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>it's a 'the director discovered his dad's record collection' episode
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Craig's pretty old dude.
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>>81367179

>I wasn't alive when the Beatles were big therefore nobody was

Wow, great logic.
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It's the fucking Beatles. Who doesn't know the fucking Beatles?
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Is the reference to Yoko and Lennon?
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>>81367309
>>81367322
kek
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You know that one person isn't responsible for the creative input of a episode right? I'm sure the PPG writers, storyboard artist and directors were all big fans of The Beatles.
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>>81367282

I think he's saying the director, whom already knew and heard of the Beatles etc, was searching for episode ideas one day and suddenly "Oh look my dad's old records. Let's listen. OH WOW BEATLES WAS SO AMAZING MAN WHAT A TIME TO LIVE! HEY I KNOW!!! I'LL MAKE AN EPISODE ABOUT THAT!!"

I don't think they're implying they never listened to the Beatles. Just that they were reminded of them.
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>>81367371

>I think he's saying the director, whom already knew and heard of the Beatles etc, was searching for episode ideas one day and suddenly "Oh look my dad's old records. Let's listen. OH WOW BEATLES WAS SO AMAZING MAN WHAT A TIME TO LIVE! HEY I KNOW!!! I'LL MAKE AN EPISODE ABOUT THAT!!"

My bad, I didn't realize people wrote fanfiction about real people.
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>>81367371

We get it OP, you're autistic. You can delete this thread now.
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>>81367666
>My bad, I didn't realize people wrote fanfiction about real people
They do. They're called gossip magazines.
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>>81367666
>didn't realize people wrote fanfiction about real people.
read what you just wrote, and then remembers everything you know about the internet.
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This episode is barely watchable because 90 percent of the stuff in it is references.
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>Discovered his dad's records
this shit is on the radio 24/7 up to this day.
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>>81367179
>>81367371

You bloody well wot m8, that episode was so full of Beatles references that there's no way it was made with cursory knowledge of the band. That "Silver Beat-Alls" reference and Sgt. Pepper's cameo are way too specific for someone who just stumbled upon the band, not to mention all of the lines lifted directly from quotes and song lyrics, and the whole Yoyo-nono segment directly paralleling the band's demise.

Also the Beatles are famous as fuck, it's not like a grown-ass man would suddenly discover them, especially given that in the 90's most people producing cartoons were kids or teenagers during their active career. Do you have no grasp of the passage of time?
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>>81367803
It's "watchable" for me, because I understand the references.
Does it upset you?
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>>81367179
>>81367371

Craig is 45 fucking years old. Why the fuck would you assume this? If anything, Craig would be the dad with the old records.
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>>81367179
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This episode gets brought up at least once a month on /co/, but who here remembers Pinky & The Brain did a Beatles parody episode?

It actually taught me enough about the Beatles that I got the Yoko Ono part of the PPG episode, at least.
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>>81367666
http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Real%20Person%20Fiction/works

You brought this hell upon yourself.
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>tfw you just started listening to the Beatles last fall and they suddenly seem to be resurging in popularity, but can't tell if that's because they're being brought up more or if you're just noticing it now when they are
>tfw you mostly like their weird shit you assume the general population doesn't remember as well
>tfw you feel like a contrarian faggot because your favorite song of theirs is Strawberry Fields Forever, even though that probably isn't enough to make you a contrarian faggot
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i dont like the beatles
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The fact that so many
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>>81369368
Listen to Sgt Pepper back to back; the album where they're not the Beatles is their best album.

>>81369487
Check you're copypasta fool
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We can all agree that Lennon was a prick to everyone around him, yes?
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>>81369523
no
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>>81367179
>>81367371
>it's a babbyfag looks like a moron episode
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>>81369523
Indubitably. However, how much of that was him operating on a level mere mortals barely comprehend, vs just being a drug-addled womaniser, is debatable.
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>>81369523
You mean McCartney, right?
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>le wrong generation

music is better today than it was back then imo
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>>81369621
Paul did nothing wrong. Except becoming a vegan.
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>>81369610
Plus his childhood was fucked up bad. Dad left him at four, reunited with his mother in his late teens but she was struck and killed by a drunk policeman, girlfriend had a kid, and one of his closest mates died.
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>>81369368
We need a Mojo Jojo version of that pic
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>>81369841
This.
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>>81369625
There was good music then, and there's good music now. No need to be a faggot about it.
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>>81369368
I loved SFF so much that I wrote a short story based on it for a high school class.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y4as1brecUs
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>>81369621
>McCartney

You mean Faul
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>>81369625
pretty much. at least freak folk was always good
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lxQhXQHBnqk
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>It's a "one of the writers really likes this one band so they have to have an entire episode about how great they are" episode

Still pretty good, though.
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>>81367902
>If anything, Craig would be the dad with the old records.

