I am sick of the beatles

Subject: I am sick of the beatles
From: olddude
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 12:45 PM

If I never hear another over played beatle song again its Ok with me. There I said it

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: GUEST,#
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 12:57 PM

Oh, Dan, let it be.

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: GUEST,#
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 12:59 PM

But, I'm sure we can work it out.

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: GUEST,kenny
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 01:05 PM

You'll get by with a little help from your friends.

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: olddude
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 01:06 PM

Lol i no longer love them ya ya ya

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 01:07 PM

Yeh - love is all you need

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 01:09 PM

RATS, cross-posted!

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: olddude
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 01:22 PM

I am thinking the stinking blackbird singing in the dead of night is the same damn bird that ate my pet frog who was living in my plastic fountain.

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 01:23 PM

Don't worry, old dude, life goes on (Ob-La-Dee).

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: GUEST,Phil
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 01:36 PM

?tey sdrawkcab lla meht gniyalp deirt uoy evaH

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 01:40 PM

It's been a hard day's night Dan, you need some rest.

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: olddude
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 01:41 PM

I am just a fool on the hill I guess

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 01:41 PM

I'm with you, Dan. I have disliked the sound of the Beatles since they first hit the charts. However, I think they composed a few melodies which sound nice if done by somebody else - somebody with a good voice - or on an instrument.

Here's a bit of lore. Long ago, Roy Orbison opened for a little-known band called the Beatles somewhere in England, and the English audience liked him so much he did 14 encores. It's on Wikipedia, so it must be true. (I believe it; it's too lovely not to believe.)

Orbison wrote a teenybopper song called "Oobie Doobie," and as soon as I heard it, I knew where early Beatles came from.

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: GUEST,gillymor
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 01:42 PM

The Beatles speak very highly of you, Dan.

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: GUEST,gillymor
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 01:50 PM

You do have a point though, they're not half the band they used to be.

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: David C. Carter
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 01:55 PM

Hey dude

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: olddude
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 01:56 PM

Laughing Gilly.. Perfect but I did like them yesterday but no longer

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 02:42 PM

If it's that bad oldude, I guess you could get a ticket to ride away from where you are.

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 02:43 PM

I never liked them. Too soppy.

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: Spleen Cringe
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 03:30 PM

How did you get to this stage? Was it a long and winding road?

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 03:41 PM

guess youse were all the wrong age group when The Beatles emerged - too young or more likely too old!
The Beatles and the Stones- - - yeah yeah yeah -- of course later I moved on to Pink Floyd, John Mayall, Cream etc etc (and I never left my folk roots, before or after or evermore!)
But for my generation, a Beatles tune strikes a chord in my memory, I remember the first time I heard 'She Loves You' and 'Please Please Me' and I will never forget the party I was at when a medical student arrived with the newly released 'Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' --- sigh---!

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 03:57 PM

Saw them on an early evening programme (made by Granada for the north) when they were just starting and remember thinking.

These lads are pretty good - wonder if they will make it?

They did for me - and millions of others.

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 03:59 PM

I will not hear a word against the Beatles. But if I hear one word against Carly Simon you're going to need a surgeon.

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: Anne Lister
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 04:29 PM

There are quite a few musicians and composers I'm happy not to listen to but I don't feel the need to name them on Mudcat. Your musical tastes are your own business entirely ...what's the point of starting a totally negative thread?

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 05:18 PM

"Of course later I moved on to Pink Floyd..."

Ah a lunatic on the grass?

More seriously, I think everyone I knew in my 70s part of growing up went through a Pink Floyd phase...

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: olddude
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 05:31 PM

I still won't like them when I am 64

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 05:44 PM

And I'll stop sending you Valentine cards if you get to be that old...

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 07:21 PM

yeah yeah yeah.

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: Leadfingers
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 07:26 PM

As with so many GOOD bits of music , they can easily lose their appeal when too many people are doing them badly .

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: olddude
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 07:41 PM

Naw I was listening to an oldies station and I bet they did five beatles in two hours.. How many times do we hear the same songs

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: Betsy
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 07:44 PM

How sad ..........There are places I remember.....and songs .....love most of them

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: olddude
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 07:50 PM

Was one of those places a yellow submarine

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: Leadfingers
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 08:01 PM

I think it was Back in the USSR !!

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: GUEST,mauvepink
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 08:34 PM

If asked if I Would sing one of their songs... I will

The Beatles will have a place in my life and on my music deck as long as I live. And a plce on my giglist as longbas I can sing :)

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: olddude
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 08:43 PM

I did also but that was yesterday when I walked in a norweigen woods

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: meself
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 08:57 PM

You know, nowadays you can get radios with these things called 'dials' on them. Even the old-fashioned ones have 'on/off' switches, don't they?

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: olddude
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 09:44 PM

Yup but I still will be Sick of the beatles

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: olddude
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 09:46 PM

But you are free to continue to love the same over played songs but I don't want to hold your hand

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Jun 15 - 11:33 PM

I realize this thread has a hidden tongue in it, and I also grant that many musicians much, much better than I love the Beatles but as someone mentioned above when the Beatles came to town I was too old. One had to be about 14 years old to get hooked.

For me, their first five or so songs lost me, i.e. I wanna hol your han', she loves you ja ja ja. etc. Come on.

To this day if I don't recognize a Beatles tune when it comes on, fine. I'll listen to it and enjoy it. But when it has those distinctive five syllables per line and that heavy bouncing beat, I'm gone. Leapin' lizards!

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: nager
Date: 02 Jun 15 - 01:48 AM

It's early morning here and I have just logged on and seen this thread before getting ready for work.. but I had better get ready to leave now as Here Comes The Sun

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Jun 15 - 01:52 AM

Stones forever!

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: GUEST,Allan Conn
Date: 02 Jun 15 - 02:20 AM

One of my friends played "Mother Nature's Child" last week and we did Norwegian Wood" as a duet. Most people are in their 60s or older and MNC wasn't that well known to them.

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 02 Jun 15 - 02:40 AM

I'm just sick to death of Paul Mac what's his face.

Dave H

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: frogprince
Date: 02 Jun 15 - 09:54 AM

O still like that song that's being discussed in another thread,

             Elsinore, Whitby

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: olddude
Date: 02 Jun 15 - 10:26 AM

Hey nothing wrong with the beatles, I just sick of them. I am also sick of too much Sargent pepper on my steak. :)

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: GUEST,wag
Date: 02 Jun 15 - 12:13 PM

I don't mind the beatles so much, but the cockroaches really give me the creeps. They'll walk right across my plate while I'm eating.

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: GUEST,Pete from seven stars
Date: 02 Jun 15 - 12:19 PM

Like it or not, they started a ....revolution....in music.

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: GUEST,Desi C
Date: 02 Jun 15 - 02:31 PM

Well, they're probably not too keen on you!

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: olddude
Date: 02 Jun 15 - 03:33 PM

Not true I get a Christmas gift every year. Oh and I hear Lucy calling you

Subject: RE: I am sick of the beatles
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Jun 15 - 07:29 PM

When I saw this thread I wondered whether I'm sick of the Beatles too. So I forced myself to listen to Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club album. It was unbearable. I kept asking myself, "What did I ever like about this?" And then I remembered having done the same thing in the late 70's, with the same reaction.