What is your opinion on Bob Dylan and The Beatles and why?
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Dylan and many other artists influenced The Beatles. Dylan influenced The Beatles to put meanings into their songs (Nowhere Man). The Beatles also used many other musical styles and combined them with Dylan's folk style. This combination made them apeal to a wider audience.
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The Beatles\n\nThe face of music wouldn't look anywhere near are great as it is because of these Liverpool boys.  Interesting fact: from the time of their first album to their last was only 7 years.  No other band in history can match theirs.
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To me, the Beatles are the Best Band of all time and always will be.  At first these guys did put out new Albums and then go on tours but this did stop.  After that, they did put out a new album every year and straight to the top of the Charts to #1 it would go.  They sold all their records without doing any tours. People could not go to see them but they did love to wait every year to have a new Album come out and run to buy it and hear the Beatles again.  Not many bands ever got away with this but the Beatles sure did and did not stop until they broke up and then each Beatle put out his own Album that would go straigt up the Chart. Only two Beatles did stop and they had not choice but their music is still loved world wide!!  It always will be. To me they put out so many good songs, it is hard to really chose which one I like the best!
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"Blowin' In The Wind" is a good song, although nowhere near Dylan's best (for me that would be either "Visions Of Johanna" or "Gates Of Eden") but even Bob himself writes "Blowin'" off as just a "song". He acknowldges its influence, but he has made comments to the effect that he's sorry he wrote it. "Dylan The King Of Protest Music" was a label even Dylan didn't take seriously...he was always a rock and roller at heart; he jumped on the "folkie/protest" bandwagon simply because it was fashionable at the time. Which explains why the diehard folkies freaked when he joined forces with The Band and put on electric concerts in 1966...these concerts singlehandedly marked the transition from "rock 'n' roll" to "Rock" as a serious musical genre.\nAnyone who has heard the version of "Blowin' In The Wind" on the "Before The Flood" double live album can tell that Dylan himself considers the song to be a crowd pleaser, nothing more. \nIn the end, when it's all written down, I think Dylan will be remembered for "Like A Rolling Stone" more than "Blowin' In The Wind." Overall, I think "Like A Rolling Stone" HAS had more of an impact. I mean, can you see Greil Marcus writing a full book analysis of "Blowin' In The Wind"? (he did for "L.A.R.S.") I doubt it. As hippie dippie as I admit I am, I think "Blowin' In The Wind" is terribly dated.
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Most people would say No as to the Who.  The Who were better than the Dave Clark Five, but still . . .  \n\nIn the 70s the long standing debate was between the Rolling Stones and the Beatles.  People would duke it out about that one.\n\nBrian Wilson wrote some amazing songs, though the beatles catalog overall is better than the Beach Boys.  The Beatles had amazing talent in Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison.  Brian Wilson had to do it all by himself, he pushed the envelope.
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Well, I like both of them actually.\n\nI think the old album was funny and they had a great sense of humor. I loved the video for I'm Not Okay. It made me crack up.\n\nBut the new album, is beautiful. I think the lyrics are beautifully written. \n\nSo I guess it matters what mood you're in. I listen to all their albums. I love their music.\n=) you?
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If you are into that kind of music they are great although i reckon they were better when Ronan Keating was with them, as for the so last century quote ignore it some people have really short attention spans. Personally i like their version of Sorry by Tracy Chapman and words was a good track as well.lol vidmac
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The Beach Boys are more talented performers, but the Beatles had superior songs and lyrics.  John was one of the greatest composers of his time.  Paul's songs were too childish and wussy.\n\nThe Beach Boys suffered from a lack of good material.  They were extremely talented in all facets of musical ability, but most of their songs are uninteresting because they're meant for large crowds of dancers.  It's the equivalent of modern "dance music", which is basically just random melodies attached to very loud and VERY easy-to-follow downbeat rhythms.  Dance music is extremely uninteresting and will not stand the test of time, just like most Beach Boys music.  Only a handful of their songs have survived and will remain popular.
