what innovations in music, that the beatles came up with, are still used today?
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The Beatles' achievements and contributions to popular music, and indeed international youth culture, were profound and wide-ranging. Their early original material fused elements of early American rock 'n roll, pop, and R&B into a new form of popular rock 'n roll, almost single-handedly kick-starting the British Invasion, laying the groundwork for the rock culture of the 1960s, and establishing the prototype for the self-contained rock group.\n\nThroughout their career, The Beatles balanced their huge popularity with increasingly experimental and boundary-pushing music that took cues from eclectic sources like folk, R&B, soul, music hall, classical, electronic, and Indian music while exploiting increasingly sophisticated technology and innovative recording techniques.\n\nIn this way, they helped pioneer more advanced, multi-layered arrangements in both rock and pop and were instrumental in the development of some of 1960s rock's dominant styles, such as folk-rock and psychedelia. As songwriters, they were among the most influential and harmonically sophisticated of the era, helping to push rock beyond its early blues and R&B forms and into more expansive territory. Critical evaluation of The Beatles legacy demonstrates that they "introduced more innovations into popular music than any other rock band of the 20th century".\n\nLennon is conventionally portrayed as having played the major role in steering The Beatles towards psychedelia (Rain and Tomorrow Never Knows from 1966, and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Strawberry Fields Forever and I Am the Walrus from 1967). Again following the lead set by Bob Dylan, Lennon renewed his interest in rootsy forms towards the close of The Beatles' career (e.g. Yer Blues from 1968 and Don't Let Me Down from 1969).\n\nPaul McCartney is usually cast as the group's romantic balladeer, and he displays a singular ear for melody and an arguably unrivalled facility for writing classic pop songs in a wide range of genres, ranking alongside Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and the Gershwin brothers as one of the greatest popular song writers of the 20th century. However, in recent years since the deaths of Lennon and Harrison, he has insisted in a number of media interviews that he was far more involved in the London avant garde scene than was Lennon, and that he was in some respects the more "experimental" of the two.\n\nBeginning with his evocative but understated use of a string quartet on Yesterday (1965), McCartney pioneered a modern form of art song, exemplified by the double-quartet string arrangement on Eleanor Rigby (1966), Here, There and Everywhere (1966) and She's Leaving Home (1967). He also created many of the tape loops used on Tomorrow Never Knows and experimented with musique concrete techniques and electronic instruments, as well as creating many experimental audiovisual works. His interest in the music of Bach led him to use a piccolo trumpet in his arrangement of Penny Lane and, although the Mellotron at the start of Strawberry Fields Forever belonged to Lennon, it was McCartney who played it.\n\nMcCartney retained his affection for the driving R&B of Little Richard in a series of songs Lennon dubbed "potboilers", from I Saw Her Standing There (1963) to Lady Madonna (1968). Helter Skelter (1968), arguably an early heavy metal song, is also a McCartney composition. McCartney's lyrical style evolved a more detached, literary stance than in the increasingly personal and confessional work of Lennon, and Lennon was reported to have become more critical of McCartney's writing in the mid-Sixties.\n\nIn 1965 Harrison broke new ground in pop by playing an Indian sitar on Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown). His long collaboration with Sri Ravi Shankar, a famous Hindustani Musician, influenced several of his compositions, some of which were based on Hindustani forms — most notably Love You To (1966), Within You Without You
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Comparing Apples And Oranges    \n\n I Say The Beatles
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NO.  i don't think today's current mainstream music will EVER be the classics of tomorrow.  The Beatles, Hendrix, Joplin, The Doors:  They wrote songs for themselves and if other people liked it..Great but it was always to please themselves first.  They wrote from the heart about thier experiences and we all related to them.  You could hear Janis Joplin's pain in "Piece of my heart" and I dare anyone to listen to the Beatles "Day in The Life" and not be moved at all.  Today's mainstream music..is just that..mainstream.  These are the artists that make music for money not personal satisfaction.  9 times out of 10 they can't even make thier own music; they sample from the real classics, Queen, Led Zepplin and try to pass it as original.  I don't that think that in 10 years I'll be in Wal-Mart hearing Beyonce's "Bootylicious" on the overhead radio.  I think that the Classics of yesteryear will NEVER be repeated.  I'm 29 today but 30 tomorrow and I'm am a white chick :0)
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Yesterday by the Beatles.\n\nSplooch!
