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"Whats crazy to me is we haven't seen mass thirst on this scale like this. Like yeah there's BTS and 1D and even the Beatles, but none of that happened overnight like this and it was mostly teenagers."
"The other Beatles have their partners around as well - Linda Macartney is there, Ringo's wife, even George Harrison has his Hare Krishna guy or whatever. But they're generally cameos and they stay off to one side. But Yoko is right there in the circle while they're rehearsing and trying to write new"
"Heard multiple people use the phrase 'male manipulator music' to refer to the smiths and radiohead. Also at one point the Beatles??? Which I have never heard before"
"I feel deep disgust whenever I hear Imagine by John Lennon. I enjoy the Beatles and I like Lennon's solo work but that song makes me feel sick."
"I can't imagine being a music fan in any capacity and thinking Abbey Road and Revolver were 'mid' or being more focused on their messy lives than the actual art they produced. Not understanding how insane it is to just put out album after album of both critical and commercial hits in a few short yea"
"She's the first real 'superstar' in about 30 years. I don't care about her music but respect the hustle"
"Blamed Paul for breaking up the Beatles despite bringing Yoko into private band meetings for years and ultimately quitting the band first"
"I read a thread about the Grateful Dead posted here a few years ago and one of the commenters kept saying "everything" was German. Modern music, Star Wars, The Beatles?"
"Guy had this rather convincingly elaborated theory about how the entire post-WWII avant-garde, both in terms of high culture and pop, was a product of the Western European welfare states providing access to the means of cultural creation to disaffected working class weirdos (from the Beatles to free"
"No they are not the greatest "musicians" or whatever, but the fact is McCartney + Lennon is the most prolific songwriting duo of all time. Complaining about them stealing black music or whatever is so cringe. They straight ripped off American rock a lot in their first couple albums because that's wh"
"every up and coming indie artist is normal at worst and a model at best now. why is this? the ugliest relevant musician we have right now is probably the dare and he'd still be 2nd or 3rd hottest in the beatles"
"They were a bunch of british twink boy band who had the entire global female population dickwhipped and in their hold, they could have comfortably kept making similar music as their early stuff but those bongs had a genuine love and drive for art and kept trying to innovate which were all miraculous"
"Cumtown post breakup is like the Beatles circa 1970-1971"
"Anyone over 35 will trip over their own feet to compliment you if you like something as universal as The Beatles let alone if you have actual in depth knowledge of them or any old band or singer."
"The cultural shift that occurred during this time…to go from "Twist and Shout" to "Hey Jude" in like 7 years is so insane…I don't think anything like this has occurred in the last 30 years at least"
"Sgt Peppers and OK computer are better than 99.9999999999999% of music ever made but people don't like to admit it."
"It's like an endlessly mutating version of guys smugly announcing that oh, don't you know, John Lennon hit his wife... Also one thought that occured to me, while one of them was proudly explaining how she knew that "every Beatle hit their wives", was that this obsessive behaviour is the female equiv"
"not saying favorite but just the better songwriter, facts don't care about your feelings (sorry george)"
"Overheard someone at the library say 'maturing is realizing George Harrison is the best beatle'. Which, first of all, stop saying internet memes out loud."
"He gets choked up about liking The Beatles despite John Lennon beating his wife."
"To me the most underrated British band of the era relatively, you hear people mention the beatles, the stones, the who, zeppelin etc but never the kinks."
"His tribute to John and George was very touching, and it's really obvious how much he misses both of them and The Beatles overall."
"Mine: • The Beatles are the greatest band of all time • Bob Dylan is the greatest American songwriter • The Simpsons is the greatest TV Show ever"
"I put on the song and immediately people in the class start laughing. "Yo this shit gay as fuck!", "This dude suck dick!!". The teacher Mr. Hendon does all he can to try and get the class to quiet down."
"Same goes for music. You didn't have to be some RYM music guy to find great music back then. You didn't have to seek out The Beatles or Fleetwood Mac or Michael Jackson. They were just there."
