Beatles

[jimboo]

So ,let me get this right. You don't?

[soundchaser]

Where would British psychedelia and our own Summer of Love have been without The Beatles, I wonder?

[jimboo]

Quite happily doing it's own thing I would imagine. Take the drugs away of course.....

[soundchaser]

Quite happily doing it's own thing I would imagine. Take the drugs away of course.....

I’m not sure Pink Floyd would even have got as far as the Abbey Road front door.

So that’s the joint most influential British psychedelia album gone.

And no See Emily Play: no games for May.

[jimboo]

Emily was released before pepper though , wasn't it?

[toomanyhatz]

Being objective starts with the very idea that they are not the alpha and omega of rock music.

As I've said before, I can sympathize with this view because I can understand if you're not a rabid fan you can get tired of the conventional wisdom that they are. However if you really look at it objectively, I think it's pretty obvious that, like it or not, they're a benchmark. Rebelling against that I can get. Denying that it's generally accepted as true I think requires deluding yourself at least a little.

[Matt Wilson]

If you're white, middle aged, and male, and rock is your primary music, - then it's almost a given.

It's also the cliche to end all fucking cliches.

[Sneelock]

“Avoid cliches like the plague” - William Safire, well known as a Nixon speechwriter, not known to be a Beatles fan.

[soundchaser]

Emily was released before pepper though , wasn't it?

But it wasn't released before Rubber Soul, Revolver, or the single cuts, Day Tripper, & Rain.

[jimboo]

Emily was released before pepper though , wasn't it?

But it wasn't released before Rubber Soul, Revolver, or the single cuts, Day Tripper, & Rain.

Eh? I thought you were talking about British psychedelia , Tomorrow never knows is psych , nothing else you have mentioned is even close.

[The Modernist]

Rain definitely counts a psych as do 3 or 4 tracks from Revolver.
I mean this is just silly, The Beatles were the first UK band to release psychedelia. Do they not get any credit for that?

[naughty boy]

Matt’s just bitter they didn’t come out of the U.S. of A.

[Matt Wilson]

I'm not the one arguing, you twat!

But since you're pulling me back in - someone needs to tell G the Beatles weren't the first UK band to release a psychedelic song.

[Count Machuki]

G, Matt says the Beatles weren't the first UK band to release a psychedelic song.

[Hightea]

yeah the Beatles were not important to rock. They never did anything original, didn't reinvent the wheel, didn't change rock music, weren't important to rock music, everyone who came after and before them were better and more influential, didn't influence any rock musicians, didn't have three top flight song writers and basically are unimportant to rock and roll.

[soundchaser]

Emily was released before pepper though , wasn't it?

But it wasn't released before Rubber Soul, Revolver, or the single cuts, Day Tripper, & Rain.

Eh? I thought you were talking about British psychedelia , Tomorrow never knows is psych , nothing else you have mentioned is even close.

Songs on Rubber Soul, were leading the way towards psychedelia. Revolver, is drenched in it. Day Tripper, is code for LSD use, and Rain, well, if you don’t get that, I don’t know what else to say. I assure you, Syd Barrett would not have got to Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, without the revolution in the head that was coming his way from The Beatles.

[naughty boy]

I'm not the one arguing, you twat!

So what were you up to about halfway down page 1? hm?

[Goat Boy]

Who's this Lownsdale fella anyway, huh?

[naughty boy]

Isn't he Googa's mate?

[The Modernist]

I'm not the one arguing, you twat!

But since you're pulling me back in - someone needs to tell G the Beatles weren't the first UK band to release a psychedelic song.

Matt I do know my UK psych, but go ahead I'm all ears.