The Beatles

Yakky Dakkoon checked into his room...

Sorry we hurt your field mister.

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I like the Beatles and even spent money on some reissues back in 2009, but to be honest I just haven't felt any sort of whim or need to listen to them in any serious way since roughly that time.

I'd be ready to put this down to familiarity, having heard pretty much all their material at one point or another. But I also wonder if there's a wider cultural shift at work here. I can't really remember the last time I heard anyone discuss the Beatles in the last couple of years. For the first time they feel like a really distant relic, apposite to pretty much anything going on in culture and music today.

I wonder if it's possible for big hivemindy shifts ion perception to work like this? There's always an 'old band du jour' or cause celebre that people get wrapped up in and start appearing towards the top of 'Best Album Ever' lists. The idea of a Q Poll with Revolver at the top would feel very strange in 2014. Feels like the general consensus has shaken free of its sixties obsessions of late - I can't remember the last time the Beach Boys got talked about as breathlessly as people did in the mid-2000s. Most sixties pop for that matter...

Does this really happen? I wouldn't have thought so until I read the Joni Mitchell thread spanning 14 years on ILM. The shift in opinion happening throughout the thread - posters can't stand her at the beginning, whereas she's unassailable by the end.

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I'm still not a fan of Joni Mitchell. Too much - or not enough? - yakky dakky.

so awesome just to say it

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I'm still not a fan of Joni Mitchell. Too much - or not enough? - yakky dakky.

"And a big yakky dakky
Took away my old man"

Fucking dying at the yaks, y'all, esp ''the yakker never wears a dak.'' As for the Beatles...hard to separate my personal feelings from any kinda generational thing or w/e. Everyone I know likes at least some aspect of what they do. There are no surprises left for me but I still love almost all their records. I'd have to poll people ten years younger than me to really get a sense of these things. The young turks at the hipster cuban sandwich place that I talked to a few weeks ago were really hyped about collecting Jethro Tull vinyl. We could be at a (relative) ebb in the promotional cult of Beatlesiania and it could be that fading boomer influence plays a role. I suspect dorm rooms are still rife with Abbey Road posters, probably not Pepper's though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUx78Ecyxvk

Pepper's importance seems to have waned, I will give you that. I don't know anyone, these days, who has a bad thing to say about Revolver.

There's not a lot of hipster capital to be had with The Beatles (as opposed to loudly proclaiming your Jethro Tull vinyl collection).

One and one is two, yakky dakky doo, darlin' I'm in love with you.

boomers and the beatles, you say??!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLSDAZLvtwA&feature=youtu.be

64-66 Beatles seems to endure best imo....from what I can tell

Didn't Cobain say something along the lines the Beatles should have broken up in 1964?

we're in the age where Hendrix is the quaint name that grandad gave to his cat. I think fading boomer (and hippie) influence is the thing .

I'm brave enough to admit that I enjoy bands like the Beatles and the Beach Boys. I think most people are afraid to like them, but not me.

since they were both an active band and cartoon characters when I was 5, well...

Would love a Beach Boys cartoon.

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Still think the earlier Beatles' records sound freshest today. Anything from 63' to 66'. Most everything after I'm tired of.

White Album for life

Psychedelic whimsy just isn't a popular aesthetic right now. I admit I'd rather hear Rubber Soul than any later Beatles album right now.

'63 to '66 beatles haven't aged a day imo. i can go back to that stuff over and over. the paperback writer/rain single still sounds like their pinnacle to me. love lots of the later stuff but the worst of it is pretty bad, and even a lot of the best of it is overplayed.

i've said this before but the most depressing transition on any cd i own is volume 2 of past masters, where you go from rain to lady madonna. you hear them going from being the coolest band in the world to paul mccartney plus three bored stoned guys messing around in the studio.

People tend to put down the early Beatles mostly in regard to lyrics (yakky dakky), but musically they were very sophisticated from the start. The harmonies on "If I Fell" are among the greatest things they've ever done.

also almost no one but oldsters knows what Merseybeat was aside from the Beatles

really like the beatles good band

XP I hate this shit
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw4gd6O3pbE

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Ah right.

Lennon and co didn't like it much either

tho I think their ratio of great-to-clunkers stayed fairly consistent over their whole career. For every Hard Days Night there's a Come Together, for every For Me To You there's a Ballad of John and Yoko.

lol wut

Xp Cannot parse that sentence, can you Venn diagram it for me?

For every Hard Days Night there's a Come Together

^i can't tell which one is supposed to be the bad one?

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Come Together has a bad rap these days

http://www.clickhole.com/video/incredible-man-can-name-all-beatles-1055

tbh considering how much the beatles recorded in so short a time period it's kind of remarkable how generally high-quality their material generally is. like, they had barely finished sgt pepper when they were back in the studio making magical mystery tour. even if you dislike (say) three songs from every album, that's still an incredibly good record.

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As a friend observed, early on John and Paul were often writing these songs under chaotic circumstances - parties, hotel rooms, studio hustle and bustle -and then band would get something like three days to make an album in between commitments. Even when the band took longer (I think Rubber Soul took a month, Revolver three months) there was so much other stuff going on.

Even when the band took longer

Its esp impressive to think they pulled shit like writing & recording Rubber Soul, Revolver, Day Tripper/We Can Work it Out and the Paperback Writer/Rain singles in the span of 9 months (in between crazy tours, death threats and Jesus statements).

I haven't even cleaned my closets in the last nine months.

It's really no surprise that they looked absolutely fucking shattered on the sleeve to Beatles For Sale, thinking about it.

Come Together is an amazing song, hilarious self-portrait