Or the “What band do a lot of people like but I just don’t?” thread.
No, the ‘most hyped up way beyond their true musical worth and genuine talent’ thread.
Beatles is a pretty good shout. People forget they were a semi-‘manufactured’ boy baynd doing commercial pop music to begin with. Then were ‘influenced by (copied, basically) other baynds and musicians of the time. If you actually analyse their work critically, they weren’t as good as many artists throughout the period they were active for. Loads more talented, inventive and original stuff out there, the Beatles enjoyed success cos they were relatively ‘safe’ and undemanding. Not unlike many of today’s pop stars really.
Yeah, they had some good stuff, granted, couple of good albums, but tbh there’s loads of better stuff out there really. They were never really inventive or original; they helped popularise a lot of other music, but weren’t ‘pioneers’ in any real sense. And some of John Lennon’s stuff is absolutely dire; wishy washy hypocritical sentimental tosh. Goddam Hippy.. George Harrison did some interesting stuff with Indian music for a bit, worked with the likes of Ravi Shankhar, but again, a bit insipid really. And as for McCartney; ye Gods where to begin? 😯
Yeah, Beatles for me too I think.
Oh, and for individual artist; Madonna. Yeah she’s bin a round a very very long time, but what has she ever done where you can stand back and truly say ‘that’s great’?
