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Heffalump · January 2016

I don't really get what the big fucking deal about the Beatles is. I mean, I do like a few of their songs ("Here Comes the Sun" just came up in my Spotify playlist, which is what reminded me), but I feel like maybe I'm missing the bigger picture? IDK, regardless, Beatles = meh+, in my book.

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mrsconn23 · January 2016

DH can't stand the Beatles hype. He doesn't despise their music or anything, but he definitely thinks it's 'ho-hum' for the most part. I like a lot of their songs, but in the way I like a *lot* of other songs.

Heffalump · January 2016

Right after that, "We Built This City" by Starship came up. OMG, I feel like a kid again. DH hates that song, but my fifth grade friends and I thought it was soooooo cool.

JediElizabeth · January 2016

We actually discussed this in a music theory class once: a lot of people in younger generations are underwhelmed by the Beatles because they seem boring, overdone, or derivative. But really, when they came out everything was brand new - no one had heard a sound like theirs before. What we hear now is derivative of THEM, but it doesn't feel that way to us because we heard everything else first. Or so I'm told.

PMeg819 · January 2016

JediElizabeth said:

We actually discussed this in a music theory class once: a lot of people in younger generations are underwhelmed by the Beatles because they seem boring, overdone, or derivative. But really, when they came out everything was brand new - no one had heard a sound like theirs before. What we hear now is derivative of THEM, but it doesn't feel that way to us because we heard everything else first. Or so I'm told.

This. If the Beatles came out today, they'd flop massively. But for the time, it was novel. I think I like The Beatles not because I think they are innovative, but because the music has nostalgia. And like a lot of good music, there is some depth in the lyrics for some of the songs.

thefanciestbeckler · January 2016

I don't like the Beatles. Never have. It may be an UO, but I like what I like.

*Barbie* · January 2016

Heffalump said:

Right after that, "We Built This City" by Starship came up. OMG, I feel like a kid again. DH hates that song, but my fifth grade friends and I thought it was soooooo cool.

That's on my Prime playlist. I have random 80s days.

BlondeBride2016 · January 2016

Try being from Liverpool and disliking The Beatles! Now that's an unpopular opinion.

lyndausvi · January 2016

I'm meh about the Beatles. Take them or leave them. I don't actively search out their songs, have never bought an album, but I don't change the station if one of their songs comes on either.

The other day I heard "Centerfold" by the J Geils Band. Love that song. Brings back memories. My entire class received a 45 record (yep, I'm that old) of that song from our teacher for an xmas gift. Apparently he had a 2nd job at a record store. Every time it comes on I think how these days Mr C would have been fired for giving us this 45. Glad I was around before those days.

holyguacamole79 · January 2016

*Barbie* said:

Heffalump said:

Right after that, "We Built This City" by Starship came up. OMG, I feel like a kid again. DH hates that song, but my fifth grade friends and I thought it was soooooo cool.

That's on my Prime playlist. I have random 80s days.

I flippin love that song.

VarunaTT · January 2016

I adore the Beatles. It's also because they were a big part of my childhood music listening. They were my first introduction to a lot of music. Their careers are also interesting to examine, since they basically started as a boy band and then developed into something completely different. They've had a massive impact on the modern music scene in musicality and lyricism, that simply can't be denied. from their boy band sound to the ending albums that were experimental and novel. And they ushered into an entirely new era of music at the time. They were Nirvana of their day: they came into the US, turned the music scene entirely upside down, and changed it practically overnight from what was popular at the time.

If you dig into any of the Anthology albums and listen to some of their outtakes, conversations about the music, and other things that never made it onto commercial releases, it becomes apparent that they were all great musicians of differing levels of skill/talent/thoughts.

holyguacamole79 · January 2016

This isn't an UO, but a continuation of nostalgia / music ....

I loved this and it makes me smile and dance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_01zRwJOPw

Heffalump · January 2016

And related: maybe I shouldn't listen to Spotify at work anymore. This has happened twice already this morning:

Office visitor: "Just wanted to drop this off--oh, hey! You like Duran Duran [or Stevie Nicks] too?"

Me: "Oh, is that who this is?"

Them:

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MesmrEwe · January 2016

I was watching a "behind the music" type program the other night on Lemmy - he described exactly as @JediElizabeth did... Back then, all they had were Rosemary Clooney type records, and when the Beatles et. al. came along it was like an awakening occurred in music.

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