Are The Beatles and Queen overrated?

[Vienna_70]

I no queen fan myself , I don’t mind them but this is incredible :

They stole the show that day. Absolutely brilliant.

Freddie had the Wembley crowd eating out of his hand.

 

[Vienna_70]

Absolutely.
The Smiths piss all over both bands

Trust you!

 

[Vienna_70]

No queen definitely played 2 sets at wembley ,second set was towards the end ,from memory,is this the world we created was one .

That was just Freddie and Brian on the acoustic guitar.

I’d forgotten about that.

 

[Vienna_70]

How many number ones has the X Factor produced?
Number ones just mean sales, not quality.
It's like saying the rags sell the most replica shirts per season so they must be the best team in the world.
I've grown up (I'm now 61) being told The Beatles are the best band in the world ever just like I'm told the rags / red scousers are the best ever football team in the world. As with the majority of the population, tell them something enough times and they will believe it.....
Don't believe the hype.

That goes for the Smiths too.

Absolute load of shite.

 

[Vienna_70]

But “She Loves You” is probably the greatest pop song ever written.

Apparently, when I was about 12 months old, my Mum used to ask me what the Beatles sang, and I would respond, "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!"

 

[Vienna_70]

I didn't say they couldn't have been, I expressed my opinion that they were no better than session musicians. Indeed, they were probably a lot worse than many 'unsung' session musicians.

Jesus Christ!

I’ve heard it all now.

Brian, Roger and John are all brilliant musicians in their own right.

Freddie would never have been what he was without the other members of Queen.

 

[mrtwiceaseason]

That was just Freddie and Brian on the acoustic guitar.

I’d forgotten about that.

So had I ,was there and really pissed up it came as a shock to see it about 30 years later :+)

 

[jimharri]

My two favourite bands. The record sales and the enduring appeal of both don’t lie.

I’ve loved Queen ever since their first single, Seven Seas Of Rhye. Their music was full of brilliant tunes and intelligent lyrics.

Freddie was arguably the greatest front-man ever, with a fantastic stage presence and a superb voice to match.


The Beatles were brilliant too.

The evolution of their music was plain to hear from album to album, and they were pioneers in their use of non-conventional pop/rock music instruments, especially on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Neither band is overrated, IMHO.

Second. Keep yourself alive was their first single (July 1973). Rhye was their first top 10 single, seven months later.

When you were growing up, were you told a million times of all the troubles in your way? But you probably grew a little wiser, a little better every day?

 

[Vienna_70]

Second. Keep yourself alive was their first single (July 1973). Rhye was their first top 10 single, seven months later.

When you were growing up, were you told a million times of all the troubles in your way? But you probably grew a little wiser, a little better every day?

You’re splitting hairs, J.

I know Keep Yourself Alive was the first single, but it didn’t chart, therefore I didn’t hear it, until I bought Queen I.

I meant their first Top 30 single.

 

[jimharri]

You’re splitting hairs, J.

I know Keep Yourself Alive was the first single, but it didn’t chart, therefore I didn’t hear it, until I bought Queen I.

I meant their first Top 30 single.

I'm right, though!

;-)

 

[stonerblue]

Old fogeys pile-on....

 

[Bill Walker]

Old fogeys pile-on....

FOC's if you don't mind :)

 

[hilts]

Opinions are wrong....if you don't agree?
Lol....the perfect definition of a simpleton, from one ;)
You like them, carry on listening to them then, I think they're crap....and won't!

Didn't say that dumbass, not liking them is fine, calling them a boy band is stupid.

Comprendi fuck nut;-)

 

[hilts]

You’re splitting hairs, J.

I know Keep Yourself Alive was the first single, but it didn’t chart, therefore I didn’t hear it, until I bought Queen I.

I meant their first Top 30 single.

Oh Vienna!

 

[KS55]

I remember Stannage playing nothing but the Beatles one night around xmas.1990 on Piccadilly and it really brought it home to me the quality and range of their music

But some find them a bland sellout compared to their hard rocking Hamburg days

I preferred the R&B songs of their early days to where they went later.
Eg their version of Mr. Postman is far superior to I wanna hold your Hand.

 

[Bill Walker]

I remember Stannage playing nothing but the Beatles one night around xmas.1990 on Piccadilly and it really brought it home to me the quality and range of their music

But some find them a bland sellout compared to their hard rocking Hamburg days

Very bland..

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Didn't say that dumbass, not liking them is fine, calling them a boy band is stupid.

Comprendi fuck nut;-)

But they were a band of boys? :-)

I guess McFly aren’t a boy band either then…

 

[stonerblue]

Didn't say that dumbass, not liking them is fine, calling them a boy band is stupid.

Comprendi fuck nut;-)

this makes some good points regarding the boy band angle

Why The Beatles were initially a boy band

The Beatles may have shaped rock and roll as we know it, but their first projects veered closer to boy band territory in the best way possible.

faroutmagazine.co.uk

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

Very bland..

What's happening with the backing vocals there where McCartney gets caught out at 1:36.

 

[hilts]

this makes some good points regarding the boy band angle

Why The Beatles were initially a boy band

The Beatles may have shaped rock and roll as we know it, but their first projects veered closer to boy band territory in the best way possible.

faroutmagazine.co.uk

Certainly early on they were a very good pop band loved by young girls. Their songs still had something different to the generic hence the popularity outside of just young girls.

The rest of their career was much more which makes the wummers and idiots absolutely wrong to claim they were just a boy band or that all their songs sounded the same.

This isn't opinion or musical taste just a fact.

I said in another thread that I found Springsteen to be a bit dull, a bit dad rock. I didn't say he was shit though. He is very good as what he does