Post #91604 by tiki mick 1 on Mon, May 17, 2004 3:16 PM

Well, out of the 4, Harrison was probably the hippest....

I manage to piss most of my friends off when I "diss" the beatles..but I just can't help myself!

When I was 5 I bought my first two records with my allowance..My mom took me to the record store where I bought "meet the beatles" and "rock around the clock-Bill haley and his comets"

I played tennis racket air guitar with the Comet's album over and over 'till my family was sick and tired of it! I used to bury my head inside the old furniture style stereo console, and just lose myself in the deliciously hip rock-a-billy sounds of Bill Haley...

To this day, "Rock around the clock" and "burn that candle" still give me goose bumps!

To be fair, the second rockabilly wave started with "amreican graffitti" and "happy days"(my favorite show when I was 8-10 YO) so I was already hip to it, even at a young age...

I also listened to my Mom's arthur lyman and martin denny albums over and over..I practically killed "Bwana-e" and "taboo" from over-listening...(well, that one and Mahavishnu orchestra's inner mounting flame album)

But, the beatles album just never did it for me...

To this day, I only like a few beatles songs...and whereas I acknowledge thier songwriting and influence on later groups...I happen to think a lot of the other english bands at the time were better....The Who, for starters...the stones, Bowie..etc...

And the doors compared to the beatles?

IMHO, the Doors completely blew the beatles away..and the prog rock groups that copied the beatles (King Crimson, Yes ect....) did a better job of fusing styles.

In fact, the YES version of "every little thing" is a way better version then the original....

I dunno, but the beatles remind me of spinal tap a bit...

I know I am a minority when it comes to this...

I do like Adrian belew, however...and he is a beatle freak...and ELO was pretty good at the time too....