How The Beatles Changed The World

[Floyd R. Turbo]

On Netflix ✌🏻

[Tobin S.]

1. Thanks for the heads up.

My wife and I dig the Beatles. We'll have a couch date later today and check this out.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. Watched it yesterday! 👍🏻✌🏻

[unblock]

3. Bookmarking

Thanks!

[msongs]

4. quincy jones had it right about the beatles. and things he criticized were what made the beatles

great. he put em down for being lousy musicians. they were self taught from listening to records so compared to musicians jones associated with they were amateurs. but being amateurs they did not know the rules and tried all sorts of things "real" quincy jones type musicians would avoid or disparage, thus rewriting the song form and structure and chord progression manual.

[TexasBushwhacker]

6. The thing that distinguished The Beatles was their songwriting n/t

[YOHABLO]

8. Oh I think Quincy has an opinion. He's done some great work, but I disagree with him.

[czarjak]

11. Is using proper grammar too hard?

[C Moon]

15. Quincy Jones is a genius, no doubt about that; but the Beatles were a package...

their songwriting, their personalities, their musicianship, their poetry, their ability to reach out to the public (I'm not eloquent enough to think of the word for that), and on and on. They were more than just self-taught musicians (and actually, McCartney did have some training and Lennon had voice training as a child).

[pressbox69]

5. Stupid Amerikans

waste time listening to bugs and stones while world czar Vlad Putin listen to great Russian hero.

[spooky3]

20. Thats hilarious!

[pressbox69]

22. See what you been missing

comrade spooky3, best muzik in all glorios Russian troll faktory.

[spooky3]

23. LOL!!!!

[BigmanPigman]

7. I discovered them during the silver disco days

and Sat Night Fever. John, Paul, George and Ringo saved me!!! The "quiet one" was always my favorite. I still have my set of 4 bubble gum rings with 3-D pictures of each of the Fab Four.

[Glorfindel]

9. I'll probably watch it tonight

There can be no doubt that they changed the world. They certainly changed me - from someone who mostly only liked classical music to a full-blown "Beatlemaniac."

[TNNurse]

10. I am not a musician but was a teenager at just the right time

for the Beatles to have a huge impact on me.

[JenniferJuniper]

12. Always preferred the Small Faces meself

from that era. I can along later and by the mid 70's they sounded too polished to be interesting to me. It's all a matter of time and perspective.

[maddiemom]

16. The Beatles broke up in 'Seventy,

so I assume you're referencing their work until that time. Remember that they were highly copied by other groups, and by the mid-Seventies, it had already become somewhat of a "classic" sound.

[JenniferJuniper]

17. and the Beatles didn't copy

the Everlys and Buddy Holly?

Woody Guthrie - Sure, he copied from me. But I copy from everyone!

Granted, being there is different, but perspective is important as well.

[maddiemom]

18. But, "polished?"

The point NOT being who copied from whom. Most music is derivative in some way.

[JenniferJuniper]

19. overly polished, to be precise.

I like my rock to roll.

[mr_lebowski]

21. Not like John himself would've especially disagreed ... he was actually bringing some dirty rock ...

For that very reason ... dude was a rocker at heart. And a lot of the tracks he brought aren't esp. polished if you think about it
1) And Your Bird Can Sing
2) Revolution (the distorted version not the slower slightly-boring one)
3) Helter Skelter (think Paul mostly wrote that one)
4) The Ballad of John and Yoko
5) She So Heavy
6) Dig a Pony

I also think Taxman (George) and Paperback Writer (Paul) are also great, legit rock and roll tracks, even if they might qualify as a bit more polished than the ones above.

[The Wizard]

13. They created

a new Zeitgeist.

[Upthevibe]

14. Thanks for the heads up....

I hadn't heard about this documentary at all and I'm watching it now. I'll message some of my Beatles fan friends who have Netflix. I'm really enjoying this....I'm learning some very cool things that I didn't already know.