*gasp!* Someone who has never heard The Beatles??
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They made quite a few terrible songs yeah.Laggyteabag said:
To me everything they made before 1966 isn't worth listening to with the exception of Rubber Soul
The world moves on. How many of the best books of the 19th century are remembered? How many of the great bards of Nordic peoples? The world moves on. People forget. It is sad, but inevitable.
I myself am not overly familiar with the Beatles myself, but I'm not a music buff. I only ever listen to it when I'm working and even then, only for background noise.
I myself am not overly familiar with the Beatles myself, but I'm not a music buff. I only ever listen to it when I'm working and even then, only for background noise.
Calm down man, you sound like a Beatles missionary, are you going to Micronesia to build houses and pass out White Albums?xdropkicknickx said:
Someone's been living under a rock...
Just 15? In approximate chronological order:
All My Loving
Yesterday
Help!
Day Tripper
In My Life
Penny Lane
With a Little Help from My Friends
A Day in the Life
Hey Jude
Revolution
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Get Back
Something
Let it Be
The Long and Winding Road
and even then there's some glaring omissions.
If you really want to introduce her to the Beatles then lend her the Red and Blue albums (if you have them)
Just 15? In approximate chronological order:
All My Loving
Yesterday
Help!
Day Tripper
In My Life
Penny Lane
With a Little Help from My Friends
A Day in the Life
Hey Jude
Revolution
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Get Back
Something
Let it Be
The Long and Winding Road
and even then there's some glaring omissions.
If you really want to introduce her to the Beatles then lend her the Red and Blue albums (if you have them)
As somewhat ignorant as this post is...I kind of agree. It's not surprising a lot of people haven't heard of bands that died (Sometimes literally) decades before they were even born. Hell, half the music I listen to I only know of it because I was browsing random pages from Wikipedia. You start off looking up Breaking Benjamin because of that song in Halo 2 when you're fourteen...then years later, you're in your car rocking to Blue Oyster Cult, Judas Priest, Elvis and other bands/musicians that have been around for nearly half a century. In fact, some even longer. And then you have people who only know music by what's popular, or listen to the same five bands and never expand their musical tastes.Mr.Squishy said:
BANG BANG Maxwells silver hammer came down on her head! BANG BANG maxwells hammer made sure she was dead!
My vote is for Maxwells silver hammer...so what it might be disturbing....its a catchey tune.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UsyGYnXgos&feature=related
My vote is for Maxwells silver hammer...so what it might be disturbing....its a catchey tune.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UsyGYnXgos&feature=related
The OP makes it look more like "How is it possible that someone doesn't know the Beatles? That's just wrong and needs to be corrected. How should I go about this?" Even though he wants the discussion to be about suggesting songs, people feel the need to go "No, it's not wrong for her to not know who the Beatles are and it's not absolutely NEEDED that she learns about them."Freaky Lou said:
Hit her with a little "While my Guitar Gently Weeps", "A Day in the Life", or "Penny Lane". And obviously "Blackbird". "Back in the USSR" is always good too.xdropkicknickx said:
Well I can understand people not liking The Beatles. Some music isn't for everyone. I'm not gonna ***** slap someone for not liking the same music I do. Denying how big The Beatles were is another thing and that's people disputing facts that they were the biggest music group of all time (arguably). Not knowing who they are is a completely different thing. That's the person literally living under a rock, and that rock was living under another rock, for their whole life. That's just kind of shocking that someone has never even heard of them.
As far as tracks go, my favorite songs are:
Dear Prudence
Let It Be
Hey Jude
Yesterday
Strawberry Fields Forever
Those are my top 5. My playlist has about 10 more songs though. Most are considered the "quintessential" Beatles songs.
As far as tracks go, my favorite songs are:
Dear Prudence
Let It Be
Hey Jude
Yesterday
Strawberry Fields Forever
Those are my top 5. My playlist has about 10 more songs though. Most are considered the "quintessential" Beatles songs.
