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[wickedflea]

OK, I'm now going to negate any classic-rock credibility that I might have had: I've never been into the Beatles, the Stones, OR The Who. Not a bit.

The Beatles I sort of respect just because I know I'm supposed to. For me, they're like, I dunno, Cole Porter or something -- enough people whose opinion I respect have told me that they're great for me to sort of accept it, but I still don't really care to listen to them.

The Stones I dig bits and pieces of -- "Paint it Black," "Sympathy for the Devil," and for some strange reason "Beast of Burden" -- but, on the whole, I can take them or leave them. I don't dislike them, and I don't get all bent out of shape like some people do over the fact that they're 60-year-old men playing the same old stuff, but I've just never been that fired up about them. It probably has something to do with the fact that they've been old arena rockers for as long as I can remember; it's hard to imagine them as vital and important.

The Who I just don't get at all.

I do listen to some old-timey rock. Hell, when you get right down to it, that's most of what I listen to. Led Zeppelin, Allman Brothers, Black Sabbath, Hendrix, the Stooges, Lubricated Goat -- all that stuff. So it's not like this stuff is completely out of my frame of reference.

What do you guys think? Am I missing the boat? If I sat down and really listened to Quadrophenia or Revolver, would I get it? Or should I just put on Fun House and forget it?

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[buscemi.livejournal.com]

I never got The Who, either. I remember being in junior high and feeling disappointed that they didn't sound like Def Leppard or AC/DC. I like the Beatles, but I never felt compelled to buy any of their albums. It's probably because there's always one of their songs on the radio. I'm not sure if it still exists, but there was a station here that played nothing but the Beatles. They weren't that prolific, you know. Geez. I have a problem with these "lost" Beatles tapes that keep turning up. My theory is that Capitol has been sitting on them in case of a financial crisis.

If it were up to me, I'd go with Fun House.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I had the same thing with The Who. I was like, wait -- I thought this was supposed to be loud and rude! And then Tommy, man -- like I said, I just don't get it.

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

Lubricated Goat. That name always cracked me up. Then there was that side project with Kat Bjelland called Crunt. Heh.

huh huh huh, "crunt"

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Me too. But even after all the mileage I've gotten from their name over the years, I've still never heard a note of Lubricated Goat. :)

Goat with a note in a boat

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

I have, but it was nothing special.

[lunchboxface.livejournal.com]

I don't enjoy listening to the stones or the who at all either, but I do have to say that the beatles' White Album really does it for me. Abbey Road, too.

ZEPPELIN RULES

Zoso, dude

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'll probably break down and listen to the Beatles sometime. I do admit that it's a gaping hole in my cultural literacy.

[goatsupreme.livejournal.com]

Never liked the Beatles. To be quite honest, I thought Laibach wrote Sympathy for the Devil and I was disappointed to find out they had covered "that yucky tongue band". As for The Who...meh. All my mod friends liked them, but I was too busy with Robert Smith, Johnny Marr and Martin Gore. Yes, I am a tart.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Heh -- and I thought Jane's Addiction wrote Sympathy!

[bells2783.livejournal.com]

Lubricated Goat sounds like the title for a West Virginia porn flick. Haha.

I like some of The Who's songs. Baba O'Reilly and Behind Blue Eyes are good ones.

I adore the Beatles. The White Album is great, and so is Revolver. Maybe you would like them if you heard other people doing them. Download Gov't Mule doing "Tomorrow Never Knows", then go listen to the Beatles' version on Revolver. It's funny, I used to think of the Beatless as just the world's first boy-band, but then I heard other bands cover them and I was like "Hey, this is good", and I got into them that way.

I agree w/ you about The Stones. Paint it Black is a good song. That's about all I have on the Stones.

Word up.

word!

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

The best Beatles cover I eaver heard was at the second stage of Lollalooza '92, when this industrial freakout band called Sharkbait did "Helter Skelter." They had a whole bunch of big pieces of scrap metal placed in front of the stage, and they threw out hundreds of drumsticks out to the crowd so they could beat out tribal rhythms on the metal. fun!

And yeah, I dig TNK and some other Beatles tunes . . . I think I just have to take a weekend sometime to listen to a bunch of their stuff all the way through.

[ex-sinnie785.livejournal.com]

I completely get The Who but don't get all the other ones you mentioned. :( I am a classic rock retred. :(((

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

I prescribe three doses of "Whipping Post." Repeat as necessary.