Music Memoirs: Intro to the Beatles Binge and Notes on Please Please Me

            So after needing to really start finals' studying because I had not done anything all day and it was now 1:30 am, i decided to download the Across the Universe soundtrack to listen to while i read abnormal psychology. After listening to this whole album through, i decided to go full out and get the whole Beatles Original Discography. 
           After doing this, I thought, "Well, i never have really sat there and just listened through Beatles stuff. I know a lot of songs but i dont really KNOW the Beatles." I grew up with them so they were around in my head, but i didnt grow up with them when they were big, that was my parents time. My bands that Ive followed and lived with are ones like Dave Matthews Band, Avenged Sevenfold, and even some various top 40s people that do to mass broadcasting i end up hearing, getting into, and being knowledgable on their music. Oh and Glee. 
           So then I decided to embark on a journey to listen to all the Beatles albums in chronological order. So i put on a visualizer and put the first album, Please Please Me, on. I listened to it fully through. (At some point i even turned off the visualizer and just listened with my eyes closed, but i did hear the whole album; i did not fall asleep.) After i jotted down these notes:

Please Please Me: 1963
- can easily see movement around 4th...new sound
- very "garage band of friends" sound
           - personal
              - kinda feels like the neighborhood kids in a garage playing around
                - its a fun sound
           - unique (even though this becomes the new standard)
- even without accompaniment like we are used to nowadays which makes a very full sound, there seems to be alot going on (even at this point before they got into all their crazy stuff)
          - several harmonic voices
          - a full band set with very distinctive instruments
          - not over filled, notes hold for longer instead of just being constantly replayed

           So now here is the plan. Im going to continue to do this when I have a chance. Sit down, become aloft, put on a Beatles album, and simply listen to it through. Afterwards, i will write down simple outlined notes, as i did above, and later, once Ive listened through everything, I will look over my notes, ruminate on my memories and write out a nice little paper on my thoughts on the Beatles as a whole. 
           Lets see if i can do this. 

(Because if i can, that will be freaking sweet. Like, after the removable of any trace of loftness, i could publish this paper or use it for something. Whos knows? Either way it will be really cool to have.)

Music Memoirs: An Intro and Top 40s

This will be something i post about often and might even compile to a real journal. Theres too much to explain to have in just one post, so I must stay focused on one thought per post, because otherwise ill never stop and it will never be done. No other introduction should be necessary, most of music and its greatness should already be understood to you. 

            Top 40s music. Whether it is actually good or not, is not this discussion of its post. Rather, a revelation about it. I had on my DMB Pandora station, which was having a fantastic night, and Hotel California by the Eagles came on. I had been talking to my roommates when it came on, and during a pause in our conversation he said that the Eagles weren't really that special. I understand that to mean, yea, they were great musicians  but nothing really of that much more superb or equal to the other greats of their time. 

           Then I realized this. They are playing very easy 4/4 beats that actually have a hit on each beat with a strong beat emphasis on the first of the measure. They are the easy four chord variation. Its something that easily syncs with the inner human metronome. People are easily able to have good conversation over it, because it doesnt mess with the inner ticker. Which makes it great party music, or music that can be used as a background to fill the void of sound while doing mundane tasks. 

           Top 40s music becomes popular for this reason. These people arent actually listening to music for the music and beauty, but rather something they can fill the "space-out" void with. When played at parties, it makes up for the awkward silences, because it keeps everybody on the same metronome. You can see this at parties when people walk, a lot of the times they walk-bounce to the beat. These people dont really see the music. 

          Which explains the following. Its seems that weird people (the people that stick out, maybe they are part of some crowd partially, but they are still weird) happen to also usually listen to "strange" music. Music that doesnt fit the norm. Maybe they listen to that stuff to, but they also listen to this "different" stuff, that most people wouldnt enjoy. This could be because they arent so strapped down to the normal inner beat. They are 

Ok, so at this point a friend came over and i wasnt able to finish the thought...so i came back later, sober, and wrote this:

more inclined to be not as linked to that standard beat and therefore dont sync in with the whole group as well. 

For now im leaving it like this because the inspiration is gone. If it comes back then this shall be finished.