But he isn't. ;_;
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>>81367179
Clearly you don't know who Craig McCracken is
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>>81369577

>it's an "I was only pretending to be retarded" episode
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>>81370155
>GWAR does the music for the episode

Based as fuck episode of KND
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>>81369841
Came here to post this
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>>81370155
MMJ is fucking awful like holy shit I'd rather listen to whatever /mu/ likes
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>>81369185
Pinkie and the brain had the problem of explaining its referential jokes way too often
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>>81370229
Ohh low blow
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I liked how all the dialogue was just lyrics to Beatles songs. Even though OP is being a little bitch he reminded me of a good episode.
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>>81370155
I really hate this episode, but it probably has something to do with how frequent they would play it on TV.
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>>81370815
Fuck yeah that episode was great.
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>b.b.but i hate my dad, it can't be good if he likes it.
It's only acceptable to be this degenerate when you are a girl cause you would fuel the porno industry. From a man, it's just asking for a bullet in the neck.
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Best Duck Dodgers episode
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It's 2016

The beatles are a relic of a bygone era. I seriously hope you still don't listen to them.
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>>81370155
>its a ''creators invite over the most brutal band of its time to do music for its comedy show''
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>>81372098
>I seriously hope you still don't listen to them.
or what?
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>>81372098
wat u gon do fggt
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>>81371674
/pol/tards are the new furries
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>>81372372
>>81372432
I can't stop you from being a loser. The most I can do is help you acknowledge your loser-traits in hope that it inspires you to make a change for the better.

I seriously hope you still aren't listening to the beatles.
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>>81369841
3rd
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I wonder if what other cartoons have parodied bands that aren't kiss or the beatles
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>>81369935
...link?
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>>81372347
They didn't do anything particularly interesting with Pantera, huh
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>>81367179
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>>81370815
I love it when shit like this is put together.

Like I can just imagine everyone brainstorming ideas then someone jokingly says "We should get gwar to do the music in a episode."
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>>81370815
>tfw they didn't just send over instrumental mixes but actually had to record fresh ones for them to use because they lost the masters or some such
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>>81370155
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5ciBWNwjsY
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>>81372640
Just like we can't stop you from being a faggot.
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>>81372640
>be OP
>see that a vast majority of the world enjoys the Beatles and that they're recognized as legends
>fucking plebs
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did his dad also own NMH and Olivia tremor control records
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>people acting as if OP was dissing the Beatles and not the episode

Is this board retarded or just violently reactionary?
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>>81372098

A lot of relics from bygone eras are royalty-free and relaxing to listen to while streaming.
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>>81372098
OH SHIT IT'S CURRENT YEAR GUYS
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>>81374268
>not reading the fucking thread
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>>81369368
As long as you just like to listen to the songs it's fine, no need to lose your mind over it
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>>81367179
You deserve the new Powerpuff Girls cartoon.
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>>81369368
I lost all respect for the Beatles as soon as I heard the lyrics to Maxwell's Silver Hammer.
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>>81367902
>Craig would be the dad
not anymore
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>>81375139
How? It's only about a dude who skullfucks people with a hammer.
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>>81367902
But he was in his 20s when PPGs was around.
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>>81369625
Music 20-30 years ago actually had some kind contextual meaning, now it perfectly represents this generation by talking just to hear themselves speak
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>>81370155
what the fuck man, that was a terrible episode.
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>Dadrock fans mocking other peoples taste
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>>81375430

pretty sure the beatles were still popular in the 70s
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>>81370229
>>81375278
you should both be ashamed of yourselves
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>>81376122
Craig was a little kid in the 70s; he probably wasn't even consciously aware of music until the Reagan years also the Beatles weren't cool at all back then, they were seen as last decade's news.
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>>81369841
Made this just for you
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>>81376306
There was very little nostalgia for the 60s at that time. Most people just wanted to put the riots, assassinations, and wars behind them.

