Fleetwood Mac is just so good!

[jaycee]

Originally Posted by chiliD

Ok, just a survey...how many of you Beatle-bashers were even born when the Beatles were still together? How many of you were even born before John Lennon was shot?

I think THAT has a helluva lot to do with "Beatle perception".

For those of us were (as Sting wrote) "born in the 50s", the Beatles are not just musicians/songwriters/singers/performers, they're ****ing GODS. Don't mess with 'em. May John Lennon's ghost piss in your drink and George Harrison's give you a painful wedgie.

I get the feeling that John Lennon, were he here, would be too nice a chap to do such a thing, what with this peace promotion and all... unless you forgot about his peaceful revolution antics? And I don't think John Lennon would like to be called a god, even if he consider the band "bigger than Jesus" - just listen to the lyrics of "Imagine"! (Those lyrics are gold! Lennon, eat your heart out! )
Perhaps I should buy that stereo box set that came out recently and have a listen (trust me when I say that I'd absolutely love it!) before I make any more comments against The Beatles creativity. I've only listened to a few compilations of The Beatles, and I should know by now that compilations usually don't do justice to a band's work.
Anyway, I'll now defend my comment that creativity is a better selection criteria...
Why is it that music (and usually books) is usually judged in how good it is by how popular it is? Think of Susan Boyle - one of the more talented modern days singers, like Dido, Norah Jones, and Michael Buble. The ads for her album are promoting it as the worldwide #1 album. Now imagine if the ad made no mention of her success, instead just advertising her songs... I'm extremely confident that significantly fewer people would buy it.
I'll quote Richard Dawkins now, as he has a habit of being able to say things people think in the most eloquent fashion possible:
"Whereas other genres of art criticism betray some preoccupation with style or skill of performence, with mood, emotional impact, with the qualities and properties of the art-form, the 'pop' music sub-culture is almost exclusively preoccupied with popularity itself. It is quite clear that the important thing about a record is not what it sounds like, but how many people are buying it. The whole sub-culture is obsessed with a rank ordering of records, called the Top 20 or Top 40, which is based only upon sales figures."
The Blind Watchmaker, pg. 219
And he goes on about it a bit more. It was an analogy for sexual selection, if you were curious. (I'm not sure how popular The Blind Watchmaker is, but make no mistake when I say that it's the best book on an explanation of evolutionary biology for laymen (like myself) I've read!)
Actually, I don't think I need to say any more, because Dawkins said it all!
And, back on topic once more, FM is just so good!