The Beatles Coming to Spotify Tomorrow

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I don't use Spotify. I've got their entire catalog in my iTunes Match library though.

I will admit this is pretty big news for streaming though. Do they have Led Zeppelin yet?
 
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Good for Spotify and Apple, Inc., but they have been streaming on Pandora and other sites for a long time now.

Honestly, I am not sure why this is such big news.
 
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orangetd88 said:
Good for Spotify and Apple, Inc., but they have been streaming on Pandora and other sites for a long time now.

Honestly, I am not sure why this is such big news.
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It's now available on demand... play the song or album that you want to hear at any time. I don't think that Pandora allows you to pick the songs... just the artist's style. But I don't listen to Pandora anymore since I subscribe to Spotify. Maybe they let you create song libraries now.
 
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burntorangeVOLffle said:
I don't use Spotify. I've got their entire catalog in my iTunes Match library though.

I will admit this is pretty big news for streaming though. Do they have Led Zeppelin yet?
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Led Zep has been on Spotify for a while now. AC DC was recently added... it wasn't included two years ago.
 
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I usually use Pandora, but it's not the best if you want to hear a certain song. How does Spotify work? Usually if I want to listen to a certain song that I don't already have I have to go to YouTube and it eats my data up.
 
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Stoked said:
I usually use Pandora, but it's not the best if you want to hear a certain song. How does Spotify work? Usually if I want to listen to a certain song that I don't already have I have to go to YouTube and it eats my data up.
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With Spotify you create playlists with exactly what you want to hear. You can listen to entire albums, artists, or songs. There is a free version. For the $10/month premium version you are allowed to kept about 3,000 songs downloaded to your device in order to listen to your play lists while not connected to the internet. Also, with premium you can increase the audio quality over the free version. Third benefit of the pay version is that there is no advertising.
 
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Not a fan. I appreciate their contribution to the music industry but frankly, their music bores me to tears. It just lacks balls IMO.
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
Not a fan. I appreciate their contribution to the music industry but frankly, their music bores me to tears. It just lacks balls IMO.
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It was extremely ballsy for the time it came out. One of the first, if not the first, to use guitar feedback in a recording. I Feel Fine (1964).

The White album probably has the first metal.
 
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Somebody told me once that anyone who says they don't like a the Beatles has never really listened to The Beatles.
 
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This is good news. I complained to Spotify not long ago about the lack of Beatles music. I'm sure its all to my credit. lol
 
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burntorangeVOLffle said:
Somebody told me once that anyone who says they don't like a the Beatles has never really listened to The Beatles.
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The closer that I listen, the more I'm liking them.

Everybody has their own taste. To me the Beatles have amazing two and three part harmonies, were very innovative in the studio (especially considering everything that they recorded was pre-digital), evolved over their entire career, and they changed popular and rock music. There oldest stuff often sounds pretty hokey... but comparing it to the rest of pop/rock at the time it was very cutting edge. I like the music of Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, the Rolling Stones, and Lynyrd Skynyrd more than the Beatles' music but it is fun to go back and listen to the history that the Beatles were making by ramping up the edginess of their recordings.

To be honest, I've recognized about 90% or so of their songs for a long time, but I've only known the names of about a quarter of them. I've never owned a Beatles record... but I'm listening to their stuff on Spotify a lot right now.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
The closer that I listen, the more I'm liking them.

Everybody has their own taste. To me the Beatles have amazing two and three part harmonies, were very innovative in the studio (especially considering everything that they recorded was pre-digital), evolved over their entire career, and they changed popular and rock music. There oldest stuff often sounds pretty hokey... but comparing it to the rest of pop/rock at the time it was very cutting edge. I like the music of Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, the Rolling Stones, and Lynyrd Skynyrd more than the Beatles' music but it is fun to go back and listen to the history that the Beatles were making by ramping up the edginess of their recordings.

To be honest, I've recognized about 90% or so of their songs for a long time, but I've only known the names of about a quarter of them. I've never owned a Beatles record... but I'm listening to their stuff on Spotify a lot right now.
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Listen to Rubber Soul start to finish. Although Sgt Peppers get most of the credit as the breakout experimental album, you hear the ground work being laid in Rubber Soul.

Revolver remains my favorite album. Probably because it was the first one I owned.
 
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burntorangeVOLffle said:
Listen to Rubber Soul start to finish. Although Sgt Peppers get most of the credit as the breakout experimental album, you hear the ground work being laid in Rubber Soul.

Revolver remains my favorite album. Probably because it was the first one I owned.
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I've been listening to the red anthology the most right now. I've been skipping through the songs on all of the studio albums... listen to the intro and a little beyond and then on to the next song. It's hard to tell who's singing sometimes. They fake me out when they blend the Paul and John vocal tracks together. Then sometimes they'll alternate verse and chorus... which is usually easy to hear the contrasting voices. Got to pay attention... a few of the later tracks are George. Ringo is easy to hear... not much range. Lennon has a unique voice and is usually fairly easy to peg, but Paul has a lot of range... sometimes it takes a few lines to figure out it's him. I'll be a bit of an expert on their tunes in a month or two.
 
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burntorangeVOLffle said:
Somebody told me once that anyone who says they don't like a the Beatles has never really listened to The Beatles.
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Not true at all. I have listened to a LOT of Beatles music. I'm not going to lie and say I've listened to their entire catalogue front to back but believe me, I've listened to way more than just the casual listener.

Like I've said before, I can appreciate their contributions to music, however my taste in music (for the most part) just doesn't mesh with what they created. Some of things I do enjoy from them I've enjoyed more when covered by different artsts...

A Little Help From My Friends (Joe Cocker)
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Jeff Healey)
Hey Jude (Wilson Picket with Duane Allman)

There are a few others I like OK like Come Together, Eleanor Rigby, Revolution, A Day In The Life, etc. However it's just not enough for me to truly consider myself a fan. It's just too "soft" for my taste.

Of that same era, I'm just a much bigger fan of the blues-influenced rock bands like The Stones, Cream, Led Zeppelin, The MC5, Free, The Who, etc.
 
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Beatles were innovative and changed music. Their work was historic. They kept evolving too but keep it melodic for the most part so that their fan base didn't walk away. They were primarily two singer/song writers that created new stuff in the studio. They started out with an amazing following of mainly young girls. But even with the first album or two... they played a little louder and a little faster than the other pre 1965 acts. Then after a couple years they put out a lot of drug induced, bizarre stuff. Finally they said we good... we got plenty of money... we done.

Paul Mc is generally too mellow for my taste. But he does throw an occasional curve ball with a harder track or two.
 
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