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06-02-2014, 12:33 PM | #8651 (permalink) |
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Talking about whether or not The Beatles were the best band ever is a stale and uninventive way to make enemies. "Best x ever" is just a really terrible framing device for a conversation in general.
I'm also very dubious about cash-in claims. There's always this underlying assumption of artistic intent. It's easy to be cynical about their mid-to-late aesthetic within the cultural context of the times, but I'd say at least for some of them, Harrison in particular, it wasn't as if their tapping into the psychedelic wave was just shallow commercialism. |
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06-02-2014, 01:19 PM | #8654 (permalink) | |
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06-02-2014, 01:25 PM | #8655 (permalink) | |
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Excellent. Another one to convert to Bathory. Bathory could pretty much do no wrong for their first five or six albums. I can't really suggest any of them over the others cause they're all brilliant. But it just makes more sense to start with their self-titled debut, which ^^^that song is from.
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06-02-2014, 01:34 PM | #8656 (permalink) |
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Listened to Haunting The Chapel on Saturday. It was certainly a game changer of sorts, but like Batlord I think they reached new heights with Reign In Blood. I'll throw out that I think Ghost's of War off SOH is my alltime favorite jam by them.
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06-02-2014, 02:08 PM | #8658 (permalink) | |
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06-02-2014, 04:29 PM | #8659 (permalink) |
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@Jade
i do agree there is a commercial aspect as in to why the beatles are as iconic as they are now but i do think the main reason they made the kinda music they made was because that's the kinda music they loved, i don't think they did it to be popular, as i recall once they transitioned to their psychedelic phase they lost alot of clean cut fans just like they did when lennon claimed the Beatles were more influential than Jesus among the youth so i don't think the Beatles ever tried to cash in on their public image at the expense of their music. In the 'Imagine' Doc by John lennon he talks about all those things, how repressed music artist were at those times and how they couldn't even talk about current global events, i mean he even had to hide the fact he was married. And yea at the beginning they played into that but later on they shed that clean cut look and started playing activist messages in their songs and jumped into the psychedelic culture and i don't think that was done as a commercial move.
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