Sorry but I can never let it pass when some says the Beatles were overrated.

I am not saying everyone need has to necessarily like their music ( although I find it strange, considering their huge output, that anyone could not cannot find some stuff they like) but to say they are overrated is to completely overlook what they did and the effect they had on popular music.

When the Beatles arrived in January 1963 with Please Please Me they had a monumental impact on the music scene and paved the way for all the other "beat groups"that followed. Prior to 1963 the charts were pretty anodyne with ballads, watered down rock & roll, novelty records and instrumentals. Prior to the Beatles the group concept, something we take for granted now, of performers playing instruments and singing hardly existed.

The emergence of The Beatles was like a bright light being switched on after the dull and turgid state popular music had descended into . They looked different, their sound was fresh and immediately engaging, they wrote their own music ( at least their singles), and turned the whole music scene upside down. Many existing artists suddenly found themselves redundant with their musical style rendered out dated at a stroke.

One of the most impressive things about them was that they never became complacent. They were innovators always leading the way be it in their song writing, imaginative use of instrumentation, lyrics, album cover design, playing live in stadiums, and much more.

Perhaps it would be stretching it to say that music today wouldn't be what it is without The Beatles, but they provided the springboard for what followed and opened up new horizons for fellow artists.

Okay, so their early releases likes of She Loves You may sound a bit simplistic now, but you have place what they did in the context of the period - 1963 ( and indeed 1970 when they split) were very different times from 2019.

I rest my case m'lud.

ps I do agree with you regards Paul Weller

Overrated

Suede
Flaming Lips
The Killers
Kaiser Chief

Dogs**+* sold millions of records to people who haven’t listen to them in the last 5 years.

Underrated

Stiff Little Fingers
Skunk Anansie
Porcupine Tree

Amazing music that seldom gets heard.

Agreed. I would also add that they had a global impact on the music and fashion industry opening the doors for other artists to follow. This has been said many times by other artists and fashion designers that the Beatles mad being British cool.

One more point

I admire your subtle sense of humour

Underrated : Cardiacs

The epitome of a marmite band. Adored by their fanbase and despised by everyone else (including all of the music press)

I've had one album since it's release in 1987 but recently bought the rest of their stuff. I now struggle to listen to anything else.

Here's a taster
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For anyone looking to make a purchase, ignore the silly prices being asked on Amazon and go for the below fan run website. A portion of the proceeds go to (frontman/creative genius) Tim Smiths healthcare. He tragically has been hospitalised for over a decade any will almost certainly not write or perform again.

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Lend me a Tenor

31 May to 3 June 2017

John McIntosh Arts Centre
London Oratory School
SW6 1RX

with Superfly in the chorus
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OMD have still got it! I saw them live last year