Nirvana inducted into Hall of Fame

[onebud34]

I'm talking music. Their cultural influence is there, but people mistake that with their music. Anytime you challenge that, people go off the deep end.

Their influence is still heard all over today's pop music


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[Unannounced Fart]

If you think of the number of songs that people can sing along with despite never buying an album, there is no other band in modern history that is in the same ballpark, shit even the same planet as the beatles. Don't have to like them, but I don't see how you can call that overrated.

Thing is with the beatles, its not just the music itself but the sheer volume of it that is staggering. You put on almost any album and people know the shit whether or not they own the albums or ever bought them.

Like Mozart and Beethoven, I think people will still be listening to the Beatles hundreds of years from now.

 

[ijustposthere]

If you think of the number of songs that people can sing along with despite never buying an album, there is no other band in modern history that is in the same ballpark, shit even the same planet as the beatles. Don't have to like them, but I don't see how you can call that overrated.

Is that how we rate bands, by how many people can sing along? It's very easy to say they're overrated. Vast amount of people agree they're the best band band of all time and go apeshit when you challenge that.

Thing is with the beatles, its not just the music itself but the sheer volume of it that is staggering. You put on almost any album and people know the shit whether or not they own the albums or ever bought them.

You'd be surprised how many people don't.

 

[botfly10]

If you say so. They were pretty much right place, right time. They're music is, meh.

lmao, please refer to my first post in this thread.

 

[ijustposthere]

Their influence is still heard all over today's pop music


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I know, they were the first boy band and I hate them for it.

 

[ijustposthere]

lmao, please refer to my first post in this thread.

I know bot, you're opinion on music is the only one that matters.

 

[botfly10]

Is that how we rate bands, by how many people can sing along? It's very easy to say they're overrated. Vast amount of people agree they're the best band band of all time and go apeshit when you challenge that.

You'd be surprised how many people don't.

You are still having problems understanding the difference between liking and respecting a band's music.

 

[botfly10]

imo, people that cannot respect the Beatles don't have a serious relationship with music as art.

*shrug*

 

[ijustposthere]

You are still having problems understanding the difference between liking and respecting a band's music.

imo, people that cannot respect the Beatles don't have a serious relationship with music as art.

*shrug*

I like their music and respect them, I have all their albums. In fact, in the original post I said I'm a fan of them. I listen to a lot of music, and have very eclectic taste. Your response is exactly what I refer to. If someone doesn't bow down to the greatness of the Beatles, they get brow beaten.

 

[Sunbiz1]

It's not the blues Hall of Fame.

http://rockhall.com/inductees/bobby-blue-bland/

Not according to them, that guy used to play the Chicago Blues fest every year.

 

[Omeletpants]

Infuence is not just about fans but influencing other musicians. Virtually every great band and artist after the Beatles has said the Beatles was a prime influence on them as musicians. So, if the Beatles influenced the artist, they ultimately influenced the artist music. I see endless Youtube video clips and newspaper articles where the famous artist worships at the feet of the Beatles.

A second measure is "covers". Musicians cover other bands material because they admire it and no one has had more recorded professional covered than the Beatles. One song was recorded 2000 times by other bands/musicians. You only cover music you respect.

Inventions: the Beatles influenced more inventions and "firsts" than anyone else. They invented the mega outdoor concert, heavy metal, the concept album, use of the melodic bass, they influenced culture, hairstyle, clothing. The Beatles had the first MTV style video even before MTV

They sold more records than anyone, had more number one hits, they owned the pop charts for years

They forced other bands to reach for a standard of excellence in creating full albums of good music not the one hit wonders you see today.

The case can be made that they were underrated

 

[Omeletpants]

I like their music and respect them, I have all their albums. In fact, in the original post I said I'm a fan of them. I listen to a lot of music, and have very eclectic taste. Your response is exactly what I refer to. If someone doesn't bow down to the greatness of the Beatles, they get brow beaten.

It's actually the opposite of what you say. There has been a huge movement of the last 5 decades to rip the Beatles, starting with Sinatra. Ian Hunter wrote a song (all the yound dudes) ripping the Beatles. In the 90s they were endless authors that made it their lives to rip the Beatles and compromise their legacy

 

[botfly10]

I like their music and respect them, I have all their albums. In fact, in the original post I said I'm a fan of them. I listen to a lot of music, and have very eclectic taste. Your response is exactly what I refer to. If someone doesn't bow down to the greatness of the Beatles, they get brow beaten.

So you respect them, just not as much as everyone else?

Ok, this is getting too weird for me now.

 

[Omeletpants]

Like Mozart and Beethoven, I think people will still be listening to the Beatles hundreds of years from now.

I have made the argument that 200 years from now the only music that will really be remembered from this period will be the Beatles.

 

[botfly10]

I have made the argument that 200 years from now the only music that will really be remembered from this period will be the Beatles.

Thats silly.

 

[onebud34]

I have made the argument that 200 years from now the only music that will really be remembered from this period will be the Beatles.

Historians will probably remember the blues genre

 

[ijustposthere]

Historians will probably remember the blues genre

You mean Elvis?

 

[Omeletpants]

Thats silly.

There are monster bands from the 60s and 70s that virtually no one recalls now, let allone 200 years from now.

I highly doubt that in 2214 Sirus is going to have a 1970s channel

 

[onebud34]

There are monster bands from the 60s and 70s that virtually no one recalls noe,

I guess that wouldn't make them monster bands

 

[onebud34]

You mean Elvis?

A colored mayor...that'll be the day