The Beatles were and are cunts.
This isn’t a cunting based on their musical output and even Yoko Fucking Ono has nothing to do with this one. I can’t even blame her for this one.
They are cunts because they stabbed a mate of theirs in the back in the worst way possible and they didn’t even have the balls to tell him to his face. Not only that, they continued putting the boot into Pete Best as they ascended to fame and fortune. Attempting to justify their utterly cuntish behaviour by spreading crap like he had no sense of humour, he didn’t talk, he couldn’t play drums, which I think is all bollocks and excuses.
And who did they replace the lad with? Ringo Starr! I mean, if they had got Keith Moon or Mitch Mitchell, it would at least have been sort of understandable. But Ringo fucking Starr?! Just how bad could Pete have been? Sacking and shafting the bloke in the most dirty and cowardly way possible is bad enough, but losing his job and arguably the biggest drumming gig in history to Ringo Starr?! Talk about adding insult to injury.
They could and can yap on all they like about how they didn’t rate Best as a drummer (so, they got two solid years of bookings in German clubs and endless Cavern gigs with a shit drummer?), but the bottom line is they sacked the bloke because they were cunts. And the way they did it (or had it done) shows that they were cunts.
Also added. Paul McCartney saying Best wasn’t great as a musician, then having Linda McCartney is his band for years?! Do fuck off.
And let’s not even start on the Plastic Cunting Fucking Ono Band.
Nominated by Norman
Even their music isn’t actually that good in my opinion – admin
The Beatles were OK in 1963/64 after that they were as manufactured as The Monkees were in America. Ringo Starr didn’t even do the early recordings he was on -that honour went to a guy called Andy White, a session musician.
Doubt he was in anyones DeadList but Wayne Fontana died the other day at 74. He had his Mindbenders. Jeremy Corbyn could have employed them if they really could bend minds.
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Didn’t Wayne Fontana set a court balliffs van on fire because it got in the way of him going to the bakery?, the Beatles were shite to be fair, and Paul McCartney is a Santamonius cunt if ever there was one!
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Probably on A Mind Bender Captain
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Wayne was alright, but the Mindbenders did better without him. With Eric Stewart’s ‘A Groovy Kind Of Love’ being their finest hour. Eric, of course, scaled greater heights with the legendary 10cc and he never had to work again after writing ‘I’m Not In Love’. The royalties from that alone set him up for life. He’s a nice bloke and all.
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I’d agree with that sentiment Norman. Eric Stewart was and is fuckn ace. As are Lol, Graham and Kevin. Saw their last ever show at Knebworth.
Minor pedantic correction : I do believe Groovy was in fact written by professional songwriter Carole Bayer Sager. Better known for that horrendous “You’re moving out today”. That surprised me too knowing how great a songwriter Eric is.
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Not interested in The Beatles.Same as The Stones.Over hyped.She loves you blah blah blah.Bore off
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Most overrated band in history, had their high points but the nostalgia for them is a money driven machine.
If people would let the music stand to be judged by its merit Alone and not through rose tinted glasses we would have a true picture. An important band musically but like the football club that also hails from the same shithole city, never as good as we are continually told they were.
(I suppose they were pretty radical back in the day if you’re old enough to remember. But quite frankly they were just tedious cunts with tedious by-the-numbers music. Much preferred the Stones even if they too were egotistical cuntsticks – Day Admin)
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For every Michelle, or things We Said Today, there was the banal repetitive Hey Judes, such a fucking camp song they could have written it for another of the great poofters of pop Cliff Richard.
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60 years ago Norman. You’ve got to let it go.
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Norman? Sure he has his own opinion!
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Oops, it was too early for alcohol……,
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No one said you had to be nice in showbiz.
They treated Best like shite, same as the pistols treated Glen Matlock.
Musics full of “look at me” show offs.
Marc Bolan was,
They arent that nice but they certainly produced a great body of work.
Ringo Starr? They must of looked far and wide to find a big a cunt as him.
Hes posh now and not a cheeky scouse moptop anymore, but he is and always will be a solid gold cunt.
As Pete Best said “ever get the feelin youve been cheated”?
Or summat.
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Marc Bollock , I recall the Daily Mirror running a competition the first prize of which was ‘being able to play the electric guitar in three months’ I remember thinking that a chimp could have the same ability in less than an hour.
Want a brilliant guitar player ? Frank Zappa….. Bliss
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Zappa was brilliant, not as good as the young lad who was in his band for a while-Joe Satriani😀
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Bowen was a well respected session guitarist 👍
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Bolen , even.
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MNC was it not Johny rotten, who said that. I know you dont tend to be wrong in your observations. Anyway are you enjoying your tins.
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It was indeed Johnny Rotten at the last gig the pistols did in san Francisco Winterland Tono.
I was acting daft, ive attributed it to lots of people fooling about.
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You are forgiven my esteemed sir MNC.
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My favourite band from the era was the kinks. The lyrics of Ray Davies were rarely anything but brilliant and Dave Davies was a real character/ nutter.
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Have to agree. Most overrated pile of shit in the history of music. Never got it and can’t stand listening to it. Closely followed by the stones and the who.
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Sorry-Ringo was much better than Pete Best. Pete was useful because his mum had a cafe where they hung out and practised. People are used every minute of every day.
If Best was any fucking good he would have had an incredible musical career, no?
Pete was the “pretty boy” and I reckon Lennon was jealous.
They needed Ringo to drive them forward.
Yoko Ono and Linda Eastman snd her lawyer father were the cunts.
I also think that as a band, the Beatles body of work stands as the greatest contribution to contemporary music.
So there😄
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Agreed CG. There are too many youngsters on this site who are not old enough to appreciate good music.
😂😂
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I thought it was that poof manager, Epstein or something, who got shot of the cunt. Probably wouldn’t suck his cock, you know what benders are like.
What ever happened to Simon Dee, that’s what pisses me off?
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Thinking about it and in fairness ive only heard Pete Best fuckin whining, playing the victim, bit of a crybaby cunt?
Maybe he was a right orrible cunt?
Cruel to animals, putting fireworks through old dears letterboxes, hitting toddlers when no one was looking?
Despite any evidence I like to think he was,
And he got what he deserved.
Serves him fuckin right.
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His mother was an interfering old cow who wanted to control the group apparently.
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There you go then.
Fuck him.
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I heard Pete’s mum was a bit of a goer. Neil Aspinall had a go for starters.
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Pete Best? Toddler beating monster? And such a talented footballer!
Oh, wait a minute..
The Latin for ego is “music”.
(Huge fib there!)
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Ringo was a professional, workmanlike drummer. Moon could never fit in any band but the Who though Mitchell was top class. Probably the best after Baker.
Yes, Best was badly treated, particularly as his mother gave them a venue and support.
And those of you who denigrate the Beatles either werent there to suffer the ocean of shite that passed as pop or were fans of Alma fucking Cogan and Cliff.
The Beatles opened the floodgates. Musicians emulated them by writing their own stuff giving us the great acts of the 60s. Studio and recording techniques were revolutionised – they didnt need to be before for cunts like Adam Faith and his turgid ilk. The good stuff that was about was denied us by the fucking BBC – Sing Something Simple instead of Eddie Cochran or Holly. The Beatles championed Motown and all the great Yank music at the time.
Write the Beatles off and cuddle up with Cowell. Seems about right.
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I was listening to Hendrix, Sabbath and deep purple as a kid while this hyped up boy band was still strumming their shit.
(Hendrix set the world alight – literally with his guitar! Had plenty of time for local lads Sabbath, and to a lesser extent Zeppers. Deep Purple were good, but Blackmore was a cunt, as he was with Rainbow, and anything else he touched. Good axeman though – Day Admin)
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Oops, too busy hating the scab four, I forgot about led zep.
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Take a listen to Blackmore Knight for some seriously good acoustic guitar work.
Nobody has mentioned one of the best in the world IMHO – Stephen Stills
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Hear! hear! Cuntstable, I could not agree more.
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Dave Clark 5 ….much better Band
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Dame Edna said it best about the fucking Beatles
“Ive Heard The Group Brick Up The Cellar”
Beatles were 60 years ago its now Dad Music Fuck Off
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They’re fucking scousers what do you expect? Proud scouser lads that all fucked off as far away from Liverpool as soon as they hit the big time. I just wish Mark Chapman had got to Paul McCuntney too.
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Day tripper, paperback writer, don’t let me down and Hide your love away weren’t too bad.
But yes, massively overrated. Can’t link to it in my phone, but there is a very funny video on YT of Bill Burr taking the piss out of Lennon and McCartney for being pussy whipped. Ono utterly destroying a jam between the Beatles and Chuck Berry is fucking hilarious. They also play Linda McCartney’s voice recorded and isolated at a concert doing the backing ‘vocals’ for Hey Jude.
Absolutely horrendous voice.
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That jam session is truely horrendous. I’d rather take a drillbit to my eardrum than suffer it again.
They probably suffered flashbacks of it. So very painful!
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Been on this site a few weeks and this is the first cunting I’ve disagreed with. Maybe an individual cunting for McCartney for such abominations as the frog chorus but can’t cunt the band as a whole. The most influential band in the history of rock are cunts? Can’t do it.
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Kind of with you on that. I think that while they were overrated, they were better than most of the shite around at the time. Cliff, Cilla, Adam Faith, Tom Jones, Englebert Humpadink? Fuck off.
The Kinks wrote some great songs though.
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Ray Davies is an underrated genius
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Had a pint with Ray Davies in the Howard of Effingham pub in Effingham, back in 1999-he lived a stones throw away. Very unassuming bloke, to me a fucking legend.
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Most influential band? Do me a favour, plastic, strummy pop and that’s being kind to them
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I commented on these cunts once and Yoko, it got deleted(involved the their parents houses, the Luftwaffe and the Enola Gay). An admin must like them. Trite, whiney boomer shite like most music that came thereafter.
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Any Antipodean commenting on good music or films can’t be taken seriously surely?
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What about the mighty AC/DC?
(Rolf Harris, rocked with his didgeridoo, and his Two Little Boys! Quite liked Rose Tattoo, and Men at Work – Day Admin)
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Rose tattoo. A blast from the past.
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AC/DC? Excellent form – beer and fight music!
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Men at work-half English.
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The early INXS albums, The Swing and Listen Like Thieves were pretty good. They were OK before they became stadium rock cunts.
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They gave us Kylie and that Andre gentleman. Say no more.
I will allow them AC/DC and Easybeats though these were Pommie immigrants.
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The very first record I ever bought was “Sorry” by The Easybeats. Great band, although I’ve always thought it sad Stevie Wright suffered the indignity of dying in a caravan park on the south coast of NSW. Poor bastard.
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Dannii Minogue did have superb tits, mind.
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I take your point but pot kettle black comes to mind as a fair proportion of Brits seem/seemed to like Phil fucking Collins!😀
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An oasis cover band I seem to remember.
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They did what no other band could ever do since then, mass appeal.
From radical left terrorrists, old ladies, kids, man in the street, teenagers, serious music fans, all loved the Beatles.
And from boyband hysteria (Beatlemania) to experimenting with indian ragas, music hall, new recording and mixing technics Its pretty brave I think.
They arent my favourite band but I tip my hat to them as groundbreaking and revolutionary.
Golden slumbers off the white Album👍👍
Sang it to my son when he was a baby
For that the Fab Four get a pass from me.
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Erm…at the risk of being a pernickety cunt Golden Slumbers is off Abbey Road! 😊
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Well spotted Pike!
Just keeping you men on your toes!(😳😳😳!!!)
Your right sorry it was Abbey road.
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Excellent choice of track Miserable. The Beatles will always remain popular because the kids of Beatles fans like them.
My son(40)is a Beatles fan and I watched a video of my 4 year old granddaughter the other day dancing to “Baby you can drive my car.”
Beep beep, yeah.
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Evening Bertie, hope your well?
They were a big part of life growing up, sang their songs in infant school to the teachers piano, always on the radio, watched the Beatles Cartoon as a kid,
Im a big Ali fan so saw pictures of them goofing about with him, my gran had some Beatles medley record aimed at more ‘square’ fans -no psychedelic stuff coo coo ca choo!
I rarely listen to them now although because we’re discussing them ive got “across the universe” humming in the baack of my mind…👍
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I’m probably like you Miserable, I don’t listen to them much these days. They’re now part of history which I’d like to retain. Fuck us, they want to take away our statues, our heroes and our role models. They’re not going to take away our fuckin’ music!
