I don't mean to be rude, but people who don't understand what the big deal was with the Beatles don't understand the history of rock and roll. Even their biggest rivals admit they were genious beyond compare. Jagger says that they routinely kicked the doors open, and everyone else just followed them through it. A guy who absolutely hated them, Brian Wilson, because he felt they were overhyped at his own cost admitted that when Sgt. Pepper came out, he realized that they were on a different level than everyone else. B.B. King was resentfull because the Beatles were coming along and taking over at just the time when R&B had begun to be the standard, and yet he admits that, after their early pop years, he reconciled to himself that they were geniuses, and it was best just to not try and compete. The list goes on and on... Many, many people have been of or even ahead of their time for a time...Elvis, U2, etc. The Beatles were, if you nderstand the sounds out when they did each of the things they did, ahead of their time for a decade, continously revolutionising rock and roll at the most significant time of it's existence. They were the 1st to use the studio as an instrument, which has since been the norm.. They were the 1st to produce their own songs, which ( for real talents) has since been the norm. They were the 1st big pop band who wrote their own music, which since has been the norm, until we got into the Boy-Band era. They were the 1st to bring other cultures and musics into mainstream rock and roll, which is common since. They were the 1st to release albums as albums as we now know them rather than compliations or Best Of's, which has since been the standard. They were the 1st to introduce folk ideas in lyrics into rock songs, since common, they were the 1st to tell the labels what they were going to do rather than the other way around... ...they went from the mop heads with ( for the time) fast paced love songs with beat, which was revolutionary ( combining skiffle, r&b, and early folk) through the experimental folk-rock, the revolutionary pscychedelic rock of Sgt. Pepper, the harder socially conscious music of the White Album, and the spiritual studio stuff of Let It Be/Universe, etc. And they were also the first real rock personalities. Many people change something once...hey changed music every step of the way, including establishing the stereotype for how a rock band breaks up...
Eminem Dr. Dre Missy Eliot Jay-Z ...hell...just about every popular rap/artist group out there. and the most overrated album of the year is... Outkast! I was actually feeling embarassed for Andre as I was listening to The Love Below. Speakerboxx is pretty good, though.
Kid freaking Rock. The dude gives a new meaning to ANNOYING - no talent - take it in the ass clown. I sure hope his 15 minutes of fame are up soon. Also... ALL of the new crap metal poser bands that have no talent - there are a few in there that are talented, the rest are just overhyped and over produced recycled garbage.
Most of the time I don't make it all the way thru your posts but this time you were very exact, concise and correct. Great post.
Missy Elliot Bow Wow Good Charlotte Jay Z Justin Timbercake Sean Paul I used to hate eminem, but then I listened to some of his stuff that wasn't always blasting on the radio, and tell you the truth he had some hardcore truth in there. Many people can relate to him. As much as I hate to admit, So can I....
Great post on the Beatles, MacB. I like The Doors, but Jim Morrison was all style over substance, and possibly the worst poet of all time.
yeah i know, i was talking more mainstream rappers talibs and mos def music barely get any radio play vs em, biggie and tupac but they are definetly GREAT rappers who have amazing lyrics
radiohead, easily. i can listen to some of their music but i sure don't buy this greatest band stuff i constantly hear. even if you absolutely hate the beatles music, the impact they have had is ridiculous. nowadays it would take 50 years and probably a dozen different bands to come up with the amount and the diversity of quality music the beatles put together in only 7 years.
Pearl Jam Grateful Dead Audio Slave Beck Rush Linkin Park Eminem Dr. Dre (solo) Sting (solo) Garth Brooks I agree with what MacBeth had to say about the Beatles. The Stones had a creative peak in the Brian Jones days, and maybe immediately after. They were not overrated at that point. They were solid but not totally innovative type artists for most of the rest of their career.
oh yea... and Pearl Jam and Nirvana Rush over rated? hardly...for as technically good as they are...they dont get that much critical acclaim anymore.
The Beatles They were revolutionary and and a great band. They just dont live up to their best band ever label.
It seems to me that some of the great bands quit in their prime so alot of the hype is from what could have been. IMHO
I'd like to know who exactly overrates these bands/artists? matchbox twenty is my favorite band of all time, but I can't say that I've ever seen them been even fairly rated, much less overrated. The highest any of their 3 albums have been rated by Rolling Stone is 3 stars. I'm just hoping that tomorrow they pull down a bunch of Grammy nods for 'Unwell' and you have something to complain about.
