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Jul 21, 2016 - 12:51 AM
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Josh
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I was born in 1975 and heard countless Beatles songs throughout my childhood, so they've been ingrained in my brain as musical and cultural icons pretty much from day one.
I went through a short-lived Beatles appreciation phase after "Twist and Shout" was featured in the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off in 1986, and the flame was temporarily rekindled when I inquisitively acquired an anthology collection on CD in the early '90s ("I Am the Walrus" and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" were particularly appealing at the time  ).
The reunion was short-lived, however, and in the ensuing decades I haven't been inspired to listen to their music. In fact, I find their songs rather annoying. All of them. In fact, I just listened to a bunch of clips on youtube just to double check, and yeah, I'm probably going to hell for this, but I just can't get into The Beatles.
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Jul 21, 2016 - 2:43 AM
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Thor
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I would call myself a moderate fan.
Although some of their songs (esp. "Yellow Submarine", which was often sung in school during music classes) had been with me since I was a kid, I only truly discovered their back catalogue when I copied my dad's two "Greatest Hits" LP sets (the red and blue ones) onto cassette in the late 80s or early 90s. Curiously, however, their music didn't trigger me like other artists I dug at the time -- artists like Alan Parsons Project and Supertramp who have both expressed their admiration for the Fab Four -- and I didn't get any more albums.
These days, it's more admiration and knowledge of their cultural position than fandom for my part. They had some great songs and albums (SERGEANT PEPPPER, for example), but I've yet to truly dig them. Maybe I will some day; I've been meaning to check out their more obscure songs more properly.
(I'm a bigger fan of McCartney's solo stuff, I think, especially with Wings).
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Always loved 'em, always will. I was about five or six years old when my uncle gave me my first handful of records when I got my first record player. The Chad Valley Close and Play was virtually a toy, but it was a genuine record player. I had the singles of She Loves You, From Me To You, Help!, I Feel Fine and the All My Loving ep.
I saw Yellow Submarine at the cinema on release, and played Sgt Pepper endlessly. And also the red and blue Greatest Hits compilations. But when cds first came along I finally set myself the task of getting every album, plus the Past Masters round ups of the single with their equally excellent b-sides.
I did get a few solo albums too, mainly McCartney. Every so often I get the Beatles 'bug' and play them all the time, and will most likely buy a couple more solos at the same time.
There was never a band like them before or since. They are unique and the best in history!
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Neither can I.
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I LOVE The Beatles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Having SAID that, though, there are only a few songs that I can not stand of theirs.... the main one being "Michelle".... unlistenable. But the REST.......!!!!!! 
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Damned double post!
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Jul 21, 2016 - 4:45 PM
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Dana Wilcox
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The Beatles were the soundtrack to my youth, and though I don't listen to them so often anymore, there aren't many of their songs (particularly after the first couple of albums) that I don't love and admire. Many of their songs "spoke to me" and still do. For me, the Beatles version of "A Day in the Life" is probably the finest product of the rock era, and still knocks me out to this day, although I've heard it innumerable times in the last 50 years. That's just me, no criticism of anyone for feeling otherwise, or not "getting" what Lennon and McCartney and Harrison left us.
There is one guy who I've really tried to "get" -- many love him, he was a mega-star and was regarded by many as a rock genius. Prince (RIP), to me was vocally, performance-wise and substance-wise (as regards his lyrics) beyond mediocre, just one tedious, repetitious sound-alike song after another. Different strokes, as they say. Different times and cultures and circumstances, more like it.
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I was born in 1975 and heard countless Beatles songs throughout my childhood, so they've been ingrained in my brain as musical and cultural icons pretty much from day one.
I went through a short-lived Beatles appreciation phase after "Twist and Shout" was featured in the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off in 1986, and the flame was temporarily rekindled when I inquisitively acquired an anthology collection on CD in the early '90s ("I Am the Walrus" and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" were particularly appealing at the time ).
The reunion was short-lived, however, and in the ensuing decades I haven't been inspired to listen to their music. In fact, I find their songs rather annoying. All of them. In fact, I just listened to a bunch of clips on youtube just to double check, and yeah, I'm probably going to hell for this, but I just can't get into The Beatles.
Hast thou tried watching one of their movies? (YELLOW SUBMARINE, MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR, etc.)
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