"Sometimes life sucks but nobody can take that away from you."
"People bring up Beatlemania but at least The Beatles tried to give us something, does taylor swift participate in drug addled circle jerks with her writing team???"
"Whether it's a moment of harmonic/tonal ambiguity, borrowing from the parallel minor, a secondary dominant, weird phrasing on a melody, a key change, whatever. The songwriting never overwhelmingly strange but their songs so consistently have these little moments where they're breaking from standard "
"Did anyone else hate the Beatles with a burning passion as a teenager but now they are one of their favourite artists? I love the abbey road medley more than my family."
"The drive home was nice, home was about an hour from the cabin and we just listened to John Denver and the Beatles the entire ride back."
"I haven't seen a thread on this yet but since it's been out for a few days now I'm wondering what you guys think of the new Beatles doc. I thought it was amazing, watching them write songs and just hang out was incredible... Also: Beatles haters are so annoying. Most stale, boring contrarian take in"
"Paul McCartney of the Beatles was known to defend the semi-fictional band 'The Monkees' and he even performed a photo op with one of it's members Mickey Dolenz saying he '[Digged] what you're doin''."
"The songs are great, if they're not your thing that's fine but the reason the Beatles are 'the Beatles' isn't because they wrote a million great tunes (they did) it's the production, stupid. The avian music playing during 'blackbird', the reverse hi-hat and pitched vocals on 'Strawberry Fields', It'"
"My Sweet Lord is the greatest song made by a beatle"
"Whoever decided on Joseph Quinn as George is brain dead or blind"
"I know this is like talking about how good The Beatles are or whatever but whatever."
"You can't write a song about a blackbird, or a girl named Prudence. That space has been filled. Love Me Do came out in 1962, and Closer came only 18 years later. Rock has never seen such a fruitful period and perhaps it never will again."
"the Beatles really were the greatest to ever do it 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙"
"In the town where I was born / Lived a man the wind had strewn / And he told us of his life / In the land of spy balloons / So we flew to Myrtle Beach / Till we found a sky of blue / And we lived above the clouds / In our Chinese spy balloon"
"These musicians are so much larger than life that they kind of go ignored by new music listeners as they think they get the gist. A step below the notoriety of The Beatles or Rolling Stones, but more famous than say, Steely Dan, who were below the radar enough to warrant a recent 'rediscovery'."
"Beatles cast is exclusively overhyped men with a cult following of teenage girls who will watch the movie regardless of the quality of the actual movie. So many roles go to whoever the most popular/hot actor is rather than who is good."
"In 2009, in Liverpool, Dylan joined a Beatles tour to visit John Lennon's childhood home. A National Trust spokesman said, 'He could I have booked a private tour, but he was happy to go on the bus with everyone else.'"
"They were rightfully pissed off that the way pop music was marketed towards preteens had degenerated immensely since the era of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones."
"Now this is obviously generalizing, everyone has their own favorite, but as a whole you can see how the scales have tipped over the years. Its one big history of contrarianism, and what's the most contrarian take you could possibly have about the Beatles?"
"Some other random honorable mentions; • You just haven't earned it yet baby - The Smiths • Starman - Bowie • All you need is love - Beatles"
"Basically for the past 6 months or so I've been hyperfixated on everything to do with the Beatles and honestly I'm happy I got into their music but I can tell my gf is gonna blow my head off if I play across the universe again. I unironically can not stop myself from mentioning them at least once pe"
"It worked for The Beatles"
"It's pretty good. I'm not doing a hot take today. But yeah, The Beatles, if you haven't heard of them they're worth a listen."
"This cover by Donovan was released in October 1965, two months before the Beatles' Rubber Soul (which featured bubbly psychedelic typeface)."
"The Beatles are often seen as a counter cultural band, and the counter culture at the time was associated with the Left. But in Taxman, they're complaining about Harold Wilson's high rate of progressive taxation. They come off as massive sell outs to me just wanting to cash in their millions. It's a"
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