Even so, a lot of people did still hold out hope for a Beatles reunion until John Lennon's death although he himself did not understand why anyone still cared about the Beatles since in his mind, that was a part of his life he'd long since moved on from.
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>>81376306
>>81376582
Well, my cousin was a high school sophomore when JL got capped and he said he remembered his teacher coming into the room in tears and telling everyone what had happened and the kids (who were all in diapers when Rubber Soul came out) mostly didn't know who Lennon even was.
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>>81376306
Maybe not the Beatles per-se, but solo Lennon, Harrison, and McCartney were superstars through the first half of the 70s. But by the New Wave era, they were passe.
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The fact that so many books still name the Beatles "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far cock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success: the Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worth of being saved.
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>>81376733
The funny thing is that Paul had lots of post-Beatles hits while John only had one, yet his one solo hit was 100x bigger than any of Paul's.
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>>81376739
ah, there's the copy-pasta
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>>81376582
Pop culture moved fast in that era. 60s music styles, fashions, and general pop culture looked ancient by the time Ford was president.
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>>81367309
I don't. To this day, this episode goes completely over my head.

I couldn't name a single Beatles song or even identify the Beatles if I heard them on the radio.
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>>81375278
>>81370229
>>81371284
>>81376304
what are you talking about
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>>81376733
Ah, George Harrison. He who spent the whole first half of the 70s dabbling in trippy-dippy Eastern religion shit. Then he finally does a straight rock record with his S/T album in 78, but by then it's too late. Punk and disco are ruling the charts and nobody cares about the Beatles anymore.

If Harrison had released the S/T in 1971 instead of 78, it would have been a huge hit.
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>>81376862
>like everyone on the fucking planet hasn't at least heard Yellow Submarine
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>>81367803
It's actually a solid episode despite the references. A bunch of bad guys team up, they beat the PPG because they're working together, so the girls decide to break them up by messing with their group dynamic.

It's way better if you do get the references, but they're not essential. It's how you're supposed to make references. It's pretty much the anti-Family Guy method.
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>>81376920
tbf he did have a solo album out first because he had a huge backlog of songs he'd written over the years and never got to record because Lennon/McCartney dictatorship.
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>>81376899
lauren faust is married with craig mcCracken

the general theory is that lauren faust had a miscarriage
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>>81376965
See, I know the name Yellow Submarine because of the movie. But I couldn't hum the tune to save my life. I have no idea what it sounds like.
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>John Lennon's final interview in the November 1980 Playboy

"By the time this goes to press, I will be 40. Paul McCartney is 38, Bob Dylan is 38. We're all still fairly young and hopefully have many years of productivity ahead of us. I hope to still be working for another 40 years."

...
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>>81377082
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqT_zpXwByE

Come on, you've heard this before.
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>>81375574
>Music 20-30 years ago actually had some kind contextual meaning
>I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation
What did they mean by this /co/?
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>mfw this thread
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>>81377082
Its taught in the school curriculum now
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>>81377161
ooh ahh, just a little bit
ooh ahh, a little bit more
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>>81377111
Another sadly ironic excerpt from his last interview:

"I don't understand this obsession with romanticising people who died before their time. I don't glorify dead James Dean, dead Jim Morrison...dead Sid Vicious. It's ridiculous. I worship the people like Gloria Swanson, the people who survived."
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>>81367179
My girlfriend has been a huge Beatles fan since she was a little kid. Showed her this episode and she picked up on absolutely every reference, shit astounded me. She loved this episode though.
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>>81377111
Wish we had a time machine and shot Mark David Chapman in the balls
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I think if anything of 20th century music is still talked about in 100 years, it will probably be the Beatles and Dylan. Especially the latter. A lot of his songs will probably become trad folk standards ala Stephen Foster.
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>>81370815
Still can't believe they got GWAR to do it, GWAR is probably one of the best racist metal bands to date, how did they let people like that doa song for a kids show? Those mother fuckers are /pol/mu/ combined.
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>>81369270
>>81367666
I once saw this very anime fanfic about the Beatles, where it was pretty much a R63 Paul and Yoko competing for John's dick.

