I have to say I agree with the FACT that the Beatles are incredibly overated BY PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW SHIT ABOUT HOW MUSIC IS MADE.
They did have a FEW great tunes tho. They just did NOT reinvent the wheel as it were.
Well, there's a lot of BS in music. For example, that rock was some kind of invention out of whole cloth, and yet it is just a development out of certain aspects of the jitterbug music of the WWII era. Listen to "In The Mood" and tell me that that isn't the evolutionary predecessor to "Rock Around The Clock."
There's nothing new under the sun, just something standing on the shoulders of what went before.
The Beatles did sort of pioneer the "concept album" with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Paul is one of the all-time great rock bass players (listen to Nowhere Man, for example, to hear some really creative bass lines).
But, no, they weren't THAT earthshaking in retrospect.
What is clear, though, is that despite what Nirvana, for example, meant to its generation, they contributed very, very little new to the music and The Beatles have a catalog of songs that seems almost endless. If they are the sort of thing you like (and a LOT of people apparently do, there is plenty of it).
Want earth-shaking? Jimi Hendrix. There is pre- and post-Hendrix rock guitar, quite definitely. I remember clearly the day I heard Jimi for the first time. He arrived on the scene with far less hoopla than The Beatles, but the first time I heard Foxey Lady and Purple Haze I knew the world (well, the musical world) would never be the same.
They did have a FEW great tunes tho. They just did NOT reinvent the wheel as it were.
There's nothing new under the sun, just something standing on the shoulders of what went before.
The Beatles did sort of pioneer the "concept album" with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Paul is one of the all-time great rock bass players (listen to Nowhere Man, for example, to hear some really creative bass lines).
But, no, they weren't THAT earthshaking in retrospect.
What is clear, though, is that despite what Nirvana, for example, meant to its generation, they contributed very, very little new to the music and The Beatles have a catalog of songs that seems almost endless. If they are the sort of thing you like (and a LOT of people apparently do, there is plenty of it).
Want earth-shaking? Jimi Hendrix. There is pre- and post-Hendrix rock guitar, quite definitely. I remember clearly the day I heard Jimi for the first time. He arrived on the scene with far less hoopla than The Beatles, but the first time I heard Foxey Lady and Purple Haze I knew the world (well, the musical world) would never be the same.
THE BEATLES ARE FUKKING AWESOME!!!
&& ur just full of shit.(: