Does anyone here actually like the Beatles?

I like them but the beach boys are better in every conceivable way.

The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as “the greatest or most significant or most influential” rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success. The Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worthy of being saved.

They're the best band of all time and Rubber Soul to Abbey Road is probably the greatest streak in rock. So yes, I do.

>>74353002
You only think that because you're american

>>74352983
Literally nobody likes the Beatles.

>>74353086
I like them because they are better.

>>74353085
This

>>74353062
Never gets old.

>>74353002
Haha

Ha

>>74353086
You only think the Beatles are better because you're not American

>>74353085
this is the only correct post, rubber soul to abbey road is a streak that no one has ever matched

They would've been over if Smile came out in 1967.

>>74352983
jeans halfway down your feet
8 yr old detected

>>74353002
The Beach Boys would be as good as the Beatles if pet sounds was about 3x better and they made 5 of them.

>>74356079
I like Pet Sounds a lot but this is spot on.

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don't you mean The Beastles

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I feel like I'm the only anon to recognize the significance of this band. The Beatles are talented but overrated, causing a lot of other emerging British bands to be hidden down the charts :(

>>74353956
>>74353002
these

>>74352983
Drink more water

>>74356029
Exactly.

>>74356029
why does it matter when smile came out? People like /mu/ have this ridiculous tendency of judging the merit of albums more on their cultural impact or what year they came out, rather than the music they contain

>>74352983

>was about to crack a joke
>check the filename

Well done anon, but you still have poor taste.

Rain should've been on Revolver god damnit

but yes the beatles were amazing in their prime

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>>74353085
No. Not even close.

David Bowie and Bruce Springsteen have the best album streaks.

>>74357048
>judging music on technological and cultural circumstances
>ridiculous

Good one. Smile was a much more complex album and was recorded at the same time The Beatles were recording Sgt. Pepper.

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Probably the same fags that listen to nirvana or beefheart's autistic screeching

LOVE THEM!
They NEVER put out a bad record either U.S. or British catalogue!!

>>74353062
Go to HELL you Scruffy wop!

>>74353796
I AM SOMEBODY!
You're a REAL NOWHERE MAN!

>>74356029
Over? No!
But Smile would've given Sgt. Pepper a good run for it's money if it had been released on schedule. This much I think we can agree on.

>>74356782
Up until 1967 The Kinks certainly held their own with The Beatles. The only problem with The Kinks were the became quintessentially TOO British for Americans to understand. They still had their Yank fans who followed them to the very end, though.

>>74357109
Yes, and so should'e Paperback Writer. Many will agree. And they should've left For No One OFF the album!

>In B4 "John Lennon beat his wife" meme shitposting cancer

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>>74353085
It's a simple fact. No other normie meme band actually lives up to the hype like the Beatles do. They're not overrated or underrated, they're accurately rated as World-Class, Once-in-a-Century Talent. And they came along at the right time.

>>74353086
and because /mu/ told him this

>>74358614
>thinking I hadn't already heard of the beach boys and the fucking beatles before coming to mu

We aren't all as sheltered as you friend.

>>74358390
You're not funny.

>>74357048
its called reading too much scaruffi and believing his rating system = personal value of music

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>>74353085

>>74356079
this is actually an understatement, because it doesn't account for the fact that the Beatles' first 6 albums are also masterful on a level that the early beach boys albums did not approach, despite scattered great tracks like "in my room"

>>74358673
I wasn't trying to be.
I'm as serious as a fucking heart attack, and don't ever forget it.

>>74360595
still not funny. but what were really saying is that your upbeat jittery way of typing sentences is annoyingly awful and preferably not to have to have been dealt with here

I should start listenening to them

>>74357824
>Bowie

imo, no

Did you guys know that John Lennon beat his wife?

>>74358489
good man

>>74357824
I agree anon.
Reading Springsteen's autobiography atm. Really interesting stuff. He seems like a great guy too, very humble.

>>74352983
>if it's popular, I must hate it.

>>74352983
>first time browsing /mu/
>assume they hate everything that's popular
>assume they despise the beatles most of all
>be right

For a board that claims to have obscure refined tastes, you're all an extremely predictable and boring bunch.

>>74356782
Wow, it's almost as if they rose above the competition because they're better

Woah.

>>74352983
I've actually never listened to one of their albums before.

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>>74363396

>>74363327
>>74363359
>>74363424
Seething.

>>74363442
Back to rebbit kiddo

>>74363468
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-Cr-rUFUis

>>74363547
TY I needed this. Have a good day :)

>>74353002
This.

Smile > Pet Sounds > Revolver... in my humble opinion.

>>74363442
see?

predictable.

Yawn.

>>74363359
What
Sgt. Peppers is a great fucking album. Lurk moar you newfag

>>74353085
The Mothers Of Invention's entire discography (excluding Ruben) shits so hard on this it's not even funny.

>>74363359
>>74363605
I like the Beatles, you are a salty autist who needs to go back to /v/

>>74353002
beach boys made 1 good album while the beatles made 5-6 great albums

only hipsters and contrarians like them more than the beatles

>>74356029
>Beach fags actually believe this

>>74364392
I like the Mothers but I still think the Beatles are untouchable

>>74363381
>What does overrated mean????

>>74355779
Freewheelin to blonde on blonde is really close.

Dylan has some of the best streaks.

>>74356782
I don't think so. Song to song, album to album, there's a reason critics and listeners keep ranking The Top Three as:
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Who

>>74353002
Pet Sounds > The Beatles, but the more consistent quality of The Beatles discography surely puts them above The Beach Boys.

>>74364998
The who are fucking garbage. People call them hero's for smashing instruments pete townsend cant play guitar for shit. Most english people hate them

>>74365164
The who were also sellouts at 1969 Woodstock, demanding more money.