James

Of course it's catchy it's The Beatles.

TheCunningStunt

A lot of the stuff on Revolver isn't catchy though

James

Really like what? it always seems catchy to me.

TheCunningStunt

First time I listened to 'Love You To' I was like wut.

What happened to I wanna hold your hand and treat me like you did the night before?!

Not very accessible the first time you listen to it

James

I loved it first time I heard it guess i'm just weird.
BTW for me the lowlight is Yellow Submarine

The Monkey

Well, The Beatles are the highest ranked band in the world, so unless you consider them to be among your very favourites, they are overrated to you.

I think the Beatles are good, and they did some really good albums, but they didn't go far enough or experiment successfully enough with their music like some of their contemporaries (The Stooges, Cream, Frank Zappa, The Small Faces, The Velvet Underground and Pink Floyd come to mind), which is why I consider them inferior to many other 60s bands, and bands of later decades for that matter.

Flyingpig437

They experimented in quite a lot of ways. Most successfully on Tomorrow never knows which must have sounded to people in 1966 like something from about a 1000yrs. in the future.
Plus towards the end they made a consitous descion to get away from their experimental period of 66-67 hence the rawer sound on the white album and then they took it even further by deliberatey setting out to not use any studio trickery on what became Let it be which was originally going to be called 'get back' as in get back to rock n roll!

jackhammer

Too many questions but put simply: they were the right band at the right time concerning the growth and emergence of popular music. They enhanced modern music a lot which shouldn't be a place for argument but they were not the only band in the 60's changing popular music whether through innovation in the studio or the consumer market.

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Flyingpig437

YouTube - Brian Kehew's Mellotron MKII ...Part 4 -The Grande Finale!

Interesting wee y/t vid

clutnuckle

Completely agreed. Plus, a lot of the 'influence' they supposedly established is based on faulty presumptions; I read a review today that said one of their songs laid the ground for noise musicians, and that 'Merzbow would be lost without The Beatles' (albeit he was inspired by some noisy albums by the Beatles solo members, but never by this particular song the review was talking about). That's not really The Beatles' fault though, just fans who like to bloat and overhype things to a point of no return. Overrated by fans and critics alike, simply because their influence, musical experimentation and songwriting simply doesn't/don't stretch as far as people claim so often. Not to take it away from them completely though, as they were genuinely influential/original at times.