So with people battling for music being subjective earlier, I assume I can say this without fear of being lambasted. The Beatles weren't very good, neither is Paul McCartney.
Just ****ing put him back in his bed, he's embarrassing. Your time is over Paul, now kindly **** off.
They broke a lot of musical barriers down. My preference is for the Beach Boys, who broke just as many, probably more. And at least they could sing in tune. Paul McCartney always had a very respectable wail and scream on him, but was rarely in tune. He wrote some excellent songs, there's no doubt. EDIT: Hey..! I wish I was as talented.
I respect they did a lot for music and culture but their music is terrible. I can't listen to it without being terribly bored.
Yep, it inevitably happens. I tend to listen to Beatles music to educate myself a little further nowadays, in how they brought instruments into the mix. When I was a youngster, they were all around, and it was amazing. But they also drew on real blues influences, and their music was locked into real stuff that was happening at the time, and earlier. Today's music has deviated, but it hasn't actually hasn't progressed a huge amount since their time. All rock music is underpinned by stuff that gave birth to either Beatles or Beach Boys stuff.
When I was a young man it was the future that held all the uncertainties for me. Now I am old it is the past that holds all the mysteries. Why do you think genealogy is so popular with the elderly. The young think they know everything while the older you get the more you realise that in fact you know very little at all.
Sir Paul and Hey Jude as an internationally loved encore is now officially over. The Olympic cauldron was a beautiful piece of engineering. Thought the arctic monkeys were a real surprise(in a good way) Great job and managed to keep a cynic entertained.
Away from all the cultural influences and opinions in music, I thought that opening ceremony was straight forward bloody good..! That made me a tad proud, and not in the American Pie sense either.
I gained an appreciation of the Beatles via their innovative song structures, and Roy Orbison in that regard as well.
Rock or pop or what ever you call it is all the same stuff except today they play it far too loud. It is not music or creativity it is about making money!
Now steady on there. Roy is advanced stuff you know. Godders will be getting his shades on at the wrong time if he reads this before bedtime..!
