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...I'm sorry did you just say that The Beatles had little historical significance? Are those actual words you just typed out and posted in a serious manner?

"Funnily enough I think they were an amazing band with little historical significance."

I thought me not liking Queen was a stretch; this is blasphemy. lol

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lol if the Beatles didn't have an impact on popular music than neither did anyone ever

It won four Grammy Awards in 1968, including Album of the Year, the first rock LP to receive this honour.

Sgt. Pepper is regarded by musicologists as an early concept album that advanced the use of extended form in popular music while continuing the artistic maturation seen on the Beatles' preceding releases. It is described as one of the first art rock LPs, aiding the development of progressive rock, and is credited with marking the beginning of the album era. An important work of British psychedelia, the album incorporates a range of stylistic influences, including vaudeville, circus, music hall, avant-garde, and Western and Indian classical music. In 2003, the Library of Congress placed Sgt. Pepper in the National Recording Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". That year, Rolling Stone ranked it number one in its list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". As of 2011, it has sold more than 32 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums. Professor Kevin Dettmar, writing in The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, described it as "the most important and influential rock-and-roll album ever recorded".

Wanna tell us how it's not historical significant?

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"They used an machine learning AI to analyse thousand of pop songs. At the end of the doc they made a clear point that the Beatles did nothing to change the trajectory of popular music. So bizarre I wonder if I dreamt it."



A machine said it guys! he has to be right!

Ah yes...good ol' technology.

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Ghandi dropped the bomb to end all bombs

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"aiding the development of progressive rock"



I'd put that more on albums like Absolutely Free and Days of Future Passed so the Beatles are kind of overrated in that regard.

I think they were a bigger influence on pop and psychedelic.

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Obviously. The whole "aiding progressive rock" thing is a pretty massive asspull and a clear attempt to attribute influence where none exists.

Eh too much to say for the time I have right now. Ill just say that The Beatles were more culturally innovative than anything else, for music as a product, albums band image, standard for songwriting (though Bob Dylan had elevated the standards for a pop song before them) etc.
People always say that sgt Pepper was the first concept album (it wasn't and there are much interesting things to be said about their actual musical ideas on that album).

The shift from singles to albums is just a big "so what?" from me given jazz albums and library music were already a thing.

I have to go now, please bite my head off.

yeah literally nothing on Sgt. Pepper alone has any prog traits on it letalone appropriate runtimes for that distinction.

"range of stylistic influences, including vaudeville, circus, music hall, avant-garde, and Western and Indian classical music."

Sounds pretty proggy to me.

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Yeah, they say that but Moody Blues doesn't have nearly anywhere near the same level of recognition.

Then again, aren't the very best bands the least recognized?

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derp thread

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To add insult to injury, Procol Harum's debut also came out in 1967.

"range of styles != prog"

Experimenting with the contours of pop/rock music = prog

Strike: listening to Dream Theater while discussing The Beatles in a Queen thread. lol