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A forgotten gem.

The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success. The Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worthy of being saved.

In a sense, the Beatles are emblematic of the status of rock criticism as a whole: too much attention paid to commercial phenomena (be it grunge or U2) and too little to the merits of real musicians. If somebody composes the most divine music but no major label picks him up and sells him around the world, a lot of rock critics will ignore him. If a major label picks up a musician who is as stereotyped as can be but launches her or him worldwide, your average critic will waste rivers of ink on her or him. This is the sad status of rock criticism: rock critics are basically publicists working for major labels, distributors and record stores. They simply highlight what product the music business wants to make money from.

Hopefully, one not-too-distant day, there will be a clear demarcation between a great musician like Tim Buckley, who never sold much, and commercial products like the Beatles.

>>72044985
>985▶
> What's so great about "A Day in the Life" exactly? It's not e
Nothing.

The Beatles were the biggest shilled meme 'band' of all time.

>>72044985
It is the most 'experimental' song that plebs can handle.

Check these

>>72044984
based nardwuar

does anybody have the Brendon nardwuar from that thread a while back
>that's right its a restraining order!

>>72044906
dude drugs lmao

>>72044906
Geogaddi, Aenima, sunbather, Loveless, DSoTM, Piper at the Gates of Dawn, In the court of the Crimson King, In the name of suffering.

Don't bother, you'll probably be nutting too hard to listen to music.

Things that sound fun beforehand often end up being too intense on acid.

Try Tame Impala (Lonerism specifically)

>>72044903
>being scared of generally inoffensive ambient techno

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kMqlgQ25W4 its a nice song

>>72044939
t. no imagination

yeah Fuck pop music

i want to suck her titties if you know what i mean

I thought it was decent, a solid 6/10.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtzRJgZG98I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx5kVg0LxRM

>>72044862
>>72044883
pretty good
more!

i was hoping it would be a prince cover but this just sucks

go back to the disney forums or whereever you came from

>>72044826
He didn't

The next BOWIE.
:)

name one good song of his other than beamerboy

>>72044778
thats pretty gud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OW9K84EbU4

>>72044773
Who the fuck is this clown?

>>72044699
>scene
online scenes aren't real

>>72044710

The ds scene has existed since the 90s

>>72044727
In reality, or on fucking soundcloud or whatever?

>>72044689
17 when I realized piano musique was patrician

>>72044689

69

>>72045174
haha thats the sex number xD

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>>72064072
>tfw Tidal

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>tfw Spotify premium, slsk and poweramp

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>>72064072
>tfw I left Jews directly fuck me in the ass and just skip they're bullshit streaming services

>keep paying for music plebs

paying for music is patrician. You just have to buy it directly from the artists, and skip the streaming Jew.

t. p4k drone
this album fucking sucks, his voice is terrible

>>72063973
t. pop fan

Not gonna listen to this simply because the cover is so unbelievably ugly

>muh marxist theory

Fuck off

>>72044501
bet he has all of death grip's LPs, and listens to them on his portable record player.

he is post-hipster.

>>72044519
whats wrong with a little pinch of Marxism?

>>72044325
A meme, like all soundcloud rappers

>>72044325
music for white trash

>>72044325
i'd feel like killing myself if i lived in new orleans too.