How the men who gave us Octopuss's Garden, Wheni'm Sixty four and I am the walrus can be called the greatest band of all time is beyond me. Mind you people like Pink Floyd as well FFS. Teacher leave those kids alone - oh how evry anarchic of you when you're putting all your kids through public schools...... I'll be constructive and name a decent band though - The Housemartins - proper class
Housemartins were excellent. XTC as well, great band. Jimi Hendrix just played any old ****e that came into his head. Off his face on drugs. What sort of example is that to give the kids. No wonder he topped himself.
Pink Floyd are nothing special. The title track from Wish You Were Here is a decent song, and Shine On You Crazy Diamond is alright, but other than that I'm struggling to name anything decent they've done. A bunch of toffs sitting around thinking they're the mutt's nuts because they've somehow sold a few albums. The Coldplay of their day, if you will.
Coldplay - is there any band other than the Beatles that has ever bveen more overrated? Really and truly it's music for people who don't actually like music. It makes me sick that bands like Aztec camera and Prefab Sprout had hardly any comemrcial success when this bunch of spanner headed munchkins are one fo the biggest bands on the planet. It makes no sense at all to me.
We're very much on the same page here Erik Bioth utter tripe and appeal to people who think that liking a certain band increases their IQ. It doesn't.
Dark Side the Moon, Animals, The Wall & Wish You Were Here are great albums. They might be posh, but if you're that successful why not flaunt it. They all do it. They pioneered the stage sets you see now at most live gigs- lights, visuals, pyrotechnics which are all intricate and a show in their own right. Gilmore could've told his kid what the Cenotaph was about before he decided to swing about on the flag there during the riots the other year. No chance can you compare them to Coldplay. Now Coldplay are gash.
I didn't mind the smiths until I went to see mates who had gone to Uni and everyone looked and acted like Morrissey. And he's now become a tedious, attention seeking gimp. A Mancunian Frankie Boyle if you will.......
Hmm what did the Beatles, and their producer/engineers, do apart from pioneering/popularizing Artificial Double Tracking (ADT), back masking, tuned feedback, spliced audio loops, distortion, equalization, stereo effects, multi-tracking (overdubbing), compression, phase shifting, Strings with rock instruments and innovative “microphoning, Self-Contained Record Labels, Stadium Concerts, Concept Albums, freedom to record at non record label designated studios, the first British group to break America, started a trend for pop/rock artists to write, compose and record their own songs, the first 'band' to become truly popular, the first ever global satellite television broadcast and much more. No the Beatles didn't really do anything did they?
What a complete Bell End you are! No intelligence whatsoever, are you a small child with feelings of abandonment and loneliness?
Their music was utter toliet compared to others of their time and if they hadn't got there first someone else would have.
Suited I quite like The Beatles, but can I ask why you think 'breaking the US' makes them good? One Direction have also broken the US, and the only thing that tells me is that Americans are even thicker ****s than I already knew they were
