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- From: miller@hpscit.sc.hp.com (Phil Miller)
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:49:33 GMT
- Subject: Re: Best Beatle albums (was: Re: admit it (Beatles))
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- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Clara, CA
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- In alt.rock-n-roll.classic, erics@sco.COM (eric smith) writes:
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- > Phase Best Representative Album
- > ----- -------------------------
- > Teenage dance music (pre-'65) A Hard Day's Night
- > Progressive Rock (or Psychedelia) ('65-'67) Revolver
- > Back to the roots ('68-'69) Abbey Road
-
- I'd hardly shlep phase one off as teenage dance music. You'll never
- hear anybody sing vocals like jl/pm did on those early recordings.
- That kinda exuberance is not possible in the cynicism that followed
- the sixties.
- Phil (miller@sc.hp.com)
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- > And not surprisingly the entire pop music scene was experiencing these
- > same phases at the time, although the Beatles' music gives the clearest
- > example of one group transitioning through all the phases. (The Stones,
- > for example, failed miserably at psychedelia but came back strong in
- > the "back to the roots" phase. Many groups who flowered in one particular
- > phase simply failed to evolve at all.) The Beatles either were leading
- > this pop music evolution or else they were incredibly tuned into the
- > rapid cultural change that was occurring (I suspect it was some combination
- > of both.) The Beatles were able to do something that is so rare among
- > artists, especially popular artists: realize when one style had reached
- > the end of its possibilities for artistic expression, and seamlessly
- > transition to another form of expression.
-
- > The White Album really should be given a special place, though. Even
- > though its official title is _The Beatles_, it's really not so much
- > a Beatles album as it is a collection of the four as solo artists.
-
- > -----
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