Yes, the broke ground and were awesome for doing so. They meant a lot to many people and for that the are the greatest influence to musicians, but, song by song were they really that great??
I believe all these bands top songs ever are better than any of the Beatles songs:
The Doors
Nirvana
Led Zepellin
Oasis
The Strokes
Aerosmith ... please, remember I am NOT talking about influence or what they meant to people or what they believed in.
Just song to song (best of each group) .... Just think this: if the beatles had originally sang: "Light my fire", "Stairway to heaven", "Someday", "The end has no end", "wonderwall" or "Don't look back in anger" .... wouldn't they be bigger??
The question is Wouldn't they be bigger? and does anyone agree??
2006-08-24 05:38:28 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
lax<3 ... you're right about Aerosmith ... but from the other bands I can also list more songs:
The Doors:
People are strange
Love her madly
Five to One
The Strokes:
Hard to Explain
Last Nite
Take it or Leave it
New York City Cops
Ize of the world
Nirvana:
Come as you are
Smells like teen spirit
Lithium
All apologies
About a girl
all written by the band members .. just like the beatles
2006-08-24 05:56:02 · update #1
i totally agree with you. they were a social influence. not a musical as much. they were a one-dimensional band when compared to the ones you listed. i would put led zeppelin as #1 for best songs. theyre like a 100-dimensional band lol
2006-08-24 05:41:45 · answer #1 · answered by Jordan T 1 · 0⤊ 5⤋
If you did your research you'd know that the Strokes and Oasis took much inspiration from the Beatles.
The Doors, Nirvana, and Zepplin are in completely different categories.
And I don't know where you pulled Aerosmith from, but compared to other great classic rock legends, Aerosmith is garbage.
The Beatles DO have a wide collection of AMAZING songs. I don't agree with you, and I'm not saying you have to agree with me, everyone has thier own taste in music and you happen to think that somebands are better then the Beatles, and that's fine.
It just so happens that a LOT of people, besides me feel that the beatles have some of the greatest songs, including:
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Dear Prudence
Sexy Sadie
Heltel Skelter
And these arent even the mainstreme songs.
I noticed you only named one song from each other band. Yeah those bands may have one great song, but the Beatles have many, and a much broader fan base and staying power, they were constantly changing thier sound unlike anything else you listed. Whether or not you choose to agree with that is up to you.
Thats just my opinion. and Don't get me wrong, I'm in love with all the other bands too, execpt Aerosmith, everything they did past 1990 is just shameful.
2006-08-24 12:48:49 · answer #2 · answered by KLD it. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I disagree with you. First you list Oasis and Aerosmith, two bands that admit being highly influenced by The Beatles.
As far as songs go:
-The Beatles from the very begining used and made work very original chord progressions that baffle classicaly trained musicians.
- McCartney bass lines are incredibly complex and melodic without competing with the main melody 'Help!' is the best example.
- George Harrison's solos are so spot on that when other bands make covers they have to play them note by note or the song just doesn't sound the same.
If you don't like the sweet timeless melodies ike 'Yesterday', 'Something', 'Eleanor Rigby' or 'Hey Jude' how about trippy songs like 'A Day in Life' or 'I am The Walrus' or 'Tomorrow Never Knows'. Rockers like 'Come Together', 'Get Back' or the early catchy pop songs that completely shook the world (not only the English speaking bit of it) back in 1964 like none of the songs you mention did 'She Loves You', 'Drive My Car' or 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' to mention a few.
None of the bands you mention have such a wide range of styles and hits as The Beatles did.
2006-08-24 13:10:06 · answer #3 · answered by Lumas 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
C'mon, try and realize back in the 60's (before your time) that was great music, they evolved with the music scene. John Lennon(still in the beatles at the time, with them on the recording as well) did Give Peace A Chance, are you trying to tell me a sexual song like light my fire means more?Give a listen to the disc "woke up this morning and found myself dead" a live Hendrix recording with Jim Morrison there on stage, Poor Jim actually had a song on there called Morrison's lament, Out of his mind drunk, screaming and swearing most of the time not even understanding what he was yelling, except a swear here and there. Zeppelin was a great band, dont get me wrong, but all these bands had influences too.
