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Jun. 17th, 2002
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Jun. 17th, 2002 07:39 pmOK, I'm now going to negate any classic-rock credibility that I might have had: I've never been into the Beatles, the Stones, OR The Who. Not a bit.
The Beatles I sort of respect just because I know I'm supposed to. For me, they're like, I dunno, Cole Porter or something -- enough people whose opinion I respect have told me that they're great for me to sort of accept it, but I still don't really care to listen to them.
The Stones I dig bits and pieces of -- "Paint it Black," "Sympathy for the Devil," and for some strange reason "Beast of Burden" -- but, on the whole, I can take them or leave them. I don't dislike them, and I don't get all bent out of shape like some people do over the fact that they're 60-year-old men playing the same old stuff, but I've just never been that fired up about them. It probably has something to do with the fact that they've been old arena rockers for as long as I can remember; it's hard to imagine them as vital and important.
The Who I just don't get at all.
I do listen to some old-timey rock. Hell, when you get right down to it, that's most of what I listen to. Led Zeppelin, Allman Brothers, Black Sabbath, Hendrix, the Stooges, Lubricated Goat -- all that stuff. So it's not like this stuff is completely out of my frame of reference.
What do you guys think? Am I missing the boat? If I sat down and really listened to Quadrophenia or Revolver, would I get it? Or should I just put on Fun House and forget it?
The Beatles I sort of respect just because I know I'm supposed to. For me, they're like, I dunno, Cole Porter or something -- enough people whose opinion I respect have told me that they're great for me to sort of accept it, but I still don't really care to listen to them.
The Stones I dig bits and pieces of -- "Paint it Black," "Sympathy for the Devil," and for some strange reason "Beast of Burden" -- but, on the whole, I can take them or leave them. I don't dislike them, and I don't get all bent out of shape like some people do over the fact that they're 60-year-old men playing the same old stuff, but I've just never been that fired up about them. It probably has something to do with the fact that they've been old arena rockers for as long as I can remember; it's hard to imagine them as vital and important.
The Who I just don't get at all.
I do listen to some old-timey rock. Hell, when you get right down to it, that's most of what I listen to. Led Zeppelin, Allman Brothers, Black Sabbath, Hendrix, the Stooges, Lubricated Goat -- all that stuff. So it's not like this stuff is completely out of my frame of reference.
What do you guys think? Am I missing the boat? If I sat down and really listened to Quadrophenia or Revolver, would I get it? Or should I just put on Fun House and forget it?