🤣
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I agree with you Bertie on all counts.
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Jesus miserable-your just a great big softy.
Sob👍
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Evening CG,
I am with my family and dog, its true.
Fairly amiable gentle giant.
Although have got a bit of a temper😁😁
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Gentle Giant weren’t bad if you liked prog rock. They evolved out of Simon Dupree And The Big Sound.
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Oh fuck Smug. Don’t get me started.
Surely Liam useless Gallagher deserves a cunting all on his own? A recently recorded interview on that Rockfield Studios doc showed him still dressed up in that idiotic buttoned up parka, spouting the usual bollocks and acting the hard man ‘rock star’. What a talentless cunt.
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The Beatles – undoubtedly a bunch of cunts. But they were probably the best there ever was and possibly the best there ever will be. Or perhaps like many things you had to be there at the time. I ‘m off to get me coat.
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Know what you mean MK. I was there at the time, and I’d never seen anything like Beatlemania before, and haven’t seen anything remotely resembling it since. Those four guys were the most famous people in the world; their impact on our culture enormous. And they were English. I’ll always treasure them.
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My dad took me to see The Beatles in 1963. I was so excited I hid under my seat for much of the show.
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I saw them at Wimbledon Palais before they were massive. They were actually pretty good.
Saw the Stones at Plymouth Odeon. Never heard a note for all the screaming.
Saw ZZ Top at Wembley Arena. Now that’s a band.
Personally I was more into Hendrix, Cream and John Mayall, but the early Beatles albums were their best.
Best Beatles IMHO was Revolver. I still play it once in a while.
I recommend The Rutles. Taking the piss out of Beatles music and actually improving on it. Macca apparently wanted to sue for copyright infringement but Linda told him to fuck off and grow a sense to humour. Seems like he’s still working on that.
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Hey diddle diddle
Piggy in the middle
Do a poo poo
I am the eggman
They are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Coo Coo ka do
Take your pick
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Yea loved the Rutles. Good ol George has the sense to appreciate a humorous pisstake.
“Your mother should go”
“Fool on the pill”
etc
Neil Innes- comic genius
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Liverpool John Lennon airport, named after the first place he fucked off to once he’d made a few quid. Cunt.
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According to Lewisohn, Lennon worked for a short time in the kitchens at Liverpool airport and used to spit in the food before serving. Fact! (a small portion of the evidence of his bastardery)
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This is indeed an urban myth. He lived nowhere near the airport and Aunt Mimi never had a car.
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Lennon never worked anywhere. He was an idle cunt.
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A tad before my time.
Always thought and still think The Kinks were a great band but sadly overlooked in the Pantheon of 60’s bands.
King Crimson’s “The Court of the Crimson King” kicked off my record collection with my first pay packet!
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That era produced loads of great bands and the Beatles paved the way.
Small Faces, Fleetwood Mac, Hollies, Moody Blues etc
The Uk punches way above its weight in music,
No one comes close.
Maybe the yanks?
Naw
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MNC your so right about are contribution to music. When i have been to earope, british bands are always played in the background. Once i was in Berlin,and nearly every song played was by a british band. I am very proud of that. Although Boy George can fuck off.
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Hahaha! Indeed!
Boy George can fuck right off.😁
Hes a selfish lover Boy George!
“He comes and goes, he comes and goes”…
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Talent free wanker in a dress and silly hat.
Worra cunt.
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The Yanks had a few: Creedence, The Byrds, The Band, Love. But I agree that Britain was the best. With acts like Free, Deep Purple, Procol Harum, the original Fleetwood Mac and Humble Pie.
Here’s Stevie and the lads in their prime:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9M6oKTKR3c
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Same here Cantalugs.
I first heard Schidzoid Man on an Island Sampler called ‘ Nice Enough To Eat “ It Blew my mind and ever since I’ve been a music fanatic. Even got a job as a Piano and Church Organ Builder.
Back to the Beatles. I was raised on them by my older brother so their music is ingrained in me.
Pete Best was a boring Cunt that looked more like woodwork teacher. Ringo is a Cunt but he’s my kind of cunt if that makes sense .
