The Beatles Breakthrough

Finnforest wrote: Good point Brian.  Alex, even knowing your aversion to the real early stuff, do make the effort to push back one title further to Rubber Soul.  A masterpiece of songwriting, singing, even ambitious early arrangements, delicate but thoughtful.  Don't pass that one by if you're embracing the band.

I'm going to give every album a newfound shot, at least, even the really early ones.


Edited by MovingPictures07 - January 29 2010 at 09:50

Good point Brian.  Alex, even knowing your aversion to the real early stuff, do make the effort to push back one title further to Rubber Soul.  A masterpiece of songwriting, singing, even ambitious early arrangements, delicate but thoughtful.  Don't pass that one by if you're embracing the band.  

Finnforest wrote: I was always able to enjoy the commercial.  I can still bop along to "99 Luft balloons" or Styx's "Babe" without any shame.  Guess I'm not quite as much a music snob as I'd like to be.  Though I do dislike rap, hip/hop, and most commercial "dance" music though, so I get to be snobby there.  Maybe I'll buy the Lady GaGa album to further lighten up.

Classic rock was important to me in my musical development, because I didn't really care about music before my dad showed me Rush years ago. Others like Styx and Blue Oyster Cult were around that time too, so I don't mind "Babe" at all.

It's pretty much been a gradual mind-opening process ever since, in commercial directions and very experimental directions.

Atavachron wrote: I still have similar experinces, and hopefully you haven't opened your horizons as far as they could go but rather begun a process of progressive appreciation (no pun intended)

That's pretty much what I've been doing for the past 6 years, and I hardly even listen to anything that's on this site lately. What I meant by that statement is that I pretty much will listen to anything anymore and at least see some sort of value in it. There's only that small percentage of music that I would deem as "processed crap", mainly the stuff that is obviously written only for commercial purposes (and often not even by the "artist").

In short: there's really any good music to be found in any style and in any form; you just have to find what you like. "It's music and I like it."

It's simply a REALLY good feeling to at least find some value in a band that for my whole life found absolutely nothing in.


Edited by MovingPictures07 - January 28 2010 at 21:37

Well, this is something interesting.

Ever since I was young I never understood the love for the Beatles' music and I just didn't get any of it up until recently when my brother received The Beatles' Rock Band for Christmas (since he loves them to death). I still didn't enjoy anything, but I decided to play the game with him because he wanted me to. It was through that that I began to take more careful note of the arrangements and structures.

While I used to have a passionate general disdain for anything that represented popular or simplistic music because I believed it to be the artistic opposite of music that I always found to be deep and intellectually stimulating, it seems as though with this and particularly my musical development over the past year that I've pretty much opened my horizons nearly as far as they could go.

It's simply a great feeling to finally hear something wonderful and happy in their music. Even though I still REALLY don't particularly care for anything pre-Revolver. Anyone else have a similar experience?