the Beatles on the cover of Rolling Stone! finally!

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Jesus, about fucking time. I'm glad the story of the Beatles breaking out in America can finally be told. I can only hope when April rolls around they'll regale us with a tenth anniversary "Kurt death" double issue, with "where were you when...." quotes from Rob Thomas, Britney, and Wenner's pool boy.

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

best thread title ever

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

God you don't know how good you have it - I've been waiting AGES for the Beatles to get on a magazine cover over here - COME ON MOJO PULL YOUR FINGER OUT!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

"Sgt Peppers", most underrated album ever, where's the props for that one, WTF

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

are you sharing that on slsk gear?

― mullygrubber (gaz), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

urge to kill.... RISING!!!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I know I know Mr S but they couldn't stay our secret forever!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:31 (twenty-two years ago)

best. thread. ever.

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Best thread "question" EVAH!

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)

(HAHAHAHAHAH! Wenner's pool boy)

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

They're about to blow up big. They just released a new record. It's called Let it Be... Naked.

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I only like the early shit with Pete Best and Sutcliffe....this new shit sells out the Mersey Beat scene.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

I concur, this is the greatest thread ever.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

i hope they have on bikinis and are showing a bit of armpit

― mullygrubber (gaz), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

What's with their hair?

girls.

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I just found this link to the online version of rolling stone: http://www.rollingstone.com

― (Jon L), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I only like the early shit with Pete Best and Sutcliffe....this new shit sells out the Mersey Beat scene.

I have pictures of John when he was SKIFFLE! You can run, but you can't hide!!

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

OK look lets not get too excited here - I mean someone was bound to cover the Beatles just as a novelty story. When DYLAN gets on the cover of Rolling Stone, that's when I'll believe they're serious about this stuff.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

It pisses me off that the rather talentless Beatles poseurs get all the exposure when folks like Tom Petty or Neil Young end up getting the shaft... yeah, they're not as good looking as the Beatles, but come on, it's the MUSIC that counts!

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh great. Shaggy hair, skinny ties, repetitive riffs -- and they're another "The" band!! I bet they're a bunch of trust-fund kids; is Liverpool anything like Williamsburg?

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

http://content.rollingstone.com/content/317/Images/00339968.JPG

grinning twats. I'm sorry, but their looks like a drag queen ready to "take it"

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

their drummer

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

When is that cover pic getting the "LA FAP" treatment?

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, if they hadn't already been there (which they obviously have), then it would have been about fucking time. Every fucking current hip-hop or dance act should listen to The Beatles to realise what good music is supposed to sound like.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

If the Beatles spent more time listening to Jet and less time feathering their siss-hair, maybe they'd have some musical cajones.

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, Geir's post dovetails nicely into the parody atmosphere, dunnit?

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Their hair does look awfully nice and shiny in that photo.

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)

geir's post is the perfect punchline to this thread.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

...should listen to The Beatles to realise what good music is supposed to sound like.

like staring death in the face to realise how good life is?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)

whos to say geir hasnt been this sarcastic all this time

― pete s, Friday, 30 January 2004 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

ive just heard their new single 'eight days a week'. haven't they missed the boyband thing by five years?

― pete s, Friday, 30 January 2004 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

ive just heard their new single 'eight days a week'. haven't they missed the boyband thing by five years?

Yeah, the boyband thing is over. But I heard that Paul is planning to go solo.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 30 January 2004 01:46 (twenty-two years ago)

this is after he dies of course

― mullygrubber (gaz), Friday, 30 January 2004 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

having a neurotic drug-addicted queen as your manager is such a tired cliche

― pete s, Friday, 30 January 2004 01:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I do sort of like that one song they do about staying in their room. Lyric fits them, dunnit?

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 30 January 2004 02:22 (twenty-two years ago)

HEY PAUL YOU ARE THEYH BESTES I HOPE U COME TOUR HERE SOMETIME POEACE

― DIANA NYKAMA (Dom Passantino), Friday, 30 January 2004 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Whence I'm Sixty-Four - or therabouts

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 30 January 2004 03:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I know they're all rock'n'roll & all but I heard they're working with Jay-Z.

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 30 January 2004 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

The picture of David Byrne on the RollingStone link is frightening, the magazine really has morphed into modern maturity.

― faj keller, Friday, 30 January 2004 05:50 (twenty-two years ago)

They're about to blow up big. They just released a new record. It's called Let it Be... Naked.

Garage rock cash-in. Hence:

Oh great. Shaggy hair, skinny ties, repetitive riffs -- and they're another "The" band!!

Don't they know all the cool kids are into disco-punk?

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Friday, 30 January 2004 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

and that misspelled name thing wasn't even cool when limp bizkit did it SEVEN YEARS AGO!

