pma wrote:thomasquinn 32989 wrote:
First off: I really do like The Beatles. Not everything, and I have to admit I lean towards George Harrison, but I do like it. Having said that, anyone who thinks Paul is in any way an exceptional vocalist doesn't know what they are talking about, as the 'arguments' on the website in the original post clearly show.
Although I know you are fond of a scientific approach to music, most people simply are not. Most music listeners care about mere, unscientific, subjective opinions. Yes, we care about the good feeling we get from what we hear, not about the technical finess of an artist, or their range or how they could hit a note while high on drugs and getting nailed in the buttocks.
If being a Beatle itself is not exceptional enough for some people, then what is? You come across as a mean spirited person if you wish to label the opinions of others as "don't know what they are talking about". Who put you in a position to decide on the matter? I suppose you'll find out when you look in the mirror.
In my subjective opinion most polls about greatest singers ignore black singers, who could sing circles around overrated self-destructive douches like Freddy Mercury. Oh, and anyone who claims otherwise, simply doesn't know what they are talking about. Thou shalt not question my authority on matters of opinions, you you you positivist pillock, or I will call thee a wanker and then spend three weeks on thinking of witty insults, having overused my limited vocabulary of slurs (pillock, cunt, wanker). Thank you.
Ok, your rant was funny, I'll grant you that, but...please read what I write before lecturing me: when I say that they do not know what they are talking about, I am referring specifically to the *arguments* (and note that I place them between single quotation marks in my post) they use in support of their opinion, as they pass ridiculously vague, indeterminate subjective observation as scientific evidence of the objective superiority of Paul McCartney to *every other vocalist in the world*. That, PMA, is what I refer to as "not knowing what they are talking about".