Musical Taste Poll

breedlovejumbo · Post by **breedlovejumbo** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 9:47 am

I read something a while back, and I wanted to see if it is somewhat true. When a respectable sample size is achieved, we'll find out the answer.

If you voted on Gaelic Crossings, you can vote here too.

breedlovejumbo · Post by **breedlovejumbo** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 1:09 pm

Shamelessly bumping this back up so that more people will vote.

MarkB · Post by **MarkB** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 1:43 pm

Jeeesh! Only four choices. In the age of diversity, or is it the age of asphargus, I can't see the use of such a simple poll with just one box to click on.

What made you pick Elvis and/or the Beatles for a poll. Is there a hidden agenda in asking such simplicity in a complex world.

Huuummmmmmmmmmmmmmm

MarkB

breedlovejumbo · Post by **breedlovejumbo** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 1:52 pm

MarkB wrote:Is there a hidden agenda in asking such simplicity in a complex world.

Huuummmmmmmmmmmmmmm

MarkB

There is always a hidden agenda; however, mine is merely curiosity.

jim_mc · Post by **jim_mc** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 3:41 pm

Elvis ruled, but I don't think his work has held up well with the passage of time. The Beatles were the most overrated band in the history of music. That leaves, uh, neither.

lilymaid · Post by **lilymaid** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 5:48 pm

I suppose it might make me terribly un-cool, but I like the Beatles. It may, however, be due to the fact that my mother sang me Beatles songs as lullabies when I little.

Ridseard · Post by **Ridseard** » Fri Jul 25, 2003 5:58 pm

jim_mc wrote:The Beatles were the most overrated band in the history of music.

Could you be a bit more definite and say what you really think?

madguy · Post by **madguy** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 4:05 am

Ridseard wrote:
jim_mc wrote:The Beatles were the most overrated band in the history of music.
Could you be a bit more definite and say what you really think?

Overrated???

I don't get that statement, jim.

~Larry

RonKiley · Post by **RonKiley** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 4:28 pm

I had to say neither. After all, rock music ended when Buddy Holly died. I didn't like Elvis when he first came on the scene and my opinion never changed. The Beetles were OK and did write some good music but after Buddy nothing was that good. I switched to Bluegrass and folk.
Ron

jim_mc · Post by **jim_mc** » Sun Jul 27, 2003 8:11 pm

madguy wrote: Overrated??? I don't get that statement, jim.

I guess it means that I'm a rock snob with little tolerance for pop.

Really, I think the Beatles are given an awful lot of credit for having been innovators when in fact much of what they supposedly innovated had been done before (and in most cases done better) by less popular artists.

The Beatles greatest innovations were not in the realm of music, but in the marketing, management and financial areas.

I will give the Beatles this innovation: Rubber Soul was probably the first pop album with no filler. It remains my favorite Beatles album.

brad maloney · Post by **brad maloney** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 11:02 am

"Phoney Beatle-Mania has bitten the dust" The Clash

It's not that I don't like the occasional Beatles song but as a child their music was jammed down my throat on a nonstop basis. Why go home & put on a Beatles album when I can listen to it while on hold with the telephone co. or while riding in an elevator. A song is only good til the 10,000,000,000,000,000th time, then it's just reduced to sonic wallpaper.

Funny to think that Beatles royalties now fund Michael Jackson's "Neverland".

bittafchiff · Post by **bittafchiff** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 11:18 am

To get a proper handle on Elvis and The Beatles contribution to rock music I really believe you had to be there! Even studying the history of rock wouldn't give you a true perspective. Elvis was amazing! True he recorded a load of rubbish, but on form he was teffific. The Beatles? I was never a fan of The Beatles, but they were a class act. Of course the American perspective of The Beatles is very different than the British experience. Here they happened in a slow organic way - no big hype! In America they needed the big push! Who was going to give a British rock band any air-time without it!

Post by **Nanohedron** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 11:42 am

Oh, well.

I voted at GC where BreLoJo first posted this. Can that count?

jim_mc · Post by **jim_mc** » Mon Jul 28, 2003 1:15 pm

brad maloney wrote:"Phoney Beatle-Mania has bitten the dust" The Clash

Funny to think that Beatles royalties now fund Michael Jackson's "Neverland".

I love the Clash. By the way, though, Paul McCartney bought back the part of the Beatles' catalog that MJ owned.

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 8:50 pm

In my youth, I was a bo-na-fied Beatle-maniac. Elvis---

no way.

I do agree- you had to be there........

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