Prog rock?

[RandomKoolzip]

25. I'm talking about people who STILL find it necessary to hold on to

their reactionary ideas about 70's rock; people who STILL find it necessary to prove their hip credentials by putting down Yes and Genesis and Foghat or whoever, ignoring completely how the wave of musicians who replaced them (the punks/post-punks) lowered musical standards....which was exciting for a while but has considerably dumbed down and stunted the rock audience's expectations of their artists.

You'll find the MOST (not all) people who put down the Beatles (Or Yes or Genesis) are doing it based on standards of "cool" and not on the actual quality of the playing/writing of the musicians.

[JVS]

26. Well don't count me among them because, that's not me

I'm dumping on the beatles because I'm sick of the obligatory genuflection that people seem to expect towards them. Their shit is played out. They just don't rock!

[RandomKoolzip]

27. Okay, I won't.

[Kahuna]

28. Is that how you get your thrills? "Beatle-envy, FCOL?

Sad. Really really, sad. :P

Long Live the Beatles!!!!!

[Taxloss]

29. I think the beatles are alright

but I'm a bit mystified by the way Lennon has achieved sainthood.

(ducks)