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The Beatles...hands down! If they hadn't done half of the stuff they did in the studio, music would not be where it is today!!
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I love The Beatles!  Thanks!
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The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and the Eagles
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There will NEVER EVER be a band like the Beatles, again.  I was a teenager when they were famous.  If I told you that every single day there was something about them in the newspapers, would you believe me? They were the first band that wrote their own songs.  That was unheard of back then.  They did a few songs, early on, that were not original but after a short while they only did their own songs, because their own songs were fabulous!!!   Listen to the harmony on "Nowhere Man."  Listen to Paul's bass on "Something," especially in the middle paart where there is no singing.  Listen to the beauty and sorrow in "For No One."  They are also credited for having the FIRST music video.  It was about "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever."  Everything they did and said and recorded was different from anything else anyone had ever heard.  They were truely a once in a lifetime event.  You had to be there to understand all of this .  I WAS there, I even went to a concert of their's in 1964! I still have the ticket and program and a few photos I took.  You could not hear them and they said later that they could not hear themselves.  You know why?  Because every single person , girl AND boy, was screaming their head off.  We knew that we were witnessing history.  It was a wonderful time to be a teenager.
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beatles all the way.  best of all time.
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The Beatles\n\nThe face of music wouldn't look anywhere near are great as it is because of these Liverpool boys.  Interesting fact: from the time of their first album to their last was only 7 years.  No other band in history can match theirs.
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Probably The Beatles.
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The Beatles\nGeorge Harrison wrote the song\n\nI also see where a group COLDPLAY sings the song
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Come together right now.\n\nBuy the aforementioned object of your desire at:\n\nwww.applerecords.com/beatlemania/toejam/htm
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Regarding The Beatles and Zep, both became HUGE, way beyond big, way before merchandising, marketing and publicity became standard practice in the music industry. The Beatles and Zep were 'grass roots' as we call it today. That means in the early days, they put out a record, toured, put out another record toured, showed up for press, radio, and retail events. All of this in hopes of selling more and more records, with the utmost minimum dollars being put into, marketing, promotion, and merchandising. All success for these two and bands like them came from blood sweat and tears - hard work. Recognition was the end result. Today, most record companies looks for a band thats like ANOTHER band. No more individuality or sounding different, or even being unique. My point being that the record companies will spend millions on press, publicity, and marketing in hopes you will see it everywhere, hear it everywhere, and want to buy it. The harsh and unfortunate reality is 'cash rules everything around us'. MTV is pay for play. Radio is the same. You need to have sold LOTS of records, or show significant sales increases daily, to even get airplay on major radio or mtv. So to sum it up, it's all marketing and promotion. - not so much the band (remember Paula Abdul? She can not sing). Let me know if I can help further.
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I love the Beatles' music, so it'd be a very hard choice for me. I guess I'll pick the first one that comes to mind: Yesterday.
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The Beach Boys are more talented performers, but the Beatles had superior songs and lyrics.  John was one of the greatest composers of his time.  Paul's songs were too childish and wussy.\n\nThe Beach Boys suffered from a lack of good material.  They were extremely talented in all facets of musical ability, but most of their songs are uninteresting because they're meant for large crowds of dancers.  It's the equivalent of modern "dance music", which is basically just random melodies attached to very loud and VERY easy-to-follow downbeat rhythms.  Dance music is extremely uninteresting and will not stand the test of time, just like most Beach Boys music.  Only a handful of their songs have survived and will remain popular.
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Of course. \nThe BEATLES.  First Video, First Worldband, FirstMusicMovie, First.. mmmm everything. You weren´t going to say New Kids on the block did you??