BBC2 now ...being a scouser I love the Beatles this program is really good.

Does anyone know why all this Beatles stuff is on at the moment? Is it an anniversary of something to do with them? There was a lot on the radio on Monday too - my dentist asked me if I had liked The Beatles - didn't know whether to be offended or not since I wasn't even born when they released their first single - almost but not quite :-D

The programmes have been good though!

> Does anyone know why all this Beatles stuff is on at the moment?

Digitally remastered versions of every Beatles album is due to be released on 9th Sept.  Most major bands have been remastered long before this so it's quite a big deal for fans and collectors.  Have a look at the price of the box sets!!

> I wasn't even born when they released their first single

I'll bet you know the words of many of their songs though - most of us seem to have learned their stuff by osmosis :)

hee hee i walk through matthew st nearly every day, makes me chuckle a bit when people stand outside the cavern thinking that is the actual place the beatles played.
best kept secret in liverpool that one...

i always find them overrated.
technically proficient and the origin of many styles and sounds yes, but a little dull sounding for my ears.
in the complex song structure disguised as simple pop songs league, id rate ABBA much more crafted.

But Abba name checked The Beatles as a major influence.  I know where the original Cavern was but 'I promise not to tell'.  :D

Mahonc
I live less than a quarter of a mile away from the house where Paul Mcartney lived  and walk past it everyday with my dogs it is as you probably know a tourist attraction 'makes me grin' when the magic mystery bus drives up and all the visitors step off so excited about entering his old house honestly they come in droves all year around.
I have to admit I do know all the words to most of  thier songs love em or hate em that programme was pretty good last night.

I could happily listen to the Beatles and The Stones all day long.  They have written timeless songs for every mood.  My kids also love them.

> Mahonc
> I live less than a quarter of a mile away from the house where Paul Mcartney lived  and walk past it everyday with my dogs it is as you probably know a tourist attraction 'makes me grin' when the magic mystery bus drives up and all the visitors step off so excited about entering his old house honestly they come in droves all year around.

ha ha ha ha yeh ive seen the tours, they are ever so funny, although i wouldnt be laughing that much if i lived in that house!!

The house is owned by the national trust and has been sent back in time to the sixtys you can go inside and walk around.
Pauls Mc Cartney has visited the house privately and was spotted  a while back  outside having pics taken with all the children in the road.

> i always find them overrated.
> technically proficient and the origin of many styles and sounds yes, but a little dull sounding for my ears in the complex song structure disguised as simple pop songs league, id rate ABBA much more crafted.

How can you say that :)

The Beatles may be a little dated especially their early stuff but they were at the forefront of innovation in the late sixties, the last album especially pioneered a lot of the techniques used in recording on eight track tapes.  ABBA may have been more crafted (debateable) but they were building on the work that groups like the Beatles had pioneered, ABBA have said that their biggest influnence was the Beatles as have a huge number of other groups

The Beatles may be a little dated especially their early stuff but they were at the forefront of innovation in the late sixties, the last album especially pioneered a lot of the techniques used in recording on eight track tapes.

but i just said all that

but still prefer ABBA, as i find the music of the Beatles one of the most dull and boring i have heard. 

I'm the opposite - I find Abba's music too perfectly crafted and lacking the raw life of the early Beatles music.

the lineage of my favoured music was innovated by the velvet underground, as opposed to the beatles

> but still prefer ABBA, as i find the music of the Beatles one of the most dull and boring i have heard.

I would agree that a lot of the early Beatles is dull but the later albums are much much better.

I can't honestly say that Beatles music has been a huge influence on my musical tastes (I much prefer Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd) but the later albums are very good

>> but still prefer ABBA, as i find the music of the Beatles one of the most dull and boring i have heard.

The one problem that I have with ABBA is that they never actually sang live, they mimed to pre recorded tracks throughout their career & this is why their productions were so perfect.

Not a huge Beatles fan, Stones for me along with the Kinks. But the music from the 60s has produced some classics, that have been rerecorded by the more recent artists-who all sound the same to me, with boy/girl bands & solo artists that are produced artificially rather than developing on their own

All of them, cant remember my name on a bad day but I know every Beatles song!!

> Beatles album is due to be released on 9th Sept.

Just in time for Xmas - who owns the rights to the Beatles back catalogue now? I know it was MJ at one point but I'm sure I read somewhere he had sold them.  Sure to make whoever it is millions.

I love the Beatles, saw Paul McCartney live at the MEN a few years back & he was brilliant.

MJs estate still own some but not all of the back catalogue.  I saw an estimate that the current release along with the spin offs (computer game etc) could net something like 1billion, so someone is going to do very well out of it.

> All of them, cant remember my name on a bad day but I know every Beatles song!!

Me too LOL!!!