Im with the anti Beatles crowd too. Muse or Radiohead is a bit more like it.
Oh, please, there’s thirty years between The Beatles and Radiohead and Muse, and you can hear Beatles influences in a great many more modern bands, like Muse, although their most recent stuff is totally a Queen knockoff. And you could argue that Queen lifted a lot of ideas from the Beatles later more extravagant music, like Tomorrow Never Knows. Prior to the Beatles, it was standard practice for bands to get their songs and music from songwriting factories like Goffin and King and other Brill Building inhabitants, and the British equivalents. The Beatles broke that system. It frankly doesn’t matter if they were getting influences from blues or wherever, the fact is they were writing, recording and performing and having hits with their own songs. That was new, and established the principal for rock bands who followed them. It honestly doesn’t fracking matter one iota whether any of you lot actually like them, they established a principle for others to follow that changed pop music forever. Anyone who says they were rubbish, however, is showing they’re musically illiterate. There’s plenty of music out there I don’t like, but is certainly not rubbish; it’s just not to my taste. I don’t ‘get’ Trout Mask Replica, for example, but I’d be a frakkin’ idiot to call it rubbish. Say you don’t like something by all means, but if you’re going to call The Beatles ‘crap’, or ‘rubbish’ or whatever, let’s hear your songwriting efforts to prove how much better you can do it. I’ll happily admit that Lennon and McCartney were better as a team than they were as individuals, in fact I reckon Ringo wrote two songs that were better than pretty much anything McCartney wrote on his tod, Photograph, Back Off Boogaloo and It Don’t Come Easy are long time favourites, Another Day being the only McCartney solo song I actually like. There’s little music that’s actually rubbish, just stuff you don’t like, and God knows, there’s plenty of that.
