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Old 03-05-2009, 04:10 AM
 
Location: Yucaipa, California
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I love the Beatles music.I can & have listened to it all day every day.Many of todays teens & 20 somethings say they are over rated.The beatles music is still played widely all over the world & their music is still selling quite well 45 yrs after they invaded america.NO band will ever do what they have done.

Todays music is just noise with no meaning.I can look up to mccartney,lennon,harrison & starr but NOT kenya west,chris brown,britney spears,beyonce,justine timberlake & all those other money hungry clowns.I just tell the beatles haters that they have no taste.Im just speaking the truth.Agree or disagree ?

 
Old 03-05-2009, 08:56 AM
 
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We've discussed this before but it has been some time back.

The Beatles accomplished more in their seven or eight years together than any other band, or group of bands, in their lifetime. They made music that crossed all boundaries of race, age, and gender. They would crank out product like clockwork, an example being their 1966 lp, Rubber Soul. That lp took them all of one month to make. Led by the Beatles, the British Invasion movement put a number of 50's and early 60's rockers out of the music picture, and it didn't take them long to do it. They were one of the first, and maybe THE first, to write their own material. And done justice to other artists material. Their contribution to not only music, but rock music is staggering. As far as that goes, they made a huge impact to pop culture as well.

Hobby wise, they rule the roost. Close to 40 years after their breakup, everything is in demand; original pressings, reissues, 45's, songbooks, sheet music, audiophile recordings, the works. Amazingly, "the works" also includes comic books, bobble head dolls, lunch boxes, posters, custom artwork, the list goes on and on. They are the most collected group in the hobby-hands down.

Are they relevant in this decade? Their #1 hits CD, released in 2001, sold over 20 million units, putting that release among the top lp sellers of all time. Yea, I would call that relevant.

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Old 03-05-2009, 10:22 AM
 
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I love the Beatles music.I can & have listened to it all day every day.Many of todays teens & 20 somethings say they are over rated.The beatles music is still played widely all over the world & their music is still selling quite well 45 yrs after they invaded america.NO band will ever do what they have done.

Todays music is just noise with no meaning.I can look up to mccartney,lennon,harrison & starr but NOT kenya west,chris brown,britney spears,beyonce,justine timberlake & all those other money hungry clowns.I just tell the beatles haters that they have no taste.Im just speaking the truth.Agree or disagree ?
Nahh...there is a whole sub-culture of 20 somethings that are obsessed with the beatles. They are called indie rockers and they tend to listen to great music influenced by the beatles. They usually have beatles-esque hair styles as well.
 
Old 03-05-2009, 10:28 AM
 
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I cannot imagine the level of a mind that thinks Kanye West or Britney Spears is in the same universe as the Beatles.
 
Old 03-05-2009, 12:05 PM
 
Location: Whiteville Tennessee
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The Beatles? Never heard of them.
 
Old 03-05-2009, 12:11 PM
 
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The problem today isn't with the artists; the human spirit, the compulsion to create never dies. The problem is with the prohibitive music "industry", that has no courage, and can't see past the current fiscal year. There are many great artists, much great music written and recorded today, but you'll never see it on MTV or hear it on mainstream radio. "Kids today" know how to find it on the internet, and when I've been hipped to it I am at once encourage and dismayed. First encouraged, because it restores my faith in the future of the artistry of popular music, then dismayed because it is just more proof of the repression of this artistry.

Artists like Jack White and The Raconteurs, The Killers, Feist, Deathcab for Cutie, Taking Back Sunday, I could go on if I didn't just have a middle-aged moment...

I will say this though, seldom do I hear the emphasis on melody in today's music that I love so much, that was so indicative of Beatle music and the Motown Sound and many of the artists from the 60's and 70's. Even artists like Dylan and The Stones put out music with such definitive melody lines they were altogether hum-able. This is only one reason why Beatle music stands up forty years after their disbandment though. We could also talk about the Lennon/McCartney personal and creative dynamic, the solo vocalizing of these two great singers, harmonies by the three singers in the band, McCartney's Motown inspired bass lines, their tirelessly imaginative musical conceptions, as well as the arrangements of George Martin. But I think the number one reason why Beatle music stands up was their intent to grow and develop new musical sounds. The Beatles were reinventing themselves biannually, once on their summer album and again on their Christmas album, and not strictly for commercialism either, but because this is where their music led them. And they were doing it when Madonna was still in lacy, silk diapers.
 
Old 03-06-2009, 10:43 AM
 
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The Beatles were ok,but I am no fan of their fans.
 
Old 03-06-2009, 12:07 PM
 
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The Beatles were ok,but I am no fan of their fans.
No fan of mental health either, are ya? What is it, the long dark winter?

I don't know what to make of a post like this, can only assume you are referring to those of us who would consider ourselves Beatle fans. "The Beatles were ok"..? Ok?! Even people who hate the whole genre concede that the Beatles were a little more than ok. Classical guys, jazz guys, just about every musician I've ever known well enough to have heard their opinion on the Beatles agrees that they were in a league of their own, that they wrote some of the best music of the twentieth century...

I don't know, I gotta say that it's posts like yours that render this activity nearly not worth it.
 
Old 03-06-2009, 08:44 PM
 
Location: Yucaipa, California
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I just hate todays music.Nothing & i mean nothing compares to the music of the 60,s & 70,s.
 
Old 03-06-2009, 09:46 PM
 
Location: Everybody is going to hurt you, you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for-B Marley
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I get embarrassed for the young people who say the Beatles and other 70s music is crap. They're showing their ignorance about music. Like the Beatles or not, you've got to be enough of a music lover to realize they revolutionized it and they ARE good regardless of whether or not they're your style. There are many artists I don't prefer that I know are good. Music appreciation. Get some--that's what I have to say to those who think there's only one good era and genre of music.
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