Previous singers and artists, even story tellers, Page was in the Yardbirds, Many songs on Zep IV are influenced by "Lord of the rings" Were Nirvana Really Great? Depressing is more like it, Man who sold the world- David bowie. I dont think bands that played different style can be compared. Thats Like Hendrix and Clapton, oranges and apples. Aerosmith has been great too, influenced? yes. Where do you think "come together" came from? Or train kept a rollin' Yardbirds? Hmmmmm. Something to think about eh?
Peace and Peaceful Journeys
2006-08-24 13:02:52 · answer #4 · answered by ilovedoves65 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Disagree. I think the thing that made the Beatles so amazing was the fact that they didn't get stuck in any one style or sound. If you look at the complete songs of the Beatles you'll find everything from classical to electronic to jazz music represented. If a tune needed to have a country feeling, they went for it all the way, if a song was genuinely wierdly funny, they committed themselves to it all the way.
Most of the bands you list were fine in their way, but rarely did they venture out of the familiar territory their fans expected of them. This has become the rule in music marketing: stay with one thing. For the sales.
But the Beatles had the courage and the talent to break that rule constantly. You never knew what they were going to be up to next. It made it fun.
Of course music is all about personal taste. And these days people are very monothematic in their tastes. Rockers hate country, country hates jazz, everybody hates something else. The Beatles represented another, to my mind, more playful approach to listening to and performing music.
And on the level of just really memorable lyrics? Sorry, the Beatles wrote more interesting lyrics consistantly than any of those bands.
Don't get me wrong, I love some of those bands you've listed. But then, I love the
throat singers of Tuva, Bulgarian Village music and the piano music of John Cage.
I love variety in music, and that's why I think the Beatles were the best band. They represented for musical variety.
2006-08-24 12:48:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Strokes?
Oasis?
how can you even put these bands on that list?
that is most definately some kind of blasphemy!
anyway...song for song
I am a Zeppelin Freak but there is one or two songs I don't really like..Hot Dog for example.
and the Doors as far as songwriting goes morrison was a poet but the music sometimes felt empty.
Nirvana and Aerosmith also two of my favorites but still a few songs they do I can't stand...especially sober aerosmith it all sounds the same.
But...I can honestly say...
I've never heard a Beatles song that I didnt like.
The versitality of thier music was wonderful.
2006-08-24 12:52:47 · answer #6 · answered by chefzilla65 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Beatles, bar none, will always be in the top 5 - and probably #1. The list of songs you mentioned can't even remotely compare to the Beatles songs. To mention a few, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Ballad of John & Yoko", "Revolution", "Tell Me Why", "Norwegian Wood", ad infinum. John Lennon was a genius and there has never been another group with the consistant longevity of the Beatles.
2006-08-24 12:47:01 · answer #7 · answered by Lioness 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bands that u are talking about The Doors,Nirvana ...esp. Led Zeppelin are fabulous and for many people these bands are the best... but if we are talking about the science of the music
, Beatles have all. They have been played all melodies all variation of all notes. They have been created a new style on music.
And now don't u remember strawberry fields,penny lane,get back,imagine ...are these songs great or not?
2006-08-24 12:58:08 · answer #8 · answered by ulash3 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting, but I kind of feel that the reason the Beatles were so popular was because of their influence on pop music, just like Zeppelin's influence on metal. Its kind of like comparing apples to oranges, in a way.
But, I suppose you're right...if say, Kenny Rogers sang Living the Vida Loca, he'd be huge!
side note: Anyone who thinks the Beatles were poor lyricists needs to listen to something other than their early bubble gum pop songs. Try the White Album, for instance!
2006-08-24 12:43:03 · answer #9 · answered by nfaustman 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I can see all you haven't really listened, or even know the evolution of Rock. The Beatles were ground breaking musicians.
Sold more Albums than Doors, Are way more famous than Nirvana, and have way better ethnic music than Zepellin. The other three bands.... I can not believe you put them in the same category, ha ha ha..... ha ha ha ha,ha........ha ha haha....Specially Aerosmith, they do not have any quality music, and are not even known overseas. Once you travel around the world ( I'm sure you haven't) you can see The Beatles are known EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD, just along with the Stones, you also forgot Ramones
2006-08-24 12:55:03 · answer #10 · answered by a.j. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Song for song doesn't matter. You've got to think of the time era. All the bands you mentioned each learn from the other and get better with time, or pay someone to write the music for them.
2006-08-24 12:43:04 · answer #11 · answered by J P 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