I don’t hate the Beatles, but I do think they’re extremely overrated. There’s about three Beatles songs I’d choose to listen to.
Sargent pepper’s lonely hearts club band is the second worst song to ever get significant airplay, behind I shot the sheriff, and ahead of You’re Beautiful by James Blunt. That one I stand firm on.
Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club band is an intro to an album. It isn’t meant to be played as a standalone song. I have never once listened to the intro track and thought, “Ooh, this is fantastic. One of the greats from the Beatles.” It set the stage for the band to throw away the image the world expected of them as the so called “fab 4” and explore sound while pretending to be people they weren’t.
What you have said here is like watching the opening theme to a television show and then throwing your hands up and saying, “that’s it guys! Second worst tv show ever! Just behind this tv show I actually watched, and just ahead another I actually watched.”
If you’d actually like a chance to be critical of an actual piece of music meant to be consumed on its own from Sgt Pepper, check out A Day in the Life and get back with me.
Why do you think someone would go to the trouble of drilling 2 extra holes in each of these containers?
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That’s a good question! I am also interested.
My first thought was that it might aid in draining them as an air hole, to stop it from going glub blub, especially if they contained something really viscous like honey or oil, but then why not just one air hole, and why not higher up?
My second thought was that maybe someone just intended to make them look like faces for some reason.
I’m going for b)
I hate The Doors.
Next thing you’ll say you hate The Windows as well. I use Arch BTW
I am a middle aged white guy and I honestly don’t give a shit about the Beatles lol
They have maybe 4 or 5 songs I actually like and I’ve always said they were overrated
How about beetles? Wanna discuss beetles?
Yeah, I’m still pissed they made bumblebee a Camaro.
Me too!
That’s because the Beatles broke up in 1970, so anyone who remembers them from their active years is well over 60, which would be really stretching the definition of middle-aged
I’m 42 and I grew up surrounded by people my own age who were Beatles fanatics lol people actually kept listening to them long after they broke up
38 here. I absolutely love the Beatles. I didn’t like their earlier stuff when I was younger but I’ve worked my way backwards from Help as I’ve got older.
I love all of it.
Trivia (from Wikipedia): “Taxman” from their 1966 album Revolver was the group’s first topical song and the first political statement they had made in their music.
“Taxman” was influential in the development of British psychedelia and mod-style pop, and has been recognised as a precursor to punk rock. When performing “Taxman” on tour in the early 1990s, Harrison adapted the lyrics to reference contemporaneous leaders, citing its enduring quality beyond the 1960s. The song’s impact has extended to the tax industry and into political discourse on taxation.
Unlike their other political songs, which are fairly vague peace&love jobs, this one tackles a concrete issue: It protests the 95% top marginal tax rate.
You’ve heard how “the boomers” screwed up everything for later generations. Here’s exhibit A from pop culture. Don’t just think about evil, old men in smoky backrooms.
The Kinks were punker than The Beatles ever were. This is some bullshit.
Well now I actively hate them instead of just not caring for their music, which i find to be ok
If you really want to scandalize them, say this: The Kinks are better than The Beatles
I like The Beatles, I do not like John Lennon
John Lennon was always my favorite
The more I learn about him… The less I like him…
Pretty much, when I first heard the song Imagine, it sounded so… “Phoney” to me…
And the more I learned about him, the more justified I feel
Just as an interesting point, not to make any judgement,
You aren’t the only one who thought exactly that.
“During the case, when asked why he chose to kill John Lennon, Chapman stated “because he was famous”. Chapman later claimed that he believed Holden Caulfied would have killed John Lennon because he was a “phony”.”
Why hate them? What did they do to you?
Fucked their mom
Calm down Julian.
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They’re severely overrated, but also quite culturally/historically relevant. So… what can ya do?
I’m not proposing we do anything. I think they deserve their fame.
We could send Japanese women to individually destroy their careers.
Sounds like a bunch of work tho
They’re all trained saboteurs, they need little to no guidance. Get this… we use performance artists. Success is guaranteed!
the word overrated means nothing and is used by cowards to try to discourage enthusiasm for things they can never comprehend… it needs to be burnt on a word pyre… it’s impossible to overrate The Beatles, only a figment of the Matrix would think that…
You sound like you’re highly overrated by yourself.
you sound scared to have an opinion
Of what, exactly? People are allowed to be as enthusiastic about The Beatles as they want. I’m a big fan of their music myself.
