but its not all about you my friend. though i think apple sort of poked with its hyper stick at all the loyal fans with this announcement. yet it was a subtle announcement, only a day in advance.
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but its not all about you my friend. though i think apple sort of poked with its hyper stick at all the loyal fans with this announcement. yet it was a subtle announcement, only a day in advance.
Much ado about nothing. Personally, having grown up with the Beatles, my sister going to see them Live in LA and so on. I have become utterly sick of them over the years. They have been overplayed and oversold and have fallen into the category of elevator music. Besides, thought of another penny going to that whack job of Yoko Ono is repugnant to me after all her reticence over the the selling of the songs. So I have no idea why it should be an earth shacking event, it is in the same category of another tweet from Sara Palin.
Life is very short, and there's no time
For fussing and fighting, my friend.
I have always thought that it's a crime,
So I will ask you once again.
Try to see it my way,
Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong.
While you see it your way
There's a chance that we may fall apart before too long.
We can work it out,
We can work it out.
For fussing and fighting, my friend.
I have always thought that it's a crime,
So I will ask you once again.
Try to see it my way,
Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong.
While you see it your way
There's a chance that we may fall apart before too long.
We can work it out,
We can work it out.
So where's the accompanying video by Jonny and the Ivettes? Surely to goodness such a momentous announcement as this warrants one. Perhaps that oversight is why so many of us (myself included) have totally failed to grasp the import of today's...err..."event"?
There's great music in all eras (ok maybe not the 80s
, my personal bias there) and in all styles. The Beatles were different to a large degree because of their unique place in the culture. They were both a catalyst of and simultaneously benefited from deep and profound changes in the culture. The amazing thing is how sophisticated and inspired their music was, to have also been in exactly the right place at the right time. They took a nascent form of music (rock and roll) and created entirely new forms out of it. Their influences were wide ranging. A great deal of it has to do with the fact that their producer was classically trained, introduced the young geniuses to a much wider palette, and contributed a great deal to the process that I think still goes uncredited (people may have this documented by now, haven't read up on it in years...). The result is still astonishing musically and lyrically after all these years.
If you don't know their music well, there's a lot you don't know.
, my personal bias there) and in all styles. The Beatles were different to a large degree because of their unique place in the culture. They were both a catalyst of and simultaneously benefited from deep and profound changes in the culture. The amazing thing is how sophisticated and inspired their music was, to have also been in exactly the right place at the right time. They took a nascent form of music (rock and roll) and created entirely new forms out of it. Their influences were wide ranging. A great deal of it has to do with the fact that their producer was classically trained, introduced the young geniuses to a much wider palette, and contributed a great deal to the process that I think still goes uncredited (people may have this documented by now, haven't read up on it in years...). The result is still astonishing musically and lyrically after all these years. If you don't know their music well, there's a lot you don't know.
Yeh, I'm going back to my dark description, I think i got it right the first time.
I don't think it's the Beatles as much as it's the hype of "a day we won't forget" by Apple. There are probably a bazillion other things that Apple could have announced that would make November 16th, 2010 a memorable day. (For me, all I'll remember about today is that I accidentally sent my LG phone through the wash.)
What a disappointing and useless piece of HYPE! The Beatles are so yesterday. It should have just been a splash screen in I-Tunes. To be honest I did not even know they were missing.
Even I'll admit there are some Rap songs I find catchy. I wouldn't put any of it anywhere near the musical genius of The Beatles though.
If that's the case then mission accomplished for their marketing department. They got a ton of free press, they're already getting good sales, seems like they got exactly the result they hoped for.
I was expecting a sweet feature or update of some kind, since they did put a big countdown on their MAIN page... But this? They're re-selling what has existed for many, many years and think it's an amazing ground-breaking announcement. The Beetles disc boxes have existed and been released in so many forms before i can't event count them.
Ridiculous imo... But if it makes some people happy then good
Ridiculous imo... But if it makes some people happy then good
Darkness of the music?
He wouldn't exactly be the first person to describe Zeppelin's music as having a darkness. Have you really not heard that before?
But don't you see that if there had been no Beatles there would have been no Pink Floyd and Led Zepplin as you know them? Even if you don't like the Beatles all that much, there is no denying that those artists were directly influenced by the Beatles. And not just musically but by the changed musical landscape the Beatles inspired.