No joke.
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Lennon also very strongly believed rock-and-roll was about youth and rebellion and he ridiculed Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones for still trying to be rock stars when they were pushing 40.
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>>81369368

>beatles
>weird shit
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>>81377161
>using a Childrens novelty song as an example

kek it was a single made for children along with the Teletubbies
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>>81377422
>what was Revolver
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>>81367815

DO NOT TOUCH THE CHILD
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>>81377401
If only he could come back from the dead and see...
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>>81377458

I was going to

>revolver
>weird

but then I remembered I'm a pretty bad litmus test for what people consider weird in music.
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>>81367322
What do you think?
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>>81372098
Nobody cares about your opinion.
And don't pull the year card, John Oliver
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WHOS PAUL MCCARTNEY?
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>>81377318
music before The Doors: be bop a lula, she's my baby
The Doors: what if we sang about a giant snake
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>>81377522
I think Tomorrow Never Knows is the bar for "weird" when it comes to The Beatles.
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>>81377300
Didn't they say that Mark was literally castrated or had a faulty testicle or something?
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>>81372640
>i seriously hope you don't do this
>why?
>because you'll look like a loser, i don't want you to look like a loser
What kind of shit argument is this? If you're petty enough to think someone is a loser just for listening to a certain band, you clearly don't actually give a shit about their well-being or social life, so don't even pretend to
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>>81377538
Thank goodness gettyimages.com was around in the 60's to capture historic moments for us all.
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>>81377579
>music before The Doors: be bop a lula, she's my baby

They used to call that the "Moon, June, Spoon" style of music.
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>tfw they'll try to copy this episode in the reboot with Swans, NMH, or Death Grips
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>>81377518
This...this is the equivalent of your senile grandpa saying YOLO and attempting to discuss Ke$ha songs.
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>>81377579
Actually at the time the Beatles broke, the older generation were lamenting the death of good songwriting in music, that there was no Gershwin or Berlin anymore and that popular music had devolved into WA BAP BAM BA TOOTIE FROOOOTIE WHOOOO!!!

So it took the Beatles, Dylan, Joan Baez etc to revive songwriting. Also melody, something that had been pretty much lost in 50s rock-and-roll.
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>>81377151
>Come on, you've heard this before.

I'm sure I've heard it before at one point or more, but it's not a song I know. I couldn't sing it for you, I couldn't identify it, and I probably wouldn't know it's a Beatles song if they weren't saying "Yellow Submarine", which I only know because of the movie.
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>>81377037
>theory
It's more than a theory, buddyo
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>>81378300
Around when did it happen?
Was it during her tenure at MLP? Do you think the stress got to her? Did ponies kill her baby?
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>>81378300
oh god, this is so depressing, why can't anything go right for them?

Their cartoons get cancelled, their movies bomb, and their own child plans are ended. But at least Lauren has accepted it and isn't going crazu
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>>81377455
>kek it was a single made for children along with the Teletubbies
No it wasn't, it was a Euro dance song played straight, well as straight as a Euro dance song could be played.
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>>81378369
>when
When S2 was airing and she announced she wouldn't be involved in S3. The miscarriage probably happened some time after she left the premises, maybe when she was making all those crap jokes on twitter while drunk.
>spoilers
nah, she's an aged woman, the odds were already against her.
They are probably one of those couples that didn't want a baby for most of their marriage but with middle age kicking in and seeing most people their age with grown children already they wanted one now, but it's too late.
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One of my favorite episodes. I love referential humor, especially when it's subtle. The sheer VOLUME of references kills most of the subtlety but each individual reference would be subtle enough on its own.
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>>81378300
Damn that sucks. You know it's often harder on the woman than the man.
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>>81378816

I remember a bunch of kids hating it, but I loved it when it aired. I have authentic hippy parents, as in were involved in Haight-Ashbury in the 60's, so I got pretty much everything even as a kid.
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>>81378300

