Beatles: Old vs. New

        I know a lot of people like the newer songs made by The Beatles, but so far, I like the older ones. I do like some particular songs from their more recent albums, but I like the old albums more. Their old songs are good. Really good. But their new ones are much more meaningful and they have much more diversity. But saying this, these songs, the new good ones, are not as frequent as their old, okay ones. There is a whole album with a bunch of okay/good songs. Compared to three amazing songs out of 14 or so songs on their newer albums. If that makes sense. I know it sounds like a bunch of contradictive crap, but bear with me.
         I guess I like them more when they are younger and not as experienced because they were innocent. And it is not very often that rock bands are innocent. I get it. Their rebel personalities is what people love rock bands for. But I really admired them for being different and they still had the ability to sound good. They didn't have to be on drugs. Whenever I hear a song by John Lennon from their more recent albums, I just think he sounds like a kid singing to himself and making his voice sound funny. Which is sad, because I really admired him in some of his earlier songs with Paul McCartney. Now, I am not denying that drugs haven't made some of their songs even better. They have in a way. Their lyrics actually tell stories and talk about meaningful things.
        And maybe it is the girl inside of me that likes the sweet, cute-faced Paul McCartney more than the dirty, druggie that he is later in the 60's. Some of it is probably that because they do make some killer music on drugs, I just wish they could make music to the same degree of greatness while sober. Call me a freak. Or whatever. I know a lot of people would say that drugs are what make rock n roll. And maybe that is why I am not the biggest fan of it. I enjoy certain songs, but definently not all of them.

Here is what I love and miss. This was my first favorite Beatles song. I still am in love with it.




They look like really nice, well manecured boys who love their moms. Compared to this.




And I know I shouldn't just judge them on their looks; That I should judge them based on their sound. They do sound incredible. But today, images play a lot in things. You can say, 'Don't judge a book by its cover,' but people are going to judge THE DANG BOOK BY ITS COVER. And there is nothing you can do about it.