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Originally Posted by boo boo
No one ever says that.
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"most innovative band of the rock era" is the common one. Richie Unterberger makes the exact claim, so if somebody at his level does, many more casual fans do too.
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No one ever says that either, they simply set more trends than any other band. That much is no bull****.
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If they set trends it was only because they brought the ideas/sounds to a mainstream audience. That is the point: they are wrongly credited with inventing the sounds. That they were influential by virtue of being able to access the biggest audience, however, is beyond doubt.
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They were competitive, not unoriginal. They took styles from different genres of music and blended them into their own sound, thats what bands do.
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The point is that they emulated styles, they didn't create any. Yes, hybrids are new styles. The Beatles weren't responsible for creating them.
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Revolver may not have been the first psychedelic album, but it was certainly that album that was the bridge between psychedelic as an underground thing and psychedelic as a mainstream genre of music, and thats very important considering psychedelic rocks relevance to the growing counter culture of the 60s.
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Yes, fair enough.
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Sgt Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour took things furthur and almost completely broke any restrictions for what a rock band can do. Prog probably never would have happened without The Beatles.
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The main miracle of Sgt Pepper is a miracle in engineering. Rumour has it that they had 700 hours of studio time in making that record. One can only BEGIN to dream of what other bands would have been capable of at the time if they were given 700 hours.
The seeds of prog were being sewn way earlier than Sgt Pepper etc. Check out Zappa, Freak Out!: 1966. That statement you made is the exact type of thing I'm referring to. Music more cutting edge than Sgt Pepper was being created in 66 and 67 and people were self-producing and recording it with tiny or zero budgets. Prog was going to happen whatever else happened. You pretty much prove my point about them being overrated with that unbelievable suggestion.