Biggest Beatles shocker: Never won top Grammy for best record

[askmrjesus]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

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.

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?

[askmrjesus]

Originally Posted by 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?

The other 20%.

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

JC

[Apoc]

Originally Posted by askmrjesus

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]

Originally Posted by askmrjesus

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

[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

[Dave]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

Dokken FTW

fuck yeah!