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MHDTV 
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 Posted: August 05 2007 at 20:35 |
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Oh, true...Anyway, I'd say the Beatles were a lot better marketed than the Who, and far more mainstream. They knew how to ride their success better(Or their producers did anyway).
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Posted: August 05 2007 at 20:32 |
 MHDTV wrote:
You're wrong on that. Thriller is marketed to the same audience as a song like Please Please Me. |
And when did Led Zeppelin record Please Please Me? You compared Zeppelin and Jackson - not Jackson and the Beatles.
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MHDTV
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Posted: August 05 2007 at 20:26 |
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You're wrong on that. Thriller is marketed to the same audience as a song like Please Please Me.
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Posted: August 05 2007 at 20:26 |
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Michael Jackson is more popular thanLed Zeppelin...Go figure. |
good point there!
this doesn't mean I'm conceding the argument though! LOL 
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But they are not selling to the same audience - however, the Beatles and the Who were so their numbers are valid. 
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Posted: August 05 2007 at 20:22 |
MHDTV wrote:
Michael Jackson is more popular thanLed Zeppelin...Go figure. |
good point there!
this doesn't mean I'm conceding the argument though! LOL
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MHDTV
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Posted: August 05 2007 at 20:17 |
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Michael Jackson is more popular than Led Zeppelin...Go figure.
Edited by MHDTV - August 05 2007 at 20:27
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Walker
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Posted: August 05 2007 at 20:14 |
MHDTV wrote:
At the beginning of their career's the Who were way better. I'm talking Please Please Me, Beatles For Sale era here. |
The majority of the world didn't think so... witness the sales figures for proof.
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Posted: August 05 2007 at 20:12 |
MHDTV wrote:
At the beginning of their career's the Who were way better. I'm talking Please Please Me, Beatles For Sale era here. |
To each his own
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Posted: August 05 2007 at 20:05 |
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The Beatles were recording their 5th album when The Who released My Generation, even by 1965 standards things had moved on considerably since Please Please Me and Beatles for Sale. You simple cannot compare their early careers - The Who were already benefiting from the influence of both the Beatles and the Stones and trailing in the wake of the Kinks and the Yardbirds. It wasn't until Revolver & Sgt Pepper did the Who themselves change direction and start bringing the Art-school thinking into pop music.
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MHDTV
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Posted: August 05 2007 at 19:53 |
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At the beginning of their career's the Who were way better. I'm talking Please Please Me, Beatles For Sale era here.
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Posted: August 05 2007 at 19:44 |
mrcozdude wrote:
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they both f**king awesome but the who always had their style (not motown rips offs) so the who wins |
The Who recorded Heat Wave..... if that isn't a Motown ripoff then I don't know what is.
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well the beatles started their career as a motown rip off then where as the who were r&b |
In the early 1960's Motown was an R&B label - both The Beatles and The Who where Beat groups.
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Posted: August 05 2007 at 19:36 |
Walker wrote:
mrcozdude wrote:
they both f**king awesome but the who always had their style (not motown rips offs) so the who wins |
The Who recorded Heat Wave..... if that isn't a Motown ripoff then I don't know what is.
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well the beatles started their career as a motown rip off then where as the who were r&b
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Posted: August 05 2007 at 19:27 |
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A thousand words better left unsaid if you ask me! 
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yeah.... maybe I should have left that album out of the conversation hahhaha.
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Posted: August 05 2007 at 19:26 |
A thousand words better left unsaid if you ask me!
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Posted: August 05 2007 at 19:25 |
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^^^ DUDE!... was it really necessary to post that pic! 
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what better way to describe the album  . Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words hahhaha.
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Posted: August 05 2007 at 19:23 |
^^^ DUDE!... was it really necessary to post that pic!
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Posted: August 05 2007 at 19:02 |
Walker wrote:
mrcozdude wrote:
they both f**king awesome but the who always had their style (not motown rips offs) so the who wins |
The Who recorded Heat Wave..... if that isn't a Motown ripoff then I don't know what is.
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it was the only song Moon could compose by the way..... can anyone here actually admit to buying a copy of Moon's solo album. 
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Posted: August 05 2007 at 18:45 |
mrcozdude wrote:
they both f**king awesome but the who always had their style (not motown rips offs) so the who wins |
The Who recorded Heat Wave..... if that isn't a Motown ripoff then I don't know what is.
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Posted: August 05 2007 at 18:43 |
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they both f**king awesome but the who always had their style (not motown rips offs) so the who wins
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Posted: August 05 2007 at 18:38 |
MHDTV wrote:
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I believe Rush and a few other prog bands usd them as well |
Keith Emerson was using synths before the Who, and more prog bands were influenced by his style of playing rather than the style in Baba O'Riley.
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Keith Emerson isn't the point of the arguement, so it doesn't matter if he was more influential. |
The point was who was more influential, and I have yet to see how the Who was more influential than the Beatles.
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