Bands Better than the Beatles?

[Psycho Bass Guy]

The Replacements is a band that hipsters reference to be "cooler" than having to like real rock bands.

[gweimer]

The Replacements is a band that hipsters reference to be "cooler" than having to like real rock bands.

Probably the same fans as those of Brian Jonestown Massacre.  My son tried to convince me of their coolness, and all I saw was ego-centric self-indulgence.  That and the heroin.

[4stringer77]

The Kinks were great and started around the same time as the Beatles. They also had good longevity and fairly substantial recorded output. Don't nearly get the same amount of press. I like the Animals and the Zombies too.

[godofthunder]

Ugh that  Bee Gees clip is as awful as I remember.

You know what? Closet whimp I am , I like the Bee Gees way too much to not like even this here!  I never saw the movie, never heard the soundtrack, by all accounts the movie was horrible (not that all Beatles films were exactly Academy Award Winner suspicious!) though looking at it now it's so endearingly incredibly cheesy it's moving! Is that Leif Frampton impersonating Peter Garrett or the other way around? With all due respect to him and Joe Cocker, no one can sing that song with the laconic beauty of Ringo. At least he didn't use the voice box to, uhum, doobie wah all over it. Someone had compassion.

But the true value of this vid which you have thankfully posted, Lowend, is ...

BARRY GIBB PLAYING A RIPPER!!! 
Men have turned gay for lesser reasons!

Now go(ose-step) and post it where it belongs, das ist ein Befehl!!!

[maxschrek]

None of the bands on that turds list are better than YES, let alone the f***ing Beatles!

.....and where's Big Star?!?

[uwe]

Big Star! Every nerd's secret band that "should have made it, but didn't"! 

The favorites on my list "Why didn't they make it?!" are Be Bop Deluxe, Strapps, Starz and Dictators. To be fair: None of them quite in The Beatles league, but then who is?

[TBird1958]

I'd never deny the influence of the Beatles.......

But I really didn't get into music much until my 9th grade year of school (1973) when I met a fellow named Dave Haynes - he had a copy Slade "Slayed" under his arm and was kind enough to let me borrow it. Yeah, that had an effect on me in a way the Beatles never would. 

[godofthunder]

  Mark Slade's album Slayed had a huge influence on me. While I was a Beatles fan from ED Sullivan on the arrival of bands like Slade and Mott The Hoople coincided with my early teen years and were the bands that made a big impact on me. While I loved The Beatles, Slade, Kiss, Mott were "my" bands.

[uwe]

Mark and Scott, you're just defending omelettes against eggs!!!

There is a whole lot of Beatles in Noddy Holder's and Jim Lea's songwriting - and they have never denied that, in fact prided themselves with it, Noddy and Jim are both Beatles nuts (as is Ozzy).









Or just listen to Jim's solo stuff (also strong ELO and Oasis influences there, but then both bands copped bountifully off the Beatles too!):







I think The Beatles were THE influence on Slade, and John Lennon, for one, liked them a lot. I just wish George Martin would have gotten his hands on them once - those Chas Chandler production jobs with Noddy's overloud vocals and everything close to distortion haven't aged well, the CD remasters from a few years ago have made that painfully obvious.

[godofthunder]

Uwe no question Slade was my generations "Beatles" the only problem being they never really caught on over here! Jimmy's playing reminds me so much of Paul's. I have often said that for me Jim's playing was like Paul's on the song Rain.....................except Jimmy played like that all the time. Paul explored lead bass for a brief period of time, for Jim it carried through on virtually everything he played.

[TBird1958]

I'd never deny that Slade was in part influened by the Beatles -  My point is that I, as child didn't connect with them too well. For me it was much as Chas Chandler's notes on the back of "Slayed" suggest - they were my first love.
Of course, what Slade started was fueled by Alice Cooper, Kiss, Mott and later even B.O.C. ( any band that used "Junkers Jumo 004!" as a lyric was going to get my attention, again in a way the Beatles couldn't.).
But then, I wasn't like most of my childhood mates       

[Dave W]

The Replacements is a band that hipsters reference to be "cooler" than having to like real rock bands.

Probably the same fans as those of Brian Jonestown Massacre.  My son tried to convince me of their coolness, and all I saw was ego-centric self-indulgence.  That and the heroin.

Nope and nope. Couldn't be further from the truth. The Replacements' fan base is as far from hipster as humanly possible, and the band's performances back then were no pose. That's who they were. Paul was a talented but barely-in-control drunk who couldn't handle the fame, Bob was a brilliant rock guitarist with multiple substance abuse problems. Paul eventually pulled himself out of it. Bob sank.

[westen44]

They're going to have an encore presentation of the tribute to the Beatles.  On CBS, of course, and it's tonight.  Since I missed all but the last part, I hope I can catch it.  Maybe there are some out there also interested.  Obviously, irrelevant, though, to anyone outside the U.S. who can't get American stations.  I don't know what time this will be. 

[SKATE RAT]

hey the Replacements rule. i have all their records. definitely not for hipsters. ok not as culturally as important as the Beatles. the only other band so influential is the god damn Ramones!. gabba gabba hey.

[Psycho Bass Guy]

I'm soured on the Replacements by my old guitar player, who decided to quit playing right as we became viable to play for a living. His professed love for them and Fugazi as "intense" when WE were throwing down and kicking MAJOR ass pissed me off. Killer guitar player, serviceable singer, spoiled absolutely rotten by his parents and then-current girlfriend who decided that his 'rebellion against nothing' was over and he needed to "settle down." If I ever hear another reference to the "Paul Westerberg diet" it'll be too soon. ..and of course, the people who lapped that schtick up around here: hipsters, who never bothered to see us live but he constantly sought their approval.