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Poll Question: both lasted 10 years, and from one decade into the other, who is best
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    Posted: January 14 2013 at 12:53
Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

Abbey Road alone is more transcendentyal than all Roxy Music career

Even though I'm quite fond of the first two Roxy albums: Abbey Road is quite another level indeed.
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Abbey Road alone is more transcendentyal than all Roxy Music career
            
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The Beatles. But the latest Roxy Music (especially the album Avalon) had a class that can't be compared to anything else.
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The Beatles.
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IMO it's very hard to compare bands from different time periods the only thing I could say is Brian Eno will tell you the Beatles influenced him the disorienting blur of tape loops, backward tapes, ambient passages and bizarre vocal effects that the Beatles did was a major source of influence on him.
The Beatles experimented in just about every way possible — phased vocals ("And Your Bird Can Sing"), dreamlike guitars running in reverse ("I'm Only Sleeping"), the wild abuse of tape loops ("Tomorrow Never Knows") the songwriting was as strong as it had ever been. Its dissonance was modern, and the wake it's left is audible in everything Animal Collective has achieved.

 

 
The Beatles were not a mere "pop" band. Only a real simpleton would make THAT charge. Nor did they compose a lot love songs (some of the not as a group ). Some of their songs, in fact, were actually quite radical, sophisticated and even weird (for their time period) both musically and thematically,.. namely songs like "Tomorrow Never Knows", 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds ( L.S.D. ), Strawberry Fields, and I Am the Walrus ( as a few examples ).



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I share Your sentiments that any band can be put against each other ..but Beatles against Roxy Music Ouch

But i still wouldnt put against Beethovens 5th with full symphony orchestra against version made with harmonica.. same song but somehow the harmonica version is going to lose LOL
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Much as I love Roxy Music, they don't belong in the same poll as the Beatles.  I suspect that there is hardly a musician alive today who hasn't been influenced in some way by the Beatles.  The same cannot be said of Roxy Music.
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This poll proves yet again that the vast majority of punters can't differentiate between personal taste and artistic quality. You can (and indeed have the absolute right) to love something that is artistically awful. You can loathe something that is artistically marvelous. It's not knowing one from the other that devalues genuine criticism. 
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Im not saying that All Music guide is a bible or anything but their list of bands influenced by is quite good and very accurate and also the list of bands who is supposedly influenced by Roxy Music is this long

the list of bands who have influenced Roxy includes the Beatles which i have never stated differently, the Beatles is humongesly infuentual also,  but never doubt the power Roxys music have been to other rock music groopes, the hoe New Wave scene is in some way or another, influenced by  Roxy, and New Romanitcs music



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Pink Floyd? Led Zeppelin? I'd argue they have had more influence on popular music than Roxy.

Anyway, the Beatles win this, clearly. Nothing against Roxy, but there are few bands that can stand head to head with the Beatles and walk away alive. 
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Never owned a Beatles album.
Can understand there are more people preferring them,
though I ain't one of them.
Roxy for me.
Shake & bake.
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Beatles.. really no contest for me.
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Originally posted by The Jester The Jester wrote:

Anyone knows how can I start a topic here, and put a poll?
Because it seems I can't...

Check out the lounge the general topic of which fits the topic of your to-be thread and click on "New Thread".
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I like Roxy Music's first two albums a lot, but come on, it;s the Beatles.
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Anyone knows how can I start a topic here, and put a poll?
Because it seems I can't...
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I love Roxy Music.  But, uh, still, The Beatles.  
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I will not say that is silly etc...
 Nothing is silly. You put two bands for voting. No harm at all!
But it is kind of unfair for Roxy IMHO. Is a band I really like, (especially the first 4-5 albums), but against the Beatles?
Impossible!
I will vote for the Beatles of course, but I'm saying again it's a bit unffair...
But you gave me a nice idea, and I will set right now 2(!) new polls. IMHO they will make more sense...
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Originally posted by criticdrummer94 criticdrummer94 wrote:

This isn't even fair. Roxy Music would have a better match-up against The Velvet Underground, IMO. 

Been a Fab Four fan for a long time and will always be, Thanks Dad!

Let's get something straight: this poll wasn't made for you. Obviously, there are some people who would take Roxy Music over The Beatles. This isn't a matter of fairness.
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