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From: schneider@2littl.DEC (DANIEL SCHNEIDER)
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Subject: Re: I Can't Believe What I Just Read
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Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 15:54:42 EDT
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>> Daniel Schneider
 
>> Is this the same Doug Alan or just one of those practical jokers?  The
>> Beatles in the same sentence as Kate Bush!?!  One of your three
>> favorites?!?!?  Is this the same person who said he hated rock 'n roll
>> and preferred to listen to music in a dark room with head phones?
 
> What's so hard to believe about me loving the Beatles?  

A high percentage of the sentiments you have expressed in net.music, 
especially the part about "hating Rock 'n Roll".

> And what's wrong
> with listening to the Beatles in a dark room with headphones?  

The Beatles are the ANTITHESIS of bands one would listen to in a dark
room with headphones.  They were a R&R band and a SOCIAL
phenomenon.

> The Beatles nearly single-handedly pulled the world out of Rock
> 'n Roll.  

Nothing could be further from the truth; the Beatles SHOWED the world
rock 'n roll.

> I'm not so wild about early Beatles, but starting with "Rubber
> Soul" they were phenominal (sic).

They were always phenomenal!  What you're really saying is that you
don't like pure pop, anybody's.  I won't take that away from you (or
try to talk you out of it), but don't try to tell me that they stopped
playing rock.  Its interesting to digress for a bit and understand why
the Beatles began to evolve from Rubber Soul on.  On one hand George
brought all of them to his/a/the (I don't know which is appropriate)
Maharishi which they all admitted had a profound effect on them
personally and musically and on the other hand, with an eye toward
Haight-Ashbury they began experimenting with psychedelic drugs.
They were ecstatic in the Haight at this point that the music that
they had formulated was now being realized in the most popular band of
the time!  If you turned on to the Beatles of the post-Rubber Soul era
you should check out those who developed Psychedelic Rock - Jefferson
Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Big Brother and the Holding 
Company, Moby Grape, etc, and of course, the Grateful Dead.

> The only reason "Sargent Pepper's" wasn't
> second or so on my list is because I've been listening to it since I was
> four....

This sounds like an important reason for ranking it high on your list.
It was definitely in my top five. 

> I was once as	much a Beatles fanatic as I now am a KB	fanatic.
> In fact, until I discovered Pink Floyd, The Beatles were nearly the only
> music I listened to!  For over ten years.
> 				"I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in
> 				 And stops my mind from wandering
> 				 Where it will go...."
> 				Doug Alan
> 				 nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA)

		"She said 'I know what its like to be dead.
		 I know how it feels to be sad.
		 And your making me feel like I've never been born.'"
		
		Daniel Schneider
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