A New Project of Mine
Alright, so I’ve been talking with a number of acquaintances recently about The Beatles and their artistic merit. Now, let me explain that The Beatles were the first musical group I ever remember listening to and also the first I was ever obsessed with. However, over the years, I seem to have “matured” perhaps, and I lost my love of The Beatles. Its not that I don’t like them anymore, its just that I’ve found so much more music that I think is so much better.
This pretty much sums up my ideas on The Beatles
I really do not like it when people decide to worship the Beatles (or any musical group, really) and I don’t like supporting a group that are, at best, extremely influential and very inconsistent, and at worst are pretentious and boring. I was trying to imagine how I could possibly reconcile my current view of them with my childhood love of the Fabs, and I decided that their biggest problem was the inconsistency and their lack of coherent album visions. If I could somehow take all of the things that seem not to fit on Abbey Road and put them with much more similar songs from other albums, to create a consistently psychedelic (or symphonic, or experimental, or whatever style best fits that song) album I think that it would greatly improve The Beatles’ catalogue and perhaps even rekindle my jaded heart for them.
Son, the Fab Four are disappoint
So, in the following months, I plan to listen to all twelve of the Fab Four’s albums very carefully and rearrange and reassemble them into some as-yet-unknown number of new albums that will provide a more linear, coherent view of John, George, Ringo and Paul as music-makers. I will post up my results on this website when I finish. Please stay tuned!
February 4th, 2010 at 11:18 pm
I think the main deal with the Beatles is that they were completely revolutionary. I mean, they started rock ‘n’ roll after Elvis had his little run, and did some crazy things everyone didn’t even understand, but liked. Yeah, they weren’t good compared to now’s standards, but they may have been back then.
I agree with the inconsistency though. They definitely went through “time periods” of change, but lots of their albums, like Abbey Road, have contrasting styles and moods, which confuses.
Listening to them now is boing though. It’s like listening to the first techno ever made, or REAAAALLY early classical music. You’re like, “yeah, so what?” if you don’t recognize the context.
February 5th, 2010 at 12:43 am
That is totally true about the revolution. They were also super creative, funny as fuck, and created what it means to be “a band” in the modern sense.
I think that inconsistency is the real killer though, because they released 12 albums over like… 9 years or whatever, while there are bands today that come out with one album every two or three or 20 years (*cough*gunsnroses*cough*). Thats the whole reason I think that this project will work (although I’ve only gotten about thirty seconds in to the first song on their first album, damn school) because each of their changes could be identified and collected into one cohesive album.
and early techno can be rrreeeeaaaaaallllyyyy terrible hahaha
March 2nd, 2010 at 10:54 am
mean