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[Dandy01]

3 for Moz/0 for Robert.  Aww..

[Fico]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by markie:<BR><B>I have read that too.<P>Difference is I agree with it. <P>The beatles are boring as fuck.<P>give me the queen is dead anyday.</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>I still can't believe that someone who forks 35.00 quid for a shite band like Soft Cell can so openly dismiss the Beatles..the greatest band to make music on earth.<P>

[jadetree]

While on the topic of Marr, for those of you who enjoyed the cover of There Is A Light That Never Goes Out at the Neil Finn show, I just discovered that Finn performs it with Marr on Finn's live cd, 7 Worlds Collide.

[Fico]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by jadetree:<BR><B>While on the topic of Marr, for those of you who enjoyed the cover of There Is A Light That Never Goes Out at the Neil Finn show, I just discovered that Finn performs it with Marr on Finn's live cd, 7 Worlds Collide.</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Good for you Ginger, did you get a scarf for the discovery??<P>

[markie]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Fico:<BR><B> I still can't believe that someone who forks 35.00 quid for a shite band like Soft Cell can so openly dismiss the Beatles..the greatest band to make music on earth.<P></B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>$35 for soft cell would be money much better spent than $100 or more on McCartney. <P>Both acts are well past their sell by date apparently.

[markie]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Dandy01:<BR><B>3 for Moz/0 for Robert.  Aww..</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>the smiths splitting up meant they couldnt sully their good name by half hearted low quality come back albums.<P>thank god.

[markie]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by jadetree:<BR><B>I just discovered that Finn performs it with Marr on Finn's live cd, 7 Worlds Collide.</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Hum, I dont normally like "live" videos. That might be worth getting though....<P>Ow, by the way anyone got any tick repellant?<BR>

[Dandy01]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by markie:<BR><B> the smiths splitting up meant they couldnt sully their good name by half hearted low quality come back albums.<P>thank god.</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>yeah, I personally prefer Staring at the Sea: The Singles; from there, it goes downhill.<P>

[not too shabby]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Dandy01:<BR><B>3 for Moz/0 for Robert.  Aww..</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>I'll throw in one for Mr. Smith.  Disintegration = greatest album ever.<P>

[Fico]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by markie:<BR><B> $35 for soft cell would be money much better spent than $100 or more on McCartney. <BR>Both acts are well past their sell by date apparently.</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>McCartney is McCartney, the Beatles are the Beatles, McCartney is NOT the Beatles... thats like saying Morrisey playing Smiths songs is the Smiths..<P>

[markie]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Fico:<BR><B> McCartney is McCartney, the Beatles are the Beatles, McCartney is NOT the Beatles... thats like saying Morrisey playing Smiths songs is the Smiths..<P></B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>so the Beatles like the smiths and clash split up before their work decended into rubbish.<P>Of that we can be thankful.<P>So what. <P>The beatles still say nothing to me about my life.

[markie]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by not too shabby:<BR><B> I'll throw in one for Mr. Smith.  Disintegration = greatest album ever.<P></B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>but its not even as good as kiss me kiss me kiss me.<P>Shame on you.<P>

[Fico]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR><P>The beatles still say nothing to me about my life.[/B]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>It's hard when yer a manchild with a torn on your side...<P><BR>

[wingelbert humptyback]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by markie:<BR><B> The beatles still say nothing to me about my life.</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Since when is that a measure of good song writing? What does Beethoven say to you about your life?<P>To ignore the impact the Beatles and their body of work has had on the music industry and all bands after them (including the Smiths) would be extremely narrow-minded. They were innovative and influential in a way the Smiths could never even dream of achieving. Hell, I am sure I listen to the Smiths a good bit more often than the Beatles.. but that doesn't make them a better band.

[Sir HC]

I think this whole agrument goes back to the Oasis-sshole quote that if they were around first in the 60's they would have been bigger than the Beatles.  If the Beatles had not kicked up the singer-songwriter market to the level it became, and the hysteria for British bands, the Smiths might never have formed.  Definitely true for Oasis.