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Yes Fenton
Still hear 20th Schizoid Man sampled on tv ads.
Thing is now, stuff I sneered at when I was a youth, doesn’t sound too bad!
Getting old.
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In moderation!??
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Is Schìzőid a forbidden word?
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I think of the Beatles in the same way as the Spice girls, right place right time, they both seemed to have similar appeal (not the music)
The Beatles were nothing special just like the spice girls, Fab Four fuck off, girl power fuck off.
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Remind me never to take you seriously on any fucking topic.
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Never, never, never 😂
Except Owen Jones my hatred for him is unquestionable
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Changing the subject, we’ve just beaten the peacefuls at Old Trafford, yay! Worth cracking another can for, cheers!
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We were looking fucked too at one point. The fuckers were claiming everything as usual. Cheating cunts. That lanky peaceful bowler was running around punching the air when the batsman was nowhere near the fucking ball.
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Cricket is a complete irrelevance at the moment, particularly as we’ve let these pâkis in complete with COVID.
All sport at this moment is nothing but a diversion from the reality of the fucked up world we’re living in.
And I say that as a sports fan, believe it or not.
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Yeah but surely we need a diversion? Otherwise we’d all be slashing our wrists?
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I like your legs Cupid but I can’t believe the Pâkis were allowed into the country with the high incidence of Covid in that country, especially as we are discouraging people to visit countries like Portugal.
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Absolutely,but a bit of distraction helps take the mind off all the shit going on.
Just make sure you avoid the start of each day’s play to avoid the knee taking bollocks.
I’ll take a few hours distraction where I can get it, but yes, no crowds and BLM bollocks makes it hard even for me to watch. I’m not giving cricket up though because of lefty cunts and race baiting cunts.
Arsenal won the cup last week and I couldn’t give a shit. I pretty much don’t support them anymore due to the players giving black power salutes. I’ll still watch footy, but I’m just not invested in any team now.
But it’s not hard to want the peacefuls to lose though.
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All compliments are most welcome Bertie! Yeah they probably shouldn’t have been allowed into the country. You would like to hope they were all tested upon arrival. Anyway we’ll probably all be back into lockdown soon. Have you seen pictures of all those stupid cunts at Bournemouth and Brighton beaches today? Packed in like fucking sardines. Idiots.
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Exactly Cupid. It makes you despair. All I can put it down to is that there are many people after their Grannie’s fortune!
😅
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Israel Foleu.
Frequently in trouble for upsetting the politically correct.
The only one who refused to take the knee last weekend.
Cunthero of the year awaits
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Who said that you have to be any good to be a drummer anyway?
As long as you can “feel Glad all over” then you’ll make it!
😅
What a fuckin’ load of Cockney cunts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EipdAjhImrc
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Lets hope the IsAC lounge band doesn’t have a major falling out before their COTY Awards gig.
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I saw them at the winter gardens Blackpool in 1964, bits and pieces, glad all over, I was only 11.
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I liked it when they took drugs.
Before and after that they can fuck right off.
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No life’s unfair. Ringo fitted.
A drummer should be quirky, funny.
Also if Pete was good looking jt might have taken the focus away.
Also I think Ringo was a good drummer. Goid at ‘fillers’ spare but effective.
No Ringo fitted even down to his name. John, Paul, George and Pete just doesn’t sound right.
My criticism of them are sometimes the poor amateurish lyric writing. ‘She’s Leaving Home’ is very very good. But the words to ‘Hey Jude’ are IMO poor.
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A terrible line in Hey Jude to my mind-
‘The movement you need is on your shoulder’
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I’ve got the Hey Jude 45 but only ever play the flip side which is Revolution. B side often better than A side with the Beatles, Hello Goodbye/I am the Walrus being another example
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It does speak CS to how good they were that you woild automatically play the B side. Where you wouldn’t with another band.
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I along with a many hate the sentiments of Imagine. Especially of course ‘and no possessions too’ when he amassed a fortune. However, the sentiments of ‘Revolution’ are spot on. ‘Don’t you know that you can count me out’.
What are my favourites?
