If you've ever heard them, you know that at their best, they were sloppy (often sloppy drunk), ragged, unpolished - their early songs always sound just on the verge of falling apart completely.

如果你听说过他们，你会知道那曾经是一群随性的家伙(同时是一群随性的酒鬼)，粗糙，未经雕饰——他们早期的作品总给人一种濒临崩溃的感觉。

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I don't know the words to a lot of songs, but I do know some folk songs that my grandma taught me at an early age.

我不知道很多歌的歌词，但知道一些我奶奶小时候就教会我的民歌。

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Students performed wonderful folk songs and dances and recited and sang attractively li Bai's poem Sailing Early from Baidi Town.

学生们表演了精彩的民族歌舞，并声情并茂地朗诵和演唱了李白的诗歌《早发白帝城》。

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Court Yard Hounds returned to their early musical roots on many of the songs.

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The early songs are lyrically naive but that simplicity has given the Beatles a universality no other band has managed to achieve.

BBC: CD Review: The Beatles

From a recording point of view, the simple four-track, sometimes mono, sound and structure of the early songs seem dated, but the musical quality is undeniable.

BBC: CD Review: The Beatles

It is certainly true that the Stones did spend a few days in early 1964 dashing out songs on an old two-track recorder in Regent Sounds Studio at 4 Denmark Street - and the rest is musical history.

BBC: Denmark Street and Soho: London's Tin Pan Alleys