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Name: Keno
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Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: sc
Date: Saturday, June 17, 2017
Time: 2:45:06 AM
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Just because the Beatles continued to be more popular than all that combined doesn't mean they continued to be better songwriters or be more adventurous at all than Ray Davies and Jimi Hendrix and Syd Barrett, just to name a few.
But they were clearly better than any of these people you noted, or any other artist you don't mention who were big at the time.
Hendrix wrote about 35 to 40 songs during that time period, not bad, as he was at his peak. He was the greatest guitarist around, no question, but he didn't write hundreds of songs before '70, either, and he was dead by '71. He also worshiped the Beatles during that time and was 100% influenced by them in how he wrote his songs.
Syd Barrett was about as overrated as any rocker ever was. He wrote 8 of the 11 songs for Pink Floyd's first LP and only one for the second LP, and maybe another single or 2 for them, and that was it. During that time, in the U.S., not a single one of those songs he wrote was a hit. Then he lost his mind to acid, left the band, and he put out 2 solo LPs that were pretty much totally forgotten by anybody other than die hard PF fans.
Ray Davies did write the most songs out of the 3 you noted during the time, but only about 5 of them were hits, that was it, as he wrote more hits before '67, but still nowhere near the number that Lennon/McCartney wrote.
They're own songwriting may indeed have improved after '66, as you say, but compared to so much else that was coming out it simply wasn't a good.
Yes, it wasn't just "good", or "as good", their music and songs were flat out light years better than anything else that was coming out at the time - it was great music and the best/greatest music of that period of time. Period!
As a Stones fan first in the late '60s, yes, I could see that the Stones had caught up to them finally in their output starting with BB in '68 and LIB in '69. They were finally equals by then, but only true Stones fans saw that. Plus they still weren't better, just equals to the Beatles by then in what they both putting out, which was good enough for the Stones and their fans. Yet during that time frame, the Beatles still put put more new songs than the Stones did.
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