may i just ask also do you ever listen to their earlier stuff?

The reason i ask is that personally i have found that there is a vast amount of people, who werent around when the beatles were, tend to get into the beatles because of their middle period, ie, rubber soul, revolver and sgt peppers, and that is no bad thing.
Personally i started at the beginning with please please me, and it is interesting for example when you compare their first album (please please me) to their 7th (revolver) it is like chalk and cheese.
but if you went through the albums in order there is very little difference between the 1st and 2nd, 2nd and 3rd, 4th and 5th, etc etc, so even when you take two of their albums at random may sound completely different , taking them in order shows how they got to where they went.

How many bands these days, they come out with their first album have success but never live up to their own hype with their second or third album?
THats why bands like beatles and queen are still popular years after their demise.

I suppose though when you think about it, a bands debut album is actually like a greatest hits compilation because it is the product of years of work, whereby their second album has to be completed in a matter of months. Does that make sense?

I do listen to some of the earlier stuff, but not that often.

Bands have to have different sounds with each album to be successful, in my opinion.

Take Franz Ferdinand, for instance. Both of their albums are pretty much the same - safe, but the same.
That's why most artists tend to fade out.

yeh franz ferdinand should get out of the 80's lol

Nothing wrong with the 80's.........!

the 80's music is vastly underrated but thats cause most people presume its all this new romantic stuff, but the amount of good stuff that was there is impressive

I listen to a lot of 80's stuff.

i was brought up listenting to 80's stuff thats the benefit of being born in 1980. lol

Yeah, i was brought up in the 90's..(i was born in 1987)

Unfortunately, my mum always listened to whitney houston and mariah carey.

thats not good,
my mother was into the whole 60's motown thing and my dad was into john lennon and dire straits
and the eurythmics and a bit of country

fortunatley hes grown out of listenting to kenny rogers and dolly parton. lol

My mum was into queen and meatloaf as well as mariah & whitney.

My dad liked the clash, undertones, the jam, bruce springsteen.

I like all of them(apart from Mariah & whitney, obviously).

lol
its funny how some of the stuff that parents are into means that the kids grow up disliking but some stuff they grow up liking.

By the way, where are you from?

Yeah.

Like i own every single Bruce Springsteen CD that he ever released here. But i'd rather burn a mariah carey CD. it's funny.

I'm from Nottingham, the land of guncrime.

lol, just incase you aint worked it out, im from glasgow. lol

I did figure it out!