Review of "The Beatles"

The Beatles

Rock

England

http://www.thebeatles.com/

HEY!! Not the Beatles!

HEY!! Not the Beatles!

How is it that nobody has put the Beatles up here yet? This must be corrected. I don't think I need to comment on the music...

The most influential band ever.

The greatest, most influential band of all time... What else can you say? Every person needs to own a Beatles Album

everyone

must own "revolver". I command you.

NO! NO! the white album i tell you... the white album!

or if you're a cheap bastard, get the red & blue singles sets like i did. i mean, we all know the songs anyway. they're learned in utero nowadays.

Magical Mystery Tour just can't be beat.

Strawberry Fields is one of the best songs ever written. The Beatles are the basis for all great music in the last 30 years!

The one thing different generations agree on

Well, one of the things anyways ;) The Beatles have made a definite impression on the world. I dare you to find someone now a days that doesn't know of The Beatles. :)

Mmmm...Beatles

I have been a Beatles freak since I was 9 years old. The impact they've had on popular music over all these years staggers me. Sometimes I wonder if I overestimate them just because of their legacy. Then I listen to something like Abbey Road or Revolver and have to whap myself across the head for ever questioning it. The Beatles are just that good. I am blessed to have known them for so much of my life.

The Beatles...now and forever

I never trust ANYONE who doesn't like hte Beatles. Not that I've met many.

Goes without saying!

But I'll say it! People who don't like The Beatles are stupid!!!!!

Strawberry Fields For-NEVER!

While I don't question the timelessness of the Beatles or their music, I have to argue against SFF. If there was ever a more over-rated song, I've never heard it! Rubber Soul was the beginning of the end for the Fab Four. Their albums went from being solid singles to filler with two good songs. Please don't burn me at the stake.

I have been a Beatle Maniac since Junior High, when the rest of my classmates were listening to New Kids on the Block. My older sister gave me a beat-up old copy of a copy of Abbey Road; I was more than hooked. That copy had the song "Her Majesty" cut off, so when I first listened to the album it scared the wits out of me. Fast forward a decade or so, when I've just gotten the Wood CD after wearing out a copy of a friend's copy - and BAM! It happens again!

well:)

I've listened to the beatles a lot since the age of 10!!! and I still love their music (also of each of them alone)

hmm...

ya see, no matter where your tastes lie, no person can consider her or himself a real music fan until he or she has gone through that big beatle phase - whether you become a neo-classical composer or a steel drummer, you MUST go through THAT phase - anyone smart knows what i am talking about - if you havent been through the phase yet, ya better get started or people will laugh at you - if you are not sure where to start - fru me, i will help.... side note: last saturday, prospect park, brooklyn, TMBG concert, pre-concert disc=abbey road, at least three generations of people singing along to the entire medley - one of the most moving experiences ever - felt more stongly about my converse breathren than ever before....

the start of individualistic popular music

they rock. they've influenced almost every group in one way or another...they created modern pop music. and their later stuff is so unique (i have to disagree w/ the "filler with 2 good songs" comment) you can see the sides of all 4 members and how they wrote. they rule.

"A flash in the pan compared to the Rolling Stones."

At least, that's my Dad's take. I like the Beatles. I've never really been a fan (my music teacher killed that in 6th grade, long story). But I do like some of their stuff. They were really influential and still are. There is a reason why their songs have hung around so long.

they *were* a flash in the pan.

which makes it even more incredible that they were able to brand their music into the listening ears of generations past, present, and future. in six freakin' years. what has any band, EVER, done that even approaches that? i ask you.

...and paul was *so* cute!

the beatles are super. from their early smart pop gems to the later, more experimental rock songs, the beatles truly revolutionized modern popular music. there's something warm and familiar about hearing a beatles song--sort of like coming home again, every single time. mmm.

The Beatles are sooo much better than Elvis..

I love the Beatles...I've loved the Beatles since I was a little kid. My mom even sang me to sleep with Golden Slumbers when I was little! How awesome is that! Anyway...love the Beatles and if you don't you really need to by all their albums lock yourself in a room and not come out until you know every word of every song!

My mom raised me on the Beatles.

The innovators after who everyone copies. We learn from their songs everytime we listen to them.

How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?

The only thing that helped me through my miserable adolescence. Brilliant. Timeless. Not to mention dreamy

A band so influential, they have their own multi-city, THREE-day convention!

The convention is called Beatlefest , and if Frucon is half as fun as this convention, I'm in for a treat come February. The convention, which is in the NY area, Chicago, and LA, is full of special guests speakers, amateur and professional musicians and bands singing Beatles songs, and my favorite, the late night jam sessions that go on until 6 AM! I have been working there for 6 years, and will continue for a long time I hope. I hope to see you in the Meadowlands in March.

Incredible. Just incredible.

C'mon, people, it's the Beatles. These are the people who set the stage for everything who came after- name me one innovation in rock music that's been used in the last thirty years, and I'd bet a pretty big chunk of change that it can be traced back to something done on a Beatles album (just look at the feedback in "I Feel Fine," backwards taping/loops in "Tomorrow Never Knows," theme albums with Sgt. Pepper's). Just the most amazing band ever, bar none.

Opinions aside, these guys are the most popular band of the twentieth century, let alone the 1960's. Their early material (i.e. "Love Me Do", "Can't Buy Me Love") was endearingly catchy with tight harmony vocals. Their mid-sixties output ("Strawberry Fields Forever", "A Day in the Life") combined simple imagery with ambitiously creative production values. Their final group material honed some rock classics ("Here Comes the Sun", "Something"). Their post-breakup solo material (John Lennon's "Imagine", Paul McCartney's "Band on the Run") is also of interest. Cut through all the media hype and other such rhetorical overkill surrounding these guys, and you've still got a terrific band, possibly the best that true pop/rock has had to offer.

bigger than jesus

absolutely amazing. I was practically weaned at the teat of the Rubber Soul album... what's most amazing is how prolific they were for being together for only about a decade. and it's all good, too.

The Beatles are the Rosetta Stone upon which the entire language of contempory modern music is based and translated. To not understand and appreciate the Beatles, at least in passing, is to not understand music in the post-Elvis era. I pity and sometimes even distrust anyone that just doesn't understand what makes them so special.

favorite band. ever.