Damn...
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>/co/ users discussing music
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>It's a "kid mistakens a celebration of vinyl records to be a celebration of world records and thus attempts to set a world record" episode.
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>>81377455
That song was actually a reference to Barbie's origins as a novely men's toy. Like the kind of the you give as a gift a bachelor party.
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>>81379271
kek
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>ywn have your own cartoon to work on
>ywn do an episode where you constantly reference your favourite band
one can only dream of an episode referencing Black Flag
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>>81379271
Wait, we're not allowed to like The Protomen anymore?
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>>81379271
>gyakuten meets jazz soul
>not gyakuten hard rock

jazz is such a shitty meme.
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>>81369368
>beatles
>out there
you'd get flayed on /mu/ honestly
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>>81379962
phoenix wright cadenza, that's the album i'm thinking of.
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>>81367666
>My bad, I didn't realize people wrote fanfiction about real people.
Dude, there's a very well known Beetles fanfic which places the group in an epic fantasy setting and gives each of them unique superpowers. There's also a Dragon Booster fic starring Ewan McGregor.

Real person fic is a very real thing.
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>>81379928
>liking mediocre hard rock about LE VIDEO GAMES in the first place
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>>81369368
If you look carefully, you can see Yoko Ono sucking the life force from John.
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>>81379981
Why in the world would anyone go to /mu/ ?
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>>81380350
I do
it's like /co/ but with seemingly more generals and waifu threads. also more obnoxious memes
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>>81378369
Nope, it was definitely Buckley.
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>>81380391
More obnoxious memes than /tv/?
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>>81380583
no, I honestly go to /tv/ to have a good laugh. they have some fun threads once in a while. it's just funny shitposting
/mu/ has bad forced memes because most of the people there are underage
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>be Lennon
>have millions of fans
>literally all of them hate your wife

He probably welcomed death.
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>>81377458
>what was Magical Mystery Tour
>what was the White Album
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>>81384917

>The White Album.

>That time that the Beatles did rock, soul, blues, classical ballads, baroque pop, country, five kinds of folk, jazz, ska, acoustic, all kinds of crazy experimental bullshit, and recorded what's widely regarded as the first true metal song on the same album.

I think that listening to Rubber Soul through the Abbey Road should be mandatory listening before you get to have an opinion on the Beatles, they did so much shit I find it ridiculous that so many people think of them from their early-60's years.
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>>81385397
I was only pointing out the 'weirdness' factor of both those albums. I've listened to all of them (except for Let it Be all the way through).
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>>81367179

>only now I realized the female ape is supposed to be Yoko

Those screams make sense now
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>>81385533

Oh no, I wasn't targeting you specifically. I just find it annoying that so many people who haven't even heard a single album of theirs through have such strong opinions regarding the Beatles.
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>>81372347

You mean Ween?
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>>81385397
>the white album
yeah the album that was way too long with a ridiculous amount of filler and them trying their best to rip off frank zappa.

also please don't act like the beatles are some obscure jem, they are literally one of the most popular/mainstream musical acts of all time.
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>>81386425

>please don't act like the beatles are some obscure jem

I'm not, I don't. There's a surprising number of people who haven't heard much of them, but still have really strong opinions regarding them. If you've honestly given them a chance and don't like them, that's one thing, but I've personally met a number of people who've only heard two or three of their songs and act like they've heard it all.

Are there seriously people past the teen years that think of the Beatles as obscure? They're the most popular band in history.
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>>81386589
I like their later stuff. But their early works were so mind numbing, I have no idea how they ever became famous. Maybe I just don't understand the 50s and 60s era of music.
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John always used to ridicule Paul for "writing all those old people songs" (ie. Eleanor Rigby and When I'm Sixty-Four).

>song about a lonely old woman who dies and she has no family so no one comes to her funeral
>minister who writes a sermon that nobody hears because no one in England attends church anymore

That's heavy.
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>>81386835
They were in the right place at the right time to capitalize on a massive baby boomer-fueled music market, but also that rock-and-roll was still in its infancy and had endless room to grow.
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>>81367179
This episode was pretty underwhelming. An episode of literally nothing but beatles references isn't that entertaining. If it wasn't the safely consensus approved best music group of all time, it would not have gotten a pass for this.
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Highway 61 Revisited was probably the biggest catalyst in motivating the Beatles to try more ambitious material than just "Na na na na she loves me na na na na"
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>>81386835

The 50's for the most part wasn't really all that bad, but a bit repetitive. By the late 50's - early 60's though, things started to get really stagnant. Rock music was fading out and being replaced by do-wop for the most part, and the songs had both really simple lyrics and nearly identical structure.

