On Tuesday, 2 July 2013 09:35:42 UTC+1, Desperate Dan wrote:
On Tuesday, July 2, 2013 9:29:38 AM UTC+1, yttiw wrote:

On 2013-07-01 09:47:03 +0000, Anne Burgess said:











snip But why do you get sixty-somethings who are still besotted by



The Beatles? Pathetic!







But if you take that attitude to extremes, why are other sixty



somethings still besotted with music that was produced before the



Beatles, i.e. Beethoven or Mozart?







Because, generally speaking, Beethoven, Mozart and Co wrote music which



(a) has pleasant tunes



(b) is harmonious



(c) isn't too loud



(d) doesn't require half a ton of amplification equipment







Anne







I presume that you are implying that the Beatles did not write any



music which satisfied those four criteria.







Have you listened to Blackbird, The Long And Winding Road, or Michelle?



(To name three off the top of my head.)







If not, perhaps you could - and then enlighten us as to which of your



four options those songs fail on?



Not the Beatles, please, not the Beatles! The most over-rated group in the history of music!

I have a friend like you around the age of 55 who never liked the Beatles but worships the pretentious Bob Dylan. He almost hates stuff like Charles Aznavour with the chanson as much as he hates the Beatle. yet when I told him that Bob Dylan had said one of the best performances he'd ever seen was Charles Aznavour; well that disturbed greatly to say the least . The Beatle were great if anything underrated but there was a snobby younger group who detested them preferring stuff like Led Zepplin graduating to Tom Waits and the like. For me no other band in history has ever written so many songs that never once sounded the same.