Your comment, on the other hand? That was self-important edgelord nonsense lol
you’re afraid someone will use the word overrated on your enthusiasm… also, you continue to demonstrate my point by trying to attack me personally… it’s what a coward does…
That makes even less sense than your FIRST bit of nonsense 😄
do your best, i don’t expect much from Vikings or hippies
You sound like a very articulate 13 year old lol
so, i sound like a human… you sound like beep boop…
I’ll rephrase:
I think the Beatles are not nearly as good or enjoyable as many people suggest, and I’m not afraid to say it.
not nearly as good or enjoyable as many people suggest
you just reiterated your disdain for enthusiasm and nothing more, demonstrating how meaningless the word is… you are a chatbot…
Thanks Dwight.
Such edge
They also had stupid haircuts.
They are extremely relevant, culturally and historically. They broke new grounds for music, and a lot of today’s music would simply not exist without the Beatles, or some of their contemporaries. That alone means they’re not overrated.
However that doesn’t mean everyone has to love them. It’s possible to recognise their relevance without worshipping them.
I think this is a case of the Seinfeld effect where people take them for granted due to them being so influential that part of their sound has become imbued into every single pop band that came after them.
Yeah, there are any number of “But so-and-so did it so much better than the Beatles!” instances, but the thing is that so-and-so wouldn’t have even tried if the Beatles hadn’t done it first.
Take or leave their music, there’s no denying the massive influence they had.
Am I the only on here that actually likes the Beatles? They’re catchy and familiar, not to mention have some weird and whacky unusual stuff like Revolution 9. Also found the conspiracy theory fun to dive into.
Obviously music is extremely subjective but you can’t tell me that their music was not objectively a massive deal, at least historically.
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I love the Beatles. I guess I am a middle aged white guy now, but they’ve been my favorite band since I was a kid.
Psych rock existed outside the Beatles. They’re a pop band. Meh.
Does them being popular somehow make them worse? I don’t understand this take… What’s wrong with liking what you like, without regard to what others like, either way?
I like them, they were a pretty important foundation for my taste in music. I didn’t really get the hatred of them that seems popular of late, I can’t help but feel like at least some of that is just people following the trend, but it doesn’t change my enjoyment of it.
Their influence was so far reaching. Even if you aren’t a Beatles fan, odds are that someone you listen to is one and hugely influenced by them. Kind of like that saying I’ve heard about Neil peart. “If your favorite drummer is someone other than peart, their favorite drummer is probably peart”
I also love that their music was essentially mostly all written, composed, produced, and edited by the 4 of them. Nowadays I’m told about how _____ is such a great musician, then I look at the album credits and there’s like 20 song writers, 50 producers, 100+ sound mixers, crew, editors, etc. So like are those people that good if they need 200+ people behind them making it listenable?
I guess what I’m saying is that new music is over produced, and I appreciate the simplicity of older music like the Beatles
The Beatles were popular 50-60 years ago.
Even if they listened to it when they were 10, they are about to retire in a couple of years.
Nothing middle aged about it.
The Beatles have been one of the most popular bands in the world consistently every year from the 60s right up until today lol how do so many people think everyone immediately stops listening to any band the second they break up lol
I don’t hate them. I just don’t listen to their music. It’s not my taste. I do appreciate their significance and popularity, though. I just don’t really enjoy their music.
Same judging jug faces, in my experience. Not liking the Beatles is unfathomable to a lot of people.
It should be fathomable to those people. We are human and have different interests.
I think my favorite Beatles fact is they were being taxed at like a 90+% rate and didn’t even know for a couple years.
When they found out and took it to court the judge basically said “you were making so much money you didn’t even realize you were being taxed at all. Sucks to suck we’re gonna keep taxing you at the same rate”
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middle aged? lmao the average baked in Beatles fan is Ike 80 now.
GenX here that would fit “middle aged” and I don’t care about the Beatles. Yeah, they’ve got some good songs, but as a group or needing to have all their songs? Nah. Whatever.
The original ones. They are still popular among Gen X and Millenials. Personally, I never like the Beatles. I don’t hate them, but I find their music slightly annoying.
I’ll always associate Beatles music with corporate sound tracks. That’s where I first heard most of them, some ad or another.
White Middle aged Gen X’er here… Can’t stand the Beetles…
I’m no Beatles fan, but Eleanor Rigby goes hard
My favorite song of theirs is While My Guitar Gently Weeps
But I still think The Kinks are better
Funny, I love the Beatles but that’s one song from them I don’t really care for. I want to like it but it somehow manages to be one of my least favorite Beatles songs and Clapton solos. Love the kinks too though
Edit: I definitely don’t hate while my guitar gently weeps, or even dislike it. It’s a good song. But if you ask me the Beatles have at least a couple dozen better ones
