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Not to speak for Julian Cope, but I'm taking what he said as that The Velvet Underground are already well enough lauded.

Also, Cope'd probably reply, "casecandy, shut your mouth"

Rabelais wrote:I think it's the very best period in pop and rock music. Ever!

Yes.

Along with the obvious Psychedelic, Progressive Rock, Motown, and general "Classic Rock" of the era, you've got to mention early funk a la James Brown, Sly (& the Family Stone), Eddie Hazel-era Funkadelic; Original British glam rock like Spiders from Mars-era Bowie, Sweet, Slade, Mott the Hoople; Proto-punk like Iggy and the Stooges and MC5 and wherever you want to put The Velvet Underground/Lou Reed; jazz also took a wild turn with Bitches Brew and Head Hunters and you've got the whatever of Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa (although personally, I think Zappa is boring af).

Compete with that, suckas.

I think sylnau should form a cover band called "Syl & the Family Stone"

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nras3c8r45k[/youtube]

Besides, one listen to this and suddenly the MC5 don't sound quite so radical, imo (and I've always preferred Sonic's Rendezvous Band to the 5):

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rNJwQJKPuQ[/youtube]

weed_killer wrote:

"In two hundred years' time there will only be two '60s bands that count: The Archies and The Banana Splits."
— me

What the fuck, no Gerry and the Pacemakers? Question Mark and the Mysterians? The Lemon Pipers?

But back to being serious, The Sonics were (are!) gods among men. #RealSkramz:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-_0V0IXEkc[/youtube]

Anybody down with Trees Community?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmSkUO5wMB4[/youtube]

Also, there is no opinion more faux-edgy or worn out than "The Beatles were so overrated." Ugh God I can't roll my eyes hard enough whenever some fucking ninety-pounds-soaking-wet hipster in a fucking keffiyeh tells me The Beatles were overrated. Your whole fucking life is overrated asshole. I will beat you to death with my Complete Studio Albums Box Set and I won't even feel remorse for what I did. Yeah. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-fuckin'-Da, motherfucker



[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz-qufTjRNM[/youtube]

Ok, duly noted.
But what if you feel complete antipathy towards most of the Beatles catalog, at best?

casecandy wrote:Also, there is no opinion more faux-edgy or worn out than "The Beatles were so overrated." Ugh God I can't roll my eyes hard enough whenever some fucking ninety-pounds-soaking-wet hipster in a fucking keffiyeh tells me The Beatles were overrated. Your whole fucking life is overrated asshole. I will beat you to death with my Complete Studio Albums Box Set and I won't even feel remorse for what I did. Yeah. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-fuckin'-Da, motherfucker

Right on! fuck the Rolling Stones, they suck other than those three good songs.

also I for whatever reason have been listening to this song wayyy tooo much lately

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UskDupcLM0M[/youtube]

Im a 76 man.

Iommic Pope wrote:Ok, duly noted.
But what if you feel complete antipathy towards most of the Beatles catalog, at best?

LOL despite my getting heated about The Beatles I don't really care if you like them at all
I only get annoyed when people who just discovered Raw Power or something claim that The Beatles weren't important, never did anything original, etc.
Guess what? Chaucer and Shakespeare never did anything original. The whole Bible is just rewritten Sumerian and Babylonian myths.
"Good artists copy, great artists steal." Pablo Picasso
Plus it's bullshit to begin with... The Beatles invented, or at least popularized, a lot of stuff.
I hate making sweeping "Without x, there'd be no y and z" statements, but even just George Martin's production wizardry alone, it would be all but literally impossible to calculate the influence on subsequent popular music.

ANYWAY
Honestly Pope I prefer The Who!
In fact one might claim 1965-1975 as The Decade of The Who
Or as Pete Townshend called it, "The Decayed of The Who" LOL

@Blackened Soul I think three great songs is a stretch but (I can hear a lot of Stones fans cracking their knuckles in the distance) they were way more of a singles band. If you have the two Hot Rocks double albums, you've got the essential Stones. I don't think the same could be said for any Who compilation, say, Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy, and definitely not for The Beatles' 1 (though those are great introductions).

LOL what were the three songs

@D.o.S. As always you are just wrong about Donovan. Donovan is up there with T. Rex as a tragically underrated classic rock artist. All members of The Beatles independently admitted that without Donovan's influence The White Album would have been substantially different. He was an A-list songwriter and arranger. He was just stuck in other musician's shadows for the peak of his career. I don't get your hate-on for this dude

casecandy wrote: Pablo Picasso

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KB_YzJH0Bk[/youtube]