>Beach Boys are better than The Beatles *Breathe in HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA

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.

God only knows what I'll do without poop haha

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>>75059803
>tfw you think Pet Sounds is the best album ever produced instead of one of your own

>>75059803
Nice argument faggot

>>75059803
>be brian wilson
>write a brilliant album
>full of masterfully crafted sounds and well-placed recordings
>not a single note is wasted
>album is shrugged off by most casual listeners for being too weird
>album is ignored by advanced music people due to the rest of your band being girl-hungry morons
>mike love shits on it
>the rest of your band shuns you
>try to make another album and go insane because the beatles end up doing it first
>lie in bed for a long ass time and gain 4x your bodyweight
>never lose that weight
>die on christmas eve 2017
sad life

>>75061517
>implying it's brian that goes first and not paul

>>75061550
With every death, Wilson only grows stronger.

>>75060466
>tfw you know to just be modest so people don't think you're an ass

Now he's stuck pretending he loves Pet Sounds since Brian is fucking autistic and knows he would kill himself if Paul were to say anything negative about him ever.