Poll: The Beatles

[Asparagus Brown]

Ah yes, but surely that is pop music. The Rolling Stones aren't known for their chart success, but for entertaining hundreds of thousands of people for decades in wildly successful world tours - they are musicians. The Beatles gave up touring and retreated to the studio, shunning their loyal fanbase.

Yes, they are pop music, and so are The Rolling Stones. The reason they're not remembered for their chart success is because, like a lot of other groups at the time, they found it difficult to get to the number 1. spot because it was constantly held by the Beatles.

Anyway, that's not really important, because we're not debating whether they were popular or not. What I'm letting you know is that, when the Beatles stopped touring, that's the part of their career that sets them apart from just being a popular band. They wrote their best stuff then because they weren't constrained to writing music that could be replicated on stage, so they could actually experiment through recording techniques and having lots of auxiliary instruments.

 

[ArcadianTrance]

The only song of theres I ever really liked was across the universe -yay medatation- so moderate I guess.

 

[paiged]

They were ahead of their time, and I respect them. But I really don't care for their music. Although, I can't help but sing along to Eleanor Rigby for some reason.

 

[McClaud]

I don't know much of them, but from what I do know I would definetly say they were pretty good, but I don't think they were amazing and don't see how people get so fanatical over them.

Hippies, my friend. Hippies.

It was more than hippies. It was that their music spanned the listening audience. They had a wide range of songs that basically struck a chord with people of all ages and dispositions.

Now, late Beatles songs are interesting because they made drug-induced lyrics and recording techniques the norm so that other drug-induced and experimental music was allowed to be embraced despite the disapproval of the older generations.

 

[iain62a]

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Elvis opened the door for rock and the Beatles burst open the flood gates

Elvis didn't make Rock music. I'm sick and tired of him getting all the credit it. Other people, like Wynonie harris, Jesse Stone, Roy Brown and Big Joe Turner all did much more for the genre than Elvis. Elvis was just another corporate cash-in, who happened to get lucky.

did i say he did? no i didn't, i said he opened to doors for it. ok this might sound wrong but frankly it's due to the time period, Elvis was a white guy who played music that was predominately played by black people, so it "allowed" white ppl to listen to it without the stigma of listening to "black" music (the actual term was much worse and i won't say it). for white folks to listen to blues or jazz during the time when Elvis began was a bad thing, you became a social outcast, women were considered dirty sluts and whores. Elvis was a white guy and that made it socially acceptable to listen to the type of music.

he never built the house, he just opened the door for everyone to come in and party

I think you're going a bit far with the stigma attached to white people listening to black music. There were plenty of black people who gained commercial success before that era. Josh White springs to mind escpecially, he was huge during the 30s and 40s. He was even on first name terms with Franklin Roosevelt, the president at the time. There were lots of other White guys who were playing that type of black music before too, like Bill Haley for one. Presley was just a business venture to his manager, a succesful one at that. However, I do appreciate a lot of Elvis' work, especially his earlier stuff. I probably came across quite aggresively in that post, didn't mean it in that way.

 

[Donbett1974]

Ono was the best thing to happen to the beatles.

 

[Hippobatman]

Good band with great influence. Nothing more to say, really.

Not exactly my cup of tea, but I enjoy the occasional "Yesterday", "Yellow Submarine" or "Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds". Don't deny The Beatle's importance! If you do, you are thirteen years old and ignorant, and I'll have to ask you to step outside.

 

[huntedannoyed]

They were the foundation from which all other music acts are based. The deffinition of "Rock Star" would not mean what it does now without them. Granted, Elvis is considered to be instrumental to the modern rock star, but we live in a democracy, not a monacracy. Think about it. Can you name Elvis' drummer?

 

[Uncompetative]

Good band with great influence. Nothing more to say, really.

Not exactly my cup of tea, but I enjoy the occasional "Yesterday", "Yellow Submarine" or "Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds". Don't deny The Beatle's importance! If you do, you are thirteen years old and ignorant, and I'll have to ask you to step outside.

I was born in the 60s.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

I think you're going a bit far with the stigma attached to white people listening to black music. There were plenty of black people who gained commercial success before that era. Josh White springs to mind escpecially, he was huge during the 30s and 40s. He was even on first name terms with Franklin Roosevelt, the president at the time. There were lots of other White guys who were playing that type of black music before too, like Bill Haley for one.

there were some but the main thing is there was a big stigma attached to it. we don't see it today but it was there, there was also a few that did make it big but a lot that didn't until much later, Robert Johnson was one who made a huge impact after he died

 

[ihatefullmetalalchemist]

Who are the beetles