Amen.

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Damn, Shots Fired!.
yep. I'm old...old and aware enough to know that I have no clue on pop culture outside of the goofy shit I see my kids do.

The only pop culture comment with any relevance here is the knock on bushy beards by crack-ee.....and to this....I agree.

As far as long hair is concerned.....at age 47 I still have hair and I grew it long well before that became trendy. Funny how it's been long for enough years I don't have to hear the midlife crisis comments.

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A lifetime of taking out his weird looks on innocent books!

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We Now Know That JOE BIDEN has been COMPROMISED by CHINA! (let that sink in)

Election 2020-The Largest Fraud in the History of Mankind.

*If you believe that Biden won, you also believe that Epstein killed himself*

For someone who did the female voice to his sock puppet, Mr. Rodgers was kind of creepy and no role model for young children.

He's exactly the kind of person the Catholic Church would elect as Pope, however.

Huh?

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You're kinda creepy and no role model for anyone.

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I think it's true for a lot to be sure but they aren't placed on the very top of music history like The Beatles.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Nobody from the Backstreet Boys or One Direction has the ability to go from bubble gum pop to making albums like Abbey Road or The White Album.

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I Want To Hold Your Hand

Case closed.

Not even the worst Beatles song. Definitely in the team picture, though.

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Why not?

The idea now is that no one today is as good as The Beatles and there isn't a person in the world capable of creating an album like Abbey Road or The White Album including the remaining living Beatles.

Doesn't that indicate it is much more likely that it was simply the evolution of music at the time rather than some sort of unique talent that otherwise wouldn't have existed?

It's like the question of what would have happened if Mark Zuckerberg had decided to become a dentist instead of go into tech. Would social networking exist? Did he alone have the ability to create it or would it have been done regardless and he was also in the right place at the right time?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Which former Backstreet Boy has put out one of the greatest albums of all time?

I didn't say that there is nobody in the world capable of putting out an album like Abbey Road. You did.

What I did say was that nobody from the bands you listed has the talent to put out such an album. If they did, said album would have already been made.

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Whether true greatness, luck or timing the Beatles are where they are on the list and that is at the top. It is very incredible though how rock music changed since they popped up and how quickly. And the many bands right along side of them certainly all added in. I cannot think of a crazier period in music where it changed some dramatically as then, 1963-69 or so.

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In what world is The White Album one of the greatest of all time?

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It's in the team photo. Probably not top 5 or top 10, but likely in the top 50 and definitely in the top 100 of all time.

Way higher than anything One Direction has done.

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That's a good bad take. I mean, I think it's a bad take--two bad takes, actually--but perfect for this thread.

I have always secretly thought this. I never really liked it. I can think of three better Beatles albums.

cut out the weird shit and it would be a great single album.

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MANY people on Twitter and sports message boards reviewing The Irishman don't know anything about movies.

Maybe if you cut the fat from it. And then it only makes a top 100 cut because Jann Wenner says so.

I've said it before. I can respect the work George Martin brought to the table as producer. But save for maybe 10 songs from their entire catalog, the Beatles music is shit.

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I answered that in the rest of my post.

These are the dates of release of Rolling Stone's top 10 albums of all time.
1968
1966
1980
1972
1971
1965
1965
1966
1966
1967

So basically, in the last 40 years, every musician that has ever made an album has failed to come close to about 5 Beatles albums, including the former members of The Beatles.

If you get rid of the 1980 album by The Clash, it basically means that the best albums in history were all made in a 7 year period ending in 1972.

Is the idea here that if The Beatles happened to be formed in 1990 that they would have put 5 albums on that list? I just can't see it unless the idea is that something happened with people after 1972 that made it impossible to create great albums.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

But that doesn't mean you don't recognize the talent and influence. Rush's music is nails on a fucking chalkboard to me, but I can still respect them as great musicians who were better songwriters than anybody in any boy band ever.

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I just want to know how all of a sudden Mister Rogers became an icon. Did he, or did he not, kinda suck? I don't know anybody who watched it. Everybody is aware of the show, maybe mocked it, but no one actually watched it with any semblance of regularity.

I definitely watched it in that 3-5 age range. It was either that or soap operas.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Oh, sorry. Please post a link to that album so I can maybe download it and give it a listen.

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This provides substantial proof that the opinions of Rolling Stone (Jann Wenner) are complete boomer drivel.

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Only weirdo pot smokers think that.

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This is going back a stretch, but I think I remember that when Mr. Rogers came on, da fun was ovah. Like, The Electric Company and Sesame Street were cool, but Mr. R, as cool a person as he is, didn't do much for me.

It was the kind of letdown you had on Saturday mornings when the cartoons gave way to a nature show which gave way to golf. (Or waking up on Sunday morning only to find Gigglesnort Hotel and that Jewish show about the magic mushrooms.) Seeing the nature show beginning was like waking up on the day after Christmas. Just a letdown, a buzzkill. That's what Mr. Rogers felt like.

But I respect the hell out of the guy now.

Here's a good take:

The Electric Company > Sesame Street