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| From | Benjamin Lukoff <lukoff@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: __________ are my Beatles |
| Date | Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:33:15 -0700 |
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On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:37 PM, <nonstoppop@cox.net> wrote:
> > If there is another younger band or artist that had a major impact on
> your life in
> >a way that the Beatles impacted an earlier generation, what is it?
>
> If we're talking an artist whose albums impacted me as they were putting
> them out, then I'd have to say Morrissey. If we're talking about artists
> whose albums impacted me as I discovered them, then the Beatles were my
> Beatles, in that they were the wellspring from which my subsequent obsession
> with music flowed. If my next-door neighbor hadn't given me the "20 Greatest
> Hits" album as a present one year, I don't know WHERE I'd be today.
>
No artist had a series of albums that impacted me as they were putting them
out the way the Beatles impacted me as I discovered them. But I discovered
the Beatles early. The group whose catalog I had the most pleasure
discovering *after* the Beatles would have been XTC, and I even had the
pleasure of being able to really get into them while they were still
(barely) active (after *Nonsuch* but before *Apple Venus Volume 1*, though I
did purchase *Oranges & Lemons *when it came out).
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