I don't like The Beatles, am I the only one?

[wadude]

I can but for me they peaked at Revolver and a lot of screaming girls helped them along. Not a hater but but don't want to hold their hands.

I'm a true fan but it's hard not to disagree about Revolver being a peak as a band. The screaming girls had no impact on my enjoyment of their music but do add to the story. Over the years Magical Mystery Tour has risen in my ranking of their albums.

 

[wadude]

No , I really can't be arsed with them either. I don't like the way their albums were recorded, too. Sir George Martin can do one as far as im concerned. It's possible I might enjoy them more in mono. I do absolutely love jazz in mono at times. Seems more real to the experience of being in a small venue with the band paying.

I'm grateful for their writing abilities, though, having enjoyed covers of some of their songs , especially from Type O Negative.

So i thank them for their influence on the bands i do like but don't own any of their actual albums.

It's challenging to suggest a single Beatles song or album that fully represents them. Most other bands have a definitive example or two that everything else falls in line with. Maybe that's why this thread exists.

 

[Timcognito]

Magical Mystery Tour has risen in my ranking of their albums.

I actually liked it when it came out but felt others did not. IIRC the film was panned and did not help its popularity.

 

[wadude]

Just heard a few songs from the Glyn Johns mix of "Let it Be", the version that would have been issued as "Get Back". Gawdawful stuff. Have to say that, with very few exceptions, the Beatles' outtakes expose the band's weaknesses, though the "Get Back" edits (remember - this was being presented as a potential commercial issue) are about as bad as any get. It seems like the band started off as something different and exciting, then very suddenly found themselves trapped in their own hype. I'd say they reached a creative peak with "Revolver", with Paul hijacking the ship with Sargent Pepper's and Magical Mystery tour. The "White Album" has a series of solo cuts with backing by the band, Let it Be has everybody flailing and Abbey Road has the band scraping together the last bits before separating. I can't blame them for what happened, but I no longer believe the hype.

I just listen to the music, then the hype becomes superfluous. After that is the legend.

 

[wadude]

I actually liked it when it came out but felt others did not. IIRC the film was panned and did not help its popularity.

Between that and Sgt Pepper's you have their 1967 output wrapped up. Magical Mystery Tour can feel like a foreshadowing of the White album.

 

[wadude]

Really? Name a Yardbirds song that is as weird as 'Strawberry Fields'.

Still I'm Sad

 

[EJ3]

They were great songwriters and benefitted from an excellent producer. Their timing was perfect, what with all the other good music coming from the UK. Rubber Soul, Revolver and Abbey Road are my favorites, although Yer Blues and Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey from the white album are also top notch.

How can you not love side 2 of Abbey Road??

Yer Blues live from the Rock & Roll Circus?
The Dirty Mac was John Lennon's temporary supergroup organized in December 1968 that featured Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Mitch Mitchell and Lennon under the nom de plume of Winston Leg-Thigh.
The Dirty Mac performed a rendition of Lennon's Beatles track "Yer Blues". They then went on to back up Yoko Ono and violinist Ivry Gitlis on "Whole Lotta Yoko", essentially an extended blues jam with Ono's improvised free-form vocalizations. The band's name, thought of by Lennon, was a play on that of Fleetwood Mac. When asked what type of guitar amp he wanted to use for the performance, Lennon answered: "One that plays."

 

[Rocky Maine]

Yer Blues live from the Rock & Roll Circus?
The Dirty Mac was John Lennon's temporary supergroup organized in December 1968 that featured Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Mitch Mitchell and Lennon under the nom de plume of Winston Leg-Thigh.
The Dirty Mac performed a rendition of Lennon's Beatles track "Yer Blues". They then went on to back up Yoko Ono and violinist Ivry Gitlis on "Whole Lotta Yoko", essentially an extended blues jam with Ono's improvised free-form vocalizations. The band's name, thought of by Lennon, was a play on that of Fleetwood Mac. When asked what type of guitar amp he wanted to use for the performance, Lennon answered: "One that plays."

There's a couple versions of them doing that song. The one where Clapton messes up and the resulting sheepish grin on his face is priceless. Despite his flub that's the better of the 2. Great solo by him. And Keith on bass is epic.

 

[pablolie]

Some of their later songs are good. Their early hits ("Hard days night" and such) I find unlistenable. Stuff like "Here, there and everywhere" or "Across the universe" or "Here comes the sun" still sounds good. My silly favorite is "Octopus Garden".

 

[EJ3]

There's a couple versions of them doing that song. The one where Clapton messes up and the resulting sheepish grin on his face is priceless. Despite his flub that's the better of the 2. Great solo by him. And Keith on bass is epic.

I have the LP and the video disk of what was supposed to have been released on TV at the time.

