Imagine that.

Just buy a copy of The Beatles - White Album and you can get 4 drunken, stoned idiots on a two disk set. 4 idiots for the price of one. That's a real deal!

/suck it McCartney

Amen, pblancher.

I may pang her, but I won't marry her.

Lennon went off the mental hospital charts about two years before the Beatles broke up, but he'd been crazy about Mum long, long before that. And who the hell idolizes that? His records are just a decade-long Freudian scream.

/should be in a medical school's library
//should not have been on the sales charts

pblancher: Just buy a copy of The Beatles - White Album and you can get 4 drunken, stoned idiots on a two disk set. 4 idiots for the price of one. That's a real deal!

/suck it McCartney

McCartney can't hear you because he's buried under piles and piles of money. If McCartney could hear you, he'd like to point out that he was the first Beatle to be drunk and stoned. The others just followed suit.

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And this differs from all the other recordings how?

In the others he's drunk and tripping.

pblancher: Just buy a copy of The Beatles - White Album and you can get 4 drunken, stoned idiots on a two disk set. 4 idiots for the price of one. That's a real deal!

/suck it McCartney

Eric Clapton is the only good part of that album

Done in the bewbies.

He was a pretentious douchebag. I mean he didn't deserve to get shot but his appeal must be a Baby Boomer thing.

Mugato: He was a pretentious douchebag. I mean he didn't deserve to get shot but his appeal must be a Baby Boomer thing.

He sure isn't appealing to my generation. Except for that one chick I banged that thought she was John Lennon's post-humous soulmate.

There's a lot of idiots in this thread.

20 years old much?

Man, you really know that Fark goes out of its way to hate everything when even the farking Beatles can't get any love.

Ashtrey: Man, you really know that Fark goes out of its way to hate everything when even the farking Beatles can't get any love.

Really. Sad.

Enjoy your Lil Wayne bul----, yo.

I just wanna know how come he couldn't get hot chicks. Either he was, like, Norman Bates weird or he was hung like a chipmunk.
Leaving Yoko Ono for a hot fling with May Pang? Kinda like substituting margarine where you've always used Crisco.
/maybe he was confused by her Butterface.

Pontus and the Nail Drivers: There's a lot of idiots in this thread.

20 years old much?

Hey, I'm 27 and have loved the Beatles since hs...but, yeah, Lennon was drunk/high/tripping pretty muchall of the time after a certain point.

Ashtrey: Man, you really know that Fark goes out of its way to hate everything when even the farking Beatles can't get any love.

This.

Bunch of Ric Romero's here. Rocks stars take drugs? Say it ain't so.

If John Lennon was only drunk and high for six minutes that would be rare.

sicboy I just wanna know how come he couldn't get hot chicks. Either he was, like, Norman Bates weird or he was hung like a chipmunk.
Leaving Yoko Ono for a hot fling with May Pang? Kinda like substituting margarine where you've always used Crisco.

Well we know from Two Virgins that he wasn't hung like a chipmunk, so I'm casting my vote for weird.

This one is six minutes. Most of the others are three and some change.

Pontus and the Nail Drivers: Enjoy your Lil Wayne

because there is a fine upstanding gentleman who would never use drugs; hell i'd say he almost qualifies as a Straight-Edg***SIPPIN ON SOME SYZZERP SIP SIP SIPPIN***e

This was the same weekend in which Lennon appeared in public with a Kotex pad on his head.

/Love Lennon, but not all his choices.

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Reactron: Imagine that.

Wow.

Lot of uninformed hate, especially so near the holidays.

But hey, if it makes you feel better about yourselves...

That six minutes could have easily replaced the Number 9 song...and sounded better.

solyhhit: He sure isn't appealing to my generation. Except for that one chick I banged that thought she was John Lennon's post-humous soulmate.

Hey man, if it gets you laid, buy the gay glasses and learn the chords to "Imagine".

Not to say you should take the word of each and every one of the thousands of revered and extremely talented musicians that cite one or more albums from The Beatles as a big influence, but I think they are far more credible than the incredible lack of talented fark members.

run-on negligence

/eat one

As a Beatles fan and as Subby, I'm getting a terrible kick out of everyone who finds it okay to joke about everything on here except their beloved Beatles. Thanks for having a (sacred) cow, folks.

What's that about Carole King's nipples?

John's failure was trying to use the Maharishi's pick-up lines.

As a Beatles fan and as Subby, I'm getting a terrible kick out of everyone who finds it okay to joke about everything on here except their beloved Beatles. Thanks for having a (sacred) cow, folks.

Well, jokes are usually funny.

And thanks for have a (straw)man.

This is like when 15-year-olds make a joke about Bob Dylan's voice--"oh, he mumbles and no one can understand him! Get it? That's totally stoopid." (Makes Dane Cook hand gesture)

Plus remarks like "butterface" are always hee-larious.

mccartney is a pure asshole. whats all of this musical genius everyone talks about? sure, they wrote a lot of awesome songs, but a lot of bands that no one would call geniuses have. they spent the majority of their young adulthood strung out on every drug known to man blabberging on about walruses and yellow submarines. that is NOT good. it's someone who can play guitar with they're farked up saying the first thing that comes to mind.

/likes a lot of beatles. lots
//this whole love affair with them though is puerile and borderline sad. seriously, why are you going to worship a band? they make.. MUSIC GROW UP.

pblancher: /suck it McCartney

I'm sure the only person in the world who has been awarded a rhodium record cares what you think of how he spent his very very very successful youth.

/27, still likes the Beatles, but doesn't understand the worship/hate people put upon them.

What everyone forgets, under all the hype, is that they were a good little rock band. And there's nothing wrong with that.

Imagine

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I can understand younger folks not buying into the Beatles. If you were around back then, they just cast a spell over you. You can't experience turning on a transistor radio and suffering through Inglebert Humperdink and Petula Clark, and then hearing one of those Beatles classics blasting through the air, and catching the tremendous buzz they exuded in the midst of a seeming vacuum. They were in the right place at the right time.

They had a huge and unfair advantage over everyone else in that they had two great singer/songwriters who complemented each other in yin-yang fashion. Had it been just one or the other, they never would've become such a huge force. They greatly spurred each other on, and contributed hugely to each others' songs. And, it didn't hurt that they had a third great musician who, by the end, had equaled the other two.

The myth is greatly aided by the fact that they quit while on top, and didn't go on to make any mediocre albums, which surely would've come, had they stayed together. Every group and writer runs out of steam eventually, and they were no exception.
Magic only lasts for so long.

It seems that Paul McCartney bought into the myth as much as anyone, and lost his confidence once the Beatles were done. His resultant solo work was mostly a bust. It's interesting that the other Beatles tried for years to get him to do a solo album to get a lot of stuff off his chest, and to make him a little more democratic within the Beatles, but he was having none of it. He knew that, as a Beatle, he had the golden touch, no matter how naff his songs got, and he damned well wasn't going to give that up. In the middle of all that pseudo-Spanish jibberish John Lennon sings in the song Sun King, he intones, "cake and eat it". He was referring to Paul.

John once said that the public actually craved hype, and really created it for themselves, with help from the media. All they had to do was show up with catchy songs and act cheeky in press conferences, and the public would do the rest. We conned ourselves, they didn't con us. Like the man said, "nothing is real". At least he was honest about it.

Pontus and the Nail Drivers: There's a lot of idiots truth in this thread.

FTFY

It is/is not an impersonator? COO COO KACHOO

Is persona law dead?