Amen to what you are saying. The Beatles wrote the master class in using non rock sources whether it was Greek Folk music "Girl", avant styled tape loops "Tomorrow Never Knows" or the avant orchestration on "A Day in the Life" with pop/rock music. Making strange sounds does not always equal great music. Some people swear by the Red Crayola but to me it's all noise. The Beatles were redefining modern pop music and influenced basically every early progressive rock artists.
The argument can be made the Monks beat out the Velvet Underground to proto-punk. The Monks should be compared to acts the like Sonics and the Velvet Underground. That being said the Monks by this one album were already ahead of the Velvet Underground in many ways.
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