Ok-Pressure-3879 t1_iy49hef wrote on November 28, 2022 at 5:16 PM

I definitely don’t think they are overrated. I do think they have been deified or at least over sainted. Its like every, band, artist, musician, and genre get scrutinized like ‘oh the beatles did it better’. Or god forbid a band come out and say ‘we never listened to the beatles’. Its kind of lessening the achievements of other bands to constantly be compared to them.

TLDR -Beatles arent overrated but people need to drop the Beatles Colored Glasses of Nostalgia. (+ 45 beatles perception)

great-distances-1919 t1_iy8fu67 wrote on November 29, 2022 at 3:10 PM

I agree with this entirely. They were phenomenal. But the aura surrounding them is a little over-the-top. There were other bands of that era and genre- Stones, Kinks, Byrds, VU, just to name a few- who matched the quality and innovation of their output, IMO.