Beatles v Bowie v God
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Beatles v Bowie v God
Which one and why? (in no less than 2000 words please.)
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Re: Beatles v Bowie v God
I'M TRYING TO DO A DAYS WORK HERE
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Re: Beatles v Bowie v God
Minnie the Minx wrote:I'M TRYING TO DO A DAYS WORK HERE
I LOVE YOU MIN xxxxx
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Re: Beatles v Bowie v God
Xxx
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Re: Beatles v Bowie v God
No Randy Newman option ?
Sorry Davey.
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Re: Beatles v Bowie v God
I like God's early stuff.
Let U be the set of all united sets, K be the set of the kids and D be the set of things divided.
Then it follows that ∀ k ∈ K: K ∈ U ⇒ k ∉ D
Then it follows that ∀ k ∈ K: K ∈ U ⇒ k ∉ D
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Re: Beatles v Bowie v God
God.
No competition.
God decided at one point in time, when there wasn't time, that there had to be a universe.
He pushed a red button, and lo and behold, out of nothing, something was born.
Adam and Eve wandered merrily though the Garden of Eden. They did not know about sin. Until Lucifer, the fallen angel, interfered with their business.
Things went wrong from then and there on.
Cain slew his brother Abel. This was prime source material for one of rock's great achievements: "Adam Raised a Cain", by Brooose.
Gary "U.S." Bonds also was inspired by God's bestseller, when he sang: "Way Back Baby In The Bible Time, A Cat Named Noah Built An Ocean Liner". Aforementioned Brooose played and sang on, and produced this song ("Dedication").
(For time and copyright reasons, I must skip a few years. But God's magnum opus contains, as any fule know, the most sex, drugs, and rock & roll of all big popular tomes ever written.)
So I'm left with the Beatles and David Bowie in the end.
Bowie wrote and sang the immortal "The Laughing Genome", which puts him just before the Fab Four.
Ranking =
1. God
2. Bowie
3. Beatles.
That's it, folks. Clear as the air on a spring morning.
No competition.
God decided at one point in time, when there wasn't time, that there had to be a universe.
He pushed a red button, and lo and behold, out of nothing, something was born.
Adam and Eve wandered merrily though the Garden of Eden. They did not know about sin. Until Lucifer, the fallen angel, interfered with their business.
Things went wrong from then and there on.
Cain slew his brother Abel. This was prime source material for one of rock's great achievements: "Adam Raised a Cain", by Brooose.
Gary "U.S." Bonds also was inspired by God's bestseller, when he sang: "Way Back Baby In The Bible Time, A Cat Named Noah Built An Ocean Liner". Aforementioned Brooose played and sang on, and produced this song ("Dedication").
(For time and copyright reasons, I must skip a few years. But God's magnum opus contains, as any fule know, the most sex, drugs, and rock & roll of all big popular tomes ever written.)
So I'm left with the Beatles and David Bowie in the end.
Bowie wrote and sang the immortal "The Laughing Genome", which puts him just before the Fab Four.
Ranking =
1. God
2. Bowie
3. Beatles.
That's it, folks. Clear as the air on a spring morning.
On the whole, I'd rather be in Wallenpaupack.
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Re: Beatles v Bowie v God
Like many, I've gotten all three confused with one another at some point.
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Re: Beatles v Bowie v God
well, Bowie & at least one Beatle wrote songs about God.
So far as I know, God didn't return the favor.
uggy poopy doody.
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Sneelock wrote::lol:
well, Bowie & at least one Beatle wrote songs about God.
So far as I know, God didn't return the favor.
Ah!
You've never been privy to "If You Had Been My Son I Would Not Have Let Them Crucify You" then?
It's a catchy one
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Re: Beatles v Bowie v God
Minnie the Minx wrote:Sneelock wrote::lol:
well, Bowie & at least one Beatle wrote songs about God.
So far as I know, God didn't return the favor.
Ah!
You've never been privy to "If You Had Been My Son I Would Not Have Let Them Crucify You" then?
It's a catchy one
And no wonder with the immortal D A G sequence!
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Re: Beatles v Bowie v God
I liked God before he was famous.
Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.
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I’ll reserve judgement until God delivers his Blackstar.
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Re: Beatles v Bowie v God
The Beatles never a single thing wrong; the others did. Ergo The Beatles win.
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Re: Beatles v Bowie v God
jimboo wrote:
No Randy Newman option ?
Sorry Davey.
Wouldn’t be fair to the others.
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Re: Beatles v Bowie v God
This was fairly easy!
The Beatles were very talented and wrote lots of great songs, two of which move me.
God doesn't exist, and Bowie has been my musical companion and comforter my whole life.
The Beatles were very talented and wrote lots of great songs, two of which move me.
God doesn't exist, and Bowie has been my musical companion and comforter my whole life.
You come at the Queen, you best not miss.
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Re: Beatles v Bowie v God
God did record some nice things in the 60s, but since Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, nothing that justifies his reputation. And as responsible for Tears In Heaven, he gets disqualified.
Think I'll vote for Bowie.
Think I'll vote for Bowie.
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Re: Beatles v Bowie v God
God? Undoubtedly a seminal influence on the history of popular music. Although he has not always been the best of influences cf the career of Cliff Richard. Another factor that counts against him is the scarcity of his recorded work on CD or vinyl, let alone the original papyrus records.
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Re: Beatles v Bowie v God
I don't believe in two out of three.
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Re: Beatles v Bowie v God
Bowie is a concept by which we measure our pain.
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