Fun fact: Third world nations who never heard modern western music before can'r tell the difference between the Beetles and the Monkees.

I bet they can't tell the difference between Bach and Tchaikovsky either, and those two were a lot more separated in time than the Beatles and the Monkees!

Which leads to the interesting question: can they tell the difference between Bach and the Monkees?

(And I am sure I would appear equally dense listening to music of some cultures with which I am unfamiliar.)

Both were great.

Beatles, Monkees, Stones…if your ear’s not tuned to Western music it’s probably all noise. 🙁