Podcast: Rocky Raccoon would be ashamed

Do you have problems with people who worship at the altar of The Beatles? Chris Jones does too.

Are YOU a Beatles fanatic yourself? In The Cougar’s second podcast, Chris Jones lays it down on all of those Beatles fans out there. Pay attention; you might learn something.

13 Responses

1. 6:10 PM on February 27th, 2008Jose:

   Hater.

2. 6:13 PM on February 27th, 2008Jose:

   Good job though, make more please. I don’t know, but making one three-minute rant every 20 weeks doesn’t exactly qualify for working hard. Don’t hurt yourself though.

3. 7:45 PM on February 28th, 2008matthew:

   hahaha chris your my hero

4. 9:54 AM on February 29th, 2008Gregory:

   First, many Beatles songs are longer than four minutes. In the 1960s, radio was one of the most important means of proliferating music, and songs that were extremely long would not be played on the radio. Plus, you completely overlook the enormous cultural and historical influence of the Beatles. How can something that has had such an effect on society and culture not be meaningful? It is true that they had their good songs and their bad songs, but if you look at the ratio of the number of good Beatles songs to the number of bad Beatles songs it is significantly greater than the ratios of good songs to bad songs of many other bands.

5. 9:54 AM on February 29th, 2008Allyson Pierce:

   Sure the Yardbirds and Cream made great music and people should open there minds and listen to other music from the 1960s but by insulting everyone who like the Beatles doesn’t make anyone want to listen to you. In fact it just makes us disrespect you and your opinion. And this is only your diluted opinion, I don’t feel that you are able to define the meaning of any Beatles song because you clearly don’t know what the artist was thinking while making the music. I don’t think you deserve your own soap box when you’re not willing to look at both sides of the argument. Without doing this, you just sound like a whiney teenager.

6. 10:48 AM on February 29th, 2008bananas:

   OMG! You are totally right! All of the beatles songs are complete meaningless dribble! I mean ‘i me mine’ and ‘little piggies’ and ‘think for yourself’, they don’t have a progressive message at all!!! But I sure love that 7 minute velvet underground song about heroin… and you know most of cream’s songs are really political

7. 12:11 PM on February 29th, 2008Mac Zilber:

   Agreed with what Gregory said. The Beatles were not great lyricists or superb technical musicians, but they were among the most influential musicians of all time. People are typically taught about the beatles’ greatness from a young age and accept it before they’re at the age to think critically and dispute it.

8. 12:54 PM on February 29th, 2008Chris:

   Hey Allyson,

   Due to some kind of technical whatnot this part was left out of the podcast, but there are some Beatles songs I legitimately love and enjoy. Revolver and The White Album are, overall, fantastic albums. It was a bit insulting, true, but it was mostly in fun and you people don’t generally bother me.

   Also, I like how you didn’t dispute my point about Abby Road:p

9. 11:22 AM on March 4th, 2008Marc:

   I dunno man…they’re extremely influential.
   Michael Jackson is to pop as the Beatles are to EVERYTHING.
   Depending.
   They were on acid half the time…

   Everyone should watch Pulp Fiction.
   “You’re either a Beatles guy or an Elvis guy.”

10. 10:23 AM on March 7th, 2008Eddie:

    I’d hardly call it a call between being a Beatles guy or an Elvis guy, considering how Elvis just stole and repackaged African-American Blues and R&B for white people. Not that he didn’t have style, but I wouldn’t compare him to a band that produced original music. On the other hand I agree that the Beatles-worship is far more prevalent than it needs to be, they have a lot of good and emotional songs, but they’re not the epitome of music some people make them out to be. Eh, just my 2 cents.

11. 10:16 PM on March 7th, 2008CJ:

    For the record, I think Pulp Fiction is overrated also

12. 11:24 AM on March 16th, 2008anonymous:

    Great! make more please!

13. 9:09 PM on March 18th, 2008Diana:

    Velvet Underground pretty much steals the show.

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