Friday, October 14, 2011
My Favorite Beetle (Part 1)
You can not go with Richard Starkey. He does have an adorable singing voice. I admire people who can't sing. I think that might be one of the reasons I don't like the Beatles that much, they are too decent of singers. I mean they aren't Frank Sinatra but they also aren't Bob Dylan. I think they even know that. They are more popular than Dylan, another reason not to like them. Robert Zimmerman is my favorite Beatle, except for the fact he wasn't a Beatle. He may have turn them on to pot though which is weird. Anyways, Ringo Starr is a delightful chap. For me, I think he is the more (or most if you include Alec Baldwin apparently) memorable conductor on Shining Time Station. I enjoy the fact that he would say grammatically incorrect sentences. He had peritonitis, like Houdini and Gilbert Gottfried. His drum playing is fine for all I can tell. I think the main problem with him is that he is weird looking. It makes since some how that he was raised poor. He is like the Kenny of South Park of the Beatles. (Cartman is John, Stan is Paul, Kyle is George) In A Hard Day's Night they make fun of his nose (and in the cartoon he is certainly the most recognizable of the cartoons, again like Kenny), but I don't think that is it. He just has this gypsy quality about him. I picture him as bug eyed for some reason. As far as I know he also didn't write any particuarly good songs. He was the last one to join the Beatles. The only one to have someone come in and replace him (Jimmy Nicol would probably be my favorite Beatle if he had done anything exceptionally cool afterwords.. and I suppose it would help if I knew anything at all about his musicianship.) So basicly, Ringo is too ugly to be my favorite Beatle. One down, three to go.
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