For the most part, I like the Beatles music,.its catchy, it invokes emotion, etc.
I do also believe that the Beatles popularity in the U.S. did in fact come as a matter of being in the right place at the right time. It was only months after JFK was brutally killed in Dallas that the Beatles had made their first nationally televised appearance, and caused "beatlemania".
so, in some aspects, you could say that the Beatles are overrated. its all a matter of opinion.
some of their songs are just flat out weird and eery.
I remember the first time ever I heard "Strawberry Fields Forever",.I listened to the song and thought.."wow, this is a nice song,.very lulling,.nice beat to it"...before long the song was soon over
..but wait,..it wasnt over!!...it just so happened there was a short period of silence, before the song came back to live wailing loud trumpets and some weird, eery noises that sounded off the wall that sounds a lot like what a fucked-up jack-in-the-box on crack would sound like....and these noises scared the flooded crap out of me,...it was totally unexpected!
so why would the Beatles add this weird ending to their song...the song itself, minus the weird ending would have sold on its own merits.
in fact,.i hate to dis-credit the world reknown Beatles on this song, but IMHO, Ive always like the Candy Flip version of the song much better.
see for yourself...
http://video.google....2...h&plindex=0
i am the eggman,..i am the eggman,..i am the walrus,..goo goo ga choo, ga goo goo ga choo!"
This post has been edited by princesskadee: 10 August 2007 - 07:34 AM