Someone is dissin' the Beatles. At first, my hackles were raised as this Canadian journalist explained, in great detail, how possibly irrelevant much of the Beatles' music is to the digital music world of today. Lynn Crosbie's piece, Boomers Have Dictated Popular Taste Too Long in the Globe and Mail is fairly forthright - and makes sense. Her hook is that there's talk of the Beatles catalog being released in digital format for media players, iPods and so forth. Crosbie doesn't see this as a huge gain for the world.
Consider one of her comments,
"Those tyrants, the baby boomers, have dictated popular taste...