Okay. I'm a classical musician. This is not pop crap. The Beatles may not be everyone's cup of tea. The marvel is that they became MOST people's cup of tea. This doesn't happen by accident.
She Loves You shattered the pop music industry when it came out because it was so much more deft, original, polished, intelligent, and imaginative than 99.9 percent of any popular music out there. And most important, it was more emotionally engaging--something typical of their music. I remember when it was released, and it justly put everything else on the charts in the shade.
The Beatles were just lower-class, mostly Irish boys from Liverpool--right across the water from Dublin. But they were much more imaginative and skillful than most pros in that business. They were lucky that they had a towering genius for an arranger as well, and that they were willing to learn from him.
That's why they blew up the music business and re-made it in their image. They were better, right out the gate (after years of work in England) than anyone in the business.
I'm not in love with every song they've ever done. But so what. Their standard of creation and performance has had no peer in popular music in my lifetime--which is long. They deserve it all, and we should be thankful for them.
Well said Samurai.
Geez, so you love them, I get it.
It comes right at you. There's a rawness to a lot of this song. "Rock a billy'' as it were.
Growing up with the Beatles truly got me into pop music as it was so fresh and lively and so different from the bubblegum schlock I was hearing on the radio.
That they played their own instruments was so different from other US bands who relied on session players - BeachBoys, etc - and their playing was tight. Certainly George Martin was helpful in polishing their sound but the songwriting was so superior to others at the time.
Beginning with Rubber Soul, the Beatles evolved from pop band to a creative studio project - from the songwriting to using the studio in their creations.
Amazing their great trilogy - Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Pepper - was released in just an 18-month period.
Dec,1965 - Rubber Soul
August, 1966 - Revolver
June,1967 - Sgt Pepper
After my freshman year at Cincinnati, I moved to Hollywood with plans to transfer to UCLA. One Sat afternoon, my old clock radio sitting atop the refrigerator was tuned to KHJ. and I was hearing songs I’d never heard before. The guest DJ would speak about the song or what was happening in studio during the recording sessions.
The album being played? The “White” album
The guest DJ? George Harrison
A week later the album was released and I bought it at a small shop on Sunset.
You’re making the standard case for the early Beatles and of course there’s a lot of truth to it. “Pop crap” is more a comment on the format that the Beatles were confined to early on. You can hear their potential in their early work but it wasn’t until they left the confines of 2 minute pop tunes that they started to accomplish what they were capable of.