Olympic Opening Ceremony - It's Simply Incredible!

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So with people battling for music being subjective earlier, I assume I can say this without fear of being lambasted. The Beatles weren't very good, neither is Paul McCartney.
 
Just ****ing put him back in his bed, he's embarrassing. Your time is over Paul, now kindly **** off.
 
Mr. Nice said:
So with people battling for music being subjective earlier, I assume I can say this without fear of being lambasted. The Beatles weren't very good, neither is Paul McCartney.
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They broke a lot of musical barriers down. My preference is for the Beach Boys, who broke just as many, probably more. And at least they could sing in tune. Paul McCartney always had a very respectable wail and scream on him, but was rarely in tune. He wrote some excellent songs, there's no doubt.

EDIT: Hey..! I wish I was as talented.
 
TheSecondStain said:
They broke a lot of musical barriers down. My preference is for the Beach Boys, who broke just as many, probably more. And at least they could sing in tune. Paul McCartney always had a very respectable wail and scream on him, but was rarely in tune. He wrote some excellent songs, there's no doubt.
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I respect they did a lot for music and culture but their music is terrible. I can't listen to it without being terribly bored.
 
Paul just lives off the dead beatles names anyway. He is ****ing ****e.
 
Mr. Nice said:
I respect they did a lot for music and culture but their music is terrible. I can't listen to it without being terribly bored.
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Yep, it inevitably happens. I tend to listen to Beatles music to educate myself a little further nowadays, in how they brought instruments into the mix. When I was a youngster, they were all around, and it was amazing. But they also drew on real blues influences, and their music was locked into real stuff that was happening at the time, and earlier. Today's music has deviated, but it hasn't actually hasn't progressed a huge amount since their time. All rock music is underpinned by stuff that gave birth to either Beatles or Beach Boys stuff.
 
TheSecondStain said:
It's a case of knowing everything when you are 20, and realising you know nothing of real importance, in the great scheme of things, by the time you are 40. Mozart never made it to 40, dying at 36. He innately knew so much about music he was probably hugely deficient at a lot of other things, in his era. It's probably not a good idea to set your ideals and views at a young age. Funnily enough, I have become more radical as I've aged, whereas convention has it that people become more conservative with age. Hopefully, as the UK population ages, we'll all buck the trend.
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When I was a young man it was the future that held all the uncertainties for me. Now I am old it is the past that holds all the mysteries.

Why do you think genealogy is so popular with the elderly.

The young think they know everything while the older you get the more you realise that in fact you know very little at all.
 
Sir Paul and Hey Jude as an internationally loved encore is now officially over.

The Olympic cauldron was a beautiful piece of engineering.

Thought the arctic monkeys were a real surprise(in a good way)

Great job and managed to keep a cynic entertained.
 
Away from all the cultural influences and opinions in music, I thought that opening ceremony was straight forward bloody good..! That made me a tad proud, and not in the American Pie sense either. ;)
 
TheSecondStain said:
Yep, it inevitably happens. I tend to listen to Beatles music to educate myself a little further nowadays, in how they brought instruments into the mix. When I was a youngster, they were all around, and it was amazing. But they also drew on real blues influences, and their music was locked into real stuff that was happening at the time, and earlier. Today's music has deviated, but it hasn't actually hasn't progressed a huge amount since their time. All rock music is underpinned by stuff that gave birth to either Beatles or Beach Boys stuff.
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I gained an appreciation of the Beatles via their innovative song structures, and Roy Orbison in that regard as well.
 
TheSecondStain said:
Yep, it inevitably happens. I tend to listen to Beatles music to educate myself a little further nowadays, in how they brought instruments into the mix. When I was a youngster, they were all around, and it was amazing. But they also drew on real blues influences, and their music was locked into real stuff that was happening at the time, and earlier. Today's music has deviated, but it hasn't actually hasn't progressed a huge amount since their time. All rock music is underpinned by stuff that gave birth to either Beatles or Beach Boys stuff.
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Rock or pop or what ever you call it is all the same stuff except today they play it far too loud. It is not music or creativity it is about making money!
 
St Godders of Windsor said:
When I was a young man it was the future that held all the uncertainties for me. Now I am old it is the past that holds all the mysteries.

Why do you think genealogy is so popular with the elderly.

The young think they know everything while the older you get the more you realise that in fact you know very little at all.
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Err... you've lost me yet again, Godders. Are you agreeing or making a point..? ;)
 
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