Modern Popular Music MUH2019 01 October 7 2011 Friday Review NEWPORT FOLK FEST where Dylan went electric The Beatles Musical Experimentation Begins incorporating classical instruments and influences Use experiments techniques in the studio George Martin has more creative input as producer Add experimental instruments song forms and lyrical content The Beatles Help 1965 album Sountrack to Help Film Side A is in film Side B is additional tracks Fifth full album Advances in songwriting Yesterday sung by Paul alone with strong Quartet One of most covered songs of all time Act Naturally sung by Ringo Country cover song The Beatles Rubber Soul 1965 album Expands conventional rock and roll sound Cohesive album instead of set of singles Songs feature a darker look at relationships Norwegian Wood This Bird Has Flown first rock song to use the sitar instrument In My Life Personal song about Lennon s childhood Run for Your Life Threat to the singer s unnamed girlfriend The Beach Boys Pet Sounds 1966 album Brian Wilson 1964 Stops touring with Beach Boys after nervous breakdown Focused solely on songwriting and studio production Inspired to write Pet Sounds after hearing the U S version of Rubber Soul Concept album an album in which all the songs contribute to a single overall theme or narrative One of the most influential albums of all time Although a Beach Boys release Pet Sounds was essentially a Brian Wilson project recorded with the Wrecking Crew and inspired by Spector s Wall of Sound Elaborate song arrangements with unconventional instruments Wouldn t it be Nice Sloop John B God Only Knows Good Vibrations 1966 Hit single recorded but not released with Pet Sounds The Beatles Revolver 1966 album Expanded studio innovations complexity made many songs impossible to perform on stage One of the first psychedelic albums Eleanor Rigby Poetic lyrics classical instrumentation and sng form Tomorrow Never Knows Lyrics from a book by LSD guru Timothy Leary Tape loops irregular drum pattern Indian inspired drone The Beatle s scandals and challenges 1966 John Lennon s More popular than Jesus comment No public reaction in UK but caused huge uproar in US with protests album burnings threats
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