 

[wadude]

Generally the work of Capitol Records producer Dave Dexter, Jr is trashed, but it’s hard to fault Meet the Beatles and The Beatles Second Album. His editing of the Help! soundtrack makes it a personal favorite.

But it’s totally fine to not like the Beatles.

 

[PristineSound]

I'm a late gen-xer, Beatles is way before my time, the style and music wasn't what I was conditioned for growing up. As such, I too don't think much of the Beatles, there may be one or two songs that's aren't too repulsive for me.

Often times when I tell people I don't care for the Beatles, they have this shock like I am from out of space, I look at them and I just it again: I don't care for the Beatles, it is what is it.

The truth is, every single song that was ever created will inevitably go out of style and die off with enough time passes.

 

[wadude]

Sure, things go in and out of style but Beatles aside, it’s difficult to believe that.

 

[AA63]

The truth is, every single song that was ever created will inevitably go out of style and die off with enough time passes.

Pop songs might - real music, not so much - LOL.

I have never owned and will immediately change (almost) any Beatles song being broadcast. There are only a few artists/bands that I have that reaction to - Dire Straights, ABBA, Beach Boys, and ELO being others - hahahaha.

 

[PristineSound]

Pop songs might - real music, not so much - LOL.

What would you considered as "real music?"

 

[AA63]

What would you considered as "real music?"

Anything that doesn't make me nauseous? More than 3 chords? Where every instrument is not playing the exact same thing or the drummer plays at a level above a 3rd grader? LOL

I was purposely being flippant. I like many types of music, usually with a level of complexity to it, rhythm or exceptional/novel performance.

Beatles sound like nursery rhymes to me as do most pop songs from the 50's - 60s not much of a fan of that era. I laughed when I saw the thread and took joy from the likemindedness.

 

[PristineSound]

Anything that doesn't make me nauseous? More than 3 chords? Where every instrument is not playing the exact same thing or the drummer plays at a level above a 3rd grader? LOL

I was purposely being flippant. I like many types of music, usually with a level of complexity to it, rhythm or exceptional/novel performance.

Beatles sound like nursery rhymes to me as do most pop songs from the 50's - 60s not much of a fan of that era. I laughed when I saw the thread and took joy from the likemindedness.

Like food, one's taste in music is entirely correlated to one's exposure and environment. This means the surrounding macro and micro culture and era are largely the contributing factors.

For instance, I grew up in the 90's in NYC, therefore, I love hip hop, R&B and Reggae (amongst many other genres). But if you ask the stereotypical demographic of this hobby in the Western world, it is largely white men between ages 50's to 80's, and boy they may even get mad at you for even mentioning Hip Hop. So I personally don't try to diminish the music other people listen to, unless it's Bob Dylan or some punk and metal

Anyway, because one's taste in music is nearly entirely shaped by their surrounding macro and micro culture and the era they grow up in, by definition, no music will stand the test of time, if the time is long enough.

 

[AA63]

Agreed - early 60s for me, family full of pro musicians (started playing myself at very early age) - massive wide variety of influence, music all around house all day everyday.

 

[Robin L]

The truth is, every single song that was ever created will inevitably go out of style and die off with enough time passes.

Except Louie, Louie.

 

[OldHvyMec]

I can think of only one style of music I'm not too fond of: Dixieland Jazz, though I like Louis Armstrong (Satchmo). My family was military, so get-togethers of NCOs and some officers, always career men, certainly brought a myriad of different tastes as far as music. This was the 50-60s so the Beatles were very new. I was a child of the 50s '60s, so the music was changing pretty fast, considering.

I remember the music at these parties being Salsa, Country Western, at the beginning, with Blues and Jazz at the end of the parties.

As I grew up the change went from Grand Ole Opry and church music to POP. Motown, Elvis, Stones, Yardbirds, Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, Beatles, and quite a few more at the communal swimming pool and roller rink.

Remember Beatniks? "Greasy Mike at the Bearnik cafe," "Dobie Gillis."

I didn't get into the Beatles, but a buddy/cousin at the time sure did. 213 songs, and that guy knew them all by heart. I was more of a Motown/Soul/R&B kind of kid. If you hang out with someone who plays pretty much only the Beatles for 3-4 years, you learn and hear a lot of crap. "Paul is Dead." "Yoko sucks," "The band is getting back together." It was funny!

I appreciate them more now than I did then. I go through little sperts now and then.

213 songs together.

After they broke up:

520+ by McCartney
200+ by Harrison
110+ by Lennon
120+ by Starr

Now, it has to be some horrible music for me not to listen to it. I pretty much like all music to a degree, BUT I still don't care for Dixie Land music too much. LOL

Regards