controversial opinion: anyone think that the beatles

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The Beatles only have a couple good songs anyway, and they're all from the later albums.

So says the most blatent worshipper of hipster music scenes who is far too alternative to enjoy pop, and consequently listens to utter drek. Thanks for your cluelessness, now DIAF.


To OP, just utterly no..

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Again,

I applaud BRTD for his attack on the cult of the Beatles.

It's like the Scientologists. One word of minor criticism of The Beatles and you must be purged.

It's a HUGE jump between criticizing some albums or songs (I'll readily admit that Yellow Submarine has a good title track, inspired a decent for the times animated film, and is otherwise a waste of vinyl), to claiming they only "wrote a couple good songs on their later albums". The latter is about as close to factually incorrect as any music opinion can get. The Beatles aren't even necessarily one of my favorite bands, but one would have to be blind deaf and dumb to music history to miss their artistic impact.

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The Beatles only have a couple good songs anyway, and they're all from the later albums.

So says the most blatent worshipper of hipster music scenes who is far too alternative to enjoy pop, and consequently listens to utter drek.

No I'm not exactly a fan of Ke$ha or Justin Bieber.

But seriously this is "hipster dreck"? (Last band I saw, and saw them twice, once in a suburb.)

Yes, actually, that's about the definition of hipster. I can picture a crowd full of dudes with their ironic beards (neckbeards or otherwise) and wearing knit-wool caps in August. Though not total drek at least I'll grant.

But hipster? Yeah, the fact you pointed out you once saw them "in a suburb" speaks volumes.

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The Beatles only have a couple good songs anyway, and they're all from the later albums.

So says the most blatent worshipper of hipster music scenes who is far too alternative to enjoy pop, and consequently listens to utter drek.

No I'm not exactly a fan of Ke$ha or Justin Bieber.

But seriously this is "hipster dreck"? (Last band I saw, and saw them twice, once in a suburb.)

Yes, actually, that's about the definition of hipster. I can picture a crowd full of dudes with their ironic beards (neckbeards or otherwise) and wearing knit-wool caps in August. Though not total drek at least I'll grant.

But hipster? Yeah, the fact you pointed out you once saw them "in a suburb" speaks volumes.

Mmmmm no. Instead picture a bunch of people in hoodies jumping around and crowdsurfing. AKA standard hardcore kids, not hipsters. Also it being in a suburb is notable, what type of hipster would ever go to a show in a suburb? Believe me even I was upset about it. FYI you could argue that BOTH times were in suburbs, but I wouldn't consider Moorhead a suburb, it's a twin city to Fargo just like St. Paul is to here.

I'm reasonably confident that your typical hipster would rather listen to the Beatles than... whatever it is that BRTD listens to.  They might be affected and pretentious but they're not deaf.

You seem to be making the rather common mistake that what I was listen to is exclusively or even mostly like emoviolence. Like see the video above. Per last.fm these are my ten most listened to bands:

Rainer Maria
The Appleseed Cast
The Wonder Years
Superchunk
Fireworks
Mineral
mewithoutYou
The Hated
Neshamah
Lifetime

Now except for Neshamah and early mewithoutYou, none of those bands ever go over a 7 on TV Tropes Rock and Metal Hardness scale (for those unfamiliar with it, a 7 is about where the median Nirvana song would sit.) I suppose there's The Hated's early stuff but hardly anyone listens to that including myself. Rainer Maria, The Appleseed Cast and Mineral probably don't ever go above even a 5, meaning the Beatles have "harder" songs than they do.
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The fact you care a good goddam about whether a show is played in a suburb or not theroughly demonstrates just how much you are the voice of scene-obsessed hipsters valuing genre identification over such crass denomination as melody, tune and beat.

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Now except for Neshamah and early mewithoutYou, none of those bands ever go over a 7 on TV Tropes Rock and Metal Hardness scale (for those unfamiliar with it, a 7 is about where the median Nirvana song would sit.) I suppose there's The Hated's early stuff but hardly anyone listens to that including myself. Rainer Maria, The Appleseed Cast and Mineral probably don't ever go above even a 5, meaning the Beatles have "harder" songs than they do.

That's not what I meant when I said "deaf". 

The fact you care a good goddam about whether a show is played in a suburb or not theroughly demonstrates just how much you are the voice of scene-obsessed hipsters valuing genre identification over such crass denomination as melody, tune and beat.

Uh, BRTD is nothing but the voice of himself, and maybe his sub-sub-sub-subculture.  Certainly not the voice of all "scene-obsessed hipsters"- which I don't even know what you exactly are trying to say with that phrase but I'm pretty sure the world of hipsterdom is both far, far wider than BRTD's particular scene, and mostly includes people with both far different and far better taste in music than him.

I actually don't think it's that strange to care about where a show is played, though.  If one of your favorite musical acts was performing somewhere outside of your comfort zone or in an atypical place for them, I'm sure you'd make a note of it.  I mean, you wouldn't obsess about it on Atlas, but once again: that's just BRTD being BRTD, and doesn't prove anything about anyone or anything else.

Well put (other than defending BRTD's musical suburbphobia), but that was my point. It's BRTD's hipster ethos speaking, and thus demonstrates his assessment of the Beatles is, unsurprisingly, utter drek.