All You Need Is Love: New Beatles Album Woos Fans

Yahoo! News ^ | November 22, 2006 | Staff

[beyond the sea]

Good for him.

[mcg2000]

Now, now, I wasn't talking about The Police - and the best drummer in rock history, Stewart Copeland (sorry, Keith).

Sorry .... John Densmore's (The Doors) fusion of jazz into rock music was the forerunner of Copeland.

[L.N. Smithee]

I'll give some thought to listening to it now that I know Jeff Lynne isn't involved.

[mcg2000]

"It wasn't just the process, such as feedback."

Ummmm .... ever heard the tune "I Feel Fine" by The Beatles? That was the first use of feedback on a rock album.

"Townsend invented longer rock songs (A Quick One While He's Away)."

Blues & Jazz artists' recorded long songs for decades before The Who came along. The Who got on the bandwagon with several other mid-sixties artists.

"Invented the Rock Opera (Tommy)."

That claim of bringing rock opera to the mainstream belongs to the band "People" - not The Who. The genre was inevitable considering the success of counter-culture's appeal on Broadway in the mid-sixties / Examples: "Jesus Christ Superstar" & "Hair" ("Tommy" was released - 1969). The Afghan Whigs are good example of a recent (90's) rock opera cd recording.

"And pioneered the incorporation of synthesizers into kick-butt rock tunes (Baba O'Reilly, Won't get Fooled Again)."

Syntheizers were used for years before The Who....as early as 1958 in various band BBC Sessions. The Monkees....yes, The Monkees... were ahead of The Who on this curve. If you tend to prefer a certain use of the organ then so be it - that's why all types of records are sold.

"In addition, Pete never went for that hippy nonsense like the Beatles did (his quote about Woodstock - "I 'ated it")."

We all know what horrible music resulted from the Woodstock era, right? /sarcasm If you don't like the genre, that's one thing ...

"The Beatles, IMO, sound stale across time with their foray into Sixties psychodelia"

The Beatles brought Syd Barrett's psycholdelic sounds to the mainstream while furher developing them. Being trail blazers is much different than hopping on a bandwagon. It's obvious you're not a Beatles fan .... you would have known that only two of their albums delved into psychedlic music.

"whereas Won't Get Fooled Again was declared the greatest conservative rock song of all time and resonates no matter what era we are in."

Rock music and conservatism are a clash in the most basic sense. And it "was declared"? I/you can declare anything at any time from our pc desks....doesn't really amount to anything.

The Who really only has a couple of songs that hold up to the mainstream today - not saying it's right - just the way it is in terms of market.

The Beatles have dozens.

Comparing The Who and The Bealtes is literally apples to oranges in terms of impact, significance, influence and fan following.

[dirtboy]

Comparing The Who and The Bealtes is literally apples to oranges in terms of impact, significance, influence and fan following.

Most of the Beatles fans I see are over the hill liberal hippies (not all).

Whereas The Who still appeal to a wide range of audiences - even teenagers are still getting into them.

It ain't about the quantity, it's the quality.

[mcg2000]

That's the cool part of music ... different people get into different things. Honestly ... I've never heard of a younger college aged person getting into The Who and quite the contrary to The Beatles.

Just the circles everyone runs in, I guess.

[Cymbaline]

Now, now, I wasn't talking about The Police - and the best drummer in rock history, Stewart Copeland (sorry, Keith).

*cough* John Bonham *cough*

*cough* Neil Peart *cough*