Tuesday, March 19, 2013

The Beatles discography is like a concert!


/mu/ I've just had this weird thought.

I have made myself a metaphor for the Beatles discography. 

If you look at the structure of it, their discography seems to be like that of a concert progression. 
The first third of the concert are the songs that make people want to dance and feel happy, while singing about simple topics and ultimately having very little artistic value. Then just before halfway through the concert, they decide to mix things up and get creative. Their halfway hits and they decide to change mood; the audience has had a few drinks and are fully starting to enjoy the night of entertainment and the band now feels they can do what they want on the stage. Two thirds of the way into the album is where the band is at their peak; they are comfortable with the audience, they are able to play what they want, and they are content in their abilities as musicians. Just after that huge creative, confident spur is the part of the concert where they all start to solo, and the band sort of dissolves the regular playlist/song structures to both show off to the audience, and enjoy themselves as individuals more than as the band. 
Eventually that dies down, and all you have left is the band at the crux, as four guys who came together at the start of the night to play some music, trying to send the night out in that musical climax that makes the evening so enjoyable and so memorable, that grand finale that people wait for, which ends almost as quickly as it begins.
As the finale wears off, and the band members are both happy with their performance, as well as sick of playing on stage, one, maybe two of the members return for that farewell to the audience. They play without a setlist, trying to bask in the feeling of the night for one last time before it's time to pack up and go.

And then, just as it started with a soppy song about a girl standing, it ends with the first member to finish the night saying thank you to the crowd, saying that one last ironic statement


Now yeah, this is unintentional and obviously I'm making connections out of nothing.
...but I think this concept is interesting.