Comments on: Fans: Curatorial Masters of the Web http://www.onlinefandom.com/archives/fans-curatorial-masters-of-the-web/ news & perspectives on fan communication and online social life Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:03:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Page 48 http://www.onlinefandom.com/archives/fans-curatorial-masters-of-the-web/comment-page-1/#comment-1365 Page 48 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 02:29:22 +0000 http://www.onlinefandom.com/?p=526#comment-1365 It's not surprising that people in their 70's would like The Beatles, but more so that it would take so long for them to come around. The Beatles, after all, are your parents' peers (with Ringo turning 69 in 2009), and I'm sure they enjoy a very healthy following among the purple rinse crowd (although my parents were never impressed). Heck, George Martin is 82 or thereabouts. The Beatles, however, are just as apt to have fans not IN their 70's, but BORN in the 70's, which I think sets them aside from most everyone else in the business. I'm pushing up against 50 and my most recent CD purchase was "Let It Be...Naked", complete with it's useless bonus CD. I reckon The Beatles look and sound pretty safe in today's cultural race to the bottom. Amazon doesn't have to list their CD's as 'Clean' or 'Explicit' and each CD sounds like it came from a brand new band, so your folks can 'discover' The Fab Four over and over. How great is that? On the subject of evolving media, anyone who bought music on tape, whether 8-track or cassette, should be awarded some sort of deluxe CD as compensation, never mind having to pay for it again. And then there's the issue of the original CD as opposed to the 'remastered' CD. At the very least, you should be able to exchange your stone-age CD for the digitally enhanced version at a serious discount to the sticker price. No wonder peer to peer is thriving. In closing, if your parents love catchy pop songs and really want to spice things up, I recommend my recently discovered new favourite show, "Pink, Live From Wembley Arena", found at: http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-gb&vid=86c498c5-b3a0-42c9-9712-9232931849ff All I can say about that show is WOW, but I must say that, despite being a such a gifted singing machine, Pink could elevate her game by checking her F-Bombs at the door. Girl needs to learn that she can be Pink without being Punk. BTW, your anti-spam word, 'peace', is very appropriate for a post about The Beatles. It’s not surprising that people in their 70′s would like The Beatles, but more so that it would take so long for them to come around. The Beatles, after all, are your parents’ peers (with Ringo turning 69 in 2009), and I’m sure they enjoy a very healthy following among the purple rinse crowd (although my parents were never impressed). Heck, George Martin is 82 or thereabouts.

The Beatles, however, are just as apt to have fans not IN their 70′s, but BORN in the 70′s, which I think sets them aside from most everyone else in the business. I’m pushing up against 50 and my most recent CD purchase was “Let It Be…Naked”, complete with it’s useless bonus CD.

I reckon The Beatles look and sound pretty safe in today’s cultural race to the bottom. Amazon doesn’t have to list their CD’s as ‘Clean’ or ‘Explicit’ and each CD sounds like it came from a brand new band, so your folks can ‘discover’ The Fab Four over and over. How great is that?

On the subject of evolving media, anyone who bought music on tape, whether 8-track or cassette, should be awarded some sort of deluxe CD as compensation, never mind having to pay for it again. And then there’s the issue of the original CD as opposed to the ‘remastered’ CD. At the very least, you should be able to exchange your stone-age CD for the digitally enhanced version at a serious discount to the sticker price. No wonder peer to peer is thriving.

In closing, if your parents love catchy pop songs and really want to spice things up, I recommend my recently discovered new favourite show, “Pink, Live From Wembley Arena”, found at:

http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-gb&vid=86c498c5-b3a0-42c9-9712-9232931849ff

All I can say about that show is WOW, but I must say that, despite being a such a gifted singing machine, Pink could elevate her game by checking her F-Bombs at the door. Girl needs to learn that she can be Pink without being Punk.

BTW, your anti-spam word, ‘peace’, is very appropriate for a post about The Beatles.

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