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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.

American prudery is retarded

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>>71854272
IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN

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>drummer has two bands

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>posting this everday

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>drummer isn't asian cutie

>>71854173

>Nero

stopped reading here

>>71854202
>stops reading at the end of the list

i guess you suck balls

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>headphones
>not speakers
what are you 12?

>>71854172

I leave the house sometimes

>>71854186
right because a good headphone is portable and perfectly isolates outside noise lmao

>>71854126
>>71854251

really obvious and suburban, just like every other list that anyone is going to post here. needs more Slayer

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i did a complete overhaul and got rid of some "clutter"

>>71854126
good pics. odd choice for a favorite Fugazi record but i dig it. Hymie's Basement is the shit.

>>71854251
probably has mental issues

>>71854089
yea sure why not

either way she's a mudshark which is worse

bjork fans officially cucks

Explain why, faggot

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favorite weezer song?

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praise sejeong

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Tofu

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.

>>71853992
hey i read 5 words of this and then stopped bud

>>71853992
Scaruffi claims, “The fact that so many books still name the Beatles "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”.

Well, Beethoven is probably the most famous classical composer today; and even in his time, he was one of the most influential, successful, and well-known composers in the world.

Isn't Tired Of Sex supposed to be the most iconic on the album?

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>Tired of Sex
>No One Else

>>71853916
Tired Of Sex is literally the only good song on the album you garbage pleb.

Name a non tame impala rip off dude microtones lmao band that does this

>>71853920

Pink floyd

>>71853926
what albums

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https://coredelay.bandcamp.com/album/sleeping-chamber-music

>prog folk, freak folk, early music, acoustic, bedroom folk, analog synthesizer, baroque-folk, experimental, vocal, classical

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music to replace ur batteries to

https://noriginal.bandcamp.com

>experimental
>boom bap
>rap

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https://docsavior.bandcamp.com/album/never-sleep

Is she still relevant? I mean she's all Iceland has, as far as international pop culture is concerned, but she's pretty cool. Not The Knife, but y'know.

>>71853903
After a string of disappointing but not really bad records following Vespertine, Vulnicura is somewhere close to incredible. The fact she never really had an outright bad record also makes it feel less like a "comeback" and more like maybe she just didn't feel like making another masterpiece. Like one was enough. She could do it if she wanted to

Sigur Ros was big for awhile too

>normie music
GET OUT NOW

>>71854246
hardstyle is not normie music you fucking faggot

>>71854246
i don't think it's normie music. maybe not "patrician" either, but I have never met another person that listened to hardstyle. I believe that if you have once liked it and listened to it, you will never dislike it, the nostalgic feel is just too strong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7QKcRzzC78

>>71853720
about what ?

This album is great tho

>>71853720
unironically a great album

I think it's literally the bomb dot com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpp718J_WyA

Here are some I've found here that I like

https://soundcloud.com/ourexitbag/wrong-pressure-precious-guesser-1

https://youtu.be/iiuhJPFTw9s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QcDCfccFDE

>>71853623
>bleepbloops
Such a nice word, anon