Macca Sucks Corporate Cock

klaatu said:
I love the Stones ... , I love Pink Floyd and I love The Who ....

Its not matter of siding with one or the other ..its putting each Bands contribution in its proper perspective....

AOI is a rapid anti corp dude who thinks the One Album Shot Sex Pistols were relevant... thats why it makes sense that he would hate McCartney...who was mis-labeled as only the balladeer of the Beatles. McCartney was actually responsible for driving the Beatles most creative period. Personally..I like a good ballad as much as I like a good rocker ...
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Yeah, I've known some rabid anti-corp dudes. One of them cursed Starbucks from here to tomorrow, and threw a shit fit when I wanted to try out McDonald's veggie burger. I didn't know, and I innocently pointed to a sign in a McDonalds' window and said "Ohhh look, they have veggie burgers now, let's go in and try one." You would have thought I turned to him and said "you know, your mother's a whore, and I'm not having that witch over anymore". What a scene.

But you know...they have their good points. I don't mind them. I've gotten used to their quirks. They interest me...far more than some Wall Street type.
 
In fact, I was a bit older than you when Lennon was killed. I thought you were older...you write and come across that way. That is meant as a compliment. Also, I have this thing, were I just assume everyone is older than I am.

Thank you, I'm 32... Though I look early twenties, which makes it worse...lol
 
I think Ive tried Starbucks..hmm..maybe once .. I prefer Duncan Doughnuts coffee... or my own.

As far as veggie burgers .... puke! Nothing worse than a Boca Burger. Hey Darla ...McCartney is a huge Veggie Guy and Animal Activist .... he should win points from you... his Late Wife Linda had a line of Veggie Dinners and had written several Veggie Cook Books.. my wife has a couple of them.
 
Shut the hell up AOI.. big deal...what does it matter if its Corp Starbucks or Corp Capitol Records.. gimmie a break.

Capitol Records are a record company for a start, and they don't spread across the globe, opening three or four shops in a town, killing off the local competition.

besides.. if you know anything about the Beatles.. you know their musical talent was about Variety... there were as many fans into A long and Winding Road as there were those that like I Am a Walrus ... thats what made them so damn popular ....

I'm sure there are fans of Macca's ballads. As I said, I'm not one of them...
 
AOI is a rapid anti corp dude who thinks the One Album Shot Sex Pistols were relevant...

1st point. I am opposed to hegemonious corporations that undermine small businesses by opening three or four stores in the same time.
I am opposed to the capitalist end-game of encrouching monopoly.

2nd point. The Pistols were one of the most influential bands in history, not just musically but socially. They are cited by British bands as an influence almost as much as the Beatles and the 'punk rebellion' that they pioneered in the UK led to huge social changes.
 
klaatu said:
I love the Stones ... , I love Pink Floyd and I love The Who ....

Its not matter of siding with one or the other ..its putting each Bands contribution in its proper perspective....

AOI is a rapid anti corp dude who thinks the One Album Shot Sex Pistols were relevant... thats why it makes sense that he would hate McCartney...who was mis-labeled as only the balladeer of the Beatles. McCartney was actually responsible for driving the Beatles most creative period. Personally..I like a good ballad as much as I like a good rocker ...
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I wasn't old enough to be a beatles fan in their heyday. History shows that there were tremendously influential. I personally don't care for much of their music, but I recognize their status.

I wouldn't write of the sex pistols as being irrelevant. They almost single handidly destroyed Disco music. I remember that era quite well, having been in middle school and high school. The crowd I hung in wasn't at all into the late 1970s "rock" scene. Disco was king, and at best the only "rockers" out there were lame as art-rock and prog-rock bands like Yes, ELO. Jesus, even the Doobie Brothers were something your grandparents would approve of. The mighty Led Zep was pretty much the only band to look up to in the era. Listening to Disco was lame.

At fifteen, many young males (and some young females) want want something that rocks. Something that sticks its middle finger up in the face of authority. Something genuine, and not fake. Something not produced by corporate suits in a sound studio, marketed for mass consumption. The sex pistols were all that and more. I can recall that within weeks of the sex pistols making it over to the States, nearly every male peer I had was wearing that sex pistols shirt with pride. And there were public ceremonies, like at that Chicago ball park, where disco albums were burned en masse. LOL.

I know the sex pistols were raw, and there werre probably horrible people. But, their music was genuine, and embodied everything that Disco and 70s Art Rock did not - at least for my peer group. And I acknowledge that my peer group was not universal - I was haning with the rockers and the stoners. Not the jocks or the geeks.
 
Devo, whip it good :D
the guys with flowerpots on their heads....

Point is that all one album hotshots contribute something to the evoloution of music, good or bad.
 
Hopefully Any will get smarter if he gets older. Here he objects to a corporation for selling coffee which you can get all over the place, but has no problem with music corp and copyright laws that limit what and where you buy music from..........LOL
 
Cypress... The Sex Pistols arent in the same league and dont even deserve to be in the same sentence as Art Rock Bands Like Supertramp and ELO... no..sorry two different worlds.. the Art Rock Prog Bands were musicians worthy of praise for their creativity.. The Sex Pistols were lame and obnoxious.. barely musicians.
 
Hopefully Any will get smarter if he gets older. Here he objects to a corporation for selling coffee which you can get all over the place, but has no problem with music corp and copyright laws that limit what and where you buy music from..........LOL

Lol You wacky chap.

I don't object to Starbucks because they sell coffee, I like coffee. I object to Starbucks because they'll enter a town, open three or four shops and kill off small businesses.

That saturation doesn't occur with record companies, there is no geographical limits. With innovations like the internet, there is significantly less opportunity for monopoly also.
 
Darla just blurt our John Lennon sux and get ready to duck or run, that is the beginning....

the road to healing is to first admiit to the problem...
 
klaatu said:
Cypress... The Sex Pistols arent in the same league and dont even deserve to be in the same sentence as Art Rock Bands Like Supertramp and ELO... no..sorry two different worlds.. the Art Rock Prog Bands were musicians worthy of praise for their creativity.. The Sex Pistols were lame and obnoxious.. barely musicians.
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I didn't mean to imply they were as influential as the beatles.

I meant to suggest that they were not some footnote in history, that will quickly be forgotten.

Musical virtuosity, and complex song writing and productions doesn't have much to do with rock. Dylan never wrote a song with more than three chords, and he could neither sing nor play well. Rock is not "art". Maybe ELO considered themselves artists, and that's fine. But, rock grew out of a tradition of the Delta and Chicago Blues. Elvis knew this. Its wasn't about being a virtuoso or being an artist. It was about being genuine. About rebellion. About being on the outside.
 
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