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Originally Posted by Plan9
You missed the pop culture reference.
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No, I didn't.
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Originally Posted by FelixP
The beatles are one of the worst bands of all time, but I'm not sure I'd consider them offensive.
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No one is saying you MUST like the Beatles. I personally feel kind of sorry for you for not getting into them, but ok, fine. Life’s full of that kind of subjectivity. But saying they’re worthless, untalented hacks who didn’t accomplish anything is equivalent to saying Michael Jordan can’t dribble or you think Paris Hilton is a great actress. It’s utterly false. You might as well say Mozart sucked and Picasso painted big piles of steamy crap.
If you really think the Beatles sucked, you might as well turn off your radio, iPod, MP3 Player, Reel to Reel, turntable, 8 Track or whatever you use to listen to music with, because their influence can be found not only in the music, but in recording techniques, production, marketing, culture and music videos. You can't listen to any recording artist today in any genre without hearing some Beatles influence. Because for that to be the case, they would have to be recording without any multi-tracking, over-dubbing, or ping-ponging; without any stereo split, or any artificial double-tracking and flanging; without any compression, distortion, limiting, phase shifting, or back-masking; without anything beyond standard blues chord changes; without non-standard instrumentation, non-standard sound production on standard instrumentation, soundscape presentation, or other examples of music concrete. And that’s just a start concerning recording techniques. We can go further into hair length, clothing, political climatology, satellite television appearances, length of singles beyond 3 minutes, record label independence, marketing, music videos, etc.
Whatever nondescript band ‘rules’ today will be forgotten 5 years from now and we’ll still be talking about the Beatles 100 years from now.