The Beatles why does every one think they were so great?

[Nadyenka]

I do not understand why every one say how great they were.I do not like any of the music they have make.Why do so many persons love them so much I am not try to insult them I just do not understand why so many persons say they were so good.

[Nadyenka]

It is not that I hate music from that time because some I love The Doors,Jimi Hendrix,The Rolling Stones also Led Zepplin are from the same time?.But I do not like the music The Beatles make and I do not understand why so many persons think they are the best ever.
I do not hate them or feel bad that they make their music but it does not interest me.

Edited by Nadyenka on Tuesday 7th April 19:35

[Nadyenka]

DWP said:

Nadyenka said:

It is not that I hate music from that time because some I love The Doors,Jimi Hendrix,The Rolling Stones also Led Zepplin are from the same time?.But I do not like the music The Beatles make and I do not understand why so many persons think they are the best ever.
I do not hate them or feel bad that they make their music but it does not interest me.

Edited by Nadyenka on Tuesday 7th April 19:35

My son has very much the same tastes as yourself, big fan of the bands you mention. He can't stand the Beatles. As I grew up listening to some seriously boring music in the 50s, the Beatles arrived as a breath of fresh air. All the good 50s music had been hidden from most of us; the BBC Light programme played music that was not even remotely interesting. What the Beatles did was introduce the majority of the country to another type of music and with George Martin, created a whole new way of writing and recording music. If you want to know what they replaced, the first time I ever saw them, top of the Bill was Helen Shapiro. Who? I can hear you ask. This at the Matrix Ballroom Coventry. Just to add a boring bid of pedantry, Led Zep are in real terms much later than the Beatles. The Stones needed a Beatles song, I Wanna Be Your Man, to record and wake them up to the fact they needed to write their own stuff. The Stones up until then had covered American R&B . Just one example of how the Beatles led the music scene. I suppose you had to be there. But given the choice of a Paul McCartney or a Stones concert, it would be The Stones by a mile

I like many different type of music and it is right that I was not there because I am 21 only.I do not hate them but I think for me they are like Coldplay are now because many persons say they are the best and their music to me is not.

[Nadyenka]

otolith said:

Nadyenka said:

I do not understand why every one say how great they were.I do not like any of the music they have make.Why do so many persons love them so much I am not try to insult them I just do not understand why so many persons say they were so good.

People might be better able to explain what it is that they care about and you don't if you tell them what kind of music you do like. From a quick scan through your posting history, I get the impression that you are unimpressed by subtlety, but that's probably unfair.

I like many different music.My 2 most favorite music persons are Jimi Hendrix and John Frusciante because I love strong good and also emotional guitar playing and also the sound of distorted Stratocaster .

[Nadyenka]

otolith said:

Nadyenka said:

otolith said:

Nadyenka said:

I do not understand why every one say how great they were.I do not like any of the music they have make.Why do so many persons love them so much I am not try to insult them I just do not understand why so many persons say they were so good.

People might be better able to explain what it is that they care about and you don't if you tell them what kind of music you do like. From a quick scan through your posting history, I get the impression that you are unimpressed by subtlety, but that's probably unfair.

I like many different music.My 2 most favorite music persons are Jimi Hendrix and John Frusciante because I love strong good and also emotional guitar playing and also the sound of distorted Stratocaster .

In that case, I think you perhaps like a particular style of music, and it isn't one the Beatles really did - do you listen to much blues / jazz / classical?

Personally, I'm not exactly a fan - I think the only Beatles tracks I own are ones I've bought because I've been working on them with my guitar tutor - but they're as much a part of the cultural wallpaper as George Gershwin or Bob Dylan, so like most people I'm familiar with most of their work. I think they've written some songs that will continue to be remembered when the vast majority of 20th century songwriters have been forgotten.

Just on the style issue, do you like this Led Zep?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVQGYciBkVs

and this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6QWQS-pRR8

And if you like the second one, would you have a different opinion of the composition if you'd only ever heard this version of it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIIO22ijrd4

I like all of them but the first is the best to me .

[Nadyenka]

otolith said:

Nadyenka said:

I like all of them but the first is the best to me .

Thought it might be

People's tastes often broaden. I know someone who, at your age, didn't see any point in music you can't dance to. Ten years later, she likes a much wider range of styles of music. It's just what fits your life and personality at the time. I'd give the Beatles another listen in ten years - you may well never really like them, but you might see why other people do. Mind you, they've been so widely covered, there's a fair chance that you like a Lennon or McCartney song done by someone else - Helter Skelter/Aerosmith, Come Together/GnR/Springstein, Sgt Peppers/Hendrix, Day Tripper/Hendrix, Eleanor Rigby/Godhead, Hey Bulldog/Alice Cooper, etc.

I like a lot of music from 1980s and 1990s.Also Joy Division are one of the best things the UK has ever done for me