The Beatles Suck

Sometimes I like to get bored and I'll go into clinically insane phases of listening to music. I'll listen to alot of something here and there, but then one day I'll just decide to become completely obsessed with Metallica for a few days, and then for some reason I'll decide the next day I'll decide that listening to R.E.M. is a good idea and I'll listen to everything R.E.M. has ever released for a week.

The other day I decided I don't listen to enough of the Beatles. I have been obsessively listening to every album, in order back to back. I admit that while I do appreciate the Beatles, I was never really that into their music. In my opinion, dispite their cultural influence and fame, I still always found them a bit overrated.

You can ease up now. Because I will clarify. I do not think the Beatles suck. While I do appreciate their music and their influence, I never sat down to listen to conciously listen to their music, they are just a band that I know their songs just like everyone else in the world, but there was so much better music that out in that era that I didn't have time to listen to them between band The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, The Who, and The Kinks.

After listening to all of this Beatles music, I am still in the oppinion that they're overrated. More so actually. Yet I have

gained an equal appreciation for their later day material (Rubber Soul and onward). While their early material like Please Please Me (1963), an album made by a young band when the doo wop of the 50's was expanding to a rock sound yet still maintained that doo wop dancability, their later albums such as Revolver (1966) and Sgt. Pepper (1967) were psychadelic and expanded rock & roll by incorperating different styles of music in intensely brilliant ways (blame the pot they smoked with Bob Dylan).

The problem is, you have to realize; however, that Hendrix came out in '67 and by that time, the Stones had already done Satisfaction and Paint It Black and The Who was rocking harder. And that's when I realized why I never liked the Beatles as much. I like blues music too much. While many bands kept a bluesy influence to their music, the Beatles took a more folky and classical approach to their rock & roll. I like folk music and such, but not as much as I like blues music.

So the Beatles don't suck. But you have to admit, they are a little overrated. Their music just isn't that good.