ITT: We sing Hey Jude one word at a time I'll start

JEW

BEEN TRYIN

FACT

OF

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.

your an allstar

DONT

YOU WERE MADE TO...

I LOVE YOU JESUS CHRIIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAAAST

ONE

fucking hell

MEHHH...

with a little help from my ... frieeeends

>>72933284
Then he goes on liking The Doors. At least try, Scaruffi.

>>72933254
PAULISDEAD

>>72933284
>lol didn't read!

NUMBER NINE

SOME

>>72933265
Everytime

NA

NIGGER

I KNOW IT'S ONLY ROCK AND ROLL

COILS OF THE SERPENT UNWIND

BOYS KISSING BOOOOOOOOOOOYS

>>72933368
pleb detected

DUDE FILL 'ER UP MAN

Penis

grimes is the

IT GOES

ARUBA

DING DONG

WHEN I WAS

DID

I CUM IN THE FUCK

>>72933284
And this guy posts a damn essay messing up the thread. Don't do it again.

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JOODAY JOODAY JOODAY JOODAY

>>72934359
JAMAICA

MY SMILE IS STUCK

JUST

>>72933268
only right answer.

Nama Jeff

And this is why we can't have nice things!

>>72933254
BEEN TRYIN TO MEETCHA

HEY

Arsehole

*hits dab*

NOIDED

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SOMEBODY

WHERE YOU GOING WITH THAT GUN OF YOURS

fruta y te

FRIEND OR FOE

...TO MAKE IT BETTER.