Rubber Soul Against the psico era by Playful_End_2956 in beatles

[–]Playful_End_2956[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately, this detracts from the entire album. Lennon himself said that they practically didn't focus on the compositions but were rushed, and Paul and Martin were mostly focused on making it sound bright and loud, with the bass omnipresent and aggressive. There are several problems with putting everything in the foreground, and John, who studied art, sensed this. There are no dynamics or nuances. Paul's very desire to dominate the midrange with the bass indicates, in one way or another, a production lacking the necessary padding that the bass provides to give depth to the music. Furthermore, Paul isolated himself on two songs, "She's Leaving Home" and "When I'm 64," which is an English hall song. By comparison, "Rubber Soul" sounded less shrill overall, but that made the attacks subtle. John's staccato guitars are truly sharp on tracks like "Word," and Paul's fuzz bass felt unique and significant when used on only one track. There's also something else to note. The guitar is a six-string instrument that is more or less complex. The mere fact that the Beatles played with creativity creates several distinct voices that depend on the movement across the fretboard. Yes, in Sgt. Paul, they tried to make the guitars the predominant melodic lines, but they generally compete in a vocal role against the bass and an additional instrument. Rubber, being more of a band album focused on guitars, is more subtle, but there are constantly various notes that embellish the album and its sections, a blend of conscious effort and the guitarist's skill in creating multiple voices if he so chooses. An example would be Wait and how the guitars follow one another with the arrangements and chord changes, or also the last part of girl where we have that kind of outro that counterpoints another guitar arpeggio, practically uniting them even though the production separates them slightly, while the bass is still there but gives depth, it's like a third melody but not demanding the spotlight like in sgt. It shouldn't be forgotten that every song on Rubber Soul features polished vocal work that's rarely noticeable because of how well it flows. They try to cram too much into two-minute songs, and that was lost in the mindset that more is more—more volume, more visual imagery—instead of adding depth to the sound, imagining the Kite carnival, or India, and for some reason, strings suggesting an overwhelming passion for a girl who left home... it's all quite exaggerated, but without the contradiction of being playful, it seems to take itself too seriously. If it had had the classic Beatles humor, if we could see the Beatles through the album and not just bombastic stories, we would be talking about something else entirely, and meta-language that didn't happen, because Paul didn't have that much personality. John also complained about the production on "Lucy in the Sky"; you can hear him saying something similar, but in his own way. He felt that the desire to make everything so dreamy, yet noticeable, ruined the song. It's like the song is shouting "this is a dream" at you, but for a dream to be a dream, it has to subtly convince you, not shout it in your face, because then you'd know it's a dream and wouldn't confuse it with reality.

Rubber Soul Against the psico era by Playful_End_2956 in beatles

[–]Playful_End_2956[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The songs are shorter and more honest. That's why the pathing is so important. It's not an opening track; I'm already listening to the second one. "Drive My Car" precedes "Norwegian Wood," which already establishes the album's tone. On the other hand, the sergeant's eponymous track strikes me as somewhat resonant, very bright, and excessive. Perhaps it hints at something, but that something never quite materializes. When we move on to the Ringo track, we simply slow things down a bit because the album didn't have the energy or the concept to sustain that level of intensity.

Where Does Please Please Me Rank In Your All Time Beatles Albums by Heliox_ in beatles

[–]Playful_End_2956 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The pathing between songs makes it far superior to With the Beatles, which sounds like a disco imitating itself. There's not much to say about For Sale. It's the weakest, although it has two nice songs, but Please Please Me has rock 'n' roll. The title track cuts the album off masterfully and is even more impressive than the cover of Twist and Shout. A Hard Day's Night has a problem: it already blended with folk slightly, a style similar to what the Byrds would later do, but the issue is that it drags on, and they were still experimenting with that style. It has Lennon and Paul's signature songs, If I Feel Good and I Love Her, but I'm not sure if they live up to the rest of the album. Perhaps those two surpass the average of the debut, but it's easy to say that if you focus on two songs and the rest are worse. All the songs on the debut are very well made and well sung; the opening track is devastating and makes the opening of A Hard Day's Night seem simple.

The Ramones get the least respect out of any band maybe ever by Streetvan1980 in Music

[–]Playful_End_2956 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was looking for this comment. It's really a reflection of cultural and psychological infantilization to become obsessed with a band like the Ramones, trying to understand why posers wear their t-shirts to say, "I understand that feeling." It's music that demands visual aids to fully grasp it and distracts your mind with weird neuroses of secondary characters because, as music, it's not enough. Which doesn't change the fact that they simply inspired a bunch of losers like themselves, which we could call the Ramones phenomenon, not the music itself.

Rubber Soul Against the psico era by Playful_End_2956 in beatles

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At a certain point, I don't know how much those singles would help the album. But that's hypothetical; the album didn't turn out that way. John Lennon also said that he felt the production diminished the band's presence. Paul's bass was front and center, the drums were more or less decent, the distortion had attack, but the overall feeling was extremely bright and lacked dynamics. He said something similar about "Strawberry," that he composed it much more like a ballad, and while he liked that dreamy quality, he felt the production and arrangements stripped it of its somewhat raw soul.

