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Originally Posted by Janszoon
That's ironic, since the Beatles imitated so much music from that time period.
You're talking about sixty-five years of pop, classical, blues, R&B, bluegrass, country, folk, stride, ragtime, tango, samba, mento, calypso, zydeco, etc., etc. Brushing it all aside with a wave of the hand seems extremely narrow-minded to me.
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I definitely don't tend to branch out into whatever you mean by "stride, ragtime, mento, calypso, zydeco" and I never plan to.
I don't think I've ever heard anything pre-1960's besides jazz or classical obviously that I found worth listening to at all. The notable music of that time is all quite bland to me. Of course, there are occasional songs that I find powerful (Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit is really incredible I think!), but I see the Beatles' arrival as when music finally started to branch out, and I don't even like the Beatles that much, I'm just seeing the correlation there.
The Beatles imitated music of that time period initially, but later Beatles stuff absolutely created dozens of genres. There were so many important things that the Beatles did that no one had really done before. I mean that's just a fact.