I was defensive about it for a minute, but now don’t care much (maybe not being “there” is healing me in a way?) - in any case, there’s plenty room for everybody!
i can honestly say i've never listened to an entire beatles record, but trying to write them off completely is some desperate-to-be-everyone's-favourite-contrarian bullshit. plus, "helter skelter" paved the way for a lot of proto-punk and/or metal experimentation, so there's that
totally. it's not like they're some prohibtive, taxing thing either, i've just never really felt compelled to do so. but, considering mckay's posturing, spite is a powerful tool.
It’s a Gen X cliche to detest The Lads, I knew lots of punks in the eighties who hated them and The Beach Boys and it was just performative kvetching, then and now
The only real insult that gets levied against them that stands merit to me is the same thing said about every other British Invasion band by American Session Musicians and Jazz musicians (they were terrible studio musicians)
The Beach Boys from the 60s kick ass, The Beach Boys from the 80s to today are decidedly lame as hell. To quote a great Gen X Holy Text of Performative Kvetching, is it in fact unfair to criticize a formerly great artist for his latter day sins, is it better to burn out or fade away?
It seems to me that going to Hamburg in 1962, taking an industrial quantity of amphetamines & playing rock & roll in double time is what punk was all about unless those 80s punks had different ideas?
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