I am taking a course this semester about the history of Rock music, and today, we finally arrived to The Fab Four.

Before class started (the teacher quizzes us each day), a few no-brain girls who were talking about how much they want to dress like Jessica Simpson started talking about how little they know about the Beatles and how they don't like them. So I turned around and said "you honestly like Jessica Simpson and not the Beatles?" and a bunch of people clapped, lol.

I mean, I admit I like pop music, and I can't stand Jessica. I just find it almost insulting that people out there honestly think she makes better music than The Beatles. And I am NOT a hardcore Beatles fan by any means, but I can respect and understand why they are what they are.

Well maybe they've never been interested in listening to the Beatles. I don't like the Beatles, I've heard a few songs and I dont like them but I dont like Jessica either. Its all down to taste I suppose.

Well maybe they've never been interested in listening to the Beatles. I don't like the Beatles, I've heard a few songs and I dont like them but I dont like Jessica either. Its all down to taste I suppose.

well, it is true it's all down to personal taste. But at the same time, I don't think you'd ever say "Raven makes better music than The Beatles", would probably be more like "I like Raven better than The Beatles". There's a difference in phrase

What's the name of the course?... I would like to take it.

What's the name of the course?... I would like to take it.

"The History and Sociology of Rock And Roll", the book is dated 2004, so we go from stuff like Bill Haley & The Comets all the way through Linkin Park and The White Stripes. It's a pretty fun course.

You get so worked up over other people's opinions. WHY does it matter so much to you that they like Jessica? You said it yourself that they knew little about them so why are you so insulted from it?

You get so worked up over other people's opinions. WHY does it matter so much to you that they like Jessica? You said it yourself that they knew little about them so why are you so insulted from it?

well, being in a ROCK AND ROLL class and saying crap like that is kinda like being in a FILM class and saying that Adam Sandler's movies are better than Martin Scorcese's. Some things you don't say in certain places, trashing The Beatles and then praising acts like Jessica in a course about the type of music they have come to symbolize is one of them.

I am taking a course this semester about the history of Rock music, and today, we finally arrived to The Fab Four.

Before class started (the teacher quizzes us each day), a few no-brain girls who were talking about how much they want to dress like Jessica Simpson started talking about how little they know about the Beatles and how they don't like them. So I turned around and said "you honestly like Jessica Simpson and not the Beatles?" and a bunch of people clapped, lol.

I mean, I admit I like pop music, and I can't stand Jessica. I just find it almost insulting that people out there honestly think she makes better music than The Beatles. And I am NOT a hardcore Beatles fan by any means, but I can respect and understand why they are what they are.

Go you!

John and Paul and George and Ringo may have not been the world's best singers, but for GOD'S SAKE...Jessica can't sing worth ****. And I don't care. She can't. She could write a decent song if her life depended on it either. Think she'll be performing at a Super Bowl when she's in her 60's?? Don't think so.

Young people today. Go figure. ;)

"The History and Sociology of Rock And Roll", the book is dated 2004, so we go from stuff like Bill Haley & The Comets all the way through Linkin Park and The White Stripes. It's a pretty fun course.

Ohh, I'll check if USC or a local community college offers it.

well, it is true it's all down to personal taste. But at the same time, I don't think you'd ever say "Raven makes better music than The Beatles", would probably be more like "I like Raven better than The Beatles". There's a difference in phrase
I guess you're right :lol:

Young people today. Go figure.

No kidding. I think the Beatles have better music than Jessica Simpson anyday. I shudder to think what some young people might say about Buddy Holly and the Crickets. :eek:

No kidding. I think the Beatles have better music than Jessica Simpson anyday. I shudder to think what some young people might say about Buddy Holly and the Crickets. :eek:
They'd say, "Who?"

no matter where anyone is they'll always have their opinion and the right to share it. the beatles are much more classic than jessica of course, but if someone likes her more then that's just the way they think.

i'm not referring to anyone in particular but it really annoys me how a lot of people seem to think that just because an artist is legendary then it's an automatic fact that they're better than most of today's artists, and anyone who disagrees doesn't know anything about music.

OOOOOOHHHH, DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THIS TOPIC!!!!!! :mad:

Yes, as the board's resident rock and roll historian, I am just TICKLED that the trendoids would LOOOOOVE Jessica Simpson and her two friends :cow: :cow: over the Fab Four, but to have no sense of what the Beatles meant and to not share in the exhileration of what happened 41 years ago this week is to perform a complete disservice to rock and roll. I keep on getting this nice wonderful PC feeling from too many people that "rock and roll" is over and outdated, it was so last century, whatever hit flavor of the week is THE thing in pop music that matters. You can't ignore that there is nothing more powerful than guitars, bass, drums, and hellacious vocals that gives that sense of liberation. You don't have to LIKE the Beatles
to get into what they were all about.

But you DO have to get into The Kinks.

:lol:

OOOOOOHHHH, DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THIS TOPIC!!!!!! :mad:

Yes, as the board's resident rock and roll historian, I am just TICKLED that the trendoids would LOOOOOVE Jessica Simpson and her two friends :cow: :cow: over the Fab Four, but to have no sense of what the Beatles meant and to not share in the exhileration of what happened 41 years ago this week is to perform a complete disservice to rock and roll. I keep on getting this nice wonderful PC feeling from too many people that "rock and roll" is over and outdated, it was so last century, whatever hit flavor of the week is THE thing in pop music that matters. You can't ignore that there is nothing more powerful than guitars, bass, drums, and hellacious vocals that gives that sense of liberation. You don't have to LIKE the Beatles
to get into what they were all about.

But you DO have to get into The Kinks.

:lol:Okay, NOW you can get me started on this topic. :lol: