Originally Posted by Surell

They didn't choose that name, the label did.


Please; the Beatles' best songs aren't nearly as well written as the non hits on Pet Sounds. John and Paul were average and overrated, George and Paul i can't comment on, but George seems like the Brian Wilson of the Beatles- kept in the dark songwriting wise. I wanna hear some more of him.


So? What mainstream media dictates as "best" isn't always so; Rolling Stone, for example, put Imagine ahead of Marvin Gaye's What's Going On (the songs), when What's Going On is the much better song, in lyrics and composition.


Wilson didn't get the opportunity to continue songwriting; truth is, he only got Pet Sounds to give the Beatles competition, and then he broke down in the middle of SMiLE due to pressure. Had SMiLE come out back then and he gotten some glory for it, there's no telling how the Beach Boys would have turned out. But he faded back into the songwriting background after Sgt. Peppers was released, giving the Beatles the edge.