Old Brown Shoe
Across The Universe
Fixing a hole
Back in the USSR
A Day in the Life
Love Me Do (love the harmonica on that)
Can’t Buy Me Love
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Evening Miles, more a Alex Harvey fan arent you?
Thought youd like ‘day in the life’ ?
“Woke up fell out of bed
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my downstairs and drank a cup
And looking up I noticed I was late.
Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the bus in seconds flat…
That to me is perfect lyrics, you in the song
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I read the news today oh boy, 40,000 Pàkis in Blackburn, Lancashire…
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Evening Miserable
Yeah you guessed right. One of my favourites A Day in the life.
Funny you do have a ‘relationship’ with them. Because their whole lives were in public.
John very ambivalent feelings. Did like the raucous edge.
Paul. More ambivalent feelings. That ‘I’m ordinary bloke’ thing I don’t care for.
George. Actually George I have positively antagonistic feelings towards. Summed up by saying his assumption that Spirituality could only be found in the religions of India. What about your own tradition?
Ringo. Can’t stand him still saying ‘love and peace’ even now.
Yes ambivalent feelings about them all.
But I listened to them a lot.
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“What about your own tradition?”
Maybe cos George had a mind of his own.
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This is the first quantum cunting which has me in a superposition of states as I both agree and disagree with it. I like the fact that Norman cuts through the shite of the music biz and tells it how it is. The Beatles were indeed bastards as John Lennon himself admitted. He would have to since the evidence of his bastardery in particular is astronomical . No argument from me there. However, to simply write off their music by illustrating it with the squawking of Linda Eastman and Yoko Ono is a step too far. As for attempting to define McCartneys’s musical genius with a children’s song about frogs he wrote for kids , well that in itself deserves a cunting all on its own. In conclusion, if all the Beatles ever did was record ‘Tommorow never knows’,( written by Lennon with tape loops by McCartney) then they would still deserve every accolade ever written about them. Fact!
Hopefully the snowflake admins on here will let me out of is a cunt jail in order that my post be seen and appreciated by those of good taste.
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Nice to see you still read ISAC Jack, think you can still post but if checked by admin.
Not banned as such.
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Jack-very eloquently put👍👍👍
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If you were, as you put it, in cunt jail, how did you manage to access the site and post the above.
Makes no sense as I can confirm from past experience that it doesn’t work like that…
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Out on day release just before I got hauled back in. As you know full well Dioclese.
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Going slightly off-piste, but with Ringo Starr in mind, other very average drummers who lucked out with very talented band members. I offer for your consideration:
Charlie Watts
Mick Fleetwood
Larry Mullen Jr
John Bonham
And, of course, Ringo
Lucky cunts, all of ’em.
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U cunt
I spotted the odd one out!
Led Zeppelin
Rolling Stones
Fleetwood Mac
…U2?😁
Bono is Vernon Foxs cousin , no shit.
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MNC you accuse poor Vernon of being related to Bono. Dont you think Vernon has suffered enough from cunt engines drug cocktail.
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You forgot to mention Ginger Baker. 😂
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I think Ginger Baker was worth his slot in Cream but a cunt anyway. Bonham was just a glorified pub drummer. Also forgot Phil Rudd in AC/DC.
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What do you call someone who hangs out with musicians?
A drummer.
I thank you.
Watts was an excellent, understated drummer.
Mick Fleetwood a lucky cunt, first Peter Green then Lyndsey Buckingham.
Ringo was perfect for the Beatles as well as very lucky.
Bonham was loud. Zeppelin were a bunch of rip off artists, although Rolf improved on one of their tracks.
Mullen might be ok but Bonio is such an unspeakable cunt who cares?
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Charlie is still going with the Stones. A fine drummer and a good bloke.
Mullen is the only non-cunt in the U2 ranks. His drums on Sunday Bloody Sunday and Bullet The Blue Sky save both tracks.
Two other goodun’s were Topper Headon of The Clash. Best drummer of the punk and new wave era. Also, Alan Wren of The Stone Roses.is a top drummer.
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I’m of an older vintage (clearly). In no particular order, my fave drummers:
Carl Palmer
Bill Bruford
Neil Peart
Jimmy Ayoub
Tony Williams
Terry Bozzio
And a few more
(great drummers, especially Peart! I would add Bill Ward, Cozy Powell and Ian Paice – admin)
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Stuart Copeland should be on that list ( IMHO )
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Carmine Appice of Vanilla Fudge.