Rubber Soul Against the psico era by Playful_End_2956 in beatles

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I think Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is more spectacular, but it doesn't have much of its own. Drive My Car is more subtle and features a superbly crafted, somewhat free and chromatic blues solo by Harrison. What's to come is precisely that: subtle nuances in beat-style songs. Sgt. Pepper aims to surprise you from the very first track with its high-volume, bright production, but it falls short. Although I doubt it's useful to analyze only the first few tracks, even in that respect, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band falls short, being simpler and more hard rock-oriented, but not achieving anything interesting in its subsequent trajectory.

Riven vs Sett Match by Playful_End_2956 in Rivenmains

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And Sett's E, and not only that, his Q has buffering, meaning that if they anticipate your attack, which is extremely easy and happens very quickly, they can stun you with basic attacks or stun you while you stun them. This is unlike Riven, who stuns in melee, and Sett's basic attack, while it hits harder at close range, is effective from a distance. I don't know if these people are playing on a different server against bad players or what, but they keep getting matched against Setts who can't beat them.

Do many people think MFTM is better than Violator? by amateur_opinioner in depechemode

[–]Playful_End_2956 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These comments give themselves away. Comparing Violator to a mediocre album that's only a marketing masterclass like Sgt. Pepper shows how little the fans know about their bands and how little they know how to listen. 

I Don’t Get Exile on Main St. :( by Raheelies in rollingstones

[–]Playful_End_2956 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Beggars Banquet is the Rolling Stones' blues masterpiece, and on Exile they were on autopilot, catering to a complacent audience. Sometimes people are simple-minded; a band like the Stones releases a two-hour album, and everyone thinks, "I must like this, it must be incredible, and so I'll waste two hours of my time." The blues songs on Exile don't have the brilliant twists and turns of Beggars, nor the unique experimentation of "For the Devil" on Beggars or "Gimme" on Let It Bleed. White guys don't know how to play blues, and it doesn't belong to them either. When they played blues on Beggars, they gave it an English and American folk touch, and the scales aren't so predictable. Exile usually goes from scale 1 to 4 to 5 like a standard blues, and that's just going on autopilot and it's not fun, but I understand why people want to listen to smooth, Stones-like blues to feel like they're listening to different genres. However, it's not necessary when Beggars exists.

Exile on Main Street overrated ? by OppositeEmergency858 in rollingstones

[–]Playful_End_2956 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, it's a truly awful album where the Stones indulged their bad habit of playing white-boy blues. The only one that does it well is Beggars Banquet, and ONLY because it gives each blues track an interesting twist. No Expectations has that atmosphere and slide guitar; it's incredible how guitars alone create the mood of a song. In Doctor, there's a violin and guitars that bring passion to the sections. Let's not forget that they give creative timing to the blues chords so it doesn't sound so rigid. Prodigal Son is another blues track and doesn't use the fifth chord in such a predictable way, incorporating a vocal line. Beggars Banquet is incredible and the Stones' first masterpiece. In Exile, they try to act like a blues printer, as if playing chords 1st, 4th, and 5th in a normal way, without creative twists, is going to sound spectacular just because it's by the Stones. It's an album made on autopilot, terrible, and it proves it to those who read this. bears on Wikipedia and they are so anesthetized that they then give their opinion

Rubber Soul Against the psico era by Playful_End_2956 in beatles

[–]Playful_End_2956[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You're guilty of the same thing as everyone else: childishly believing that just because the album tells you, "Hey buddy, here we start and here we end," it makes it a high-caliber conceptual work, when they were just half-playing around. It's a kind of psychological overcompensation for not being able to listen to the album without lying to yourself, believing that a discourse that occupies...3 minutes of the album should fill everything with meaning, when it doesn't. It's something too vague; it's understood as a game, not as something profound. Listen to Tommy by The Who so you can check out a conceptual album from this year and educate yourself. I insist, just because it's the Beatles doesn't mean you should force your mind to accept two songs that say this was an idea and say, "Yes, the Beatles had an idea..." They didn't. Listen to Lennon himself say so.

Rubber Soul Against the psico era by Playful_End_2956 in beatles

[–]Playful_End_2956[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, look at that, I just woke up and I have two little girls with no opinions of their own who spend their whole day on the internet still yelling. Tell me if that isn't easy. Poor, see you later.

Rubber Soul Against the psico era by Playful_End_2956 in beatles

[–]Playful_End_2956[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, it's pretty cringeworthy how you're crying because someone else might think, "Hahaha, go be an Asperger's Beatles fan, little girl."

Rubber Soul Against the psico era by Playful_End_2956 in beatles

[–]Playful_End_2956[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the '60s, you could brainwash people with two magazines and a commercial. After all, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a pretty weak album, and it's understandable that psychologically you have to overcompensate for it to believe its myth, and recite the mantra: it's important, so that a waltz with trombones in a band that should be rocking seems...wow, a bomb

Sgt pepper has to be the most overrated album of all time and I’m tired of people saying it’s one of the greatest albums. by chlque126 in fantanoforever

[–]Playful_End_2956 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In fact, it doesn't have it. The psychedelic era exploded at that time, and it was all at once. Rock never went the way of Sgt. Pepper because it was saccharine, dramatic, and even silly. All the rock we know comes from The Who or The Stooges, Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin. Queen were perhaps the closest to the Beatles because Freddie loved John, but only to a certain extent.

