COLD BEETLE
Rock & roll, hippies, drugs; these are some words that can describe the 60’s and part of the 70’s. Beautiful decades, where the women liberation began, mini-skirts appeared and drugs became popular. The 60’s was synonym of revolution, a decade where people could wish to be free and be free moreover the music was an incredible influence for the young people and the existence of bands like the Doors, the Who, and the Rolling Stones inspired people for expressing their ideas against the government. Today it is very different, music and lyrics are different they have no sense and they have artificial sounds, that means sounds created or made by the computer. Something that can be rescued from today is that there are bands that still having real music, but they are influenced, obviously, by the best decades the 60’s and the 70’s.
Without a doubt, the most important band in the 60’s and part of the 70’s was the Beatles, a band conformed by four members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Star, their brilliant minds created beautiful songs, love songs, revolutionary songs, psychedelic songs, all of these were the reason why they were famous. Some important lyrics which began from the feeling of love were: love me do, It’s only love, Baby it’s you and Do you want to know a secret?, for the revolutionary time there can be mentioned the perfect song: Revolution and finally for the psychedelic time: Lucy in the sky, Straw berry fields and a Day in the life. As it is mentioned in “Univision musica.com” The Beatles were the band that sold more Discs around the world with 1.000.000.000 discs sold.
One of the best bands nowadays is Cold play, a band of four members Chris Martin, Jon Buckland, Guy Berryman and will champion, Cold play is an alternative rock band that create songs of love, but in a particular way they write songs mainly of the lack of love, their music is soft and sweet, also they have songs that talks about personal success and about things that happen every day or about the love but seen from a third person point of view. One of the songs that could be for the lack of love is yellow and for personal success there can be mentioned fix you, things that happened every day: clocks and lovers in Japan for the love songs. Cold play is consider one of the best bands in the world, its music inspired many people, make them reflect about their life’s style and about what they are in this world, as “Univision musica.com” said cold play sold 50 million of discs around the world, cold play became in one of the music influences in the world.
It is very difficult to compare both bands, because the Beatles began in the 60’s, specifically The Beatles began in 19961 it is a rock and pop band, in the other hand cold play is an alternative rock band they started in 1998 it was another decade with different social problems. The Beatles began with a revolutionary way of dressing, their hair was different and against the social rules, then they changed their look, because they was influenced by the Indian culture finally they took the 70’s way of dressing with flared jeans and long hair, but cold play they still having the same image since the beginning they just change their music as well as The Beatles but their way of dressing is the same. The type of lyrics both bands manage is quite different, because one band is full of changes they began with love songs just for getting women’s attention and the other band has alternative lyrics with modern topics. The Beatles was popular because they revolutionized the music they introduced many changes about lyrics and type of cloths and nowadays Cold play is popular because they expressed on their music their ideas and daily happenings, their lyrics and music is original in this time that is why they are popular.
Although both bands have advantages and disadvantages, they are good bands their inspire feelings of change and love they make a better world with their music, as it is mentioned Cold play has their basis from bands like The Beatles and they have almost the same inspiration when writing a song, both bands perform their feelings and ideas as good as possible both bands are original and they are kind of complement in a personal opinion Cold play is in charge of maintaining the good music the meaningful music, cold play can be considered as a perfect successor of the grates band aver the Beatles.
