I don't like the Beatles. Please don't kill me.

Just over a week to go to get your lists in :D

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I guess I should start ranking albums then. <___<

 

 

I don't like the Beatles. Please don't kill me.

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3 Days to go people

I won't be getting my list in :disappointed:

I've been studying for final exams and I feel like I haven't explored enough of that music, so my list wouldn't be fair.

interesting how its widely considered that the 60s were the best decade of music yet going on the lists people have mentioned, it seems to be about the same 2 or 3 bands over and over again. cant help but question the status the 60s has.

i think it's more how revolutionary the music of the 60's was and how it evolved so greatly from previous decades. it also has much more of an influence on the rest of music that followed which only the blues seem to be able to rival from earlier eras.

1. Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison (1968, live)

2. Johnny Cash - At San Quentin (1969, live)

3. Victor Jara - Pongo En Tus Manos Abiertas (1969)

4. Johnny Cash - I Walk The Line (1964)

5. The Doors - The Doors (1967)

6. Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left (1969)

7. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (1966)

8. The Doors - Strange Days (1967)

9. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced

10. Johnny Cash - Everybody Loves A Nut (1966)

11. Johnny Cash - Orange Blossom Special (1965)

12. The Kinks - Kinks (1964)

13. The Doors - Waiting For The Sun (1968)

14. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II (1969)

15. The Beach Boys - Smiley Smile (1967)

16. Johnny Cash - Ring Of Fire (1963)

17. David Bowie - Space Oddity (1969)

18. Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969)

19. The Turtles - Happy Together (1967)

20. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)

 

Honourable mention: Los Saicos - ¡Demolición! (1965)

1) Magical Mystery Tour

2) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

3) Please Please Me

4) Help!

5) Abbey Road

6) The Beatles (The White Album)

7) Beatles For Sale

8) With The Beatles

9) A Hard Day's Night

10) Rubber Soul

11) Revolver

12) Yellow Submarine

 

All by the Fab Four from Liverpool of course...

 

Honorable mention to 1970's Let It Be :P

^:thumbsup:

They're the only classic rock I listen to, and the only classic rock I need. They're brilliant and the sheer effect they've had on the world of music should be enough to make anyone appreciate them. Unfortunately some people just don't realize what exactly those four guys have done for music :(

 

Happy Birthday to Sir Paul McCartney by the way.

Why people call them overrated is beyond me.

Meh. I honestly don't see what's so great about them. But then again, I grew up listening to South American folk(/protest) music, The Cure, R.E.M. and Nirvana, among others. :D

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a3NcwfOBzQ]YouTube- The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows[/ame]

they are hugely revolutionary. i cannot conceive hearing this for the first time in 1966 with the music that was around at that time. pioneers.

^I think that's the point for people that think they are overrated, or don't understand them. Perhaps the Beatles don't do anything for them or they sound too simple or whatever, but if you take a listen to what came out before them and how they shaped music, it's clear how important they were to music and changed it forever.

 

I mean try to imagine listening to songs like Tomorrow Never Knows, Strawberry Fields Forever, I am the Walrus, when no one had ever done what they did.

 

If you don't like the band... fine. But you cannot deny how they are one of if not (most likely) the most important band ever.

as the beatles have a lot of votes already, here goes my non-beatles list (doesn't mean i don't like them or appreciate their contribution to music).

 

1. ummagumma by pink floyd

2. led zeppelin 1 by led zeppelin

3. the doors by the doors

4. space oddicy by david bowie

5. strange days by the doors

6. black is black by los bravos

7. sounds of silence by simon & garfunkel

8. fresh cream by cream

9. for your love by the yearbirds

10. the velvet underground & nico by the velvet underground

11. wheels of fire by cream

12. bee gees by bee gees

13. freewheelin' bob dylan by bob dylan

14. the soft parade by the doors

15. disraeli gears by cream

16. my generation by the who

17. songs from a room by leonard cohen

18. a saucerful of secrets by pink floyd

19. led zeppelin II by led zeppelin

20. bringing it all back by bob dylan

 

may i missed some other good bands/albums of that decade, but was hard to decide, may some albums deserve to be upper in the list but i won't modify the order again.

 

please co-organizer, for the 70's make a bigger list, i had to not consider some albums and bands already cause they were from the 70s.

i'm still pushing we keep the list the same length for the 70's. otherwise it will just be a list of all the albums. keep it to the best of the best, it isn't hard. if you produce a list of 50 you will still have a top 20 so just cut it and give those in. these lists shouldn't be easy, there should be quite a bit of thought into them

1 Nirvana - The Story Of Simon Simopath

2 The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle

3 The Troggs - From Nowhere... The Troggs

4 Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

5 Moody Blues - In Search Of The Lost Chord

6 Kinks - Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

7 The Who - My Generation

8 Lovin' Spoonful - Do You Believe In Magic

9 Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

10 Kinks -The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society

11 Leonard Cohen - Songs From A Room

12 Pentangle - Basket of Light

13 Kinks - Something Else by The Kinks

14 Van Morrison - Astral Weeks

15 Scott Walker - Scott 2

16 Yardbirds - Roger the Engineer

17 David Bowie - Space Oddity

18 Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin 2

19 Fairport Convention - Liege And Lief

20 Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

you learn something everyday

i'll have to give that nirvana a listen

^I think that's the point for people that think they are overrated, or don't understand them. Perhaps the Beatles don't do anything for them or they sound too simple or whatever, but if you take a listen to what came out before them and how they shaped music, it's clear how important they were to music and changed it forever.

 

I mean try to imagine listening to songs like Tomorrow Never Knows, Strawberry Fields Forever, I am the Walrus, when no one had ever done what they did.

 

If you don't like the band... fine. But you cannot deny how they are one of if not (most likely) the most important band ever.

 

I fall into the category of not really being a Beatles fan by any stretch, but I definitely do understand that they were revolutionary and very important for music.

 

I have no idea what it means either