Are the Beatles overrated?

[Freedom]

By the way Walrus, I've been a Beatles fan from the very beginning of their career in America.

I was age 8 and watching TV with my older teen-aged sister when the Beatles first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964. They were always my favorite band after that. I used to sing their songs while walking to school and other places. We kids used to buy Beatles bubble gum cards, I didn't know at the time that the sugary bubble gum was bad for my teeth.

I saw the movie A Hard Day's Night in the cinema when it came out in August 1964, and Help the next summer. I bought all the Beatles albums when I had more money in my later childhood. When I got a cheap guitar in my early teens, I learned to play a bit, and I bought a songbook with all the Lennon-McCartney compositions, and learned to play every one. I noticed Paul's compositions were more musically complex than John's, but I always liked John's use of certain major-to-minor chord sequences.

I remember being very excited about Lennon's and McCartney's first solo albums, but liking John's and being extremely disappointed in Paul's. However I preferred Paul's later good-natured songs from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s much more than John's self-pity/insecurity songs.

I still listen to the Beatles quite a bit. I do think they were and are a bit overrated, but they are still my favorite band of all time.

[walrus]

By the way Walrus, I've been a Beatles fan from the very beginning of their career in America.

I was age 8 and watching TV with my older teen-aged sister when the Beatles first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964. They were always my favorite band after that. I used to sing their songs while walking to school and other places. We kids used to buy Beatles bubble gum cards, I didn't know at the time that the sugary bubble gum was bad for my teeth.

I saw the movie A Hard Day's Night in the cinema when it came out in August 1964, and Help the next summer. I bought all the Beatles albums when I had more money in my later childhood. When I got a cheap guitar in my early teens, I learned to play a bit, and I bought a songbook with all the Lennon-McCartney compositions, and learned to play every one. I noticed Paul's compositions were more musically complex than John's, but I always liked John's use of certain major-to-minor chord sequences.

I remember being very excited about Lennon's and McCartney's first solo albums, but liking John's and being extremely disappointed in Paul's. However I liked Paul's later good-natured songs from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s much more than John's self-pity/insecurity songs.

I still listen to the Beatles quite a bit. I do think they were and are a bit overrated, but they are still my favorite band of all time.

Yet freedom, I just don’t get how a band that revolutionized music and continues to influence bands coming out today can be overated. I seriously think Beatles music is comparable to the Mozart’s and Beethoven’s. It will last forever.

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[walrus]

I still think this thread is absolutely disgusting. And how the hell can you Brits stand for this. Why does beanz not attack this thread. Maybe because the Beatles the are white so he doesn’t care about bad mouthing them. I swore off violence many years ago but I’m going to hunt down the OP and slapping him.

[Master]

Have you heard about the movie where there is no Beatles ?

[Beanz]

I think Walrus is overrated. Even by himself.

[walrus]

I think Walrus is overrated. Even by himself.

This may be one of the biggest pieces of crap I ever read