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Definitely 100% R!. I admit that the Beatles had - and still have - a huge impact on many musicians, but IMHO they are the most overrated band ever. Look at their lyrics, it is like listening to Lala and Po in teletubby land. Count the total number of distinct words in a song like "hello, Goodbye" (31) and then compare that to the number of distinct words (150+) of e.g. lyrics from the early days of Marillion which are plain poetry. FWIW Going Home from the Stones has 134 distinct words.

I know there are zillions of people that do not agree with me, but I personally would not shed a tear if there was no more songs played on the radio from the Beatles.

Hello-Goodbye: 32 distinct words
 40 say
 32 i
 31 hello
 31 zz_words
 20 you
 16 why
 15 goodbye
 10 dont
 10 hela
 10 know
  9 heba
  9 helloa
  7 go
  7 no
  6 and
  6 oh
  3 yes
  2 bye
  2 stop
  1 but
  1 can
  1 do
  1 hellowow
  1 high
  1 its
  1 low
  1 may
  1 mean
  1 stay
  1 still
  1 time
  1 to
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That is a mere 31 different words including silly variants of hello

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

In reply to Re: R or B? by Tux
in thread R or B? by Discipulus

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