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Name: James
Subject: If you think The Beatles sucked...
-- May 8, 2009 at 11:08PM
... then you are a poor, unfortunate loser with absolutely no intelligence whatsoever. It's your pathetic opinion vs. billions and billions of people around the world. Get a clue, losers, or shut your traps which were mistakenly placed on yuor face and not on your rears!
Name: Nikolaj Ivanov
Subject: Johnīs Anthology
-- Dec 23, 2004 at 7:51AM
mr.Ryan!
I read with interest your
article about Lennonīs CD
box set.Your writing is
good and thruth for me too.
Merry christmas for you and your family.
I am from Estonia(Europe)
and collect all about Beatles.
Best Wishes
Nikolai
Name: Ryan
Subject: everything here
-- Nov 23, 2004 at 3:15AM
music is supposed to be enjoyed, if you don't like it, turn it off, get over it. Different people like different things. and it just so happens that The Beatles are the most popular group in history and opened up doors for how music could sound and what lyrics could say. The freedom they spoke about encouraged millions to try and get the most out of life.
if you don't like it, so what? go listen to something that you like.
By the way, how can a band suck when they've sold hundreds of millions of albums? You can't just keep on saying that the audience is 'gullible' or 'stupid' because that's just you in denial. They must've done something right. And don't insult people you don't know, especially over fucking music. get a life. you're not tough for liking heavier bands, you're just using them as an anger fix so that you can pretend to be tougher than you really are. And wishing someone death just proves that you're an arrogant little turd who's just trying to shock people. Let me tell you WE'RE NOT IMPRESSED.
Love is optomism and THAT is what 'All You Need Is Love' was talking about. I know what it's like to be next to dead. But I was determined to get my shit together and I have. So don't you tell me it's bullshit because its songs like that that've changed people lives alot more that one of your bitchy little messages on the internet.
The song says you can do anything you want (within the laws of physics) if you have your mind set on it.
Think about it.
Name: William S. Repsher Responds
Subject: Re: More Negative Remarks From Ft. Worth, Tx.
-- Jun 8, 2003 at 10:08AM
>>Go get some Stooges, Dead Kennedys, Circle Jerks, Sex Pistols...
Hate to let you down, but I have albums by all these guys -- on the original vinyl I bought back in the late 70s, and at least in the Pistols and Iggy's case, on CD.
Got some bad news for you, anonymous weirdo. This stuff is no more or less respectable (or commercialized) than the crap you're espousing. And, more bad news ... it's just as old and dated.
Were you an original punk? I don't get that impression. I'm getting vague whiffs of Blink 182 fandom that opens a door to all this earlier stuff. Sorry you were born too late, and this phoney sense of punk representing some higher form or reality (or morality?) has become your mantra. You're just as cliched, empty and useless as all those wine-and-cheese yuppies you so clearly hate ... because this is where you're from, and where you see yourself heading?
Spare me the nonsense. I ditched punk about 82 or so, although I did get into the Replacements, Husker Du and all that SST shit floating around at the time. And I can still listen to some of it -- but a lot of it is just blah, blah, blah, to paraphrase one your heroes.
Your targets and intent are about as tired as a mohawk. Yawn. Is there anything else going on there, or is this all you're about? Because if that's the case, I recommend you sit in a padded room listening to ABBA all day at ear-splitting volume. Your limited tastes are about as relevant as a 76 Nova ... with tailpipes and eight-track tape player still intact.
Name: The Beatles Sucked
Subject: More Negative Remarks From Ft. Worth, Tx.
-- Jun 7, 2003 at 2:58PM
You are obviously some pawn of the rock and roll oligarchy, the Elton Johns, the Madonnas, the Micheal Jacksons and the John Cougar Boyscoutcamps of the world. Ugh!!! The Beatles did 10 times more damage to rock and roll than they did good and somewhere in that incense burning, blacklight poster, fishnets hanging from the ceiling 100 dollar ceramic bong brain of yours you know it. Listening to some Beatles tune like "Love Me Do" just makes me realize how silly and gullible the American record buying public was and still is. They came along at the right time and the right place and sold their hackneyed crap to the kids so that they could retire in mansions and drive Rolls Royces around and act like their proverbial feces smelled like "strawberry fields". I find the vast majority of Beatles music to be utterly unlistenable and incredibly dated and trite today. As far as their arrogant self-indulgent solo efforts are cocerned, the CD's and vinyl recordings of such titles as All Things Must Pass and Red Rose Speedway make great skeet targets. Pull! Go get some Stooges, Dead Kennedys, Circle Jerks, Sex Pistols...anything that isn't glistening with wine and cheese party yuppie sentiment and inevitably leads to discussions about IRA's and investment portfolios over watercress sandwiches with the crusts cut off. The Beatles music, lyrics, politics and celebrity status in today's world are about as relevant as the taillights on a 1958 Edsel. (Cough, cough, choke, spew, retch...SPLAT!"
