Subject: Re: Beatles
The greatest rock band of all time a mediocre band? Shirley, you jest.

Yeah, but everyone has an occasional stinker.

Dr Robert just never grabbed me. It's not horrible, but I don't really care for it. "Mediocre".

Run for Your Life is lyrically problematic, but the song is otherwise catchy. I suspect it suffers from being reinterpreted in this modern age. To my knowledge neither Lennon nor McCartney were stalker/abusers.

Some of the answers our daughter read off to me included Yellow Submarine (really?), Within You, Without You (I thought of that one, also...not a fave), Revolution 9 (I think it was a musical experiment, but I only regard it as "music" because that's probably what the Beatles thought when the created it**), Bungalow Bill, Rocky Raccoon (not a fave, but I don't mind it...it's unique in that it tries to tell a story), and I forgot the others. I should have thought of Wild Honey Pie. As I recall, it's almost a lead in to Bungalow Bill (I'd have to google the White Album playlist, but I have some chores here).

You Like Me Too Much...again, not horrible, but not memorable. I checked, and I don't even have it in my iTunes (I ripped all my CDs a long time ago, and then deleted stuff I didn't like because hard drives were measured in MBs back then). It was of the genre of "old Beatles" (like She Loves You, but definitely not as good).

And with that, I need to look at a sprinkler head before it gets beastly hot. Interesting...only 1 reply so far. I guess Beatles fans are dying off, so maybe this crowd is too young. Can you believe McCartney is 81 this year. And Ringo is a year or two older (he was the eldest of the Beatles, as I recall).


**I've tried to avoid what my dad used to do when he heard something different: "that's not music". I found myself saying that about rap, and realized to some people it was. Just not to my taste.