Are they emo? I'm listening to them right now, and I think I might like them... of course, if they are emo I don't like them.
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Anonymous2007-05-08 16:45 ID:5HhhVDFD
just a few songs
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u r maw2007-05-15 11:51 ID:e7bD35Pf
paki
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Anonymous2007-05-15 16:13 ID:iSFXNjt7
>>1
Helter Skelter is metal
I am the Walrus is New Wave
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Anonymous2007-05-15 22:11 ID:wNK/sJ+z
The Beatles are actually pretty happy in most of their songs. upon closer inspection most of their happy songs are pretty sad(getting better all the time). They put alot of energy into their music and that's why they were so popular.
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Anonymous2007-05-16 3:07 ID:Ll8gXZid
Only Eleanor Rigby. Lonely people are emo
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Anonymous2007-05-16 8:56 ID:AqcAjQgw
B EATLES R SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EMO
DONGS
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Anonymous2007-05-19 5:49 ID:/MEf4FPH
Yer Blues is pretty whiny. YES I'M LONELY! WANNA DIE!
But yeah, mostly they were less emo than after they broke up. After John Lennon did Yoko Ohnoes, he did some pretty not-happy songs such as Working Class Hero, Mother, and a bunch of others. :O But Paul was always the happy one with his amputee fetish and all, at least in comparison to John. John had srs issues man.
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Anonymous2007-05-19 9:46 ID:KM3eCS5I
Well, the 60's was depressing... There was a war happening you know.
And yes, the beatles were SOOOO emo. Why do you think they did so many crazy drugs? Obviously a form of escapism.
Although, it's not until you start listening to Bright Eyes that you are officially diagnosed as emo.
The Beatles are closer to N Sync than they are to an Emo band.
A large percentage of their songs are about love and women.
They all got tired of it at a certain point and that's how you get albums like Sgt. Pepper, MMT, Abbey Road and the White Album.
If you want to see how fucked up it was being in The Beatles, go watch the movie "Let It Be."
The fact that so many books still name the Beatles "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success: the Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worth of being saved.
In a sense the Beatles are emblematic of the status of rock criticism as a whole: too much attention to commercial phenomena (be it grunge or U2) and too little attention to the merits of real musicians. If somebody composes the most divine music but no major label picks him up and sells him around the world, a lot of rock critics will ignore him. If a major label picks up a musician who is as stereotyped as one can be but launches her or him worldwide, your average critic will waste rivers of ink on her or him. This is the sad status of rock criticism: rock critics are basically publicists working for free for major labels, distributors and record stores. They simply publicize what the music business wants to make money with.
Hopefully, one not-too-distant day, there will be a clear demarcation between a great musician like Tim Buckley, who never sold much, and commercial products like the Beatles. And rock critics will study more of rock history and realize who invented what and who simply exploited it commercially.
Beatles' "aryan" music removed any trace of black music from rock and roll: it replaced syncopated african rhythm with linear western melody, and lusty negro attitudes with cute white-kid smiles.
Contemporary musicians never spoke highly of the Beatles, and for a good reason. They could not figure out why the Beatles' songs should be regarded more highly than their own. They knew that the Beatles were simply lucky to become a folk phenomenon (thanks to "Beatlemania", which had nothing to do with their musical merits). THat phenomenon kept alive interest in their (mediocre) musical endeavours to this day. Nothing else grants the Beatles more attention than, say, the Kinks or the Rolling Stones. There was nothing intrinsically better in the Beatles' music. Ray Davies of the Kinks was certainly a far better songwriter than Lennon & McCartney. The Stones were certainly much more skilled musicians than the 'Fab Fours'. And Pete Townshend was a far more accomplished composer, capable of "Tommy" and "Quadrophenia". Not to mention later and far greater British musicians. Not to mention the American musicians who created what the Beatles later sold to the masses.
The Beatles sold a lot of records not because they were the greatest musicians but simply because their music was easy to sell to the masses: it had no difficult content, it had no technical innovations, it had no creative depth. They wrote a bunch of catchy 3-minute ditties and they were photogenic. If somebody had not invented "beatlemania" in 1963, you would not have wasted five minutes of your time to read a page about such a trivial band.