I can understand how they impacted pop culture and redefined how music is made, but I'm failing to hear how some of the greatest bands have anything in common with them. It feels as if they were responsible for everything that sucks about pop nowadays.
I'm starting to think that if it wasn't for The Beatles, music would be less of a consumer culture. Their hits are just gimmicky pop songs and novelty things rather than anything actually meaningful. Would shit like Billy Eyelish exist if it wasn't for The Beatles? I mean, how much can you really hear their influence music because I never do. It seems the worst pop songs sound more like Beatles songs, and the better ones don't. How many bands can you definitely say take sound-influence directly to The Beatles? ELO? ABBA? Then compare that to how artists like Beefheart, Zappa and Velvet Underground influenced the alternative scenes. I think their music has aged better.
>Velvet Underground Wow, yeah TVU had nothing to do with consumer culture with their career existing solely due to Andy Warhol, who was in no way the epitome of consumerism.
You're fucking retarded. If a band was great, don't you think they would stand out and not sound like other artists who have anything in common with them? Isn't that a hallmark of originality? Or the fact that even among those who tried to imitate them, they could never come close to what the Beatles did? Stop listening to music, please.
Jacob Rogers
The Beatles were quite eclectic in their sound, so it's perhaps better to look at individual tracks and albums in terms of influence. Tomorrow Never Knows was definitely an influence upon electronic music (John Foxx of Ultravox has cited this track as a key inspiration). You can hear the sound of numerous tracks from The White Album in indie rock tracing all the way back to the 80s/90s, same with She Said, She Said. I'm sure the tracks on Magical Mystery Tour and Sgt. Pepper's influenced psychedelic music, and the effects of psychedelic have spread throughout most modern musical genres.
The Beatles were also among the limited number of artists who were introducing classical notions of harmony and rhythm into pop music. Prior to 1967, the only other band who were as successful as The Beatles and doing the same thing were The Beach Boys, and the sophistication of Brian Wilson's songwriting only begun to match The Beatles from Pet Sounds onwards. Their songbook is almost unparalleled as a guide for how to create great pop music.
Aiden Morgan
You could have just looked up artists influenced by them and seen countless interviews with people speaking about how important they were to them.
Ayden Brown
the fact that
Aaron Sanchez
The Velvet Underground was so busy creating genres and being influential that they didn't find the time to actually make any good music.
Evan Ross
Fr every velvet underground song just has a kinda cool riff that they play over and over again for 7 minutes to the point you fall asleep
Ethan Gray
Guys like Zappa and TVU's umbrella of influence on hits music that's trying to be or is aesthetically alternative. The Beatles' umbrella of influence is on just about everything else popular music that has come after them. Of the two, Beatles' hold the far larger umbrella of influence by an insane margin.
Ayden Torres
The first half of the Beatles existence was far more influential than the latter half.
Ethan Flores
based and scaruffi-pilled unironically good post
Samuel Nguyen
define good music
Evan Morris
There was nothing on the US charts in 1964 that sounded like I Wanna Hold Your Hand.
Justin Gray
You have to grasp just how much the Beatles, Dylan, and the Beach Boys (also maybe Phil Spector) completely changed popular music forever.
Andrew Flores
>Velvet Underground meme >implying the Beatles didn't frequently sound like the VU >implying the VU didn't frequently sound like the Beatles
change that to elvis and the beatles and I'll agree. dylan and beach boys, get to fuck
Henry Baker
so many books
Sebastian Perez
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Juan Long
>Then Compare to Beefhart, Zappa, and TVU You just fucking wrecked your point retard
Gavin Garcia
I love them but Heroin to me is their only exceptional song and that’s probably just because it’s really personal to me
