Anyone else not like The Beatles?

[bassstrangler]

I did not grow up in a household where The Beatles were ever played because my dad was a Stones man. I also heard tons of Willie, Waylon, David Allan Coe and countless other types of genres when at home growing up, but never The Beatles. When I was 16 I bought this double cassette labeled simply The Beatles. I thought it was a greatest hits collection when purchasing it. It was the White Album. Ever heard it? Changed my life. That's what the hype is about so believe it!

 

[gfen]

I cannot stand the Beatles. Yes, I understand that they were a watershed moment for music. Yes, there are songs I like. Yes, I still think they're grossly overrated. No, the wailing arguments of Beatles fans will not convince me otherwise.

 

[Matthew_84]

Yeah I'm not into them. I have a theory. Most people love the Beatles because they grew up with them or grew up with their parents listening to them. So they have this feel good factor. If you remove that or grow up with parents who didn't listen to the Beatles they just sound like every other 60's rock band, nothing special just harmonies and Pop melodies.

I don't agree with this theory. I was born in '84 with parents that loved The Stones and hated The Beatles. I love The Beatles.

I also disagree with your last sentence completely, but that's fine... To each their own.

 

[Matthew_84]

With all respect, that's not saying much. As much as I loved it in the 80s, thrash isn't a popular subgenre anymore. Plus, do you still think Metallica are good? Many would argue that they've completely lost it.

Death Magnetic is by far their best album since And Justice For All, in my opinion, and I know from other threads, that many others on here the same way... There are mixing issues (over compression / "wall of sound"), but that's not the fault of their songwriting.

 

[leegreenman]

It's not a crime not to like them, but keep in mind rock bands weren't even allowed to play on their own records and wrote their own songs until the Beatles established rock as a legitimate art form in the mid 60s.

 

[monsterthompson]

Regarding the OP:
Not a hater. Not a fan. I respect what they did but I don't love it.

Zep annoys me.

 

[king_biscuit]

If I recall correctly, Frank Zappa disliked them.

Frank would have thought most of the TB contingent were a bunch of no playing, pretentious, hipster, idiots too... I miss Frank

 

[manfish]

I dont love all of their songs esp the show tunes... Oblahbee, Octopuses Garden or some of the soppy love songs etc. but if you dont "get" the cool ones from Rubber Soul onwards, i.e. Helter Skelter, Im so Tired, Piggies, Taxman, Glass Onion, Come Together, Revolution and the psych ones, I am the Walrus, Blue Jay Way, esp imho some of White Album etc... then you dont "get" classic rock, rock and roll, art-rock, even pop-rock and singer songwriter imho. Thats cool. no rules on tastes. John Lydon was anti-Beatle but I bet he likes a lot of the songs. I dont care what you like or not but if you didn't like any Beatles, Id think you were a musical idiot and Id doubt your musicality, unless maybe you were only jazz, classical, shredder, ethnic, polka or something and you dont need to like classic to altv rock. The Beatles didn't have too many other bands to be influenced by / rip off like we did and were innovators of the highest degree, inventing the genre as they went along. Smoke one and listen to "Tomorrow Never Knows". Really? Nothing at all? P&L

 

[jim nolte]

*sigh* This again? Really?

There's no "arguably changed the industry" about it. The Beatles revolutionized the world of pop music in ways that, clearly, are incomprehensible to many people who are under the age of 40, maybe even under the age of 50.

If you had any idea of the kind of dreck that was being served up on the radio and sold in the record shops (yes, there were record shops in those days) before The Beatles came along (i.e. Pat Boone, Neil Sedaka, Frankie Avalon, etc.)...and then compared it against the pop music that came along immediately after The Beatles hit the big time, maybe then you would get it.

If you insist upon evaluating the music of The Beatles, most of which was created 45-50 years ago, against what is being created & produced right now, you will miss the point - entirely and completely. And if you're like many others of that generation who "don't get The Beatles" or "don't see what all the fuss is about", then you likely can't even discern the influence of The Beatles in the music that you listen to every day - not because their influence is so minimal or subtle...but because their influence is so ubiquitous.

The influence of The Beatles is so widespread and so deeply-rooted, at least within any type of mainstream pop or rock music, that it's not common to encounter music in such genres that was not influenced by The Beatles. That's how ubiquitous their influence actually is. And that may be the reason why you can't easily pick it out - because it's what you likely hear all the time, without ever knowing it!

MM

The #1 song in the US when " I Want To Hold Your Hand " was released in late December 1963 was "Dominique" by the Singing Nun. Check out the song, you will then realize why the Beatles were a godsend to us who were living then. It's a lot like people who dis Jaco, if you weren't playing bass in the mid '70s there is a good chance you'll never understand how he changed the bass playing landscape forever. Jim

 

[IGotGas]

Don't hate them but I've never been a fan...

 

[MovingPitchers]

I don't deny their influence and legacy. I don't doubt that they will forever be a legendary band that has revolutionized rock and roll and music in general. I don't deny that many people love them and are influenced by them.

That being said, I also don't like them either. They're not exactly technically amazing or anything but their songs are just not enjoyable to my ears.

 

[drakson]

I like them but probably listen to other Classic Rock bands from that era more now. Funny thing I was talking with another musician and he asked
what kind of music I played as a kid and I said Classic Rock. He then asked, "What was Classic Rock back then." I said "well what I played back then is
considered Classic Rock now. Anyway I started playing guitar about 6 months before the Beatles. When I seen them on Ed Sullivan I asked my Mom why
that one guitar only had 4 strings. She told me it was a bass guitar. I bought a bass about 4 months later. Still have it in fact. It was a new 1963 EBO but
I bought it new in '64.

 

[Smit_Dogg]

I've never been a big fan of them. I find them too sickly sweet/cute. I could never listen to a full album of theirs. I don't mind a few of their early songs and the white album had some decent tunes on it too.

Of the older bands around that era I prefered the grittier stuff ie Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix , The Who etc.

 

[40Hz]

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Frank Zappa pretty much disliked everyone. He seemed to feel anything that was widely admired by the general public he so despised couldn't be anything but garbage. (Can you say: "green eyed monster?") So I wouldn't read too much into that.

 

[peledog]

To some, it's like a mathmetician who dislikes the Pythagorean Theorem.

 

[Joe Bananas]

The Beatles & The Rolling Stones?
Well, in my personal opinion they are THE MOST OVERRATED BANDS IN THE HISTORY OF MUSIC.

 

[jeffbassguy]

i think the beatles suck, never found the fascination behind it. They change the song forms from what was standard then and they became musical ninjas or something. Probably doesnt help my opinion that i didnt grow up in that generation and never connected. Ive tried over the years to give them a chance since alot of gigs ive been on have their music but just never felt it.

 

[DwaynieAD]

I can say ive honestly never heard a Beatles song

 

[Son of Wobble]

I can say ive honestly never heard a Beatles song

Get outta here!
If true, you must be cultivating this feat, as "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" is obviously just keystrokes away. But I can see how
you wouldn't want to blow your streak at this late date.

 

[hsech]

If you aren't at least 65 and didn't live the "moment", I could see where you might not like them. I, on the other hand, bought all their vinyl albums and at one time or another played in a band that played their music. If I hear them on the radio even now I won't change stations until the song is over. My Mother was a music teacher back then and loved the Beatles because of their song writing and harmonization (she also liked the Beach Boys for their vocals). There will never be another Beatles that come on the music scene just at the right time.