The Beatles

I want a set too! I still have the old masters.

 

I got Hard Days Night long after I owned their post-'65 albums, it was only a few years ago when I burned a copy. I've always had a distance between myself and that music because I'll always associate it with my mom's death, as I was watching Hard Days Night the night she died.

Even though many of the songs are familiar, I was totally blown away how good it is from end-to-end. Next to Revolver, it might be my second favorite album ... and I've always been more into later period Beatles.

 

There was a time -- I was about 12 -- when I would have debated with anybody that the Beach Boys were better than the Beatles. I finally figured it out, but I still love 'em both. Just too bad all that competition drove Brian Wilson over the edge.

 

Do your kids a favor and burn them anything other than the Beatles. Christ almighty. You guys are allergic to anything post 1960.

Fuck the Beatles.

 

Apparently you are allergic to history. The Beatles didn't hit the world until 1960.

I am, however and thank you, allergic to anything post 1999. Go listen to Soulja Boy and leave the musical discussions to the adults.

 

I prefer Elvis to the Beatles. I prefer Buddy Holly to the Beatles. I prefer B.B. King circa 1950 to the Beatles. The Beatles are historic, and they were pioneers in some ways. They might be a good starting point for young music listeners. If I want to listen to some great rock, though, I don't pull out the Beatles.

 

To the clueless: Rolling Stone's got a Beatles special out that is as close to a scholarly discussion of their music as you can get in the popular press.

Go read it and then get the fuck back to us.

 

I "discovered" the Beatles when I was a kid going through my parents' albums. Didn't care for Elvis. I wasn't much into the Joni Mitchell other hippie stuff that they had, but the stuff I liked was Paul Simon and the Beatles. I was about 5 or 6 at the time and I put Magical Mystery Tour on the record player because I wanted to hear a song called "I am the Walrus" Been hooked ever since.

 

Having a scholarly discussion of music is like having a scholarly discussion of sex. People like what they like, and they shouldn't be told they are clueless because of what someone else thinks. It doesn't make me clueless anymore than it makes someone else clueless for failing to recognize the impact that Sun Records had on rock as a whole.

 

How many of his hits did Elvis write himself?

 

But how were they in night interleague games against left-handed pitching with runners in scoring position?

 

How many of Michael Crawford's musicals did he write himself? How many of Jack Nicholson's movies did he write himself? Elvis was a singer. I prefer to like his performances more than I like the Beatles' performances. That's all. It doesn't mean that the Beatles aren't musical geniuses. Perhaps they are. So are the guys who compose classical music. I don't care to listen to them much either.