el fin de los beatles

So we've finally ended our run with the Beatles after listening to Abbey Road last class, and I have to say they went out in style. Their last album was good, and I felt that it was a good summary of everything that the Beatles had done. It covered a wide range of songs in their medley that seemed to range from their early rock to the newer, weird stuff. I'm going to miss the Beatles unit, they really were a great band and did absolutely incredible things with both their music and their cultural impact on the world. My favorite Beatles album was definitely Rubber Soul. It had aspects of their early rock but also felt more indie, and was definitely the album that is most comparable to indie style music of today (and I like indie). I don't think I had a least favorite album, like you said they grew so much as a band in the span of less than 10 years that it's hard to not respect a certain album for what it is.

Doggystyle

Last weekend my basketball team and I took a trip to Corpus for a basketball tournament. It was a great team building experience and I had a lot of fun. But why am I telling you this? During the car ride my teammate, Ja'Lon Spence, had DJ duty since he was riding shotgun and played all the different kinds of rap that he enjoyed, most of which were crap. However, Ja'Lon, I learned, is an album guy just like yourself. He wasn't a fan of making playlists off of singles he liked, he would start an album from the beginning and play it all the way through. While most of the albums he played were, in my opinion, crap, Snoop Dogg's album Doggystyle really caught my attention. In fact I was even claim that it is one of the best albums that I have ever listened to. For one, there isn't a bad song on there, every song on there was enjoyable to listen to. Second, old Snoop Dogg was a great lyricist, his lyrics are funny yet also tell a story. Third, the music is simple; there is one baseline with a few ad-libs and that's it, the rest is just him spitting rhymes.

Led Zeppelin

Okay so I thought the opening song of Zep 1, "Good Times Bad Times," was really good like I was jamming out big time; It was upbeat and a solid rock song. After that song the rest of the album.... wasn't that great. Like I understand that, yeah it was a piece of instrumental art, but I don't really appreciate that aspect of music. I prefer to listen to music based on if it's.... entertaining (for lack of a better word) to listen to. I thought that most of the Led Zeppelin album was pretty boring, and it actually sounded like one big song.