I thought it was the other way around. The Beatles toured USA 1965/66 in their stupid suits and daft haircuts doing She Loves Me, and other such crap and heard what the Byrds and Beach Boys were producing and realised they had to up their game.
No. As redlad said, Brian Wilson was impressed with Rubber Soul which was out the previous year and wanted to do his own concept album rather than a collection of potential singles which was what most albums generally were. Sloop John B is one of the tracks of my later childhood.
yes and no it's not it's truely awful. but it served me pretending it was my level of music knowledge.
I prefer a bit of Mozart to most noise, Bach, vivaldi etc I like a bit of nirvana or green day or a smidge of radiohead
It'd help if you knew what the **** you were talking about, cock. I've seen the interview with Brian Wilson.
I consider most modern music cacophonous. my brain likes continuous tones. if something contemporary is worth listening to it has to say something... thus listening to Adele stalking some poor guy is for me awful, any of the really up to date stuff is basically saying nothing. thus if asked if say the only Beatles worth my time I penny lane/strawberry fields.
I like a wide range of music - including a great deal of classical. I don't mind a bit of cacophony if it's appropriate for the piece. Most chart music is pop nonsense and not to be taken seriously, imo. Sadly, people like Adele etc, think they are important and have something to say when they're really just pumping out vacuous rubbish.
My thing is it is irritating to me, just noise. I need music to flow together and be intricate to work. Thats just me. As I said if someone is going to really say something then fine, the words can say it and that overrides a lot
There are so many great Beatles songs, Let It Be and Yesterday being two of them. The early stuff was a bit meh. I was in Paul McCartney's house when the charts were announced [ I think it was Ready Steady Go, definitely not TOTP as that wasn't around at the time] and Please Please Me had made no. 2, his Dad jumped up out of his armchair in pure excitement. I think partly because they'd charted higher than Billy J Kramer who was another local lad who they had a close relationship and healthy rivalry with.
They started off doing covers of rock and roll standards and their early writing reflected that. It's the fact that they evolved into one of the most influential acts ever that makes them so interesting. The eclecticism and adaptability is what makes them stand out from many other artists of the time - many of whom were equally talented in some ways, but genre limited.
I completely agree. Lennon and McCartney had a special relationship, a kind of love-hate sort of thing. Both were great with music composition and lyrics which is very rare in a music partnership.
