[Rob Instigator]

the beatles were sucking at the hippie teat.

[atsonicpark]

BeatDULLS.

...Kinda quinox-y, I guess.

[pbradley]

Merzbeatles.

It's a mix I did of Revolver and assorted Merzbow material.

I deleted it afterwards because it was too awesome to exist.

[atsonicpark]

That's funny pbradley, when all that jay-z "black album" mash-up shit was happening, I remember telling a friend that I was going to do one where I just take Jay-Z acapella samples and place them over random Merzbow tracks.

...Maybe I SHOULD still do that. A little late now, though.

[DeadDiscoDildo]

Originally Posted by sarramkrop

Sterling Morrison - middle class
Lou Reed - middle class
John Cale - middle class


Mo' Tucker - working class, not exactly too bad off, though.

Thank you, this whole obsession over class is bullshit. You don't choose what you're born into you choose what you do with your life. There are cunts from every class.

[Glice]

Middle-class people do whinge more though. Essentially, there's never been a working class emo band. Discuss.

[demonrail666]

i can think of plenty of working class bands that had a sort of emo element (the smiths?) but that weren't really all that popular with working class listeners. Bowie, maybe?

[Keeping It Simple]

Are Sonic Youth working class?

[Rob Instigator]

hell no
they are art school students

ha! J/K

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by sarramkrop

The Beatles - weren't they all from working class backgrounds?

As far as I know, John Lennon was sort of lower middle class while the rest were solid working class.

[Keeping It Simple]

Originally Posted by sarramkrop

The Beatles - weren't they all from working class backgrounds?

John Lennon did write the rather brilliant "Working Class Hero", which David Bowie covered with his group Tin Machine.

[Keeping It Simple]

Who is the most working class member of Sonic Youth?

[demonrail666]

i don't really understand how class works in the US. I don't really understand how it works in the UK either, for that matter.

[Keeping It Simple]

Up the workers!

[Glice]

Originally Posted by demonrail666

i don't really understand how class works in the US. I don't really understand how it works in the UK either, for that matter.

This is utter bollocks. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that this is not just the most bollocks you've ever spouted, but is very close to the most bollocks ever spouted on this forum.

[Torn Curtain]

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/...o-box-in-mono/

[Genteel Death]

middle class people are well-off working class anyway.

[Keeping It Simple]

Originally Posted by Genteel Death

middle class people are well-off working class anyway.

And I suppose the upper class are well-off middle class people?

[Genteel Death]

Originally Posted by Keeping It Simple

And I suppose the upper class are well-off middle class people?

No?

[simulated stereo]

Originally Posted by pbradley

I guess The Velvet Underground are influenced by the Beatles, too?

Originally Posted by sarramkrop

I have a practice recording of Lou reed at the factory playing the riff of ''daytripper'' for about 10 seconds. It surprises me since I always assumed the beatles were hated by vu.

Just to add to this, I was reading an old issue of Mojo, the 101 Best Beatles Songs issue and came across this blurb by John Cale:

They were a driving force in the Velvets, and made us work harder and got us on our bikes. Rubber Soul was where you you were forced to deal with them as something other than a flash in the pan. It was rich in ideas and I loved the way George managed to find a way to include all those Indian instruments.