I think the only Beatles album that no one thinks is cool to like is Sgt. Pepper.
Not that it's not good. Just that it's not "cool" to like it.
Giles: Stop that, you two. Riley: He started it... Xander: He called me a bad name! I think
it was bad; it might have been Latin.
'Selfless'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Jon B. - Apr 20, 2005 9:03:32 am PDT #8271 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Daisy Jane - Apr 20, 2005 9:03:44 am PDT #8272 of 10003
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
They may well have been referring to "That 70's Show", but I have a vague memory of hearing them during an actual WB show -- maybe "Gilmore Girls"
That was it Jon! I couldn't remember and kept wanting to say 7th Heaven, but I knew that couldn't be right.
Don't you have to disagree with popular opinion to be a snob? And if so, when you make public what snobs are supposed to like, doesn't that become a popular opinion so you have to change yours to something else?
it reminds me of middle school when the cool kids started wearing Guess jeans instead of - can't remember what was popular before that- anyway, suddenly everyone had to have the Guess jeans, so the cool kids had to move on to Gasoline.
I prefer to wander through AMG and iTunes or get recs or even go to a local show than to try to figure out what I should like. Though I have to admit, I have to respect people who listen to enough music that they can be all snobby about it.
msbelle - Apr 20, 2005 9:04:31 am PDT #8273 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
music snobbery is so low on the scale of things I am snobby about. I'd say it takes up less than 1% of my snobbery pie chart.
Hayden - Apr 20, 2005 9:05:25 am PDT #8274 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
DavidS: It's also cool to cite McCartney's bass playing.
StephL: hastily hides Abbey Road under the couch cushion....
I really like Abbey Road. There. I said it.
To be fair, though, I feel like I've internalized the Beatles to the extent that I hardly ever listen to them.
DavidS - Apr 20, 2005 9:06:16 am PDT #8275 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Just that it's not "cool" to like it.
Obviously! Followed by eye-rolls from here to Waukeegan when Sgt. Pepper tops any Greatest Albums list.
Where's boucher? He can make an excellent iconoclastic rock snob case for one of the American editions over the British one from the Beatles mid-period.
Steph L. - Apr 20, 2005 9:07:42 am PDT #8276 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I really like Abbey Road. There. I said it.
Join me, fellow weirdo. Welcome to the corner of shame.
DXMachina - Apr 20, 2005 9:08:47 am PDT #8277 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I really like Abbey Road. There. I said it.
Which side?
joe boucher - Apr 20, 2005 9:09:25 am PDT #8278 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
I'm sticking with my quixotic choice, "I Dig A Pony."
I, ah-ah-I, ah-ah-I, diiig a pony... Love that tune. I'd pick "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" over "Cry Baby Cry," but I'm a Lennon partisan & like almost all of his stuff on the White Album (don't like "Revolution 9," although I do like to go "Numbrrr 9, numbrrr 9, numbrrr 9"). But any snob cred I have is probably lost -- boohoo -- by my preference for early Beatles over late Beatles. I mean I love late Beatles, too, but anyone who tries to devalue With the Beatles using Sgt. Pepper as the blunt instrument needs to be smacked. And keeping with that train of thought, my quixotic choice is from Please Please Me, John's killer cover of "Anna (Go to Him)". Love him on "Baby It's You," too.
DavidS - Apr 20, 2005 9:09:32 am PDT #8279 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'd say it takes up less than 1% of my snobbery pie chart.
Where are you spending the rest of your snobbery?
Fred Pete - Apr 20, 2005 9:10:30 am PDT #8280 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
My take on the Beatles is, after 30 years of listening to oldies (and hits-n-oldies) stations play everything from their catalog every hour on the hour, I've had enough of them.
Except "Penny Lane," for some reason.
And anyone who calls me a rock snob doesn't know my taste in music.