Name: William S. Repsher Responds
Subject: Re: The Beatles Sucked
-- Jun 6, 2003 at 9:41AM
Oh, my, how shocking. Zzzzzz. Unh, sorry to have dozed off there. Really, I am deathly insulted. Zzzzzz. Hmph. Call out the National Guard to find this asshole. Zzzzzz.
OK, I'M AWAKE, I'M AWAKE! I like all those bands you've mentioned. I just went through a big Yes binge last year, as a matter of fact -- they could be great at times, despite the dippy, horseshit hobbit lyrics.
Frankly, you and me are on the same page regarding Lennon's more silly bullshit. All you need is love? Tell me that when you're broke, mate -- not when you're a multi-millionaire.
But beyond that, you lose me. Wishing death on Paul and Ringo? Whatever -- you must be young, and I mean that as an insult -- death isn't a real part of your life yet. It will be. And by the way you're acting now, I can guarantee you there will be people wishing death on you, and I'm talking family members and former friends -- not people who don't really know you.
But let's cut to the chase -- what's so good on your non-vomit covered turntable that I should feel so ashamed for liking the Bealtes (Zep, Who, Stones, Floyd, etc. -- oh, god, what a horrible bunch of talentless jack-offs whom time has completely forgotten). Enlighten me, genius.
Name: Two down four to go
Subject: The Beatles Sucked
-- Jun 6, 2003 at 2:25AM
John Lennon was an elitist asshole just like the rest of the members of that horrible group of limey bastards that scammed untold millions of dollars from the American public by selling them phoney peace and love ramblings along with an inferred attitude of disrespect for materialism. How hypocritical! That Double Fantasy crap sounds like doctors' office music, just like the rest of the solo projects from those sixties burnouts. The Beatles were even more full of shit than the Stones, The Zep or The Who.I'm glad that they broke up and I'm glad that the two remaining Beatles will be dead soon so that the airwaves will no longer be permeated by their pithy, "silly love songs". You are probably a fan of Yes and Pink Floyd too, aren't you? I am going to vomit all over your turntable!
Name: Rob
Subject: JL Anth/Dbl Fantasy
-- Oct 24, 2002 at 7:28AM
The Lennon Anthology gets a big thumbs up from me. I love hearing outtakes of my favorite musicians, and the Lennon box is great fun. All too often the recording industry tries to sell us the same recordings over and over. A typical box set usually has mostly previously released material, forcing the fans to shell out big bucks to get the five or six "rare" tracks. Every second of the Lennon Anthology is previously unreleased (not counting the tracks that appeared on bootlegs over the years).
As far as Double Fantasy goes, I loved about half of it. The one thing that annoyed me with John was his way of imposing Yoko's music upon us. I don't hate Yoko - never did. But I don't want to hear her music.
Name: Joel
Subject: Mark David Chapman
-- Aug 9, 2002 at 3:08AM
I have to agree with you. There is no doubt that the Beatles and John Lennon were, and still are, the best band of all time. There is absolutley nothing that can top them. Sometimes I lie awake at night and think about how horrible Mark David Chapman is. The thing that upsets me the most is that right before he shot Mr. Lennon, he got his autograph! What a son of a bitch. I think that he should rot in hell for killing such a beautiful man with beautiful ideas. John Lennon's ideas and philosophy are still found within everyone one of us, inside our hearts, even in the worst of killers. Don't give up the fight. Imagine............. ...
Name: Sarah
Subject: John Lennon
-- May 1, 2002 at 4:39PM
I happen to LOVE Double Fantasy. I got it and thought it might be bad, because it was the first album I heard of John OUT of the Beatles. Don't ask me why I thought it might be bad, I mean, after all, I think he was the best songwriter in that group. But I really loved the album. Maybe that one song, "Dear Yoko", could have been left off. Its a little annoying. But all his other songs are really awesome. I don't know, maybe its a failure to some because its John Lennon, but the shit coming out on the radio nowadays is...well, shit in comparison.
