USCHO Music: From Queen to The Beatles to Lady Gaga

[Kepler]

Your stubborn defiance makes one think more.

The list of artists both musical and cultural from the full span of the past 60 years that would cite them is vast and undeniable. Also easy to find. I'll leave it at that because you're either trolling or out of your depths.

You are merely demonstrating what I said: the Beatles are incredibly influential, and they influenced many better bands than they. That alone makes them a very important band, and puts them in the HOF. They are influential because (2) they were original and created a unique voice, and (3) they were a supernova of financial success. Those are the second and third reasons why bands form. They are the model to emulate both for being a creative force and making a shit ton of money.

For (1), the most important reason bands form (by lightyears), their track record was nothing special. Even Lemmy cleans their clock in that department, and Lemmy ... ew!

Yet the trained consumers cannot bear to be reminded they aren't The GOAT, because their GOATness has nothing to do with them as a band, it was manufactured by their manager and their label and their marketing and multiple generations of cynically laughing music industry worker bees who rode that gravy train. The Beatles are Reagan: extremely important in history, but not in and of themselves. The career-long slime trail of their fawning sycophants has bespattered music criticism ever since. The fact that that cadre are the absolute epitome of Boomer self-absorption is just the cherry on top.

The Beatles as a band are totally fine, admirable, a solid A, and among the best 100 or so rock bands of all time.

"The Beatles" as a supposed emperor head and shoulders above everyone is and always was a profiteering fraud. Not by them -- the Beatles themselves escaped the con of Beatles Exceptionalism, because they were legitimate creators, not the baskers who came after and are so insecure they cannot allow that music has no Greatest Ever, because it is a circle whose center is everywhere.

Now prove you are the better man and just let it go. Opinions can't harm you. I understand that this is an eggshell psyche for a huge number of Boomers but for those who came after, and I assume you are among them, the stakes are zero. Just walk away. It is fine to disagree. What is lame is when someone says "many pies taste good" to keep screaming "NO, MOMMY SAID MY PIE IS THE BESTEST!!!"

 

[Kepler]

NEW YORK (AP) — Five years after their influential drummer and lyricist Neil Peart died of glioblastoma, the Canadian band Rush have announced a reunion tour.

On Monday, Rush co-founders Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson revealed a 12-date, seven city tour is scheduled for summer 2026, kicking off in June at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles — where the band played their final show in 2015.

The reunion tour will end in Cleveland in September 2026. They’ll also hit Mexico City, Fort Worth, Texas, Chicago, New York and Toronto.

Taking Peart’s place is celebrated German composer and producer Anika Nilles. She has previously toured with Jeff Beck.

Never heard of her. She's great. That song sucks but just watch her skip through those signatures like Coltrane on Giant Steps.

I hope she's a Marxist.