The beatles were fucking fantastic!

[Seabass]

Most albums are crap these days. You get 12 songs for 10 dollars as download, but the care and trouble producing those tracks is less.

Yes, that is true. I've noticed with American rock especially it is all a bit samey and risk averse.

Silly Merkins. Everything they do is inferior.

These days. It wasn't always like that.

Depends on what you like. There is probably a lot of American music you haven't heard.

[cronus]

Most albums are crap these days. You get 12 songs for 10 dollars as download, but the care and trouble producing those tracks is less.

Yes, that is true. I've noticed with American rock especially it is all a bit samey and risk averse.

Silly Merkins. Everything they do is inferior.

These days. It wasn't always like that.

Depends on what you like. There is probably a lot of American music you haven't heard.

There is a popular brand of bland dreary passive aggressive rock that makes the media all the time these days. Maybe there's other stuff, I don't know. This 'phase' in mainstream American rock seems to have gone on for some time though....over a decade now. Seems to have started with Greenday.

[JimC]

The Beatles were fucking anything in a skirt, or so legend has it...

[tattuchu]

I've got Beatles on the brain now. I just sang "No Reply." In a dream. Word for word. After all these years. Those early Beatles songs were fucking magical.
Then in my dream I sang Robbie Robertson's "Showdown at Big Sky," and then Steve Winwood's "Back In the High Life." And then I sang more Beatles songs, switching to later stuff like "Cry Baby Cry."

I guess I was giving a concert in my head

[cronus]

[Tero]

There's maybe 3 songs from the 60s to 72 I could play every hour. No wearing out.

Jumping Jack Flash
Crossroads... Even with the Clapton lyrics (he mashed 2 songs)
Please Please Me

[Audley Strange]

Music these days is the same as music everydays. The majority of it is 4/4 nursery rhyme shit. However, there are more musicians now than ever who have a wider range and variety of influences than ever before. Each year there are more interesting an innovative things released that most people never hear, just like with the majority of all art. The problem is not music, the problem is things like commercial radio.

[Tero]

album covered
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=en ... TWb6M&NR=1

[Tero]

Some folks were saying, elsewhere, that Rocky Raccoon is a crap song, just like Bungalow Bill (which is).

So I had to make a Play List to put it as Track 1

Rocky Raccoon 3:33 The Beatles The Beatles (White Album) [Disc 1]
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 2:56 The Beatles Anthology 3 [Disc 1] Rock
Savoy Truffle 2:54 The Beatles The Beatles (White Album) [Disc 2] 1
Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey 2:25
Why Don't We Do It In The Road? 1:41 (White Album) [Disc 1]
Yer Blues 4:00 The Beatles The Beatles (White Album) [Disc 2]
Hey Bulldog 3:12 The Beatles Yellow Submarine ST
Teddy Boy 3:18 The Beatles Anthology 3 [Disc 2] Rock
All Together Now 2:14 The Beatles Yellow Submarine Rock
Come Together 3:40 The Beatles Anthology 3 [Disc 2] Rock
Octopus's Garden 2:51 The Beatles Abbey Road
You Never Give Me Your Money 4:02 The Beatles Abbey Road
Mean Mr. Mustard 1:58 The Beatles Anthology 3 [Disc 1] Rock
Polythene Pam 1:26 The Beatles Anthology 3 [Disc 1] Rock
Her Majesty 0:23 The Beatles Abbey Road Pop

[Animavore]

Most albums are crap these days. You get 12 songs for 10 dollars as download, but the care and trouble producing those tracks is less.

Yes, that is true. I've noticed with American rock especially it is all a bit samey and risk averse.

Silly Merkins. Everything they do is inferior.

These days. It wasn't always like that.

These days! There is some great shit coming out of America right now re:rock. Sure you won't here it on commercial radio. All you'll get is endless Nirvana or Green Day wannabes and Nickleback, but there are tons of innovative bands, System of a Down, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Mastodon, Tool, Neurosis, Wax Fang, Baroness, to name a few. If you think music has become samey you have grown out of touch with music and are listening to the pop which is influenced by the good music which was around when you were younger.

[Trinity]

I guess I like the Beatles, some tracks more than others but frankly I'm rather jaded with hearing their music, a bit like Bob Marley or any classics that have been over played. I grew up in the 70's but had a mother who played an excellent eclectic collection for us kids. The Kinks, Stones, prog rock, folk, who, Zep, doors, Van Morrison, and on and on....

[Rum]

Got all their albums on my MP3 player a while back and played their whole discography from start to finish over a week walking dogs. They did make a few dud songs (the one's written for Ringo in particular) but you know. Effing fantastic stuff really. The impressive thing is tha arc of their songwriting, starting with pop stuff like I wanna hold your hand and ending up only three or four years later with Strawberry Fields, I am the Walrus, Yesterday and so many more.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I have to admit, I kinda liked "No Wedgie, Wood!"

[Audley Strange]

Most albums are crap these days. You get 12 songs for 10 dollars as download, but the care and trouble producing those tracks is less.

Yes, that is true. I've noticed with American rock especially it is all a bit samey and risk averse.

Silly Merkins. Everything they do is inferior.

These days. It wasn't always like that.

These days! There is some great shit coming out of America right now re:rock. Sure you won't here it on commercial radio. All you'll get is endless Nirvana or Green Day wannabes and Nickleback, but there are tons of innovative bands, System of a Down, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Mastodon, Tool, Neurosis, Wax Fang, Baroness, to name a few. If you think music has become samey you have grown out of touch with music and are listening to the pop which is influenced by the good music which was around when you were younger.

Yep, I'd say that the least interesting music is being made right now right here in the U.K. mostly due to my generation now hitting the nostalgia and complacency wave that comes with middle age. But then Gen X were always nostalgic and complacent anyway.

There are lulls, but last year was a stonking year for music across the globe, this year's looking better, but times have changed, you need to make an effort now to hear good music.

[Pappa]

They're ok, but I much prefer Paul McCartney's solo work.