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>I feel like Lucy’s moving the football on me.

haha, I was about to tell OP that he's talking in circles. I think he's just being contrarian at this point

After they're done singing cough and say you suck all in one breath. I'd like to call it a Coughyousuck. 🤣

When I read missives like this, I kind of despair for the younger generation. This poor misinformed Redditor just does not understand the tidal wave of change to the entire music scene that The Beatles caused, using their Fifties musical influences and the rising local scene to reimagine and reinvigorate popular music with a basic musicality that transcended genre. And then, they grew and reimagined the scene once again, using rising studio technology in masterful, innovative ways. Artists from all walks of life began recording their material as well, cementing their work in the public consciousness. You can't really overestimate their influence.

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So we’re now going by critically acclaimed, ok. I feel like Lucy’s moving the football on me. List their critically acclaimed songs. Now list all from the artists you mentioned. Multiply those songs by two. You probably come up with the same amount of songs from Revolver.

Bridge Over Troubled Water.

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‘…not that groundbreaking’

Soooooo, they were ‘somewhat’ groundbreaking?

What Artist/Band/Project IS groundbreaking in your opinion?

I looked at some of your past posts btw…..and Paul McCartney isn’t dead (posting that kinda crushes any credibility)

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Ah, I see what you mean, misunderstood you, so sorry for that.

I agree, had the Beatles not been there, somebody else would've stepped up. But if they would have had the same impact on culture and music recording technology is an unanswerable question.

ground breaking now? no of course not. But they were the first ones to do almost everything and every single band from that point on copied them. Without the Beatles success with experimental albums, bands like Hendrix and Pink Floyd would have never gotten record deals and would never have been able to release music.

Wuuuut.... Someone is on crack

Wage Slaves - All shall perish

We're you around in the 60s when they started? If not, you really have nothing to base your opinion on. If yes, then you are absolutely entitled to your opinion. I'm not a huge Beatles fan, but their influence on music can't be overstated.

Number one song on Billboard in 1964 doesn’t count then? Okey doke 🫤

You've listened to their whole discography? But you only listed Hey Jude and Come Together. Not stuff like Eleanor Rigby, Yellow Submarine, Tax Man, I mean the list goes on for tracks that pioneered multi tracking and various other recording techniques on top of making psychedelic music mainstream in a time where very few popular bands actually did much to express themselves or did anything out of the ordinary.

TLDR; they did drugs before it was cool. And they did them so hard it stopped being cool.

Which is fuckin rad 🤯🦵💯🗿

We had the same situation with our original bass player. We approached him as a band and told him that we felt it wasn't working out, as he wasn't up to playing the music we had picked. He agreed, and we parted ways as friends. Honesty is the best policy. As others have said, maybe he can be a better front if he puts the guitar down. Tough situation all around. I can say this.... every personnel change we made (there weren't many) over ten years made us a better band.

I know. It was a joke…

I would strongly disagree. And it sounds to me as if you have not much knowledge about what they actually did. As others here have pointed out, they were very much on the front when it came to experimenting with new technologies and different ways to create sound. And even if there were other bands (of course there were others), most of them do not come even close to the impact the Beatles had.

None of us who didn't live in that time can fully grasp how important the Beatles were. Their songs not being "all that interesting" is a viewpoint under todays' standards where just about everything has been done before. A few things of what the Beatles did had simply never been done before.

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The only other person/band I'd like to see in this conversation is Brian Wilson from The Beach Boys. He was putting together harmonies and instrumentation rivaling what The Beatles were doing, at the same time. What held him back was his asshat of a cousin, and his over-controlling father.

I mean 1976.

I said "their" sound, aka their own sound. Not everyone just copied the Beatles. And rock n roll and pop we're around before the Beatles.