Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for February 20, 2022

Important stuff

Adam is a little young to love the Beatles that much, but okay…

If Paul and Ringo are reading this, what would be the lads’ reaction to Clayton’s critique?

♪You know what I mean♪

Actually, considering the level of today’s musicians, I doubt the early Beatles would have made it in today’s environment.

Just wait until he gets to “Rubber Soul” and “Revolver” not to mention “Sgt. Pepper”

Yeah. . .Yeah. . .Yeah

Considering the trash Clayton probably listens to, the Beatles feel no shame.

Adam, just kick that miserable brat across Abbey Road!!

Hey, Jude—that kid wouldn’t know classic rock if it bit him on the @$$!!

So—Clayton is The Fool on the Hill.

Time to take The Long and Winding Road.

That kid needs “Help!”

Beatles? Never heard of him.

This is a reverse of the typical old people saying today’s music all sounds the same and is all trash. None of which is true, of course, but old people say it generation after generation. Of course, kids only learn to appreciate the great music of the past gradually.

Start him out with Revolution 9 (not Revolution 1.)

Isn’t this song literally about dating an underage girl? This is how you introduce your son to a band?

The Beatles are the greatest band that ever wrote three songs I like: “Norwegian Wood,” “Eleanor Rigby,” and “Paperback Writer”.

I actually like more Paul McCartney songs when he struck out on his own: “Band on the Run”, “Jet”, “Junior’s Farm”, “Coming Up”, “Silly Love Songs”, “Listen to What the Man Said”, and “With a Little Luck”

“Just seventeen, if you know what I mean.”

Yes, Sir Paul, we know what you mean.

He’ll find it’s the lesser of two weevils.

I’m thinking Peter Jackson is going ballistic right about now. Come on Adam, show Clayton Petes movie “The Beatles: Get Back”, if you have a few hours.

If it doesn’t speak to him, it just doesn’t. De gustibus non disputandum est. Let the boy alone.

Much (most?) of the Beatles’ music seems to me vastly overrated.

But then they also produced more than their share of tracks so great that they can’t be overrated.

at the risk of being too serious, if Clayton thinks “Yesterday” and “Helter Skelter” sound the same, he needs serious help.

Clayton is an idiot. The Beatles transcend generations like all great music. Even my grandchildren- 7, 5 and 2 – are growing up on the Beatles. Because I raised their mommy and aunts on them.

It is the first track on their first album. So it is starting at the beginning.

The Beatles actually did a pretty good job of mixing it up. Now Leonard Cohen, on the other hand, …

Reminds me of a Billy Crystal bit when his daughter asked him if it was true that Paul McCartney was in another group before “Wings.”“Sit down, my child, and let me tell you about that OLD time group—’The Beatles’.”

I understand what the beatles did for music. I understand how many bands that followed were influenced by them. I appreciate what they did for music as a whole. I still don’t actually like their music, and I’m with Clayton here. Resist, Clayton! Don’t let your father brainwash you! Listen to the work that the members of the beatles did AFTER they broke up! It’s much better stuff! Because sometimes you’ve got your mind set on the need to live and let die.

Being the quint essential “Baby Boomer” I can honestly say I was surprised but not totally impressed with the Beetles performance on Ed Sullivan. It was different which caught my attention, but I wasn’t in love with their music. IMHO as time went by they definitely got better then bordered on great in their waning years.

Although I will always be a rock fan I am also moved by classical, and many other genres of music. I have no love of rap although it has it place. To each his/her own.

Clayton is awfully young to be old!

If it all sounds the same to Clayton, perhaps his hearing needs to be checked.

I hoped rap would be a fad but its lasting longer that rock.

I’m going to hurt a lot of feelings, but here goes. The Beatles may live in many people’s hearts as the epitome of youth and fun, but like all things they’re fading.

I’ve got a good friend in his mid-20s who I’ve known for most of his life, he’s got three kids already (don’t judge) and his middle kid — about 4 — has no clue who the Beatles are. His mom and dad have raised him on Juice Wrld and he knows the lyrics to many of his songs, sings along them. Before you make political comments or cracks about his character for letting his kid listen to rap, know that this guy is extremely conservative (unlike me, I’m middle-of-the-road politically) and works his butt off to support his family. This is just how things are in this day and age.

I’d say people under 25 — with few exceptions — don’t give a fig about the Beatles or listen to them at all (unless they’re forced to in the supermarket or the elevator). That’s a broad statement, but it holds with pretty much all the younger folk I know. I realize that’s hard to digest, but it’s true. You can find exceptions I’m sure, but the world has changed.

Jimmy Kimmel interviewed Ringo a few days ago. The story of “Octopus’s Garden” was great. My favorite was George telling Ringo to us an “F demented “ chord ( or whatever it’s called, said Ringo). Reminds me of the old jazz musician joke, what’s God’s favorite chord? G sus.

I preferred the Stones and the Who to the Beatles, but to deny their innovation is wrong. (As an aside, “Get Back” shows Paul as a bit of a tyrant, not concerned about George’s interests and John is more of a cut up than I imagined him to be.)

I love the Beatles!

Rolling Stones were O.K. If a Beatles song comes up on oldies radio it’s a race between me and my wife… to see who can hit the “skip” switch first.

Recently heard some of their pre-Invasion recordings for the first time. I prefer them mid-career after they learned to blend.

Well, I prefer The Stones, but to say that about the Beatles?! BAD BOY!