[ SECRET POST #3032 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3032 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Ioan Gruffudd/Horatio Hornblower]


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[ebooks tree]


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[Horrible Histories]


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[Burn Notice]


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[Bradley Cooper]


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[Grimm]


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[Assassin's Creed: UNITY]


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10. [POSSIBLE WARNING for suicide]


[David Walliams]


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[Game of Thrones]


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[Nina Dobrev]


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[The Avengers]


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[Fire Emblem: Awakening]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 019 secrets from Secret Submission Post #433.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

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I've been listening to a lot of '60s British Invasion bands lately, and I've come to believe that the Beatles' astronomical success was simply due to luck. There were a LOT of talented bands at the time; the Beatles were just one of many.

(I'm currently obsessed the with Searchers, the Sorrows, and Peter and Gordon, myself. And don't even get me started on the Kinks.)

[(Anonymous)]

The funny thing that no one ever mentions is that The Beatles probably would have agreed with you, re: luck.

It was a very specific point in time/history where the goings on of the day (the Kennedy assassination being one of the big factors) and the music evolving made everything align just right for Beatlemania to explode.

[(Anonymous)]

The way I've heard Paul and Ringo put it is, roughly, that they were fortunate enough to have a really good team. I think that's largely true.

They had a smart manager, a great drummer, a great bassist, a very good guitarist, and two smart, clever, unusually prolific songwriters in the band itself, who were quite good at the vocals.

Lots of bands had singers as good as John & Paul. A few had a guitarist as good as George or a bassist as good as Paul, and a very few had a drummer as good as Ringo. To have all of them and the songwriting team as part of the band was a stroke of luck.

But in the end there were lots of good bands that had songs as well-done and lasted longer.

[(Anonymous)]

DA that it was only luck, though of course that hads something to do with it. The Beatles were producing albums which, especially in the early days where everything they made was very commercial, contained songs which could all have been released and become hits. In some cases, this happened - album tracks were later released as singles after their popularity.

Also, look at their catalogue of music. Can you really name another band who had as many successful albums with so many well-known, enduring songs?

I don't think there's any need to compare all these great sixties groups, though. There were so many great groups - The Stones, the Kinks, the Who ... but it's just incorrect to claim the Beatles are overrated. You can dislike their music, yeah, but you can't dispute the scale of their enduring success.

[(Anonymous)]

All your secret is saying to me is, "Here, huge Beatles fan - listen to this great group you've never heard of!" So thank you.

[(Anonymous)]

No, THE MONKEES were clearly superior to all other Britpop.

[(Anonymous)]

Not you again.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know enough Britpop to agree or disagree, but they are definitely underrated

[(Anonymous)]

LOL

And LOLOL at replies taking this serious.

Britpop.

LOL.

[(Anonymous)]

Are you claiming the Monkees weren't good? Thems fightin words!

[(Anonymous)]

No, I'm claiming they weren't British. :)

[(Anonymous)]

lol, oops!
I always assume they were because the only person I know who admits to having loved them is my English mother.

[(Anonymous)]

They were 1/4 British! Davy Jones, the Manchester Marauder.

[(Anonymous)]

And not even British! Except for the musical-theatre guy.

Seriously though, I love Peter Tork.

SA

[(Anonymous)]

And Micky.

SA

[(Anonymous)]

The other two were OK, I guess.

Transcript

[(Anonymous)]

Image: the cover of the Hollies album “Hear! Here!”

Text: Nothing against the Beatles, but I think they did early 60s britpop so much better.

[(Anonymous)]

Why do you need to compare them and decide who did it 'better'? They both had great songs, end of.