Well, Kenya WAS a British colony, and The Beatles were British. It stands to reason.

Rhythmically hypnotic? The Beatles? Bet the poor dumb bastard never heard Bo Diddley.

My mom is always forwarding me scare-tactic propaganda crap, so I sent this article link to her with a "good thing they didn't get popular!" message. Wonder if she'll get the joke...

Clearly this means Tiesto is the devil and we should beat him to death.

After him, let's get rid of Deadmau5, Oakenfold, Van Dyk, and I will think of some others.

1964 is the year that they are planning for SEX on the streets in every major city from coast to coast! And get ready for a shock... the music that they are planning on using to crumble the morals of America is this rottin', filthy, dirty, lude, lascivious junk called rock and roll!^ It isn't just the lyrics, it's THE BEAT! How this beat gets them, 400 teenage girls were interviewed as to why they had illegitamate babies.. they said not just the words, THE BEAT! The fertility ranks of the jungle to have the same beat, incorporated in this modern rock to screw 'em up.
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Marla Singer's Laundry: Mugato: Music was a helluva lot more rhythmically hypnotic long before the farking Beatles. These Christians obviously never heard of the blues.

Um, you do know who revived the careers of people like Bo and Muddy, don't you?

Stones. Beatles. They specifically chided the American press for not knowing those names.

Found on the interwebs, and true:

"Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters are the two most obvious, along with Willie Dixon, who wrote many of the standards in the UK beat boom repertoire.

In fact, The Rolling Stones famously insisted that Wolf join them on their Shindig appearance in 1965, giving him better exposure to a wider audience. They also cut some sides at Chess studios.

Of the pre-war bluesmen, Robert Johnson is the obvious answer.

Both the Yardbirds and the Animals made recordings backing up Sonny Boy Williamson (II), though I'd say only the Yardbirds were that influenced by him, as Relf was a harmonica player. The Who also covered him on the Tommy soundtrack.

I've read that Clapton as a player was influenced greatly by Freddie King.

I don't know if you consider Bo Diddley a blues guy or a rocker, but The Animals recorded a story song about him walking in on them while they were playing his stuff. The Animals also covered John Lee Hooker's Boom Boom (which was actually a top 40 US hit). Stylistically, however, I'd argue that Hooker was too idiosyncratic to be copied easily or effectively.

Fleetwood Mac, when they were still British, and still a blues group, recorded an album at Chess with several blues greats, including Otis Spann.

Led Zeppelin went farther than just being influenced, to the extent of plagerising the blues. It should be noted that copping a line or stock phrase is common in blues tradition, but taking entire songs results in Willie Dixon law suits. When the Levee Breaks was originally from Memphis Minnie, who recorded in the 30s and 40s.

Heck, even Pink Floyd was named after two blues guys, Pink Anderson (more of a mistrel show veteran than bluesman) and Floyd Counsel (whom I have yet to hear), but acid and experimentation had prettymuch supplanted any blues chops by the time they started recording (though the expanded edition of the Zabriskie Point soundtrack has a bunch of rejected cuts of Floyd playing the blues).

So, that means you do believe The Beatles "were part of Global Communism's master plan to hypnotize Americans and subvert their morality through rhythmically hypnotic music", then?

I find your views and opinions silly.

LewDux: 1964 is the year that they are planning for SEX on the streets in every major city from coast to coast! And get ready for a shock... the music that they are planning on using to crumble the morals of America is this rottin', filthy, dirty, lude, lascivious junk called rock and roll!^ It isn't just the lyrics, it's THE BEAT! How this beat gets them, 400 teenage girls were interviewed as to why they had illegitamate babies.. they said not just the words, THE BEAT! The fertility ranks of the jungle to have the same beat, incorporated in this modern rock to screw 'em up.
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and they all sing the same refrain...
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DjangoStonereaver: Looks like they succeeded.

I'm not sure what percentage of this was an attempt at a joke, but I think there's some truth to it. What I find even more intriguing is how much of rock n' roll's (and later hip-hop) influence on the decline of morals was attributable to the inherent evil of the music and how much of it was a self-fulfilling prophecy.

