Is it normal i'm still sad about the beatles?
I'm still sad that the Beatles broke up even though it happened like 40 years ago. IIN?
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I'm still sad that the Beatles broke up even though it happened like 40 years ago. IIN?
I will brace myself for the hate and thumbs down.
The Beatles are overrated.
I'm a massive Beatles fan and although I could name a hundred reasons for liking them, I do think they get a kind of universal acclaim just for being The Beatles. Plus the first couple of year's output was embarrassing and dire. It was only when they discovered drugs that they became interesting.
They were much better later on. I like them and they are amazing but still overrated. Some people hold them in a god like status and I think there are better bands out there.
I wouldn't really agree about their first period being embarrassing.
They still did some interessting things. Sure, in a lyrical sense, they were pretty lame.
Might be a personal prejudice of mine against Merseybeat (I'm from the sister city and we've always competed) or it might be the image I have in my mind of those mop tops flapping to another song crafted from the words "Please", "Love", "Me", "You" or "Do".
I don't think they were bad, per se, but there were a lot of bands doing the same things. By the time Help and Rubber Soul came along, things were changing. Just after, Revolver is the first album that typifies how I see the Beatles. You've got the beautifully evocative Eleanor Rigby and For No One, the ethereal Here, There and Everywhere and a nod to what they were going to become with Yellow Submarine (looking very out of place on that album).
And, of course, there was the hiatus after Revolver before they came back with a contender for the most important album in the world: Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Whichever way you look at it, it's a work of genius. A Day in the Life remains my favourite Beatles song (with some very stiff competition) and there's anecdotal evidence that just listening to it pushed Brian Wilson into a nervous breakdown.
I don't need to say what came next. It's The Beatles in a vein of form that most generations never produce, never mind individual musicians. And that, for me, is the problem. Love Me Do suffers by comparison and whenever I talk of my love for The Beatles, I get the impression people are thinking of the mop tops.
All i know is lennon had to be shot, last nail in the coffin of the 60's and all those piece of crap hippies spreading drugs and std's everywhere.
Just for the record, I am not sad enough to sob over their break up. When I think about the fact that they aren't together, half of them are dead, and there will never be new songs released by them, I sigh, and then move on with my day. I was just wondering if it was stupid of me to think like this even though they broke up so long ago.