Anonymous boariskarloff 11w

He’s amazing

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 11w

I’m partial to Beatles but he’s up there with them

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Anonymous OP 11w

Beatles is another fair option. Elvis was big, don’t get me wrong, but not like the other two. Plus he stole a lot of that in comparison to Mikey and the Beatles

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Anonymous just_peachy_ 11w

They basically invented pop music as we know it and the boy band too

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Anonymous just_peachy_ 11w

Like go listen to Strawberry Fields Forever. Then come back to me and tell me another song that sounds like it from before or since that has also made it to #1 on the charts

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Anonymous just_peachy_ 11w

Magical Mystery Tour is an underrated album. Shit is STACKED

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Anonymous OP 11w

Not just pop. Rock, metal, avant garde, drone, and so much more

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Anonymous OP 11w

MMT isn’t my fav but it does need more credit. My fav is the White Album followed by either Abbey Road or Revolver

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Anonymous just_peachy_ 11w

Abbey road is the one for me. It’s fucking perfect, except for that Maxwell’s silver hammer song but even that one is fun

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Anonymous OP 11w

Maxwells Silver Hammer has grown on me, it’s a bop. My fav from Abbey Road is I Want You. Time seems to stop with it as they just loop the riff at the end while Paul and Ringo are popping the fuck off if you listen closely

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Anonymous just_peachy_ 11w

I’ve learned to appreciate Ringo’s drumming fr. Songs like Rain are when he shines

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Anonymous #4 11w

Rock n Roll McDonald’s is a banger

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Anonymous OP 11w

I unironically and actually really like rock and roll McDonald’s. Like I think it’s a good piece of music and art.

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Anonymous OP 11w

I’m a drummer as well as a bass player, and Ringo is the dream drummer. Find a song where he either overplayed or underplayed. It’s impossible. Drumming is about serving the song, not being flashy

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Anonymous OP 11w

Also, their production was genuinely brilliant the more you learn about it I’m getting into technical territory, but they only had four tracks to work with when recording. So what they did during Sgt Pepper is record on four, then mix them to mono and put that on track one of a different tape. Then they had three more tracks. Mix those to mono along with the initial track and put that on track one of another tape. And they just layered the whole thing. They had like twenty tracks on that album

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Anonymous just_peachy_ 11w

Yea the multi track tape shit they did was nuts. They even played the tapes backwards for stuff like Tomorrow Never Knows and layered that in with the rest of the tracks

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Anonymous OP 11w

Yeah like out of all the artists you listed here, it’s The Beatles. Ik some people are jaded due to how their albums are always ranked best of all time or some shit, but the more you learn about them the more you realize why. From 1965 onwards the stuff they did is groundbreaking from every perspective

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Anonymous #6 11w

Their raw talent didn’t carry over into business tho. They were taken advantage of after their manager Brian Epstein passed away very young. He was truly the 5th Beatle

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Anonymous #7 10w

I FUCKING LOVE HENDRIX. I just threw on Fire on the jukebox at the bar

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Anonymous OP 10w

I didn’t put him only bc not everyone in this generation rly knows who I’m talking about. Just some boomer guitarist to ppl and it’s a shame

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Anonymous OP 10w

Beatles: *write an insanely good album in an unusual style* Hendrix, the day after it came out: “IT WAS TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY, WHEN SGT PEPPER TAUGHT THE BAND TO PLAY”

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Anonymous #6 10w

Nah the fifth Beatle was George Martin. Without him the band has no string arrangements, no way to get their ideas onto tape, no groundbreaking mixes, and the band themselves admitted he was like a musical father for them

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Anonymous #7 10w

Hendrix was amazing on his own, but the secret to his music was Mitch Mitchell. Brilliant drummer who is the only person in the world who could keep up with the wild shit Hendrix was doing. Listen to Manic Depression and bro is outright a jazz drummer

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Anonymous just_peachy_ 10w

Absolutely. That’s how I feel about A7X too. M Shadows is an amazing vocalist and Synyster Gates is one of the best guitarists in our generation, but The Rev really put all the pieces together

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