>You like air rock, then. Nothing against them but that is an offshoot, not real rock. The real rockers were so wild and eager that even the Beatles were playing outside the sandbox. You can easily youtube classical musicians saying the same. They were revolutionaries, four young guys from Liverpool. Which, if you haven't been there, is a dump.
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>One of the things I will always love about them is they kept writing songs non-musicians could love along with their more musical contemporaries.
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>Posted 7 years ago, 28 million views. It is said to be the most covered song ever.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONXp-vpE9eUIt's funny how differently people react to different pieces of music (or any art for that matter) In the Beatles catalog you so often hear praises for
Yesterday
Michelle
Imagine
Hey Jude
all of which pretty much leave me cold (with Imagine at the bottom of the list) or actually make me want to poke out my eardrums.
But they did genius stuff
Eleanor Rigby
Sgt. Pepper (pretty much all of it but especially the theme, 'For the benefit of Mr. Kite' and 'Day in the life'
Penny Lane
Magical Mystery Tour
And then the amazing, transcendent, "WTF is this" ? White Album which caused me to get headphone marks that still haven't faded.
Mixed emotions about Abbey Road. White album the peak for me.
And later, McCartney did
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
