[SamAdams76]

Now I know The Beatles were pretty big back in the day but most of their music sounds dated today. They happened to have the "right sound" at the right time and they were catapulted to a level of fame way out of proportion with their actual talent.

To wit: Consider these three Beatles songs that are virtually unlistenable today:

I Am The Walrus
Yellow Submarine
Maxwell's Silver Hammer

Utter junk. Contrast that to other music of the era that didn't get nearly as much attention but are still considered absolute pop masterpieces today:

"Some Velvet Morning" by Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra
"The Rain, The Park and Other Things" by The Cowsills
"California Dreaming" by Mamas and Papas

Now the Beatles did have some good tunes but overall, they are a classic example of a group being much greater than the sum of their parts. Consider the biggest hits of the four Beatles after they broke up. "Silly Love Songs" by Paul McCartney, "She's 16" by Ringo Starr, the vapid "Imagine" by John Lennon. Only "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison stands the test of time and they say he stole that one from "He's So Fine".

All in all, the music is so overrated that I have maybe a half dozen Beatles songs in my massive MP3 collection while I have hundreds and hundreds of other songs (like the three I posted above) from that 1964-1970 era that blow the Beatles away.

[Huck]

"Silly Love Songs" by Paul McCartney

I love that song! So what's wrong with that? I'd like to know. :-P

[Huck]

"Some Velvet Morning" by Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra---never heard of it.

"The Rain, The Park and Other Things" by The Cowsills--Never heard of it.

"California Dreaming" by Mamas and Papas--you're kidding, right?

[wardaddy]

Band on the Run...the actually song....was ok.

I like a lot of Harrison’s stuff....it had a real personal feel to it...like Dark Horse. Course a lot of it was in the haze of heroin addiction.

Early Beatles was just pop tune after pop tune but it was different and catchy and then the mop haired cult thing took off.

I probably like most critics liked Revolver and Rubber Soul and White Album best but admittedly today I don’t go looking for their tunes on youtube to listen to

as time moved I found their evil twins the Stones so much better aging....

i have noticed too as I got older just how much of the WWII era Brit minstrel-dance hall singing stuff influenced them with the goofy lyrics and arrangement at times...both Lennon and McCartney seemed to like that as much as say Ray Davies...

Ringo....who played here two weeks ago at a small club venue called the Wild Horse seems to have had the best personal life afterwards..

[modest proposal]

I think the Beatles had a lot of good songs but they were over-exposed.

Now you almost groan when you hear things like ‘yesterday’ becaues it has been done to death.