This Network Moments comes on the heels of Turd Ferugson’s decidedly dubious slight on early Beatles songs…
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HIP E.: Any statement about not getting into the beatles should be followed by “yet.” I’m jealous of anybody who still gets to look forward to getting into the Beatles, the best band ever.
TURD FERGUSON: Sorry dood, they’re early stuff is crap (to me).
SHARK: I’ve been recently very much into their early stuff. Meet the Beatles, Beatles for Sale, etc. Maybe just bc I’ve exhausted the later stuff, but there’s a nice exuberance to their early stuff. It’s all pretty choppy and one-offed, which makes it fun.
Beatles rule.
TURD: I just don’t like the pop shit love potion 9, help!, love me do and all that stuff.
SHARK: I can understand your stance, even though I personally feel differently. However, “Help!” is usually considered a harbinger of the experimental Beatles stage. Mainly because it tackles more complex issues like, um, needing “help,” not just needing love.
BAIN: Yeah, I’ve met a troubling number of people entirely unfamiliar with the beatles catalog. That was where my friend Tom “No Remorsin’ ” Thorson’s parents and their vast cd collection came in handy when I was a kid. [Turd], Im pretty sure I’ve never heard a beatles version of love potion number 9. I think the radio version is by the searchers.
TURD: okay but that wasn’t the point. the point was i certainly do not like their early pop stuff.
BAIN: I agree, the beatles early pop songs like “hey hey we’re the monkees” are totally lame.
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14 responses so far ↓
Gabbeh // Apr 22, 2008 at 12:49 pm
There is no “late” Beatles, if it weren’t for the “early” Beatles. In fact, most people love the band because they were able to start as a pop band and transition their sound and style into more complex music later on.
The other great thing about the early Beatles is how much they riffed off early black rock n’ roll music. The Beatles truly revered what many of the American R&B, blues, blues-rock, and rock n’ roll artists were doing. Their early stuff borrowed from that catalog and started to bring the genre to the forefront of popular music.
Early Beatles rule.
Thrill // Apr 22, 2008 at 1:12 pm
The fact that The Beatles were only famous for like six years before they broke up blows my mind. And in their seven years of releasing albums, they put out thirteen - and almost all of them are considered “classics”.
The Beatles rule.
Elvis // Apr 22, 2008 at 2:23 pm
I wipe my bloated ass with their entire back catalog.
Turd Ferguson // Apr 23, 2008 at 9:28 am
The Beatles do rule. But just because they rule doesn’t mean I have to like “Help”. Because I don’t.
Hip E. // Apr 23, 2008 at 10:49 am
True. Nobody has to like “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” either. Actually Heather Mills probably likes it because it represents like 74,000 pounds sterling to her.
Shark // Apr 23, 2008 at 11:42 am
I like “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” better than “Something”.
Turd Ferguson // Apr 23, 2008 at 11:43 am
Seriously. That divorce cost Paul an arm. But not a leg.
Hip E. // Apr 23, 2008 at 12:37 pm
As bad as it is, at least “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” is better than their early stuff, like “Champagne Supernova.”
Thrill // Apr 23, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Way to steal Bain’s joke, Hip E.
Thrill // Apr 23, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Although that reminds me of the time that a guy I knew in high school “wrote” his girlfriend a poem entitled “Wonderwall”. She loved it; it was sweet, it was tender, it was endearing. It was also written by Noel Gallagher - a fact she quickly discovered when she showed it to her friends at lunch.
Interesting fact: “Wonderwall” was named after (and strongly influenced by) the first solo album released by one of The Beatles: George Harrison’s “Wonderwall Music”.
Hip E. // Apr 23, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Thrill,
The comment you made, at 3:09, was dumb.
Shark // Apr 23, 2008 at 7:04 pm
I agree. In stark contrast to the 3:17 comment, which was great.
Thrill // Apr 24, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Well no-thanks and thanks.
Simon // May 9, 2008 at 11:20 am
you meant to say that maxwell’s silver hammer means 75,000 pounds to michael jackson
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