Comments on: Podcast: Rocky Raccoon would be ashamed

By: Diana

Diana — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:09:44 +0000

Velvet Underground pretty much steals the show.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:24:23 +0000

Great! make more please!

By: CJ

CJ — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:16:52 +0000

For the record, I think Pulp Fiction is overrated also

By: Eddie

Eddie — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:23:42 +0000

I’d hardly call it a call between being a Beatles guy or an Elvis guy, considering how Elvis just stole and repackaged African-American Blues and R&B for white people. Not that he didn’t have style, but I wouldn’t compare him to a band that produced original music. On the other hand I agree that the Beatles-worship is far more prevalent than it needs to be, they have a lot of good and emotional songs, but they’re not the epitome of music some people make them out to be. Eh, just my 2 cents.

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:22:23 +0000

I dunno man…they’re extremely influential.
Michael Jackson is to pop as the Beatles are to EVERYTHING.
Depending.
They were on acid half the time…

Everyone should watch Pulp Fiction.
“You’re either a Beatles guy or an Elvis guy.”

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:54:59 +0000

Hey Allyson,

Due to some kind of technical whatnot this part was left out of the podcast, but there are some Beatles songs I legitimately love and enjoy. Revolver and The White Album are, overall, fantastic albums. It was a bit insulting, true, but it was mostly in fun and you people don’t generally bother me.

Also, I like how you didn’t dispute my point about Abby Road:p

By: Mac Zilber

Mac Zilber — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:11:18 +0000

Agreed with what Gregory said. The Beatles were not great lyricists or superb technical musicians, but they were among the most influential musicians of all time. People are typically taught about the beatles’ greatness from a young age and accept it before they’re at the age to think critically and dispute it.

By: bananas

bananas — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:48:48 +0000

OMG! You are totally right! All of the beatles songs are complete meaningless dribble! I mean ‘i me mine’ and ‘little piggies’ and ‘think for yourself’, they don’t have a progressive message at all!!! But I sure love that 7 minute velvet underground song about heroin… and you know most of cream’s songs are really political

By: Allyson Pierce

Allyson Pierce — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:54:42 +0000

Sure the Yardbirds and Cream made great music and people should open there minds and listen to other music from the 1960s but by insulting everyone who like the Beatles doesn’t make anyone want to listen to you. In fact it just makes us disrespect you and your opinion. And this is only your diluted opinion, I don’t feel that you are able to define the meaning of any Beatles song because you clearly don’t know what the artist was thinking while making the music. I don’t think you deserve your own soap box when you’re not willing to look at both sides of the argument. Without doing this, you just sound like a whiney teenager.

By: Gregory

Gregory — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:54:02 +0000

First, many Beatles songs are longer than four minutes. In the 1960s, radio was one of the most important means of proliferating music, and songs that were extremely long would not be played on the radio. Plus, you completely overlook the enormous cultural and historical influence of the Beatles. How can something that has had such an effect on society and culture not be meaningful? It is true that they had their good songs and their bad songs, but if you look at the ratio of the number of good Beatles songs to the number of bad Beatles songs it is significantly greater than the ratios of good songs to bad songs of many other bands.