# I Hate Beatles Fans **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 28, 2011, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-beatles-fans/604334 "2011-11-28T13:12:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 175
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-beatles-fans/604334/175 "2011-11-30T19:36:13Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > I think it’s time to say something **quantifiable** about music in the 1960s. For whatever reasons (I’m guessing pressure from their record labels) artists and groups during that time tended to release an album or two _each year._ The Beatles are at the top of the distribution, with their 14 albums in, what, 7 years, but they weren’t an outlier. Between 1965 and 1970, Eric Clapton released 8 studio albums - 4 with Cream, and 1 each with the Yardbirds, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Blind Faith, and Derek and the Dominoes. The Rolling Stones’ _Exile on Main St._ (1972) was their 10th UK studio album and their 12th US studio album. And so forth. > > … > > What’s happening now? Things seem to be slowing down each decade. Pearl Jam had 7 studio albums between 1991 and 2002 (plus 2 since); Green Day had 6 studio albums between 1990 and 2000, plus 2 since. More recently, Coldplay has had 5 studio albums beginning in 2000; Arcade Fire has had 3 beginning in 2004. > > Quite simply, the most talented artists and groups of more recent eras are _producing less music over a longer stretch of time_ than in the 1960s. I think this phenomenon deserves its own thread, but something to bear in mind is that modern records are far longer than those released in the 1960s and 70s. _My Generation_ was 36 minutes long. _Sgt. Pepper’s_ was 39 minutes long. Nobody except punk and post-punk bands release records that short now. \*Both \*of Guns and Roses’ _Use Your Illusion_ albums clocked in at over 75 minutes. The much more raw _Appetite for Destruction_ was itself 53 minutes. The Black Album/_Metallica_ is 62 minutes. Maybe the easiest way to look at the phenomenon is to look at albums released by bands who recorded then and now. The Rolling Stones’ self-titled album was 33 minutes long. _A Bigger Bang_ and _Bridges to Babylon_ are both more than 60 minutes long. The Who’s _Endless Wire_ is 52 minutes. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-beatles-fans/604334)._