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re: Are the Beatles overrated?
Posted on 6/10/14 at 10:34 am to SaintlyTiger88
Posted on 6/10/14 at 10:34 am to SaintlyTiger88
Music is much too personal an experience to call anyone the best ever without some sort of qualification, e.g. musicianship, showmanship, style of music. However, the Beatles are without question the most popular and influential rock and roll band ever. Given those accomplishments it is hard to call them overrated.
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Posted on 6/10/14 at 10:45 am to Poodlebrain
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the Beatles are without question the most popular
No doubt
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most influential rock and roll band ever
Is where overrated starts creeping in.
Posted on 6/10/14 at 11:14 am to Zed
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The Beatles are objectively great IMO, but for whatever reason I don't really listen to their songs.
If their music is great then why don't you listen to it?
Posted on 6/10/14 at 7:45 pm to Kafka
I understand their significance, I couldn't care less about them, however.
Posted on 6/10/14 at 8:02 pm to SaintlyTiger88
the Beatles also opened up a lot of the Visual Effects of R&R. I do not recall big concerts until they cam along
Posted on 6/10/14 at 9:03 pm to rbdallas
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This pretty much settles it imo. I was at the bar the other night and I didn't hear one Beatles song the entire time I was there.
The Beatles are terrible
Yeah, and all the music being played at that party was so classic! (sarcasm intended).
Beatles aren't party music. Their influence cannot be denied--ask any of your own musical heroes. I listen to them all the time, but I'm "older" than many of you.
Posted on 6/10/14 at 9:25 pm to SaintlyTiger88
They came to America when I was in Grammar School and were popular all during my High School years. While I have listened to a lot of different music over the years and enjoy most of it, I still listen to The Beatles; the rest of the British Invasion groups; and MoTown. In my opinion, The Beatles are not overrated.
Posted on 6/11/14 at 1:59 am to JombieZombie
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I understand their significance, I couldn't care less about them, however.
Then you don't think they're great.
Posted on 6/11/14 at 12:49 pm to SaintlyTiger88
No doubt that the Beatles were musical geniuses. No arguments here that they impacted music and the music business in profound ways. Listening to the music from 61 62 63 will give context to how huge those changes where. It's also important to realize where the U.S. was at that time. Kennedy was assassinated just a few months prior and the country was still in shock and mourning. The Beatles benefited from being in the right place at the right time. They where the perfect antidote for a country that had just lost its innocence. Those conditions and their talent assured them top 40 status but they held up their end of the bargain by writing and recording music that will be listened to and studied forever. Much like Bach or Beethoven. Greatest of all time? Don't really know. But I do know they're on a very short list of contenders.
Posted on 6/11/14 at 1:49 pm to parrotdr
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Yeah, and all the music being played at that party was so classic! (sarcasm intended). Beatles aren't party music. Their influence cannot be denied--ask any of your own musical heroes. I listen to them all the time, but I'm "older" than many of you.
I'm 30 and a week doesn't go by that I don't listen to The Beatles. I will even play some at the bar if they are on the jukebox. You are right though it's not party music. I don't think I ever heard a Beatles song at any college party.
Posted on 6/11/14 at 6:22 pm to SaintlyTiger88
The Beatles were a pop band. Far and away the best pop band ever.
Posted on 6/11/14 at 7:47 pm to northshorebamaman
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Jesus. Not even Hey Jude? Who doesn't like Hey Jude?
I fricking HATE Hey Jude. I don't really know why but I really hate it. That, and Hotel California are my two most hated songs. They literally make me want to cut my ears off.
Posted on 6/11/14 at 9:04 pm to thesoccerfanjax
no
Posted on 6/11/14 at 9:27 pm to Overbrook
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The Beatles were a pop band. Far and away the best pop band ever.
Because Michael Jackson isn't a band?
Posted on 6/11/14 at 11:06 pm to kidbourbon
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Because Michael Jackson isn't a band?
No because he made music inferior to the Beatles.
Posted on 6/12/14 at 9:39 am to thesoccerfanjax
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I fricking HATE Hey Jude. I don't really know why but I really hate it. That, and Hotel California are my two most hated songs.
Posted on 6/12/14 at 11:24 am to northshorebamaman
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Come on man. I can see why someone might dislike the Beatles. But fricking Smash Mouth?
It's only All Star for what that's worth.
Posted on 6/12/14 at 11:30 am to Overbrook
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Because Michael Jackson isn't a band?
No because he made music inferior to the Beatles.
You die. You die and go to a Commi/Nazi/gay arse pink hell!
Posted on 6/12/14 at 11:34 am to JumpingTheShark
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Because, overall, the Stones had much more filler music. Seemed to be quantity over quality. I like them, but I don't think they are comparable. Is it only because of the time frame when the music was being made?
This a million times. B sides push the Beatles over everyone else.
Posted on 6/12/14 at 11:40 am to Overbrook
Beat It? Billy Jean? Bad? Black or White? Thriller!!! You are Not Alone? Remember the Time? Scream? Dirty Diana!!! Man in The Mirror! The Way You Make Me Feel!?!?!?!
Smooth(mother f*n') Criminal!!!!!!
Hell, even ABC!!!!! Rock With You!!!!
Smooth(mother f*n') Criminal!!!!!!
Hell, even ABC!!!!! Rock With You!!!!
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