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Friday13th 
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 Posted: December 09 2014 at 21:09 |
Some of the Beatles' accolades are highly exaggerated, but no doubt they were innovators and incredible songwriters...well...three of them were 
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Sagichim
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Posted: December 10 2014 at 00:42 |
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Definitely The Beatles.
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The-time-is-now
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Posted: December 10 2014 at 02:02 |
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Genesis.
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hellogoodbye
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Posted: December 10 2014 at 02:34 |
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Moogtron III
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Posted: December 10 2014 at 02:59 |
Amazing, the Beatles are beating (no pun intended, but now that it's there...  ) Genesis while I write this! I like the Beatles and they are the most important pop/rock - band in history, but I like Genesis much more.
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someone_else
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Posted: December 10 2014 at 03:03 |
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I like the Beatles and their significance for rock music, including prog, is undeniable. Yet they cannot beat Genesis for me.
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Meltdowner
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Posted: December 10 2014 at 03:36 |
One vote for Sgt. Pepper 
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Hercules
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Posted: December 10 2014 at 03:59 |
I really don't like The Beatles, despite being brought up with them. I no longer possess a single album by them.
Genesis by far. One of the truly great bands.
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A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life.
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: December 10 2014 at 04:52 |
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Sorry, did the Beatles have a classically trained keyboardist in their ranks ?? ........
As good as they are, their creative 3 minute offerings can't top the amazing Charterhouse boys......
........would read better.....
Edited by Tom Ozric - December 10 2014 at 05:15
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hellogoodbye
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Posted: December 10 2014 at 05:12 |
Yes, they have a keyboardist 
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: December 10 2014 at 05:13 |
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^ Sorry, no match for Banks..........
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Rick Robson
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Posted: December 10 2014 at 07:06 |
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A bit surprised to know that Tony Banks was classically trained, since I had read in the forum that this was an exclusivity of Keith Emerdon and other one I can't quite recall precisely, think it was some member from The Nice (besides Keith obviousy as he'd been also a band member).
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addictedtoprog
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Posted: December 10 2014 at 08:02 |
As much as i love The Beatles and respect their influence i cannot chose them over a band that made 'Nursery Cryme' 'Foxtrot' 'Selling England...' 'The Lamb.....' This is PA...Not some Rolling Stones forum...Genesis should b winning. 
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Kati
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Posted: December 10 2014 at 08:22 |
I don't know how to say the obvious but saying that the Beatles White Album was released in 1968, while the band Genesis was formed at first only in 1967. hugs to all 
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Walton Street
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Posted: December 10 2014 at 09:46 |
i think the Beatles are amazing. Not in the least bit overrated .. underrated if anything. Revolver and Abbey Road are 2 of my favourite albums.
It's just that i have a much closer emotional tie with Genesis. I discovered them at a very crucial time in my life and they took me to places no other band could.
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"I know one thing: that I know nothing"
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Kati
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Posted: December 10 2014 at 09:56 |
 Walton Street wrote:
i think the Beatles are amazing. Not in the least bit overrated .. underrated if anything. Revolver and Abbey Road are 2 of my favourite albums.
It's just that i have a much closer emotional tie with Genesis. I discovered them at a very crucial time in my life and they took me to places no other band could.
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This is fair enough  hugs
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rogerthat
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Posted: December 10 2014 at 10:21 |
addictedtoprog wrote:
As much as i love The Beatles and respect their influence i cannot chose them over a band that made 'Nursery Cryme' 'Foxtrot' 'Selling England...' 'The Lamb.....'
This is PA...Not some Rolling Stones forum...Genesis should b winning. |
Well, it's only because it's PA that the poll is so close and Genesis might yet swing it by the end. On most other forums, it would be a landslide victory for Beatles.
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Friday13th
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Posted: December 10 2014 at 10:23 |
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lol Walton Street, I don't know how you could argue the most popular band of all time is underrated...unless you think the correct response for mankind is to sell ourselves to be Paul and Ringo's slaves.
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rogerthat
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Posted: December 10 2014 at 10:28 |
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The popularity itself becomes a convenient excuse for some people to pass them off as the precursor of boy bands. It has happened...on this very forum, if I am not very much mistaken. Not saying that they are underrated anything, but I can understand why people would say that.
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Walton Street
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Posted: December 10 2014 at 13:30 |
Friday13th wrote:
lol Walton Street, I don't know how you could argue the most popular band of all time is underrated...unless you think the correct response for mankind is to sell ourselves to be Paul and Ringo's slaves. |
most of us are age peers, I find the Beatles (or anything 'old') are not reaching most younger people and they are usually the ones calling them overrated because they have no idea, or care, what the Beatles mean to music in general.
i remember years ago being bemused at the people who thought The Joshua Tree was the first U2 album... just a goofy example but it illustrates how much worse it is now - years later
there are always a few thousand exceptions - and they find themselves on forums like this.
The other hundreds of millions don't :)
Edited by Walton Street - December 10 2014 at 13:31
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