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For those of you too young to remember, the Beatles were a band from Liverpool, England that your grandparents probably enjoyed.

by dotBen 16y ago

daeken 16y ago
Pfft, I'm 22 and "I'm Only Sleeping" is my theme song.
ugh 16y ago
You are definitely missing something if you are not checking out the Beatles. Their more well known stuff has been repeated to death but they have a huge catalog with tons of great songs you have never heard before. I like Tomorrow Never Knows and In My Life. (I’m 22 and usually listen to Interpol or Arcade Fire or Girl Talk or Jay-Z. My mom was a huge Beatles fan as a teenager but has since then forgotten all about them.)
- mechanical_fish 16y ago
  The scary thing about the Beatles is that if you eliminate all their #1 hits their second tier is still astonishing. My favorite obscure tracks are probably Rain and Good Morning Good Morning, but ask me again tomorrow and I'll have some different ones.
mechanical_fish 16y ago
in the 2000s, only Eminem sold more albums in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. However old the fans may be, they sure do buy a lot of music. And there aren't that many other bands with their entire own edition of Rock Band.
Legion 16y ago
There's more to explain than that. Young reader, you may know the Beatles as a teeniebopper boy band. You've probably seen old videos of them playing sappy pop like "I Want To Hold Your Hand" to crowds of fainting 14 year old girls. What you may not realize is that they turned into an experimental band that really pushed the envelope of their day, in a way we almost never get to see in mainstream pop music today. (Sadly, almost all the boundary-pushing today is on the indie fringes - great stuff but only heard by people who seek it out) To try and make an illustration using more contemporary pop acts, imagine if The Backstreet Boys turned into Radiohead and were the ones putting out albums like OK Computer and Kid A. That's kind of like the progression the Beatles took. Skip the early albums and grab a copy of Revolver.
- philwelch 16y ago
  This is a common narrative; I think the dissenting point of view is worthy of consideration as well: http://www.scaruffi.com/vol1/beatles.html http://www.scaruffi.com/vol1/beatles.html
dotBen 16y ago
I just gotta say when I wrote my original comment I thought I'd take a beating on the karma points as often my 'wise-crack' quips don't go down so well. Glad to see HN has a little bit of a sense of humour!

For those of you too young to remember, the Beatles were a band from Liverpool, England that your grandparents probably enjoyed.

by dotBen 16y ago

For those of you too young to remember, the Beatles were a band from Liverpool, England that your grandparents probably enjoyed.

daeken 16y ago

Pfft, I'm 22 and "I'm Only Sleeping" is my theme song.

ugh 16y ago

You are definitely missing something if you are not checking out the Beatles. Their more well known stuff has been repeated to death but they have a huge catalog with tons of great songs you have never heard before. I like Tomorrow Never Knows and In My Life. (I’m 22 and usually listen to Interpol or Arcade Fire or Girl Talk or Jay-Z. My mom was a huge Beatles fan as a teenager but has since then forgotten all about them.)

mechanical_fish 16y ago
The scary thing about the Beatles is that if you eliminate all their #1 hits their second tier is still astonishing. My favorite obscure tracks are probably Rain and Good Morning Good Morning, but ask me again tomorrow and I'll have some different ones.

mechanical_fish 16y ago

in the 2000s, only Eminem sold more albums in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. However old the fans may be, they sure do buy a lot of music. And there aren't that many other bands with their entire own edition of Rock Band.

Legion 16y ago

There's more to explain than that. Young reader, you may know the Beatles as a teeniebopper boy band. You've probably seen old videos of them playing sappy pop like "I Want To Hold Your Hand" to crowds of fainting 14 year old girls. What you may not realize is that they turned into an experimental band that really pushed the envelope of their day, in a way we almost never get to see in mainstream pop music today. (Sadly, almost all the boundary-pushing today is on the indie fringes - great stuff but only heard by people who seek it out) To try and make an illustration using more contemporary pop acts, imagine if The Backstreet Boys turned into Radiohead and were the ones putting out albums like OK Computer and Kid A. That's kind of like the progression the Beatles took. Skip the early albums and grab a copy of Revolver.

philwelch 16y ago
This is a common narrative; I think the dissenting point of view is worthy of consideration as well: http://www.scaruffi.com/vol1/beatles.html http://www.scaruffi.com/vol1/beatles.html

dotBen 16y ago

I just gotta say when I wrote my original comment I thought I'd take a beating on the karma points as often my 'wise-crack' quips don't go down so well. Glad to see HN has a little bit of a sense of humour!