Popular music's existence is disappointment enough.

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Originally posted by chewy dragee THe beatles are overated. They are one of those things that society demands you must like. If you say you don't like them people give you funny looks and the "WHAATT?? , how can you not like the beatles??", but deep down they also know the beatles are crap and too afraid to admit it.

Yes to the first part, no to the last. They are surely overrated, but to say they were crap is stupid.

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Originally posted by Arbiter Popular music's existence is disappointment enough.

What do you mean?

The Beatles were doing quite a bit in their own time. It was the birth of rock and roll, back then, which was very, very new.

I get why they're thought of as a bit "meh" now, but that's because we weren't around in the 60s when all their shit went through the roof.

In 30 years, people will be wondering why anything we currently think of as big, ever became big. Same shit, different era. And just like every era, some things appeal to some, and not to others.

Personally, I like The Beatles quite a bit. Not all their stuff, but quite a bit. I grew up listening to a lot of their music though.

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the more psychedelic the beatles get the better they are

if anyone is overrated on the list it's Elvis

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Hurr durr modern music just isn't the same as it was back in the 60s and 70s

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I rest my case.

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Originally posted by Redd if anyone is overrated on the list it's Elvis

Elvis was a hero to most, but he never meant shit to me.

And I don't think the "we weren't around when the Beatle were new" argument necessarily holds up. I wasn't around when Led Zep or many other classic rock bands were doing their shit, 30-40 years back, but I still like a lot of music from that period without making allowances. Some people just do not find the Beatles to their taste. And I'm one of them.

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I find pretty much everything that's out and about in the 'popular' category to be mindnumbingly bland, autotuned, ripping off everything even our generation grew up with let alone previous ones.

Infact, I can be in the car listening to our local radio station and something like the pet shop boys, m-people or blondie come on amongst the newer stuff & I find myself excited

As for the beatles, they're good, very good when you judge them on what they were doing at the time they were doing it. Same as Elvis and pretty much everyone but it doesn't mean we have to like them, as long as we appreciate for what they did for music that allowed it to evolve as it did to what we do like.

I just pictured Ian popping a boner in the car with his mum, while listening to the Pet Shop Boys.

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You don't have to like the Beatles to understand their significance in music history.

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The Beatles came on the scene about a decade after the "birth of rock and roll."

I like some of their later stuff quite a bit, but to me all of their early cheesy love songs are just so much forgettable dross.