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@teafortillerman @DeTahmineh Oh darling might at first seem ok but the whole thing is just great. McCartney has a fantastic voice and it just gets better the more you listen. Plus Ringo’s drumming is especially good on that track

@DeTahmineh @orangesubarus ("Oh darling!" is my personal favorite and "I will" is the best but its more the consistent quality through widely varied pretty original stuff)

The Beatles are one of the most important bands in modern music history. That is not the same thing as being one of the best. A lot of the reverence around them comes from historical position, not actual listening experience. They arrived at the right cultural moment, shaped the industry, influenced everyone after them, and became canonized so completely that people now confuse influence with superiority. Nonetheless, being an early inspiration is not the same as being unmatched. The Beatles get treated less like a band and more like a civilizational achievement. People do not merely enjoy them; they feel socially obligated to defend them. Their status has become self-reinforcing. Every generation is taught that they are the gold standard, so many people inherit the conclusion before they even examine the music. And once you strip away the mythology, what is left is often a catalog that is clever, catchy, and historically innovative—but not necessarily emotionally deeper, musically richer, or sonically more compelling than what later artists would go on to do better. A lot of Beatles praise is really praise for innovation in the historical context. Fair enough. But context cannot do all the work forever. “This was groundbreaking in the 1960s” is a different claim from “this remains the pinnacle of music.” Plenty of artists since then have written more complex lyrics, built more ambitious albums, pushed production further, and explored darker or more interesting emotional terrain. And they actually sound better without Yoko Ono screaming in the background. So no, saying the Beatles are not that good is not a ragebait. It is just refusing to confuse historical importance with permanent artistic supremacy.

@DeTahmineh The Abbey Road Medley too especially You Never Give Me Your Money and Golden Slumbers. I think it’s really some of their best stuff and totally underrated.

@orangesubarus Do you have a recommendation of gems?

@DeTahmineh While My Guitar Gently Weeps Happiness Is A Warm Gun For No One Something Strawberry Fields A Day In The Life In My Life Back In The USSR Oh Darling I’m Only Sleeping Eleanor Rigby If you just like metal/hard rock then listen to Helter Skelter and I Want You (She’s So Heavy)

@Simi_2210_ 179?

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Probably for the best. Their music is at best just average.