I don't like The Beatles, am I the only one?

[Petrushka]

Except Louie, Louie.

I was introduced to Louie, Louie by Robert Quine. He had the room next to me my freshman year.

He accompanied it on air guitar.

 

[Robin L]

If you make music/play an instrument, you can't argue that the Beatles did not come up with with a few great chord progressions and chord-making melody lines, many of which were unique. There was cleverness there, irrespective of whether you like their (very varied) music or not.

This is true, and a lot of people noted how the group managed to throw in unusual chords, progressions and harmonies. But so did the Kinks, The Zombies, Burt Bacharach, Randy Newman, Curtis Mayfield, The Beach Boys . . .

And then, there's Billy Strayhorn:

 

[PristineSound]

My apologies, I was quite abrupt. I just found this too much of a generalisation.

This is based on scientific studies:

Study shows adolescence strongly shapes lifelong music taste:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1029864913493800

Study shows music taste is tied to identity and brain development:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/8755123315576534

Study shows effects of exposure to specific music:

Exposure effects on music preference and recognition - PubMed

In three experiments, the effects of exposure to melodies on their subsequent liking and recognition were explored. In each experiment, the subjects first listened to a set of familiar and unfamiliar melodies in a study phase. In the subsequent test phase, the melodies were repeated, along with...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02699930701350753

 

[Robin L]

This is based on scientific studies:

Study shows adolescence strongly shapes lifelong music taste:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1029864913493800

Study shows music taste is tied to identity and brain development:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/8755123315576534

Study shows effects of exposure to specific music:

Exposure effects on music preference and recognition - PubMed

In three experiments, the effects of exposure to melodies on their subsequent liking and recognition were explored. In each experiment, the subjects first listened to a set of familiar and unfamiliar melodies in a study phase. In the subsequent test phase, the melodies were repeated, along with...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02699930701350753

Yup, classical music in the form of a Hammer Horror/Wicker Man symphony—Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique—discovered me at age 13 and warped me for life.

 

[Mart68]

Of course, this applies to so many recordings, like Richard Berry's original version of Louie Louie, or the long, tall shadow of Little Richard's.

Jon The Postman mate:

 

[Robin L]

Jon The Postman mate:

"You understand that you won't be able to hear the organ once we turn the amplifiers up."

 

[Redacted]

Can we start a new thread - "All the music I don't like" ?
I can safely avoid it, even though I have a long list (much of it is already on the 'what are you playing now thread' )

 

[Open Mind Audio]

No one has to like ANY kind of music. It's all personal of course. I love Bob Dylan but don't expect everyone else too. But it is worth noting that Dylan and the Beatles are unquestionably cited by their musician-peers as the most influential musicians and songwriters of the past 65 years. So even if you don't like either of them, it's worth considering why all the musicians you love admire them.

 

[Mart68]

Music is like biscuits isn't it? It doesn't matter that there's some you don't like because there's shedloads of different types to choose from.

 

[Redacted]

Music is like biscuits isn't it? It doesn't matter that there's some you don't like because there's shedloads of different types to choose from.

I even like Limp Biskit. It's just the way the cookie crumbles.

 

[PristineSound]

No one has to like ANY kind of music. It's all personal of course. I love Bob Dylan but don't expect everyone else too. But it is worth noting that Dylan and the Beatles are unquestionably cited by their musician-peers as the most influential musicians and songwriters of the past 65 years. So even if you don't like either of them, it's worth considering why all the musicians you love admire them.

True, but here is an argument: why would I care what other people think or care when it comes to something like personal enjoyment?

If everyone enjoys eating monkey brain, should I eat monkey brain?

I always pride myself to be an independent (and admittedly a selfish) thinker, what matters to ME?

Though I could give these artists some credit for the admiration they have garnered. . .and then so what? What does it mean to me in the end? Nothing.

 

[PristineSound]

Can we start a new thread - "All the music I don't like" ?
I can safely avoid it, even though I have a long list (much of it is already on the 'what are you playing now thread' )

I can already summarize that list before it is created

But so would love to start a thread that trolls Bob Dylan and his mumbling. I think a lot of people would have a blast and an equal amount of people would get upset.

 

[mhardy6647]

One of my favorite recordings is Artur Schnabel's set, the very first, of all of Beethoven's piano sonatas. Mid 1930s. The pianist was dead before I was born, the composer was dead long before the pianist, but the music recorded is very alive.

... and his son was a soap opera star, as my mother was fond of noting.

Stefan Schnabel - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[wadude]

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Hey, that’s how Sid Viscous played bass!

 

[Timcognito]

The truth is, every single song that was ever created will inevitably go out of style and die off with enough time passes.

Not Happy Birthday

 

[Redacted]

I can already summarize that list before it is created

But so would love to start a thread that trolls Bob Dylan and his mumbling. I think a lot of people would have a blast and an equal amount of people would get upset.

Nah, life's hard enough without dissing people, there are more worthy targets. But you're right

 

[Redacted]

Hey, that’s how Sid Viscous played bass!

Viscous? Well he was a slippery character.

 

[DavidEdwinAston]

Viscous? Well he was a slippery character.

Nice!

 

[PristineSound]

Nah, life's hard enough without dissing people, there are more worthy targets. But you're right

Of course I was kidding.

He did win the Nobel prize for his mumbling, so he's got to be doing something right

 

[wadude]

That was the first Beatle record I obtained, way back in 1968. It cut a deep groove through my consciousness. #9 in particular led to a life-long fascination with Music Concrete. I've got three copies on CD, the original 1987 stereo (which I understand is a flat transfer), the 2009 mono that escaped from a box set, and the 2018 re-mix, where I can hear things I don't recall from the other two copies I've got. If it sounds as if I was obsessive about all this at one time, you might be on to something.

Around the beginning of high school I lived inside the Hunter Davies authorized biography for quite some time. Besides learning about all the musicians the Beatles were interested in (Elvis, Chuck, Little Richard, Eddie Cochran, The Shadows, The Dave Clark Five and so many more), I learned about the original Parlophone releases and started buying those albums. Later I was reading about Sting and how the Police used that Davies book as a guide on how to “make it.”
The 2009 Mono box is my reference augmented with a couple of other CDs to fill things out. I find that although still interested in the whole shebang, I gravitate towards their earlier time period than later.