I think the Beatles are insanely overrated, not because they weren't good, but because like many other popular bands, people put them on this stupidly high pedestal, that no band could ever live up to.
Many people seem to think that the quality of a band increases, every time they influence someone, such that no band that comes after the original band, can ever be better or more talented than the original band.
For other examples of this effect, see Metallica, Nirvana.
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Originally Posted by Vikrum
As much as i believe the "how can you not like the Beatles when they've influenced bands you DO like" argument is RIDICULOUS, i struggle to see why people don't love the Beatles. Genuinely.
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Arghhhh I fucking hate that argument (the "how can you not like the Beatles when they've influenced bands you DO like" one, not what you just said).
I'm not saying The Beatles fit this description, but if you wait 40-50 years, you'll find that any mediocre, but extremely popular band will have influenced many many other bands. That doesn't make the mediocre band any less mediocre. Wait 50 years, and I guarantee you there will be scores of bands that are influenced by even the most boring, unimaginitive, overrated shit of today.
The fact that a band influenced other bands, doesn't make the original band better than one that hasn't. Metallica have influenced many, many great bands, but that doesn't make them better than all of those bands. This is a concept a lot of people seem to have trouble with.
Also, just because a band is influenced by another band, it doesn't follow that the second band would never have existed if not for the first.