The best songs, imo, that John ever wrote solo (because otherwise I'd pretty much name every Beatle song he made) are: "God", "Mother", "Working Class Hero", "Scared", "Nobody Loves You", "Imagine", "Jealous Guy", and "Borrowed Time." I'm probably missing a lot that I truly love, but those are the ones that jump out at me. He was a very confessional, honest songwriter. I find that far more appealing and vital than those songwriters who may be better musicians, but write nothing but commercial fluff. (I'm not thinking about any certain person in particular...honestl y.;)
Name: William S. Repsher Responds
Subject: Re: JOHN LENNON
-- Nov 29, 2001 at 9:34AM
I'd say "Gimme Some Truth," "Mind Games, "Nobody Loves You When You're Down and Out" and "Watching the Wheels" are my favorite solo Lennon songs. "Working Class Hero" doesn't do it so much for me -- because John was neither -- but I do appreciate the level of honest emotion he put forth in the song. That was always his best quality. I hate the lyrics to "Imagine" but recognize it as his finest melody, and "Jealous Guy" is a great song.
You could probably snag that Goldman bio on Half.com -- don't know if you have it where you live (England?). I got a paperback copy very cheap on there -- it's been out of print for years.
Strangely enough, I remember never buying that when Goldman was alive because I bought into the line of reasoning that it was a sin against the Beatles to put money in the man's pocket, and he was an "evil" person who hated rock and roll.
I think a lot of that was bad P.R. manufactured by rock critics, who are great at that sort of thing. He clearly had an attitude about rock, but he wasn't evil, although I can see plenty of points in the book where he was just uselessly catty in ways that would easily offend the average Lennon fan.
What you'll find there is a lot of conjecture about Lennon's private life by people in it -- most acquaintances and former employees. So it could stand to reason that some of the stuff isn't true/is someone with an axe to grind against the Lennons. But you read it long enough, and you start to piece together that some of the stuff is irrefutable (prolonged heroin abuse, long-term affairs, spousal abuse, etc.), is not very pretty and is the complete antithesis of this wrong-headed image of John as a saint that's been manufactured since his untimely death. He wasn't -- that was his whole point. The whole point of the book seems to be go even further and try to expose human elements of Lennon's life even he wouldn't want to admit to publicly.
And, like I said, some of that is destined to be hateful bullshit, and some of it must be true. In either event, it gives a more interesting picture of Lennon than of a biographer who fawned over the man and wouldn't have the nerve to question the life of an icon.
And that's why you should try to get a copy of the Goldman book -- especially now that you won't be putting any money in his pocket.
Name: Daniel Keenan
Subject: JOHN LENNON
-- Nov 29, 2001 at 8:02AM
OK then william I admit the Double Fantasy isn't quite as good as good as the album imagine and yoko did make a balls of Double Fantasy. My opinion is that woman is a great song because he's showing his emotions as he sings it. I think though that "Working Class Hero"
was the best song he ever did - followed closly by "Imagine" and then "Jelous Guy".
Where can I get this Abert Goldmans biography and what sort of things does it say in it.
Name: William S. Repsher Responds
Subject: Re: JOHN LENNON
-- Nov 27, 2001 at 8:33AM
Well, I don't hate it -- only half of it, and you know which half. (The previous yak was me giving an asshole a hard time.) I just don't think it's that strong an album. I think if you took his material from that album and Milk & Honey, it makes for one reasonably good Lennon album, even with sappy stuff like "Woman" and "Forgive Me My Little Flower Princess," or whatever it's called.
As for reality, check out the late Albert Goldman's biography of him for a radically different take on it -- granted, the book is a hatchet job in a lot of senses, but I suspect there's more truth in it than people, especially fans, would like to admit.
Name: Daniel Keenan
Subject: JOHN LENNON
-- Nov 27, 2001 at 7:49AM
how could you hate the Double Fantasy album, like alot of albums when John split up from the Beatles he was seeing reality and was writing songs about what he wanted to, and doing what he wanted to do,he wasn't putting a show on for anyone he was just being himself. Alot of people say he went abit mad but at least he stood up for what he believed in.We all lost a very valuable person when he died.
Name: William S. Repsher Responds
Subject: Re: Review: The John Lennon Anthology
-- Feb 13, 2001 at 2:24PM
Very easily, you anonymous coward -- the album sucked in 1980 and still sucks to this very day. It will suck 100 years from now -- but take heart, creeps like you will still be around.
Name: An LS.n Reader
Subject: Review: The John Lennon Anthology
-- Feb 13, 2001 at 2:03PM
how could you hate Double Fantasy you fucking idiot?
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