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So I just started listening to the Beatles. Why are so many people so passionate?

Roomate got the new remastered Beatles. It's good stuff, and I just started really listening to them. How is it that so many people think they're the best band ever? Very passionate....
 
Because they came at a time when music was changing... It's easy to sit back 40 years later and ask what the big deal was, but at that moment, they defined an era...
 
You are looking at the Beatles in retrospect, you have to listen to them in context. If you had grown up in that time and listened to the Beatles when they were new you would understand the monumental impact they had on all music of the time and all that has followed. I remember listening to the late Beatles stuff on the radio and on LP at my buddy's house. We would sneak into his older sister's room and listen. I didn't start really listening to their music until I was about 16 which was 9 years after their breakup but even at that time it had a huge impact on me.
 
I feel the same way about Star Wars. I'm 28 and didn't see Star Wars until about two years ago. Definitely don't understand the rabid following.
 
Originally posted by: Ronstang
You are looking at the Beatles in retrospect, you have to listen to them in context. If you had grown up in that time and listened to the Beatles when they were new you would understand the monumental impact they had on all music of the time and all that has followed. I remember listening to the late Beatles stuff on the radio and on LP at my buddy's house. We would sneak into his older sister's room and listen. I didn't start really listening to their music until I was about 16 which was 9 years after their breakup but even at that time it had a huge impact on me.
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People don't really need to listen to them in context. Many will never understand the context of that time anyway. What people should understand is that almost anything that people listen to today the Beatles did already, and did it best at the time by far even if they didn't do it first. That applies to pop, heavy metal, hip-hop and rap, classical influences, country, blue-grass, eastern influences, and even grunge. The Beatles helped to set the tone for what is defined as music today.
 
Originally posted by: Barfo
Beatles are overrated.
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This. I like The Beatles and will likely buy at least the remastered White Album but they are over-rated. As long as the boomers have money to burn The Beatles will continue to be hyped.
 
The Beatles were crap when they came from England. It was recycled American music played twice as bad. They got better with time, and every album was better than the previous(mostly).
 
Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
I think the only stuff the Beatles did that isn't boring is too fucked up to listen to.

My favorite
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That's my favorite album :^)

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Beatles album that is. I like lots of other albums better :^D
 
Originally posted by: thirdeye
I feel the same way about Star Wars. I'm 28 and didn't see Star Wars until about two years ago. Definitely don't understand the rabid following.
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Ditto. I guess my kids will feel the same way about Nirvana, The Matrix and Rick Rolling. As others have pointed out, it was more of a time/place thing.
 
The Beatles had 3 excellent songwriters in a group where the norm was none. They went from a solid club band to the most influential band of all time in just a few years. They were all accomplished musicians, but IMO Ringo's underappreciated drumming made the band tight. They broke new ground with their instruments, their songwriting, their studio work and their influence on popular culture.
 
Originally posted by: UberNeuman
Because they came at a time when music was changing... It's easy to sit back 40 years later and ask what the big deal was, but at that moment, they defined an era...
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This. They were revolutionary at the time.
 
Great song writing combined with the rare ability to morph themselves as tastes in music changed. They had no problem skipping between genres.

Also, think about the sheer number of hits they had. It's pretty much mindboggling to think of all of their songs that I know by heart. Not only that, they did it in 10 years, by the time the oldest was 30 (IIRC). They had over 40 charting singles in the US in 10 years.

 
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