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Originally Posted by DeadDiscoDildo
^^A masterpiece is a masterpiece. With that logic, who care's that Sonic Youth put out something as gnarly as Evol, who care's that The Stooges inspired them, who cares about anything anyone's ever done?
Who care's how hard noise rock is.
Who care's how angry a band is?
Who care's how many instruments can be on one song?
Who care's how fast and crazy a song is?
Who care's how unique a band is?
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What exactly are you getting at here? Because I don't really care about any of those things and they don't really have anything to do with what I said as far as I can see.
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The drug use/pop band thing is because until then, everyone did exactly as they were told, no matter how fucked up their private life was.
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That's stupid and I don't believe it for a second. Every revolutionary band, especially the ones before and during the Beatle's era, were considered shocking by the standards of the day. The Beatles totally started out as the kind of band that did what they were told, but that's not the way everyone was and that's the reason they still can't escape the boy band thing even if it isn't exactly relevant.
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How bout this, they were one of the first bands to start writing their own songs in mainstream.
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Yeah, I always thought that was very interesting and impressive.
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Of course they are ovverrated when they get labeled "The best band of all time" by stuffy critics.
And you must have missed my point about comparing sonic youth and the beatles if you think that I think everything they did was a revelation.
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First of all, yeah I agree and that's part of what I was getting at. And second, I don't remember your point so I guess that's the case. And I was also exaggerating a little. I know you don't think EVERYTHING they did was a revelation.
edit: I was always way more impressed by John Lennon and Yoko Ono than the Beatles. I think the Beatlies were very important, but Lennon and Yoko were more revolutionary in my opinion except some things that the Beatles did, like incorporating Eastern musical ideas and writing their own songs.