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This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because <the fact that the Better Beatles, on the basis of one single, grew enough of a following for there to be a market for them to release their full album 25 years after they broke-up is fairly notable. Has this ever happened with to other band? In addition, the "kill your idols" mentality behind the band makes them the quintessential example of punk and post-punk's attitude towards the music of the sixties. Lastly, they received attention from both critic
Robert Christgau and DJ
John Peel, two of the premier taste-makers of the period.>. —
Hartwell86 (
talk)
22:37, 3 November 2011 (UTC)reply
ChartAttack reviewed Mercy Beat in early 2008, shortly after it was issued, saying that, “Best of all, despite Mercy Beat being recorded back in 1981, it should still do well both with original new wavers and fans of electro-pop like
Ladytron.”
[1] Non-profit Nebraskan music advocacy group Hear Nebraska mentions them as “some of the definitive Nebraska recordings of the punk-rock era.”
[2]Hartwell86 (
talk)
23:31, 3 November 2011 (UTC)reply
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Pop music, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of articles related to
pop music on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Pop musicWikipedia:WikiProject Pop musicTemplate:WikiProject Pop musicPop music articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the
United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions.
This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because <the fact that the Better Beatles, on the basis of one single, grew enough of a following for there to be a market for them to release their full album 25 years after they broke-up is fairly notable. Has this ever happened with to other band? In addition, the "kill your idols" mentality behind the band makes them the quintessential example of punk and post-punk's attitude towards the music of the sixties. Lastly, they received attention from both critic
Robert Christgau and DJ
John Peel, two of the premier taste-makers of the period.>. —
Hartwell86 (
talk)
22:37, 3 November 2011 (UTC)reply
ChartAttack reviewed Mercy Beat in early 2008, shortly after it was issued, saying that, “Best of all, despite Mercy Beat being recorded back in 1981, it should still do well both with original new wavers and fans of electro-pop like
Ladytron.”
[1] Non-profit Nebraskan music advocacy group Hear Nebraska mentions them as “some of the definitive Nebraska recordings of the punk-rock era.”
[2]Hartwell86 (
talk)
23:31, 3 November 2011 (UTC)reply