Thing about the Beatles is, they were the original Backstreet Boys with their matching suits and almost too long hair selling vacuous pop songs to teenage girls for a buck and a quarter a piece. Not bad stuff but nothing serious. A few years, several acid trips, pounds of pot and an Indian guru or two later they become the pied pipers leading a generation of drug addled, hippies into leftist retardation. They released some interesting stuff in their acid head period but a lot of garbage, too. As individual artists, they are each pretty average.
The 60s were no Renaissance, our society today is completely shot through with the ills birthed in that unfortunate decade.
Agree 100% with all of it. There was some great music in the 60s but that’s about it. Everything the 60s radicals stood for was crap.
Everything.
They were unrealistic, foolish, ungrateful little shits who scorned the peace, freedom and prosperity their parents’ generation built for them at great cost. Notice that when they finally got control of a lot of the institutions, they were a million times more oppressive, more censorious and more totalitarian than anything they ever complained about when they were young.