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Songwriting is my hobby. Good songs are rare. Beatles wrote 229 songs and only a small percentage of those are hits or "good songs" as I would call them (20 Top
by neverminder 5y ago
Songwriting is my hobby. Good songs are rare. Beatles wrote 229 songs and only a small percentage of those are hits or "good songs" as I would call them (20 Top 1 hits and 34 Top 10 hits). Most people in the world wouldn't recognize most of Beatles songs, but just about everybody knows "Yesterday".
My understanding that back in the day this neck breaking pace was rather common, often because of pressure from the record labels and contracts that bands were forced to sign with them.
Absolute majority of known bands out there are "one song marvels" and those that are not are rare, well know worldwide superstars.
- lowercased 5y ago> and only a small percentage of those are hits or "good songs" as I would call them (20 Top 1 hits and 34 Top 10 hits) You may need to clarify your criteria there a bit more for "good song". Just chart position? Memorability? Lyrics? Catchiness?
- Intermernet 5y agoI'm a bit of a Beatles nut, so this is obviously biased, but I reckon I'd go close to naming around 100 Beatles songs that I regard as "good songs", and be able to give you musicological reasons as to why I considered them as such. The only composers in history that I'd compare that track record to would probably be Mozart and J.S.Bach. Admittedly both Mozart and Bach were individually creating those pieces, but the Beatles were a very rare meeting of musical minds. I even rate some of Ringo's tracks as being good compared to the average song writing of the last few centuries. But, as I said, I'm far from unbiased here!