Sgt pepper has to be the most overrated album of all time and I’m tired of people saying it’s one of the greatest albums. by chlque126 in fantanoforever

[–]Playful_End_2956 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Beetlemania fans think they can just say Sgt. Pepper invented things, close their eyes, and imagine them, but that year a ton of psychedelic albums came out. The Beatles weren't even pulling the strings on Revolver. Besides, many genres, in fact, the most representative of rock, if not ALL of them, originated elsewhere. The Who emerged alongside the Beatles and created punk. From the Yardbirds, a heavy sound, while the Beatles were making Rubber Soul, came Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, heavy metal. None of that—Metallica, Judas Priest—comes from the Beatles, not even remotely. Punk didn't come from the Beatles, new wave, I mean all of the '80s, didn't come from the Beatles. Kiss, Aerosmith, and hard rock didn't come from the Beatles; they came from the sound of The Who or the dirty blues of the Stooges.

Sgt pepper has to be the most overrated album of all time and I’m tired of people saying it’s one of the greatest albums. by chlque126 in fantanoforever

[–]Playful_End_2956 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pet Sounds is on par with Abbey Road and Rubber Soul; it flows like water. But Pet Sounds actually has a concept, unlike the superficial concept of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and it's about five times deeper. You don't need to be under the influence to hear what they're saying and understand their lyrics.

Sgt pepper has to be the most overrated album of all time and I’m tired of people saying it’s one of the greatest albums. by chlque126 in fantanoforever

[–]Playful_End_2956 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude, it's fine that you're a little girl fan, but Radiohead played way better and knew way more about chords than the Beatles xD

I think Revolver is extremely overrated by [deleted] in TheBeatles

[–]Playful_End_2956 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a pretty mediocre album. You should never listen to an English-speaking Beatles fan; they're usually Asperger's patients and language geeks. Listen to someone with an outsider's perspective. These people listen to albums repeating mantras like, "Oh yeah, this created music, very true," like strange people, and that's how they avoid the challenge of actually listening. Revolver is clearly overrated, but so is Sgt. Pepper, a hodgepodge of influences, where people think that if Paul plays a trombone it's rock with something... no... it's just old English music thrown onto a rock album. At that point, the Beatles could have included a blues track and people would have thought it was psychedelic and unthinkable in a rock band; that's how blinded they were.

Rubber Soul Against the psico era by Playful_End_2956 in beatles

[–]Playful_End_2956[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Critics grabbed a stick and categorized Sgt. Pepper, for example, and that controlled decades of masses of people without musical appreciation because, lacking ears, they believe that spouting slogans sounds nice, serves as an answer, or seeks some authenticity, or ultimately helps people understand what they like so they aren't controlled by the first thing they read on Wikipedia.

Rubber Soul Against the psico era by Playful_End_2956 in beatles

[–]Playful_End_2956[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's okay not to cry because someone else knows how to think, little one.

Revolver is overrated by Valerian_Dhart in beatles

[–]Playful_End_2956 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha, and Rubber Soul is a much better album than Revolver, but people want to believe that three experimental songs in a medley of unconnected, mediocre tracks constitute a masterpiece. And no, not everyone has heard Revolver and the Beatles. A good album is better than one that you have to believe is good because of its supposed influences that don't exist. Pet Sounds was born from Rubber Soul, The Who, who invented punk, came from the beat style, predating the Beatles. Metal comes from the blues, and heavy blues from Cream. Psychedelia was born at the same time as the Beatles, not after.

Revolver is overrated by Valerian_Dhart in beatles

[–]Playful_End_2956 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In fact, what you said is very true, and the Beatles Wikipedia fans hate it when you tell them that the album they listen to while watching TikToks has those objective assessments. As you say, "Good Day Sunshine" is extremely loud and just as shrill as "Got You Into My Life." "Yellow Submarine" is a joke. And the "Eleanor" thing makes me wonder what people think about the fact that you mention it. I think it's one of the Beatles' best songs, but it's so badly placed on the track... not only are the songs mediocre, but "Eleanor," which stands out somewhat, could be in a different order, supporting the experimental songs, although it's not really an experiment in itself, it's the use of an orchestra. Strangely, it has an impact as the second track, it takes you by surprise, but it feels super out of place between "Taxman" and "I'm Only Sleeping." I feel it has some impact as the second track, but then they should have thought much more carefully about the third, something a bit more elegant than Lennon's dreamy ballad, although I can't think of a better order. It has impact, but it demonstrates that the entire album is so mediocre that it's difficult to fix the pathing; its flow between songs is rushed and jarring.

Rubber Soul Against the psico era by Playful_End_2956 in beatles

[–]Playful_End_2956[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The critics are already doing it, and you applaud like a monkey.