Please help me, what is the song taken from the new album, push the button , that talks about Portugal? anyone knows? anyone have the album? just look, please.

Uhm...haven't you already been told it's Left Right on Push The Button...?

no, this is the second person that asked about it... what's going on? is Portugal so starved for attention that it's thrilled to be mentioned in a song?

No, really....it's the same guy

there was a girl who asked too... she had a _ at the end of her name....

ah, yes, here it was http://forums.theche...opic.php?t=2056

aah, you're right....but this guy still asked twice... :P

portuguese are that proud of their country... they need to ask twice ;-)

toomuch'stash Escribi�:

no, this is the second person that asked about it... what's going on? is Portugal so starved for attention that it's thrilled to be mentioned in a song?

I had the misfortune to grow up in Blackburn, Lancs. I still get asked about those 4,000 bloody holes even now. And that really isn't much fun when I consider the Beatles to be one of the most over-rated bands of all time. :(

"I had the misfortune to grow up in Blackburn, Lancs. I still get asked about those 4,000 bloody holes even now. And that really isn't much fun when I consider the Beatles to be one of the most over-rated bands of all time. "

BEATLES.OVER-RATED.ME THINKS NOT.

tarka Escribi�:

ME THINKS NOT.

So I see. X-D



An OK band who were the first to be mass-marketed like a cornflakes brand to the then newly-emerging market of teenagers. Right place, right time, right demographics. You only have to look at the tripe they made as solo artists to confirm they were simply a product of their time. Vastly over-rated.

heh, it's cool Tyler, I get shit all the time for saying the same thing.

Tyler Escribi�:

tarka Escribi�:

ME THINKS NOT.

So I see. X-D



An OK band who were the first to be mass-marketed like a cornflakes brand to the then newly-emerging market of teenagers. Right place, right time, right demographics. You only have to look at the tripe they made as solo artists to confirm they were simply a product of their time. Vastly over-rated.

that is how they started, but they ended up meeting bob dylan and smoking weed. They then went down the experimental path and changed music forever. I love all the later Beatles albums and so do most of my friends. This love had nothing to do with any kind of mass-marketing and it happend decades after the Beatles were no more.

you ever heard Abbey Road? ;-)

Thesouphead Escribi�:

Tyler Escribi�:

tarka Escribi�:

ME THINKS NOT.

So I see. X-D



An OK band who were the first to be mass-marketed like a cornflakes brand to the then newly-emerging market of teenagers. Right place, right time, right demographics. You only have to look at the tripe they made as solo artists to confirm they were simply a product of their time. Vastly over-rated.

that is how they started, but they ended up meeting bob dylan and smoking weed. They then went down the experimental path and changed music forever. I love all the later Beatles albums and so do most of my friends. This love had nothing to do with any kind of mass-marketing and it happend decades after the Beatles were no more.

you ever heard Abbey Road? ;-)

I'll see your Abbey Road and raise you Pet Sounds. :P



Seriously, Beatlemania became a bigger phenomenon than the band itself, something which the Beatles themselves grew to resent. They were obviously a major influence on fellow artists, but so were Brian Wilson, Velvet Underground (not at the time, of course, as they were way ahead of their time), The Doors, The Stones, The Who, The Kinks, Hendrix, James Brown and many others of their day. I don't deny they were an important band, it's all this revisionist "greatest band ever" bollocks of recent years that I take issue with. Being the most commercially successful band doesn't mean they were necessarily the best.

99% of the time commercial success is inversely proportional to the quality of the music. 99% of the time.

toomuch'stash Escribi�:

heh, it's cool Tyler, I get shit all the time for saying the same thing.

I think it was because your mother was a big Beatles fan!

I'm so glad the Beatles were so successful comercially and all that because otherwise I might not have heard of them! I really just heard a few people in school say that they were cool and I got the Magical Mystery Tour album and.. WOW! Changed my life, seriously.

wayno52 Escribi�:

I really just heard a few people in school say that they were cool and I got the Magical Mystery Tour album and.. WOW! Changed my life, seriously.

With the greatest of respect, that must have been one hell of a sheltered life. Seriously.



If you'd said the White Album or Abbey Road or Sgt Pepper, I could understand it. But Magical Mystery Tour?? It's not a proper Beatles album for starters, it was cobbled together for the US market from the soundtrack to a very poor TV film of the same name, plus a couple of good singles from that year (Strawberry Fields, Penny Lane, All You Need Is Love) that weren't even in the movie. It's not highly regarded by the Beatles themselves or their fans.



You want life-changing albums? Try some of these...



The Clash - London Calling

Pixies - Doolittle

Primal Scream - Screamadelica

Orbital - In Sides

The Chemical Brothers - Surrender



That's by no means an exhaustive list but each of them is a truly groundbreaking album that changed my musical direction in some way. They're all very special to me and I hope they will be to you.

hooray! my life must have been changing many times :) got all of these 5! 8)

Screamadelica?

It's good, but it didn't change my life one bit when I bought it.

The VHS of the album is very good though, but again, not life changing.