Cobain was so Beatles influenced he should have paid them royalties.

Think his estate owes the pixies some $$$ too

Everubody have influences, that is normal thing. You think that beatles dont have influences?
Nirvana is first place in every fuking top list. That means something isnt it ?
Cobain is genius.:321GFY

And the Beatles weren't? :321GFY

I love Cobain!
I love Lennon!

They are very important and they wrote world changing songs, however . . . . "Haircut 100" is probably the most significant entity to ever create music - including those wacky guys called Mozart and Bach.

I think The Velvet Underground (particularly the Warhol years) and The Doors did just as much to influence the world of Rock. The Beatles just sold more albums and had one tied to mass murders in the Hollywood Hills.

I also think you have to look at some blues influences for all 3 of them.

The Beatles are "said to be the greatest most influential band EVER." So people rarely take the time to question what is placed on the spoon before them.

Probably the most succesful, but best band goes to Pink Floyd.

Cobain have influences from beatles (which is good band) and than Nirvana became (The best):1orglaugh
beatles is good, but nirvana is the best

As the greatest living SONGWRITER of all time. :)

The Beatles, on the other hand, were a great BAND.

But what exactly is there to question? They did stuff nobody else had ever done before. They surely had their own set of influences, and you gotta give Phil Spector credit for doing the work he did with them, but they are by far THE most influential band of the last 50 years. They epitomized the boy band model, they radicalized the formula of rock and roll, and they have had more popularity than any other band ever. Nirvana, while absolutely an incredible, genius band (thanx largely to Kurt, it must be said), also revolutionalized rock, but how much of their music do you hear in bands coming out today in comparison to the obvious Beatles influences you can still hear in the music of tons of new artists?

Nirvana started a fad that died out quickly. Grunge is over, thank God. Rock, however, will never die.

I didn't mention Nirvana.

I don't know why they would be in this equation at all.

Sorry. I was kinda killing two birds with one stone in that response. :)

Speaking of the Beatles, on Saturday night I took in a performance of Cirque du Soleil's Love at the Mirage, and I have to say, I was pretty disappointed. The music was amazing--don't get me wrong. The new mixes of classic Beatles tunes were quite extraordinary at times, but this was a Cirque du Soleil show, and as such, it totally fell under their usual mark of awe-inspiring excellence. It was the first time where the music was more important than the SHOW, and so all they did was just dress their performers up in costumes and let them do little interpretive dances all over the stage while the music played. BORING! There were a few really cool moments ("Octopuss' Garden" being one of them), but by and large, this Cirque show was very flat. If you have the chance to pick up the soundtrack, do so, but skip the show. The music is better. :)

Baddog or someone who actually lived in 1964 come in here.

The Beatles were rugged, the beatles were it.

Bands that followed, even 3 years after? Were the brain children of the beatles. On a calendar, or in retrospect ___ band coming out two years after "Revolver" may seem minute - may seem as if this "band you treasure" were going to be it, make it, mass audiences would enjoy those guitar rifts/notes/style, regardless of the beatles fames years predating? But fact is, Rock after Elvis went into arming? Was dying...without the beatles, without revolver, and all their other albums - without that catalyst, no way to know what would have happened. Beatles pwn your favorite band's favorite band.

Butterfly effect. Jazz, Sinatra, etc. Rock music #1? ha.

Yet the beatles made it so, which allowed for a lot.

Velvet Underground - one great album VU with Nico, but that was in 67' - so much was down well before and after, far far vaste. By many, The who to name one. So to compare them to the beatles? Ehhh, trendy. And the doors were the most pretentious, fake group known to man. I laugh at Morrison's lyrics and faux attempt at depth. Albeit some rhythms are decent. Them being influential/great/etc? riiiiight.

My first record album
http://www.fab4collectibles.com/SONGSPICSfront.jpg

Agreed, that one I forgot Zepplin was definately ahead of its time just like that whole list.

You really are twisted, aren't you?

The Beatles may not have been the best, but they certainly outshined GNR, and as mentioned on page 1, were definitely one of the most influential.

Okay . . . I have to know, was that a documentary with interviews, and no music? If so, I thought I was the only one that owned that album.

The year was 1963, the Beatles were hot, and I wanted one of their albums for xmas. My parents hated them, so bought me a Beatles album with no music on it. I turned it into a Frisbee within a couple days.

It would probably be worth a mint today.

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Sounds as if you may have thrown the worlds most expensive Frisbee. :(

The album I had was all music and is worth $200-300 these days depending on condition (mine is trashed). Here's some more info on it.
http://www.geocities.com/flangehead2...esStories.html

Probably

hmmm, never saw that release before . . . or was just so long ago I just don't remember.

It's rare. Here's an article on the Vee-Jay Beatles releases.
http://www.dermon.com/Beatles/Veejay.htm

Sweet deal

I go for Beatles...one of my favorite band :)

I don't think any band that existed from 1989 till now should be included in a comparison of "Great" bands. In my opinion nothing the came out the 90's (and just barely the 80's) and beyond can compare to what came from the late 50's-70's

Pink Floyd or Zeppelin for me :thumbsup

1. Beatles
2. Queen

what's up Joe?

you are right :thumbsup

Greatest Band Ever would go something like this.

Drummer: Ginger Baker / John Bonham (Undecided at the moment)
Bass Guitar: Paul McCartney
Lead Guitar: Jimi Hendrix
Rhythm Guitar: Eddie Van Halen
Lyrics: Freddie Mercury

You would need John Lennon to help with the writing. Hendrix and Van Halen would be interchangeable as they could both play lead or rhyhm. I might put Flea in for McCartney so he could concentrate on writing.