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Are they better than the Beatles?
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Astralcat
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Re: Are they better than the Beatles?
Apr 27, 2015, 12:46
Fatalist wrote:
Markoid wrote:
Difficult to get much better than this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGufQk9QOdM

For the punk rock 'version' then Husker Du - 'Warehouse Songs and Stories' is an absolute delight of songwriting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbLOKiRbEXI

Bob Mould and Grant Hart were almost as good as Lennon and McCartney.


I can take or leave XTC, but you're onto something with Mould and Hart - Husker Du really were incredible and genuinely groundbreaking for a few albums, both sonically and in songwriting terms. Only problem with the comparison being that they wrote separately, whereas L & M wrote together (at least that's what the credits say...)


Lennon and McCartney wrote together a lot in the very early days but by the time of A Hard Day's Night they wrote the bulk of their material separately, adding/suggesting occasionally as they went along. A Day In The Life was a direct composite of two separate songs they were writing being conjoined. It was the creative rivalry that they had that pushed them to their best that was the key, something that neither could really replicate as a solo artist - that chemistry.
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