What's so great about "A Day in the Life" exactly?

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
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Nothing.

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

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

>>72044999
>>72045009
lol

>>72044985
In terms of musical ability its not amazing but i kinda like that loud tense bit ending with an alarm clock. Its just quite fun.

But obviously my favorite song is strawberry fields forever.

>>72045411
is you me?

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>>72045426
may b

>>72045009
>Being this big of a pleb.

>>72044985
it feels like a full movie in one song and it's even better when listening to the full album

The lyrics are quite good and it's nice and melancholy, the "atonal" orchestral clusterfuck (it starts and ends very deliberately on the same note so I don't think it's really atonal) is genuinely experimental and interesting, Paul's bridge provides an excellent counterpoint both musically and emotionally, and it closes off on of the most popular and significant albums of all time.

That said, not the best Beatles track

>>72044985
i prefer she's leaving home

>>72046356
>That said, not the best Beatles track
It's Rocky Racoon, am I right?

The piano on Paul's section

>>72046387
Blue Jay Way

>>72044985
don't know, a lot of beatles song aged like milk and don't sound quite right anymore but A Day in The Life sound great even today,