The British underground scene was still largely rock-oriented at the time, and by 1963 a bunch of early British Invasion bands were already huge over there, like the Kinks, the Rolling Stones, and the Beatles. They Beatles got the first airplay here in the States, and were a massive overnight hit, as their style of rock was actually pretty original sounding at the time, especially to American ears where the genre had been largely forgotten for 5 years.

They then showed up on Ed Sullivan and about half of the US at the time saw them. Once again, they may not sound like much by today's standards, but at the time their sound was pretty radical. Just compare these two songs;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cfz33QIsdY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgCkeYGlNXc

They're just two years apart, but in whole other worlds. They may not have even been the best British band at the time, but they got to be the representatives of the music, so they got catapulted to fame.
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>>81367179
Its the 2000's kids trying to shit on a show they never watched thread
The new PPG is shit, get over it
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>>81384917

I mean they're weird in the context that they're the biggest band on the planet and playing that, but not really in anything else.
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>>81372098
CURRENT YEAR
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>>81387239
>The 50's for the most part wasn't really all that bad, but a bit repetitive. By the late 50's - early 60's though, things started to get really stagnant. Rock music was fading out and being replaced by do-wop for the most part, and the songs had both really simple lyrics and nearly identical structure.
You have a few facts wrong here. Actually 50s rock-and-roll and doo-wop coexisted nearly about the same time (Rock Around The Clock and Earth Angel, the songs that kick-started the two genres both came out in 54). Rock-and-roll did die off by 1959 with the death of Buddy Holly et al and Elvis's induction into the Army. Doo wop did not exactly die out, but it evolved into new forms like the Motown groups of the early 60s.

>The British underground scene was still largely rock-oriented at the time, and by 1963 a bunch of early British Invasion bands were already huge over there, like the Kinks, the Rolling Stones, and the Beatles. They Beatles got the first airplay here in the States, and were a massive overnight hit, as their style of rock was actually pretty original sounding at the time, especially to American ears where the genre had been largely forgotten for 5 years.

This is basically correct. Rock-and-roll kept going in Britain during the early 60s when it had been written off in America as a noisy teenager fad.
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>>81387534
>This is basically correct. Rock-and-roll kept going in Britain during the early 60s when it had been written off in America as a noisy teenager fad

Or maybe not. Some people argue that the disappearance of rock music between 1959 and 63 was exaggerated and if you look at Surfaris - Wipeout, Chubby Checker - The Twist, and Contours - Do You Love Me, then maybe rock never really went anywhere.
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>>81387534

>50s rock-and-roll and doo-wop coexisted nearly about the same time

Never denied that they did m8, like you said, rock just fell to the wayside.

The 60's really fascinate me musically, it feels like they made decades worth of progress in about a 5 year period, and most of that was from 1966-1968. I can't imagine what it must have been like to go from Jimmy Gilmer and the Cascades to Jimi Hendrix and the Pretty Things in such a short time.
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>>81387239
Or if you consider that Roy Orbison's In Dreams is separated from Purple Haze by a mere 4 years.
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>>81370155
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYcg6LWad4c
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>>81387812
So I remember an article by Joel Stein of Time Magazine where he interviews a boomer author who wrote a piece about the 60s and he tells Stein (a Gen Xer) that "You younger guys can't really appreciate just what happened in the 1960s. You (referring to Stein) grew up in the 80s. Now try and compare 1983 and 1988 versus 1963 and 1968. We went from Gladys Knight and the Pips to the Rolling Stones in the blink of an eye."
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>>81367803
Huh? I loved this episode as kid even with only layman's knowledge on the Beatles

The Beatles, like Star Wars, is just one of those iconic things that everybody gets at some level based on osmosis
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>>81374461
>Someone saved content I made ages ago
This is a good feel.
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>it's an "anon discovers his dad's porn collection" episode
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>>81367179
not bad though
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>>81387984
>notsureifserious.jpg
80s to 90s pop had such a massive shift through the 70s holdout lounge/orchestra, to super synthpop, to hair metal, to the very beginnings of grunge/alternative. That sounds so very fucking boomer of him.
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>>81388254
At this point, that amounts to stumbling across your dad's hentai folder
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>>81387984

>baby boomers
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