Most people I know have a lasting affection for stuff their parents listened to when they were kids. Thus my love for Marty Robbins, Johnny Horton, Burl Ives, the Platters, the Everly Brothers, etc. My friends and I talk all the time about how we as 70s teenagers listened to everything. In one night we might hit a rock club, a disco and a seriously redneck country bar and love it all. Now it is just rap/hip hop.
My son who is 24 yo is a huge Beatles fan, same with his girlfriend. His favorite is Abbey Road, then Sgt Pepper. He was blown away at the Get Back documentary that came out recently. What strikes him most is how in a short 7 years, the band evolved, changed its sound so drastically in a short amount of time. For him, The Beatles are still the benchmark for popular music over 50 years later. And he is not a big fan of "classic rock".
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
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White Album and Sgt Pepper. I played some of my favorites for my 27 year old son. He said he liked them, but who knows. I didn't know any of the bands he mentioned to me.
I believe there are. The remixes and remasters of their albums seems to introduce their music to a new genre of listeners. The 2009 stereo and mono remixes got them new listeners, and the Rock Band game came out around that time. The recent digital remasters of Abbey Road, Sergeant Pepper, The White Album, Let It Be, and mostly recently, Revolver, seemed to have given them another life.
I've been playing guitar for 30 years. Those guys were just great musicians. The way they composed and layered their sounds is still amazing today. Imagine doing it from 1963-1970 when technology was absolutely archaic. Our cell phones are probably more technologically advanced than the stuff they used.
There’s a couple kids that work for me. He’s 19 and she’s 21. They love all sorts of classic rock. Both are big Beatles fans.
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Originally posted by sigmonkey: I'd fly to Turks and Caicos with live ammo falling out of my pockets before getting within spitting distance of NJ with a firearm.
Originally posted by gjgalligan: Guess I am an outlier, I NEVER cared for the Beatles even though I graduated high school in 1969. If I never heard them again it would be just fine.
Ya know, maybe it is best to bypass these type of threads than to crap on it. Just sayin'.
Originally posted by gjgalligan: Guess I am an outlier, I NEVER cared for the Beatles even though I graduated high school in 1969. If I never heard them again it would be just fine.
Cool, tastes vary.
But it is a pure fact that The Beatles were the absolute, most important musical entity in popular music. Everything else that came afterwards was because of the Beatles.
Just like in cinema, Citizen Kane is not liked by certain segments of movie fans, they find it "boring". But Kane completely revolutionized cinema, it completely changed how movies were made ever since. And the Beatles had a bigger impact on the music world.
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
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Plenty of young beatniks around. Heck, one of the places I deliver to is a coffee shop that looks like it was transplanted from the '60s and the proprietor is a young guy.
"I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"
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My niece is 9 years old. The biggest Beatles fan I know. None of the rest of the family were much into them. It is cute, and very enjoyable to hang out with her and listen to music.
When she was 5 or 6, I was trying to talk the her about falcons (the birds). I was asking if she knew eagles, if she knew what eagles were. She wouldn't answer me, until finally asked if I meant the animals or the band. Legitimate question, and still makes me chuckle.
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