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Gotta say I find them incredibly boring. But whatever.
My advice would be to try not to force their stuff down her throat if she isn't into them...
My advice would be to try not to force their stuff down her throat if she isn't into them...
OK,Apologies in advance.Old lady rant coming on.Gonna be a long 'un.Boy,am I gonna get a boatload of TL
R posts!
I'm sorry,but unless you're REALLY young,not knowing who the Beatles is, is a pretty good indicator of wilfil ignorance.It's a free country and I'm TOTALLY OK with somebody not LIKING them (worship of ANY one is a turn off )but the Beatles are so important not just musically,not historically as well.Most folks would have to live in a cave to not KNOW who they were.
Like Elvis,the Beatles were an impt part of the post-war shedding of the conservative,sexually repressed values that dominated the previous decade.They were at the forefront of nearly every social revolution of the 1960s that eventually gave us the western world we have now.A VERY different place from one their fathers grew up in.
They championed alternate spirituality at a time when the dominant culture was Judeo-Christian.They caused shock over their more flexible attitudes to gender roles & sexuality.Hard to believe it now,but their hair was considered LONG & effete!Along with Timothy Leary,they experimented with mind-altering drugs.Lennon was at the forefront of the Anti-War Movement.
These are just a few of the social changes they spear-headed.The western world would be a VERY different place if the Beatles had never existed.
Musically,every decent rockstar owes a debt to them.Until they came along,the Brill building production line of disposable songwriting was the norm.Like Bob Dylan,they made lyrics matter,and until then most singers did NOT sing their own material.Artistic album design,the earliest music videos-the Beatles did all of this years before it became the norm.
I am NOT a rabid Beatle fangirl by any means.Paul could be too soppy,Lennon too hard & cynical.But few artists have a catalogue so varied that has stood the test of time.And anybody interested in social and/or rock and roll history should know who they are and the musical and cultural changes they ushered in.And SO many rock groups have worn that bl**dy suit and tie combo,most of us would wanna know who was the culprit that started it all!
On a lighter note,I think this meme is just for folks like xdropkicknicksx's musically illiterate pal:
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/musically-oblivious-8th-grader
R posts!I'm sorry,but unless you're REALLY young,not knowing who the Beatles is, is a pretty good indicator of wilfil ignorance.It's a free country and I'm TOTALLY OK with somebody not LIKING them (worship of ANY one is a turn off )but the Beatles are so important not just musically,not historically as well.Most folks would have to live in a cave to not KNOW who they were.
Like Elvis,the Beatles were an impt part of the post-war shedding of the conservative,sexually repressed values that dominated the previous decade.They were at the forefront of nearly every social revolution of the 1960s that eventually gave us the western world we have now.A VERY different place from one their fathers grew up in.
They championed alternate spirituality at a time when the dominant culture was Judeo-Christian.They caused shock over their more flexible attitudes to gender roles & sexuality.Hard to believe it now,but their hair was considered LONG & effete!Along with Timothy Leary,they experimented with mind-altering drugs.Lennon was at the forefront of the Anti-War Movement.
These are just a few of the social changes they spear-headed.The western world would be a VERY different place if the Beatles had never existed.
Musically,every decent rockstar owes a debt to them.Until they came along,the Brill building production line of disposable songwriting was the norm.Like Bob Dylan,they made lyrics matter,and until then most singers did NOT sing their own material.Artistic album design,the earliest music videos-the Beatles did all of this years before it became the norm.
I am NOT a rabid Beatle fangirl by any means.Paul could be too soppy,Lennon too hard & cynical.But few artists have a catalogue so varied that has stood the test of time.And anybody interested in social and/or rock and roll history should know who they are and the musical and cultural changes they ushered in.And SO many rock groups have worn that bl**dy suit and tie combo,most of us would wanna know who was the culprit that started it all!
On a lighter note,I think this meme is just for folks like xdropkicknicksx's musically illiterate pal:
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/musically-oblivious-8th-grader