• butter@midwest.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    7 hours ago

    I have about 6 songs that I really like by the Beatles. Anything else I’ll end up skipping, no matter how hard I try.

  • Cruxifux@feddit.nl
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    19
    arrow-down
    8
    ·
    13 hours ago

    Most overrated band ever.

    “I’m the egg man! I’m the walrus! Coo coo cachoo!” Wow so deep.

    • moonlight@fedia.io
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      5 hours ago

      That song is literally nonsense meant to confuse people who overanalyze their songs. It’s not meant to be ‘deep’ haha.

      You don’t have to like them, but there’s a reason why I and so many others think they’re fantastic.

        • moonlight@fedia.io
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          10
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          5 hours ago

          Because they’re good! Excellent songwriting that stands the test of time.

        • Cruxifux@feddit.nl
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          arrow-down
          3
          ·
          3 hours ago

          The reason is that their promoters and managers pushed them hard by getting them played repeatedly on every radio station in North America and Western Europe and then getting them put on every popular music reviewer “best bands ever” list so that basic bitches would think “well if their music is everywhere and the corporate mandated music media says they’re good then they must be amazing!”

  • Kalkaline @leminal.space
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    87
    arrow-down
    8
    ·
    20 hours ago

    Oh look this guy doesn’t like a band that almost universally makes the top of respected “best bands” lists.

  • tinylightshow@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    38
    arrow-down
    7
    ·
    19 hours ago

    Unpopular opinion, but I can’t stand listening to the Beatles. I admit, they have written some objectively good songs, I just don’t enjoy them. They just don’t sound good to me.

    However, I’m not a hater, and if you like them, I’m happy for you!

    • IndiBrony@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      7 hours ago

      I’m always in two minds. Like you, yes, I can say they’re objectively good, but I tend to find myself enjoying the slightly more experimental stuff rather than the hits that immediately come to everyone’s mind when you mention the band.

      That said, one of my favourite songs is While My Guitar Gently Weeps 👌

    • lobut@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      23
      ·
      16 hours ago

      The Beatles are undoubtedly a huge part of music history and a huge foundational piece of rock and roll. That being said, listen to what you like and like what you like.

      I have trouble watching a lot of classic movies and find them boring. I’d like to think that’s fine!

      • GraniteM@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        39 minutes ago

        I definitely identified a range of classic movies from “Holy shit, I love this” to “I can appreciate this as Important Cinema but it’s not for me.”

        In the first group I’ve got movies like Casablanca, The Philadelphia Story, and The Lion In Winter.

        I recently watched La Dolce Vita, and that is very much in the second category. I can see how so many movie tropes came out of it but… it’s just a little bit too much for me.

        It’s worth going back and checking out old movies because some of them are legitimately fun to watch, but it’s also okay to just acknowledge a movie’s contributions and move on.

      • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        4 hours ago

        I had a college roommate who thought the beatles were boring, and I had to think about that for a long time because it kind of went against my worldview at the time.

        I think the Beatles were just so groundbreaking and influential that their influence is heard everywhere now, so if you missed listening to them as a kid, they just sound like old music

  • niktemadur@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    12
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    17 hours ago

    Ooh… shots fired across the bow of the Yellow Submarine!

    C’mon, plucky little yellow fellow, torpedo the sh#t outta that blue meanie m#th#rf#ck#r!

  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    17 hours ago

    I can’t stand them either. I get them. I respect them. I just don’t like them. Stones are the better UK band from the 60s.

    • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      16 hours ago

      I like the stones less than the beatles but love tull. I mean there was a lot of change and progression in that period from elvis onward.