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Originally Posted by roachboy
the beatles....a good band that i am really tired of.
they were really innovative in the george martin arrangments, which exploited possibilities in production that were avilable but had not really been exploited yet--and i like quite alot how they used tape manipulation techniques like looping/delay in a pop format.
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i dont think they revolutionized anything--but there were a part of one in pop recording.
i dont think they were great musicians--if you only think about rocknroll, you might see them that way, but if you think about what was happening in jazz etc., then things fit into a different perspective.
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Right on. The Beatles biggest influence was PRODUCTION. Yes, John and Paul wrote some damn catchy songs, and George may have helped to popularize Ravi Shankar and the whole sitar/enlightenment thing, but they were far from the best artists of their time. (Ringo sucked.)
Even in rock music, similar things were going on all around them. They sold the most records. Listen to The Mothers of Invention (Zappa) albums Freak Out and We're Only In It For The Money, and you will see that the Beatles were not really pushing the envelope as far as Rolling Stone may want you to believe. WOIIFTM, in particular, acts as the perfect foil to Sgt. Pepper and really shows the other side of the "psychadelic rock" movement.