h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Through my whole life I've been very influenced by the 60s music - I still believe that was the decade when all the best music was written. This may be because my mother always made me listen to musicians like the Monkees, Cliff Richard, Procol Harum, Ben E. King, the Animals... In short; loads of 60s music. But with one great exception: The Beatles. My mother never was a great Beatles fan, so naturally I never listened to it either.

Of course I could sing Yesterday and Yellow Submarine to perfection, but I never had a vivid memory of listening to the Beatles, except once in 3rd grade, when we had a replacement teacher who had nothing to do for a music lesson and a loads of albums, so he made us listen to Strawberry Fields Forever and told us all about the 'Paul is Dead' stories. Being quite young at the time, it only succeeded in freaking me out.

Then many years later, with another teacher I remember fondly, we had a school breakfast and he decided to put Black Bird on the player. I still can't taste baguettes with cheese without hearing his voice humming along to that sweet melody.

And now, or last week to be excact, I suddenly caught a few notes of Black Bird again somewhere, and I decided that now I shall go forth and explore the music of Beatles. And what a joy it is! I'm only 35 years too late anyway...

Strawberry Fields Forever, Help!, Black Bird, Yellow Submarine, A Hard Day's Night, I Want to Hold Your Hand, Eleanor Rigby, Norwegian Wood, Hey Jude, Let it Be, In My Life... I see now why the praise won't ever stop. She Loves You still makes me frown uneasily though, but I suspect that's only because I've heard so many lousy cover-versions...

Well you got there in the end... See what you've been missing?

-Nate

Hmm... That makes me think that there may be more great things I have overlooked because of my upbringing...

What about the 80s? I never got the point of the 80s, except being born. Did anything great happen in those ten years?

No. Nope. Nothing. Nein. Non. Nil... not a sausage. Wasn't even a good decade for music..

All we did was be born..

-Nate

But that should make up for it all, right?

Not in my case

-Nate