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1. Your song prominently appears in the movie "Better off Dead" 2. You employ 4 lead singers over 20 years...an average of one every 5 years. 3. Your son grows up and joins your band 4. You are currently doing a "reunion" show, after "reuniting" multiple times over the years 5. The USAF adopts one of your songs for use in its commercials 6. Gene Simmons was bossing you around and wanted to change your band's name to "Daddy Longlegs" 7. You guest solo on a Michael Jackson song 8. You write a song about a tequila bar in Mexico...then start branding and selling tequila by the same name. 9. You wear white denim overalls. Ever.
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I think choosing the greatest band ever is very hard unless you define the criteria. Are we talking live perfromances? Beatles lose and Springsteen vaults very high. Are we tlakign recorded perfromances? Beatles leap back up and other groups like Steely Dan suddenly show well. SO it all depends on what we are talkign about. Eiother way, and I do admire Eddy's gyuitar work, Van Halen does not make my perosnla top 5 (and this is coming from a guy who was in a band that covered almost every song from their first two albums, so I know early VH pretty well).
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I read Richard Dawkins the other day saying Imagine was "brilliant." I was a little surprised, but it made me think about the song differently when I happened to hear it the next day in a coffee shop.
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Agreed. Classic stones is great stuff.
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Younger music aficionados can surely appreciate and recognize the place the Stones, Beatles, and Elvis have in the pantheon of rock because we all grew up listening to it with our parents (and it truly is masterful), but I wonder if older people have followed popular contemporary music enough to discuss more current bands, trends, etc.. Not saying you are not able to discuss such (I don't know anyone's age here, mind you), but just wondering out loud.
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Ha, no worries. I love The Beatles. My farts are younger than yours, but I still that given overall music catalogue, longevity, and influence on pretty much everyone (musically, politically, and socially), nobody even comes close to the Beatles. EVERYONE listens to, knows, or has a Beatles memory--for good or bad. The same likely cannot be said about the Stones. I think the drama and intrigue surrounding Chapman's assassination of John also vaulted them into mythic status.
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