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  • Re: What the critics had to say in 1964

    From Norbert K@21:1/5 to Fattuchus on Sat Feb 11 04:46:41 2023
    On Monday, February 10, 2014 at 10:00:02 PM UTC-8, Fattuchus wrote:
    http://www.latimes.com/opinion/commentary/la-oe-beatles-quotes-20140209,0,1146431.story#axzz2szSeziH0

    "Visually they are a nightmare, tight, dandified Edwardian-Beatnik suits and great pudding bowls of hair. Musically they are a near disaster, guitars and drums slamming out a merciless beat that does away with secondary rhythms, harmony and melody.
    Their lyrics (punctuated by nutty shouts of "yeah, yeah, yeah") are a catastrophe, a preposterous farrago of Valentine-card romantic sentiments...."


    LOL!

    I wonder if any of these critics changed their minds as the band evolved.

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  • From Norbert K@21:1/5 to Norbert K on Sun Feb 12 04:15:51 2023
    On Saturday, February 11, 2023 at 4:46:43 AM UTC-8, Norbert K wrote:
    On Monday, February 10, 2014 at 10:00:02 PM UTC-8, Fattuchus wrote:
    http://www.latimes.com/opinion/commentary/la-oe-beatles-quotes-20140209,0,1146431.story#axzz2szSeziH0

    "Visually they are a nightmare, tight, dandified Edwardian-Beatnik suits and great pudding bowls of hair. Musically they are a near disaster, guitars and drums slamming out a merciless beat that does away with secondary rhythms, harmony and melody.
    Their lyrics (punctuated by nutty shouts of "yeah, yeah, yeah") are a catastrophe, a preposterous farrago of Valentine-card romantic sentiments...."


    LOL!
    I wonder if any of these critics changed their minds as the band evolved.

    Apparently Buckley did revise his opinion on the Beatles a bit over the years. In 1968, he wrote about the band's "unmatched exuberance."

    Not that he had any expertise on popular music.

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