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What makes The Beatles music still beautifull today
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and nostalgia for ones youth and simpler times.
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My parents were big Beatles fans so I got this listen to a lot of that music when I was a kid / early teenager.
Later on I discovered that, basically at the same time, there were The Doors, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground (probably not the most beautifully engineered albums, I'll grant you that), etc.
The Beatles produced a shitload of songs and, yes, I'll sing along a few of them. But I've got zero songs from them in my personal collection, zero Beatles song in my Spotify/Qobuz playlist. Zero The Beatles CDs in my CD collection. I like to sing along "A hard day's night" but I had to google its title to write this post.
While I've got songs and CDs of all the other I posted even though they were from my parent's era, not mine.
I mean: I understand we can all have different taste but I just don't think The Beatles are up there with many others of the same era. Except if one considers the number of albums sold is equivalent to quality.
I don't find their music "beautiful" at all and I don't particularly like how it's recorded. I don't want to be too negative but it's a bit... Dull cheesy pop music? Oh well, there we go, I take it I'm negative after all. I'd go as far as saying many songs are catchy but... both commercial and kitsch?
I cannot be the only to be thinking that about The Beatles.
So to answer: "What makes The Beatles music still beautiful today" I'd answer...
Taste?
Later on I discovered that, basically at the same time, there were The Doors, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground (probably not the most beautifully engineered albums, I'll grant you that), etc.
The Beatles produced a shitload of songs and, yes, I'll sing along a few of them. But I've got zero songs from them in my personal collection, zero Beatles song in my Spotify/Qobuz playlist. Zero The Beatles CDs in my CD collection. I like to sing along "A hard day's night" but I had to google its title to write this post.
While I've got songs and CDs of all the other I posted even though they were from my parent's era, not mine.
I mean: I understand we can all have different taste but I just don't think The Beatles are up there with many others of the same era. Except if one considers the number of albums sold is equivalent to quality.
I don't find their music "beautiful" at all and I don't particularly like how it's recorded. I don't want to be too negative but it's a bit... Dull cheesy pop music? Oh well, there we go, I take it I'm negative after all. I'd go as far as saying many songs are catchy but... both commercial and kitsch?
I cannot be the only to be thinking that about The Beatles.
So to answer: "What makes The Beatles music still beautiful today" I'd answer...
Taste?
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I listen mostly to classical, so I think all pop/rock is a bit lowbrow. I like it anyway.
Most melodies used in most music originated hundreds of years ago. And how often do you hear a song in a minor key, or with an odd time signature? Jazz and blues are the main “serious” music. But folks like Bach improvised entire pieces, so improvisation is nothing new.
The Beatles were quite simply the best band in the world. I had the chance to work with several pianists, so called classically trained, only one of them did not know them well because he was Argentinian but he immediately appreciated them.
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Well, Blackbird is a reworking of Bach. By a songwriter with no classical training.
I think you meant to say, for me The Beatles are the best band in the world. I'm quite sure you are not alone in thinking that, but I can almost guarantee you that the vast majority of people on Earth would probably not agree.
Personally, I can live my life without listening to The Beatles and not really notice. That isn't to say that I don't enjoy some of their music, but generally speaking, they don't really move me.
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For anyone that is genuinely intrigued by the Beatles and would like to try and get into their music, I would highly suggest listening to their The Beatles in Mono boxset. The simple reason is that most of their catalogue was recorded, mixed and released in mono. More importantly, stereo versions of most of their hits were often an afterthought and were usually highly experimental for today's standards with vocals and instruments panned to the extreme left or right. That led to most of the energy, impact and punch of the mono versions simply not being there on the stereo versions which sound sterile in comparison. The irony is that most of the versions that people hear nowadays are those arguably subpar stereo versions of their mono original recordings which has a definite impact on the level of enjoyment.
Mono? I definitely was born one century to soon. I don't think very highly of this Liverpool music compared to its contemporary Canterbury music, one is a panacea for the masses with simplistic tunes, the other mini masterpieces of musicianship.
British Invasion - Wikipedia
The Beatles were pioneers in the 1960s before Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and others expanded people's musical choices. Beatlemania is related to those specific years when music was evolving.
You musician? As you seem to be extremely fond of Bach (JS I presume), he also transcribed Vivaldi, for a long time musicologists believed that he had also composed the works of the red-haired priest as he was nicknamed.
Could he also have been influenced? Amazing !
We can also live without listening to pleasant sounds, without a stereo or home cine, without eating or drinking sometimes. You listen music?
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I’ve sung in a classically oriented church choir. Badly. The choir director sang and recorded with Robert Shaw.
Classical was my first love, from about age eight. Pop/rock/jazz/folk are secondary loves. I like the Beatles because they were my generation. Nothing objective there.
Objectively speaking, they still show up in movie soundtracks. Durability is a virtue.
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On a basic level, sure. But many Beatles songs are of such high musical quality that we can appreciate and enjoy even when the music style or whatever is not exactly what we like and normally listen to.
That said, there are quite couple of Beatles songs that really touch me both emotionally and technically, mostly from their final period.
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Melody is not highly valued these days. Nor is squishy sentiment.
Humor used to be a thing. And working around censorship. Getting forbidden things on the radio.
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When the Beatles first appeared in the US I was nearly nine years old and I went nuts for them. Stayed that way for a long time, collecting all the Parlophone LPs and later all the mono reissues. I have a few CDs left and a lot of music stored on an SSD.
But now my reaction is closer to indifference. Maybe it's overexposure but maybe it's on account of hearing a lot of music that's better. While I haven't given up on popular music completely, most of what I hear these days is classical. Funny, as the music I got interested in as the Beatles broke up was predominantly classical. I've heard a fair amount of the solo albums by members of the band when they broke up, and they didn't elevate my opinion of the group. Of course, I can blame overexposure for all of this. But it's entirely possible that they have been overrated all along. Frank Sinatra has a larger body of work, with a wider range of musical styles and a very high level of musicianship. And, after all, he did invent the "concept album". One might also say the same of Charlie Parker or Billie Holiday. People speak of the Beatles as the musical force that will be remembered in 100 years, and thanks to their unquestioned charisma, they have been remembered for the last sixty years. But I'm not so sure that musically they have earned that fame. Like it was said of the Rutles (the Pre-Fab Four) "It was the trousers".
But now my reaction is closer to indifference. Maybe it's overexposure but maybe it's on account of hearing a lot of music that's better. While I haven't given up on popular music completely, most of what I hear these days is classical. Funny, as the music I got interested in as the Beatles broke up was predominantly classical. I've heard a fair amount of the solo albums by members of the band when they broke up, and they didn't elevate my opinion of the group. Of course, I can blame overexposure for all of this. But it's entirely possible that they have been overrated all along. Frank Sinatra has a larger body of work, with a wider range of musical styles and a very high level of musicianship. And, after all, he did invent the "concept album". One might also say the same of Charlie Parker or Billie Holiday. People speak of the Beatles as the musical force that will be remembered in 100 years, and thanks to their unquestioned charisma, they have been remembered for the last sixty years. But I'm not so sure that musically they have earned that fame. Like it was said of the Rutles (the Pre-Fab Four) "It was the trousers".
Being old I heard the music groups in my youth. Beatles were the nice guys, Rolling Stones the bad ones. I was always on the bad side. The Beatles songs are great in musicality I admit. But I like the harder rhythm and pace. So I like also Punk like the great Ramones.
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