4 Responses to NOT The Beatles

1. agnostic says:

   January 27, 2014 at 4:07 am

   Another hit from the ’80s. Lots of ’60s-era NOTs in there, and the Beatles sound like one of them.

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   • Eddie Pensier says:

     January 28, 2014 at 8:55 am

     Neil Finn is one of the greatest and most underrated singer-songwriters out there. Enz was truly and startlingly ahead of their time… they were doing New Wave pop back in the mid-70s.

     Actually I’m working on a post about Enz/Crowded House/Neil Finn/Tim Finn. In the meantime enjoy this Tim Finn cameo from The Coca-Cola Kid “As Australian as a shit sandwich!”:

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2. Faze says:

   January 27, 2014 at 8:09 pm

   The Tears for Fears track is way better than Walrus, but not as good as the XTC tracks (later albums) it sounds like. The Split-Enz track has nothing, to my Beatle-saturated ears, of the fab four about it. Of course, agnostic makes no secret of his total 1980s orientation, music and otherwise and I applaud him for it. Someone needs to stick up for that decade that produced so much enjoyable music. But I’m often amazed at some of the things young people of my acquaintance describe as sounding “like the Beatles”. Fenster, you know what sounds like a Beatles song. But people born later, who grew up in a much denser pop musical environment, have a harder time spotting the peculiarities that made the Beatles truly distinctive — not to mention the things they did first that everyone in the world went on to copy.

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3. agnostic says:

   January 28, 2014 at 2:21 pm

   “The Split-Enz track has nothing, to my Beatle-saturated ears, of the fab four about it.”

   I said ’60s more than the Beatles specifically. The chorus at least, sounds like Merseybeat / British Invasion. “Needles and Pins”.

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