New Poll. Most Avant Garde Beatle?
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Topic: New Poll. Most Avant Garde Beatle?
Posted By: SteveG
Subject: New Poll. Most Avant Garde Beatle?
Date Posted: September 26 2014 at 09:32
| Who was the most "Avant Garde" Beatle? |
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: September 26 2014 at 09:55
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I might vote for Yoko Ono if she was a Beatle. But since she was not, I'd rather vote for Stuart Sutcliffe or Pete Best if they were included. I have to choose between John and George yet.
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: September 26 2014 at 10:14
| Any of them except Ringo. Paul has done some, John has Revolution #9 and Two Virgins etc and George has Wonderwall and Electronic Music. |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: September 26 2014 at 11:08
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ahhhh avant-garde is looking good for Yoko, but if its just one of the actual Beatles, then it's John for sure. ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: September 26 2014 at 11:10
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I didn't spot Yoko, so I have voted for George ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: September 26 2014 at 11:16
| John, since Yoko isn't a Beatle... |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: September 26 2014 at 13:12
| Everyone knows that Paul McCartney was behind the Residents... |
Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: October 09 2014 at 13:28
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Paul is also behind charging $1200 to see him perform (no sh*t, tix at the Tobin Center in San Antonio, Texas were being sold at $1200! - they didn't sell out and tickets were given away to university studetns to fill the seats).
f**k MACCA - I've given that SOB a TON of cash over the years. We all have! And this is his thanks. f**k MACCA! Thought I'd never say that, but that's how I feel.
Sorry for the rant. What wast the topic again? ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: Stool Man
Date Posted: November 07 2014 at 08:36
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Yoko, obviously. She was avant garde years before any of the others, working with John Cage and being involved with the Fluxus movement. ------------- rotten hound of the burnie crew |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: November 07 2014 at 08:52
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Yoko. But seriously, Stuart Sutcliffe is probably the right answer. |
Posted By: Bitterblogger
Date Posted: November 14 2014 at 16:29
Ringo has a vote?!  George, for Wonderwall Music. Although John is worthy too. |
Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: November 18 2014 at 14:25
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Would Ringo's genre expirements be considered a sort of avant-garde? Going from the most popular band in the world and winning acolades as one of the greatest drummers in rock, his next step was an album of standards from the 30s and 40s? Then a country-western album? I remember the most "punk" of all the "punks" I knew would wear three-piece suits to Buzzcocks shows. His explanation being what could be more punk than spitting in the face of punk convention of wearing leather and studs. ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: March 06 2015 at 17:29
| I recently got George H's Electronic Sound LP. It is highly experimental, yet surprised me how 'cohesive' it plays through - I expected random wheezings and burbling bubbles and swoops, I got all this, but without being 'random' (if you get what I mean...). Yes, he did get help from some Tech-Heads, but this Proto-Prog-electronic !! The best thing I've heard from a solo Beatle member. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: June 06 2015 at 03:50
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Definitely George Harrison... he made two avant-garde electronic music solo albums (with Klaus Vorman) while he was in The Beatles Wonderwall Music (68) and Electronic Sound (69) put anything Yokoever did to shame, really |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: June 06 2015 at 04:01
| John, though Paul and George are definitely more avant-garde than that they are credited for. |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: June 06 2015 at 15:42
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Voted John for Revolution 9 which I think is a masterpiece of disturbing sounds and musique concrete (I know it was a collaboration with Yoko, but if John wasn't involved it never would have been released on a Beatles album). ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: TeleStrat
Date Posted: June 06 2015 at 15:57
My answer exactly.
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Xonty wrote:Posted By: Bitterblogger
Date Posted: June 07 2015 at 14:33
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You can make a case for anyone except Ringo. Personally, I believe the strongest is for John--the bed-ins, the live "Give Peace A Chance" in the Toronto hotel room, the cover of Two Virgins, and the song "God" in particular on the Plastic Ono Band album. And Beatle-wise, just listen to the brilliance of "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Revolution No. 9" (with invaluable assistance from George Martin).
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Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: June 08 2015 at 09:25
| I reckon the dung beetle, as rolling great lumps of sh*t around sounds pretty avante garde to me |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: June 08 2015 at 11:52
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: June 08 2015 at 14:10
amen brother.. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: progrockdeepcuts
Date Posted: June 08 2015 at 23:00
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As I'm just finally actually discovering the Beatles (don't laugh), I'm super curious about those Harrison LPs. ------------- Listen to older shows here: mixcloud.com/progrockdeepcuts/ |
Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: June 14 2015 at 09:02
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Ringo. Anyone can make synthy noises and bleeps, but he impersonated a tank engine (Thomas). And got Greg Lake to sing for him. And had a nautical thing that was a pretty strange place to set country music. Incidentally the site comes up with error messages when I try to vote for things so half the recent polls are all now unbalanced... |
Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: June 15 2015 at 11:07
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George, because he introduced indian instrumentation to the Beatles sound, thus combining world music elements to the songs, which was rather avant garde at that time. ------------- http://theprogressiveweb.blogspot.de" rel="nofollow - Visit me in Second Life to talk about music. |