Alan White of Yes.
Don Powell of Slade.
Bev Bevan of The Move and ELO.
Rick Buckler of The Jam.
Nick Mason of Pink Floyd.
And – nothing to do with his 80s solo stuff – Phil Collins was an ace drummer in the early days of Genesis.
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What ! No John French !
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Bonham was ok but it’d only my opinion.
What he lacked in finesse he made up for with power and energy.
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Steely Dan have to be the best band of all time.
In my very humble opinion.
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I’ve got Aja and The Royal Scam, both very good. Can you recommend any others?
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Can’t Buy A Thrill, Countdown To Ecstasy and Pretzel Logic are their best, imo.
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Cheers RTC, will check them out, reckon I’ll start with Can’t buy a thrill.
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Interesting about Pete Best.
All I can say is that on occasions when I met McCartney he was a miserable tight fisted git, happy to accept praise and drinks but reluctant to buy a round.
I had a mate called Denny Laine who was, to say the least, not that well treated by Macca. Amazing how Linda was the great love of his life and how quickly he moved on to Heather Mills who I am delighted to say shit on him from a great height.
Lennon/McCartney were a pairing who wrote some half decent stuff and a whole load of crap Hey fucking Jude being a prize example and All You Need is Cash another – all sing along now
Neither of them was any fucking good without the other
George Harrison was a much unrated guitarist. Ringo was, to quote Lennon, not even the best drummer in the Beatles. He wasn’t joking. Nice enough bloke though.
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I have heard tales of Macca getting Denny and his old lady a set of M&S bedsheets as a wedding present. And they weren’t even wrapped. Tight cunt. Linda also banned Laine’s missus and Jimmy McCullough’s girlfriend (a Playboy playmate) from travelling with Wings on tour. As they were much more attractive than she was and she didn’t want Paul near any fit birds. That’s how petty she was. Jimmy could also a tell a story or two about Macca’s tightness if he was still alive. I also reckon it was McCartney who was behind Pete’s sacking. Wings had a drummer named Geoff Brittan. A good drummer, but he didn’t last long in Wings, as Macca said ‘He didn’t fit in’. Sound familiar? He also said the same thing about Best. McCartney’s dad also had a go at Pete in public for ‘being selfish’ as he went to some girls who were screaming his name in the early days in Liverpool. Could Macca be that much of a cunt? To be so jealous of his mate to get him fired? As Gary Cooper might say ‘Yup!’
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Didn’t Denny Laine have to take McCuntney to Court for a share of the royalties to the godawful “Mull of Kintyre”?
Multimillion seller, royalties were pocket money to McC; life changing to Den.
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Nobody should sell their mates out. It isn’t that they wanted Best out, it;s the way it was done. And Ringo didn’t give a fuck. Until the band replaced him with Jimmy Nicol for the Australian tour and then Ringo panicked that the Beatles were (his words) ‘doing a Pete Best on me’. Thing was Nicol did Ringo’s drum parts with ease. Other bands of the era had far better drummers than Starr. Keith Moon, Bobby Ellliot, Kenney Jones, Viv Prince and Mick Avory were all better. Then there were the top class late 60s/early 70s drummers like Simon Kirke, Ginger Baker, Mitch Mitchell, BJ Wilson, and the king of them all, Ian Paice. If Best had been sacked and replaced by a shit hot drummer it would be understanable. Best says he isn’t arsed now, but he must still be smarting at the cunts and also at the fact that Ringo Fucking Starr of all people took his golden ticket. I also wonder if Pete lies there at night and thinks ‘That could have been me. Screwing Barbara Bach’. I know I have.
Life’s a cunt, Pete.
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Nice post Norman. Interesting you mention Mick Avory. Really great Great Drummer, and a fucking good shot with throwing cymbals !
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BJ Wilson mentioned too. Hear hear to that!!
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Ringo always said he hated drum solos.
Probably because he couldn’t fucking do one.
Unlike this man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxGAdEVSCpk
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What an awesome band The Faces were. Fucking love them. Sadly shortlived
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