What the critics wrote about the Beatles in 1964

[malthaussen]

115. I'm watching the video right now that was pointed to elsewhere...

... in the thread, and the narrator is doing a good job of explaining why the Beatles are such significant musicians. But I'm pretty sure he isn't going to mention jazz at all, which is a great pity. But jazz would not be greatly relevant in discussing the Beatles... except of course for those jazz musician herbs they smoked.

As for rocking and swinging, I think the former is more visceral and the latter more intellectual, ya know? It's that Divine Chain of Being thing coming into play. The mind is more sophisticated and of greater virtue than the body. The animal is pure instinct and feeling, the angel pure thought. But humans are stuck in the middle. And hence, should have opportunity to rock and swing.

And of course, a classical music snob would dismiss us both as having uneducated tastes.

-- Mal