NorCalLos: DjangoStonereaver: Looks like they succeeded.

I'm not sure what percentage of this was an attempt at a joke, but I think there's some truth to it. What I find even more intriguing is how much of rock n' roll's (and later hip-hop) influence on the decline of morals was attributable to the inherent evil of the music and how much of it was a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Or, how much the decline of morals is attributable to a multitude of completely different factors that don't include popular music.

I've been trying to find a copy of that since I saw it cited in Nicholas Schaffner's "Beatles Forever", but it should have been obvious from their first U.S. press conference at Kennedy Airport that the Beatles were anything but dirty-Commies.

Reporter: "Will you sing for us?"
Lennon: "We need money first."

DjangoStonereaver: Looks like they succeeded.

I'm not Christian but I do think there has been a noticeable moral decline in my lifetime. I blame those damn flapper girls.

Looks like they succeeded.

Yeah.

It didn't really stick until 2008, but it worked eventually.

If they really knew anything about the COMINTERN, they'd know there's no way in f*** they could have ever dreamed up anything as cool as The Beatles. They were too busy trying to figure out what shade of dun earth tone was the most depressing one to use for the new apartment district in Ulaan Bator.

Why are the Abrahamic religions always so opposed to culture?

Gee, I guess Elvis had nothing to do with it.

Woohoo! Only two paragraphs in before before "nerve-jamming" came up. Good to see they're still keeping it real with that one.

Mugato: Music was a helluva lot more rhythmically hypnotic long before the farking Beatles. These Christians obviously never heard of the blues.

The blues was the Devil's music, and was clearly his plot, entirely separate from the Communist, British rock n roll plot.

NorCalLos: DjangoStonereaver: Looks like they succeeded.

I'm not sure what percentage of this was an attempt at a joke, but I think there's some truth to it. What I find even more intriguing is how much of rock n' roll's (and later hip-hop) influence on the decline of morals was attributable to the inherent evil of the music and how much of it was a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Don't forget how morals plummeted with the introduction of the waltz, Mozart's hectic symphonies, and the invention of the filthy, filthy harmony. Truly the heathen's work at play.

Well, its certainly as crazy a guy-I-know's theory that gay marriage is part of a communist plan to devalue marriage, thus creating advantage to the whole "no personal property" tenant of communism.

Commie's are just full of awesome plots, apparently.

According to Michigan's Own Jack Van Impe(If you haven't had the pleasure, YouTube has many of his recent highlights, sadly no vintage footage is available), there was supposed to be a rock n' roll sex and drug revolution in 1974.

I was born in 1974. I see no such farking in the streets. Did it happen in January/February/March? I was born on April Fool's Day.

I have forever been let down by this. I want my rock and roll and farking in the streets god dammit.

Isn't this the plot of "Footloose"?

I think it depends a bit on perspective whether there's been a decline in morals. Unlike pre-Beatles, blacks can now get served at lunch counters. That seems a step up, as far as moral society is concerned. "She was asking for it" isn't generally viewed as a credible defense against rape charges, also an improvement (for most people, not military contractors in Iraq and their supporters evidently).

On the other hand, Kenyan socialist Mooslin fascist no birth cerfit reverse-discrimination totalitarian takin' away ours freedums!

DrunkJack: According to Michigan's Own Jack Van Impe(If you haven't had the pleasure, YouTube has many of his recent highlights, sadly no vintage footage is available), there was supposed to be a rock n' roll sex and drug revolution in 1974.

I was born in 1974. I see no such farking in the streets. Did it happen in January/February/March? I was born on April Fool's Day.

I have forever been let down by this. I want my rock and roll and farking in the streets god dammit.

"The Streak" was more than just one of the top singles of the year in '74...

They infiltrated the colleges, entertainment industry, and democratic party. They latched on to "environmentalism" as their philosophy enabling vehicle. It has just taken this long for them to brainwash enough of the masses gain enough power to enable their plans...


/tin hat

the beatles sucked and didn't have any rhythm to begin with.

DrunkJack: I have forever been let down by this. I want my rock and roll and farking in the streets god dammit.

Homer Jay Simpson: Why do you need new bands? Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact.

Sorry, DrunkJack.