Poll of the Day > Your thoughts on the Beatles

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They have a couple good songs but they are really overrated, so neutral

They have a couple good songs but they are really overrated, so neutral

I kind of loathe Lennon as both a person and as a musician.

Between neutral and dislike. I don't listen to them, at all. Not even one song.
I've heard them before, they're extremely mediocre. What I dislike most is how much I've had to hear about them over the course of my lifetime.

Overrated as hell and all their music is overplayed to death. Even the "good ones". There's so much better music out there.

That probably exists because of what the Beatles did first.

I honestly kind of like the Monkees better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky5gWVEyMwU

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/aa4984cc.jpg

And the thing I hate even more, is that you can't criticize them without being called a 'troll'. And at best you get 'well you might not like them, but they basically inspired all modern music so if you like any music you have to respect them'. No. No I don't.

See this is why I hate the Beatles. It's like generational abuse at this point. Everything gets attributed to them like they invented music.

what do people mean they say The Beatles are overrated? please go into as detail as much as possible.

I think people give them way too much credit for being musical geniuses, because they weren't innovators as much as they were synthesizers and popularizers. Harrison is the only one I really think of as being all that much of a really creative musician, and even that more later on. I get that they had a strong influence on many acts and styles of music that followed after them, but to some degree I think that was more a case of being the right people in the right place at the right time than it was something that literally could not exist without them. Basically, in a universe without The Beatles, somebody else would be The Beatles.

I can't stand the Beatles. I find them to be inane, pseudo intellectual garbage. And the thing I hate even more, is that you can't criticize them without being called a 'troll'. And at best you get 'well you might not like them, but they basically inspired all modern music so if you like any music you have to respect them'. No. No I don't. Paul wrote childish nonsense. John was a POS. Ringo is a hack. George is ok, but over shadowed by so many other guitarists of the era.

There's so much great soul and so much great rock experimentation from that time and for some reason we put the shallowest artists on the top of the pedestal.

See this is why I hate the Beatles. It's like generational abuse at this point. Everything gets attributed to them like they invented music.

If you want to have fun, just accuse the people who say things like that of racism, because they're actively minimizing the accomplishments of all the obscure black artists The Beatles stole ideas from... that they basically got credit for because it was more palatable to attribute it to young white guys in the climate of the 1950s/early 1960s (see also Elvis, Buddy Holly, and most of the rest of the roots of "rock and roll" as a genre - including many of the Beatles' own admitted early influences).

Or for real fun, (accurately) point out that most of their cultural influence (especially early in their career) stems less from their music and more from the fact that they were cute young boys that teen girls could crush on. They were basically a boy band.

Good artists copy, Great artists steal.

People who dont like the Beatles love to tell you how much they dont like the Beatles

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

Only be sure always to call it please "Research"

Here's a sweet Paul performance

I like them.

I like how they could change themselves and still make it sound good enough.

I mean 1963 Beatles wouldn't have worked in 1967.

But IMO they still are no Led Zeppelin or the Rolling Stones.

Also they screwed George over many times.

Fortunately, George went on to make the excellent album that is All Things Must Pass.