I too grew up on 80's metal; that was my pop music. Do you not see the Beatles influence in even that music? For example, Motley Crue was heavily influenced by the Beatles. The most obvious is the remake of "Helter-Skelter", but what about "Slice of Your Pie" which ripped off a Beatles riff from "I Want You (She's So Heavy)." There are countless examples of that throughout pop history.
Even if you are sick of the Beatles or can't get into them or consider them totally irrelevant to your musical world, you can't deny that they are the most influential music group of all time.
The only people that will remember today are the surviving Beatles and the families of the deceased Beatles. The day Apple deposited a crap load of cash into their bank accounts.
Who gives a rat's a$$ about the frigging Beatles??? Overrated music from eons gone by. If it wasn't for their greed and over inflated egos, the music would have been sold in digital format years ago.
Apple lost a great deal of credibility today because of Steve and his longtime musical obsession with the Beatles. At least we don't have to hear Beatles rumors any longer. Bring on the Verizon iPhone I say, LOL!!
I imagine the delay in iOS 4.2 for Apple TV Gen 2 is because they are busy rewriting it from scratch instead of trying to fix all the bugs in it, and also to put in some of the missing feature and UI elements from Apple TV Gen 1. /S
-ITG
Who gives a rat's a$$ about the frigging Beatles??? Overrated music from eons gone by. If it wasn't for their greed and over inflated egos, the music would have been sold in digital format years ago.
Apple lost a great deal of credibility today because of Steve and his longtime musical obsession with the Beatles. At least we don't have to hear Beatles rumors any longer. Bring on the Verizon iPhone I say, LOL!!
I imagine the delay in iOS 4.2 for Apple TV Gen 2 is because they are busy rewriting it from scratch instead of trying to fix all the bugs in it, and also to put in some of the missing feature and UI elements from Apple TV Gen 1. /S
-ITG
Maybe you should stop caring so much about a megacorporation who just cares about making profit. Seriously. Apple's just another company that makes plastic crap and sells it to you at ridiculous markup. Stop caring so much, they don't care about you.
That bitch is going to be irrelevant in 2015, let alone 2050.
You think teenagers are the only people in the world, or Apple's only target market? I have some news for you. The huge majority of people who are going to be buying these tracks aren't sitting here on MacRumors bitching about it. Nope, they're the regular people who don't know much about computers who just pop on to CNN and read the headline "Beatles now on iTunes". And then they'll go on and buy it.
It's hilarious that people on these forums think they are the only people in the world that Apple caters to. Guess what, you make up less than 1% of Apple's market.
Exactly. I like some Rap and Hip Hop, but will I still be listening to it 40+ years after it came out? I highly doubt it. Maybe it will be a cheesy joke like Disco at some point but no one will take it seriously in 2050. Something tells me that when they release the complete output of the Beatles in "Holographic Audio" or whatever the format of the day is, it will make a major splash, whereas the collected works of Snoop Doggy Dogg will probably be largely forgotten.
I'm amazed at all the whiney hypercritical comments in here today. I think some people need to relax a little.
For those who say that The Beatles are irrelevant to today's music, you really should re-think that. The Beatles continue to have an impact on modern music. For example, I remember several months back when the Rock Band Beatles game came out and there was some special on VH1 about it. They interviewed several musicians from bands in various genres (including James Hatfield - Metallica) who talked about how The Beatles were an influence on them and their music. I really don't think The Beatles will ever be irrelevant in the music world.
For those who say that The Beatles are irrelevant to today's music, you really should re-think that. The Beatles continue to have an impact on modern music. For example, I remember several months back when the Rock Band Beatles game came out and there was some special on VH1 about it. They interviewed several musicians from bands in various genres (including James Hatfield - Metallica) who talked about how The Beatles were an influence on them and their music. I really don't think The Beatles will ever be irrelevant in the music world.
And without Chuck Berry and Little Richard etc we wouldn't have the Beatles yada yada yada. Saying we wouldn't have certain bands if it weren't for the Beatles is a pointless argument. That is until we discover parallel dimensions that didn't have the Beatles.
Music is an integral part of humanity that existed before the Beatles and would still exist without the Beatles.