The Beatles : Rock or Pop ?!
Question: Even they though are a great band.. i see them as a pop band.
Answers: Even they though are a great band.. i see them as a pop band.
"Yer Blues"
"Revolution 9"
"Savoy Truffle"
"Back In The U.S.S.R."
"Glass Onion"
"Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey"
Just off their "White Album" all ROCK!
Remember that you're viewing them from a long ways off. The music they started with was very controversial at first. There were mass public burnings of their records. Pop? Right!
From here, their early stuff, some, not all. Their later stuff, rarely!
pop
PoP!
Yes, I do agree with you. I love that band, but their songs seem a little popish. Another artist that I like is Don McLean who sang "American Pie". I recognize his music to be more pop than rock.
Pock or Rop.
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It was officially called POP, but I never really got what POP music meant.... POP just means popular. Their music was very much in a rock'n'roll and rock style and the only reason they were called POP was because they were hugely popular!
If they were performing today, they would be pop. But in all time, they're rock. They're no. 1 on my list of the 100 greatest rock bands of all time.
pop band.
they did a few R&R before they became famous.
As they later topped the charts on a regular basis,then by definition they were became pop
They were a Rock band. Many artists over the years, redid them to a more Pop style, even classical. As time has passed, I can see why people feel they were more of a Pop band.
Although they have some rock elements to their music, i would still say they were a pop band.
i think they were both. people today have preconceived notions of what rock is based of off what they now listen to. if they didnt have crunching guitars then they werent rock? come on. also, m o h a m m a d needs a history lesson as well as a boot to the face. you are ignorant, plain and simple. forgetting about that loser, why would a song like taxman be considered pop? im sure everyone here (with the exception of aforementioned loser) could name a beatles song that was a rock song.
I would say they were pop since the word 'pop' means popular and you couldn't get more popular than they were! But I think they had elements of rock n' roll to them, for sure. Especially John Lennon.
The WERE rock in the 60's.
I suppose compared to rock of today they sound mild but they were ROCK.
They did some pop too and a few love songs but they were rock.
Their music now falls into what is considered pop by todays standards.
Check out, "I saw her standing there."
Then they would do something like "Michelle, Ma Belle" and it was a love song.
They were accomplished musicians. Guitar, piano, harmonica, to name a few. They wrote their own music and combined chords that no group had tried before and made it sound good.
They didn't stick to just one sound like so many of todays bands, they branched out, tried new sounds.
They laid a foundation that many others built on.
Their music appealed to a wide spectrum of listeners. How many bands can say that today?'
The only one that comes to mind is the Eagles. They can do pop, love songs and they can rock with the best of them. Haven't heard them do heavy metal so if that is your measure of rock forget it.
Before "Pop" was its own genre, the Beatles were a rock & roll band making catchy pop tunes, which at the time was also part of a very collective genre of rock & roll. But their library is much deeper than this. They really came before anything that we could consider "rock" by todays standards - even Elvis had his fair share of top of the charts pop songs, and he's the King of Rock & Roll. And their bad boy alter egos, the Stones, had a plethora of soft, popish songs in their library as well.
If your knowledge of the Beatles is their #1's, then you're not going to hear many rock songs in their work - the catchy Pop tunes were the quickest to rise and the fans bought these singles in record numbers. But beyond this No. 1 list, many of their songs are definitive examples of early Rock songs, with heavy Blues and Soul influence. They even devoted whole albums to covers of earlier rock and blues songs.
I'll always see them as a rock & roll band. They just made some great pop music. And we just can't draw the same line between the two genres that we do today - there was more overlap between rock and pop than distinction - heavier, harder rock was still a few years down the pipeline.
why cant they be both?
ROCK
I think they were able to classify as rock at the time, but if they were still making music today it would be called pop
both..........
Rock
Pop. John Lennon himself said he was only writing singles, then putting them on albums. That = pop.
both.
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I've always thought of them as a Rock band, and I actually class them as one of the first bands in the Classic Rock genre.
By todays standards, many may think of them as Pop, but in the 60's, they and their contempories were Rock.
THANK GOD IM NOT ALONE. everyone calls them such a great rock band. they were more of a instrumental boy band than a rock band. im not sexist, but most of their fans were probably female. how many REAL rock bands had that. that fact alone likens them to more of a 60s backstreet boys than a rock band. and i have yet to hear a song of theirs with a guitar solo. and no they arent a great band either. theyre an overrated instrumental boy band who are just considered so great because they were the first ones to get famous. thats it