Posted on 07/30/2009 4:48:44 PM PDT by chessplayer
>>I’m constantly amazed at how angry some freepers are about things that they shouldn’t be taking so personally.<<
And where exactly did I take it personally?
All I’m saying is that in 50 years, the “Genius” that is the Beatles will be GREATLY diminished.
Rudy Vallee was a genius in his time too.
As was Bing Crosby
As was Frank Sinatra.
or Rogers and Hamerstein.
Let’s be serious here.
Every generation has a “Genius” In the big picture, they are influential or popular but not genius. Including the Beatles.
Nothing wrong with that, I was only remarking on the demographics of the first 50 years of their success. I never commented on their music or genius.
That’s a cheeky argument. I’ve also heard that because there are no pictures of hippies spitting on soldiers, nor references to actual events in MSM news stories, that it never happened.
Universities of the 1960s varied considerably on the political spectrum, but there was already infiltration by some extreme radical leftists. While not yet common, many schools had “radical magnet” professors, sought out by radical students.
There are somewhat easy to look up these days, because they seldom cared much for their official duties, and instead sought to stir up trouble, found radical organizations, and otherwise be pesky.
Interesting post. The boomers were moving the culture in the sixties - and it might have made a difference...
Well, if you never saw it and I never saw it why are you claiming such specific acts and words?
” The Beatles suck. “
You lost all credibility with all of us who know anything about rock music , and music in general .
” They killed American Rock and Roll. “
Who bought the records ; and all the other paraphenalia that was sold ...AMERICANS .
” Nothing they did measured up to the talent coming out of Memphis and the American blending of county, blues, and pop”
Comparing a waste of time . The Beatles came along at the right time with the right sound and looks . And they had the songwriting abilities to back up the hype .
” the Monkeys “ ?
Now THEY were a joke .
Teenage girls and teenage boys who tended liberal or Marxist.
Because I knew conservative professors who taught then, and they attested to it. The subject came up about other radical professors when discussing Morris Starsky at Arizona State:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Starsky
There were several such agitators in the California universities as well, and they were not bashful about using students as their pawns.
But this leads to the question, why are you defending such scoundrels? Though you did not personally experience their venom is certainly no evidence that others did not.
Where did they get the money ?
I know where I got mine ...my AMERICAN parents ! And I got a birth certificate , too !
By the way don't start lying about me because you made some stuff up, I'm not defending anyone, you posted something that you were trying to pass off as actual history and I was there and never saw it and never heard of those actions, did you? If you want to talk about leftist professors fine but don't start making up the details as though they were history.
Though the odds were quite small of being drafted, being sent to Vietnam, and dying, students were threatened that if they *didn’t* protest against the war, their professors would fail them, they would lose their draft deferment, be drafted, sent to Vietnam, and die.
Same as all other liberals and Marxists. They spend someone else's money.
To back up your assertion a friend of mine told me about a summer camp for math students one of his sons attended about fifteen years ago. His son would have been about seventeen or eighteen at the time. They took a poll at the camp and asked these math whizzes who their favorite musicians were. The top poll answer was, you guessed it, The Beatles.
OK , you win . Every kid who ever bought a Beatles or Rolling Stones record was a liberal or Marxist . Got it .
“Maybe we should look at the lyrics of “Imagine” before we make Lennon a conservative.”
Not trying to imply he was a conservative. I think he disdained US style capitalism. But I think he also disdained communism.
You’re probably the only one who took that book literally!!
“Back In The USSR” was a take off on the Beach Boys sound....also, “tongue in cheek”
“Teenage girls and teenage boys who tended liberal or Marxist. “
I was a Goldwater Republican as a teenager in 1964.......
Well good for them.
Still doesn’t make him great. Just makes him popular in the underground.
>>Nothing wrong with that, I was only remarking on the demographics of the first 50 years of their success. I never commented on their music or genius.<<
Then why are you answering me with your chart? I was.
Popularity comes and goes. You grabbed a chart with four artists, no reference and no timeline. Fine, but it really has nothing to do with the conversation.
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