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beatles\nmoody blues\nbob dylan\nled zeppelin\neagles
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The Beatles' achievements and contributions to popular music, and indeed international youth culture, were profound and wide-ranging. Their early original material fused elements of early American rock 'n roll, pop, and R&B into a new form of popular rock 'n roll, almost single-handedly kick-starting the British Invasion, laying the groundwork for the rock culture of the 1960s, and establishing the prototype for the self-contained rock group.\n\nThroughout their career, The Beatles balanced their huge popularity with increasingly experimental and boundary-pushing music that took cues from eclectic sources like folk, R&B, soul, music hall, classical, electronic, and Indian music while exploiting increasingly sophisticated technology and innovative recording techniques.\n\nIn this way, they helped pioneer more advanced, multi-layered arrangements in both rock and pop and were instrumental in the development of some of 1960s rock's dominant styles, such as folk-rock and psychedelia. As songwriters, they were among the most influential and harmonically sophisticated of the era, helping to push rock beyond its early blues and R&B forms and into more expansive territory. Critical evaluation of The Beatles legacy demonstrates that they "introduced more innovations into popular music than any other rock band of the 20th century".\n\nLennon is conventionally portrayed as having played the major role in steering The Beatles towards psychedelia (Rain and Tomorrow Never Knows from 1966, and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Strawberry Fields Forever and I Am the Walrus from 1967). Again following the lead set by Bob Dylan, Lennon renewed his interest in rootsy forms towards the close of The Beatles' career (e.g. Yer Blues from 1968 and Don't Let Me Down from 1969).\n\nPaul McCartney is usually cast as the group's romantic balladeer, and he displays a singular ear for melody and an arguably unrivalled facility for writing classic pop songs in a wide range of genres, ranking alongside Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and the Gershwin brothers as one of the greatest popular song writers of the 20th century. However, in recent years since the deaths of Lennon and Harrison, he has insisted in a number of media interviews that he was far more involved in the London avant garde scene than was Lennon, and that he was in some respects the more "experimental" of the two.\n\nBeginning with his evocative but understated use of a string quartet on Yesterday (1965), McCartney pioneered a modern form of art song, exemplified by the double-quartet string arrangement on Eleanor Rigby (1966), Here, There and Everywhere (1966) and She's Leaving Home (1967). He also created many of the tape loops used on Tomorrow Never Knows and experimented with musique concrete techniques and electronic instruments, as well as creating many experimental audiovisual works. His interest in the music of Bach led him to use a piccolo trumpet in his arrangement of Penny Lane and, although the Mellotron at the start of Strawberry Fields Forever belonged to Lennon, it was McCartney who played it.\n\nMcCartney retained his affection for the driving R&B of Little Richard in a series of songs Lennon dubbed "potboilers", from I Saw Her Standing There (1963) to Lady Madonna (1968). Helter Skelter (1968), arguably an early heavy metal song, is also a McCartney composition. McCartney's lyrical style evolved a more detached, literary stance than in the increasingly personal and confessional work of Lennon, and Lennon was reported to have become more critical of McCartney's writing in the mid-Sixties.\n\nIn 1965 Harrison broke new ground in pop by playing an Indian sitar on Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown). His long collaboration with Sri Ravi Shankar, a famous Hindustani Musician, influenced several of his compositions, some of which were based on Hindustani forms — most notably Love You To (1966), Within You Without You
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I think they are both very influential in their own way. But I would say Elvis. Elvis shaped in a big part and brought back Rock and Roll. His lyrics, actions, and image were very revolutionary for the moment, he drove women mad. The Beatles, while most likely the most known band in history were not so revolutionary. They were very new and hip to US when they came over because the states didn't have the mod vs biker type scene that Britain had in that period. But all of their big accomplishments in the industry were a direct result of influences. They were influenced by the London scene, its very similar to what the Yardbirds sang, they just had more of a following. They then evolved into a more psychedelic sound, then into more introspective lyrics courtesy of Bob Dylan who was without a doubt the most revolutionary icon of the era. I think since they didn't necessarily come up with the concepts, but followed them they cannot be as influential. Elvis's concepts were all his own. Its just a matter of most people knowing the facts.
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1.  Born to Run         Bruce Springsteen    \nSpringsteen set out to write the greatest rock song ever, and who's to say he didn't succeed? Bombastic, epic, romantic, dense, this song demands attention. A breakthrough for Springsteen also in terms of situating his heroes palpably in the "American Dream". A driving, powerful, sublime classic. \n\n2.  Love Minus Zero (No Limit)      Bob Dylan    \nIn the midst of his word-tripping in 1965, Dylan created this - a modest, serene love song. Still wordy, the opening line is "My love, she speaks like silence." It is a paean to a woman who doesn't exist, who perhaps can't exist. But the timeless, flitting melody wills her into our consciousnesses. \n\n3.  Frederick         Patti Smith    \nLike Dylan's "Sara", a directly biographical love song, blurring the art/reality line. Smith can invest her music with anthemic power, and to do so with a love paean is bold. Almost impossible to listen to without breaking down. "My soul surrenders, astonished to death". Life and death, ultimately, are one. \n\n4.  SOS        Abba    \nAbba redefined pop music as something that can be emotionally rich as well as entertainingly light. Deep in their best songs, there is no kitsch, only beauty and majesty. "SOS" is the sweetest and saddest lost-love song in existence. "Where are those happy days? They seem so hard to find." \n\n5.  I Want to Hold Your Hand      The Beatles    \nThis must have been a revolution in 1963 - the excited, staccato intro, the tantalising build-up, and then Lennon's double-tracked vocals, with handclaps, and the sublimest guitar fill at the end of each line. Even now, this is the sound of pure energy and joy - joy at creating music, joy at simply being alive.
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The Beatles...but i like the Monkees too
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Hell yeah. I'm sixteen and the Beatles are my favorite band. I got into them when I was thirteen and they've been my favorite ever since, even with the additions of such bands into my lore as U2, AC/DC, and Led Zeppelin.\n\nBeatles are at the top and the always will be.
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Well, you have the answer from the Beatles fans. Being the Cirque du Soleil fan, I'll confirm that.
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Bob Dylan is the greatest Singer/Songwritter ever. Period.  From Hibbing Minnesota, Bobs real Last name is Zimmerman.He changed his name to Dylan to honor Dylan Thomas (poet)\nHe is the greatest and the world of folk rock owes him a debt of grattiude for his works
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Classic rock was the best, Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Cream, Hendrix etc. It will never be topped.  Bob Dylan was not rock I think he was Folk.  There is no "modern rock,"  years ago those musicians had to know what they were doing, they were originators and a lot of them were self-taught sometimes (during concerts) making it up as they went along.  Todays generation should go buy some Zepplin. Pink Floyd, Cream, Black Sabbath, The Who, Grateful Dead etc. put it on (turn it up!!) sit back and listen to what they're saying, enjoy.