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Friday, 30 January 2004 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)

beatlez roxxx u r all gay

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 30 January 2004 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

QUESTION.. What is name of little girl in the latest Beatles video on the TV? If anything knows her NAME, ADDRESS, PHONE NUMBER.. email me back.. URGENT!!!

― Not Very Creepy At All (donut), Friday, 30 January 2004 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

can anyone tell me what "freeme neppa vanetti" means at end of strawberry fields forever?

― thegizatch (donut), Friday, 30 January 2004 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't they know all the cool kids are into disco-punk?

they actually have this new one I heard that's like a slow funk song with ripoff Chuck Berry lyrics, does that count?

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 30 January 2004 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

"freeme neppa vanetti" means "Paul is feeling a bit rough"

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Friday, 30 January 2004 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I heard pharrell wants to work with them! first timbo and dido, now this. Its all the NME's fault for running one of those "we're the best band since oasis" interview cover stories on them.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 30 January 2004 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

The rumor is that the Matrix did a lot of uncredited production work on their new one, in a desperate bid for sales.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 30 January 2004 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I wouldn't scoff if i were you, Norway and Australia may have dominated the pop world up to now but Britain will have some influence in the future mark my words!

― pete s, Friday, 30 January 2004 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

After looking at that Rolling Stone cover they are convinced they have the geniuses of our time. That is why I gag when I listen to the radio. They don't have beauty in their voices, or beauty in their instrumentation. There is very little beauty and quality in the entertainment industry. I have always had extremely high standards.

― marissa (lawrence kansas), Friday, 30 January 2004 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I read that Pitchfork was way into them, so I was kinda skeptical at first. But then I downloaded a couple mp3s, which sounded pretty okay! How come there's no official website for Apple Records? (Or have I just missed it somehow?)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 January 2004 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Well it makes a change from Marissa Marchant being on the cover!

― pete s, Friday, 30 January 2004 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

rolling stone is calling them the british version of "rock and roll". they don't understand the london scene at all!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 30 January 2004 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Underrated solo artist Mick Jagger needs some attention, someone slip Wenner a copy of his new one.

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 30 January 2004 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll admit, I do enjoy the beats, but am I not the only one who feels a bit unnerved by some of their lyrical content? I'm thinking "Run For Your Life" especially here. I'm fed up of this "Oh, poor, underpriveleged, victimised Scousers, they have a right to be women-haters" angle people play when defending them.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 30 January 2004 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd compare them to NWA in the respect.

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 30 January 2004 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

FUCK THESE GUYS SKIFFLE ROXX THE BEATLES R GAY

― omg, Friday, 30 January 2004 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

i heard a rumor that there's a ringo sex tape with a teenage girl.

i these perverts get what's coming to them.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 30 January 2004 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

a ringu sex tape you say? yes if you watch it you die within a week

― pete s, Friday, 30 January 2004 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

man, fuck ILM

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/gallery/2001/11/07/george08.jpg

― you know that we're as close as can be-man well heres another clue for you all (, Friday, 30 January 2004 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm confused by Ringo's outfit.

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 30 January 2004 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm confused by Georgie boy's slide geetar! It's just so much hapless Duane Allman copycattin' it bloody hurts!

*weeps bitter tears of unmirthlessness*

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 30 January 2004 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

They're not really all brothers, you know

― sym (shmuel), Friday, 30 January 2004 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Nice. oddly colored fuzz patch sweaters. Is it trucker hats next, guys?

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 30 January 2004 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

and undersized t-shirts of midwestern grade school t-ball teams.

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 30 January 2004 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I've heard these, whatyacallem, Beetles, before...and they were total ass. A total ripoff of Oasis. Even their best bits are only as good as the La's. I hope they drop without a trace.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Saturday, 31 January 2004 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

(im willing to bet even if they are successful ilx still wont like em, just to be bloody perverse)

― pete s, Saturday, 31 January 2004 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean, shit, if you have a couple of XTC albums or a World Party's "Goodbye Jumbo" then what would you need John, Paul, Greg and...um...Ronald for?

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Saturday, 31 January 2004 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

So they're rockist, but trying to conceal it? Lose-lose...

― t''t, Saturday, 31 January 2004 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

It would be nice if they settled with Badfinger for, like, stealing everything. Fucking corp rockers.

― Ian Grey (Ian_G), Sunday, 1 February 2004 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I can remember a time when I would've genuinely been thrilled to have the Beatles on the cover of Rolling Stone. Oy.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

they actually have this new one I heard that's like a slow funk song with ripoff Chuck Berry lyrics, does that count?

Do DFA produce?

Man, I love DFA. It's, like, indie music but with, like, dance music.

Thinking about it, isn't that a Chemical Brothers remix at the end of Revolver?

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

common is going to be guest-rapping on their new single "all you need is love".

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 23:25 (twenty-two years ago)

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