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Started by Savonarola, April 13, 2016, 10:05:42 AM

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MadImmortalMan

I don't like the Beatles.

Not because I think their music is bad, but because of my 6th grade music teacher. Everything she did in that class was Beatles-related. She had kids lip-synching songs, one kid played his violin along with Yesterday, she once did a class comparing Here Comes the Sun to Shakespeare's 29th sonnet.

I used up all of my Beatles patience for my whole lifetime that year.
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Quote from: MadImmortalMan on April 14, 2016, 12:35:59 PM
I don't like the Beatles.

Not because I think their music is bad, but because of my 6th grade music teacher. Everything she did in that class was Beatles-related. She had kids lip-synching songs, one kid played his violin along with Yesterday, she once did a class comparing Here Comes the Sun to Shakespeare's 29th sonnet.

I used up all of my Beatles patience for my whole lifetime that year.

I like the Ghost cover of Here Comes The Sun. :)
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Quote from: Savonarola on April 14, 2016, 11:55:38 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on April 13, 2016, 06:05:33 PM
"Everyone else is wrong", should be the slogan of Languish.

:lol:

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Leaving Las Vegas.
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Quote from: HisMajestyBOB on April 13, 2016, 10:46:15 PM
I've always liked Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, but no one else does.

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One that I've noticed- I seem to be in a minority for finding Fallout New Vegas so-so (I never finished it) whilst finding Fallout 3 excellent.


Quote from: MadImmortalMan on April 14, 2016, 12:35:59 PM
I don't like the Beatles.

Not because I think their music is bad, but because of my 6th grade music teacher. Everything she did in that class was Beatles-related. She had kids lip-synching songs, one kid played his violin along with Yesterday, she once did a class comparing Here Comes the Sun to Shakespeare's 29th sonnet.

I used up all of my Beatles patience for my whole lifetime that year.

I'm not really big on the Beatles either.
I think the problem with them for a lot of people born in the 70s or later is that they just grew up with their music as generic background music. You hear it in the media a lot so...it just doesn't have anything special to it. Then there's the bazillion bands who took inspiration from them who you may well give a serious listen before you get to the Beatles and....yeah.
I can appreciate them for being the big deal that they were, but purely as music in modern times they do nothing for me.
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Quote from: Scipio on April 16, 2016, 09:25:53 AM
Leaving Las Vegas.

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On the side of everyone considers this shit but I like it: Cloud Atlas, Jupiter Ascending and Da Vinci Code. :P