Does the Beatles’ music sound ‘dated?’

I love Ringo's snare sound - all of them. He did change his sound a lot over the years. My personal favorite is probably his snare of around 66-67. Still open and cracking, but a little fatter than the earlier years. By the late 60s he seemed to fall in love with that muted, tea towels over the drum sound. But somehow it always works, sounds great and fits the mood of the song. He's a master with the snare and all the rest.

 

Yes. We decided that you are delusional. Don't worry about it. It's a common affliction nowadays.

 

I think young people in 2019 are more likely to write off folk as "old fogey music" than (well executed) psychedelia. Everyone my age who is into rock seems to like stuff lime Purple Haze, but The Band or even CCR seem like a more acquired taste.

 

I think you're definitely right about that; That was basically my experience getting into 60's music as a younger person. But if that's the standard by which you judge how dated something is, then 80's music has aged best of all.

 

Well, that's the magic of the Beatles, isn't it? Familiar yet fresh...

 

add can!!!

 

To paraphrase Declan MacManus:

They may not be an old fashioned band
but they're still going to get dated

 

"They've been going in and out of style, but they're guaranteed to raise a smile"

 

I don't think of "dated" as a pejorative term. Their music was part of the zeitgeist of the era. The fact that once it was new and fresh and now is associated with the past does not diminish from its goodness. Try listening to guitarist Bill Frisell's take on their music on an album called
"All We Are Saying" if you want to hear how well the music itself stands up. Their songs have been referenced and interpreted by dozens of artists working in a variety of musical genres. Their original recordings may sound dated, but not the music.

 

No more than Stravinsky or Bartok or Mozart - it has transcended its era.

 

Wasn't roots rock intentionally dating itself by reaching back to the 1800s for inspiration?

And good point about 80s music. But I think the experimental quality of it as opposed to intentionally being "stripped down" is why it's still popular among young people.

 

The White Album contains several "old fogey" songs. My 48 year old coworker made me turn it off the other day for that reason. It was side 2 and he was like "this fogey music is killing me".

 

Oh, you mean the McCartney songs.

 

I'll bet a lot of older folks had the same thoughts about the Beatles when they hit the scene. Music appreciation is a subjective thing of course.

 

Not the music hall songs, but the really folky sounding ones that the whole band seemed to be into at the time.

 

Interesting, you mean like I Will or Julia? Or more like Blackbird, Rocky Raccoon?

 

Both.

I'm a big Beatles fan and even I don't like Julia that much.

 

I guess it depends on how you look at it. Artists have been drawing from American roots music ever since it was invented and continue to do so to this day. The way I see it, that gives the music a timeless quality, so long as the later practitioners bring something fresh to the table.

 

Has anyone asked them yet?

 

Too bad you are that Ridgid and can't hold and understand conflicting feelings.

 

But rock music until that point seemed to be more "looking forward" rather than backwards.

 

I actually find mainstream 70s rock to be mostly boring due to the "stripped down" aspect. I like funk, disco, and metal a lot, but Fleetwood Mac and the like don't do much for me.

 

No, silly - heretic! BURN the witch-!

 

Totally agree on those two tracks.

 

That's not really true though. The British Blues Boom and the original folk-rock movement both predated psychedelia.