Beatles Rule

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

You don't understand because you're not as smart as this guy. This guy has great taste and a deep understanding of what good music is. It's everyone else on the planet in the last 50 years who are wrong :/
- That guy in the corner meme here...
- Curious that it looks like this echo chamber agrees with him

That’s an earplug, not a Beatle.

Instructions unclear, inserted Volkswagen Beetle into ear canal
- Is that how one glings?
Instructions unclear, I hear scritching and tapping.

I think the beetle is tapping out Yellow Submarine on my ear drum.

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!

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!
- 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
- 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.
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 👌
they have written some objectively good songs

That’s a strong no
- Well I guess music is inherently subjective, but they have definitely written many good songs.
- no like?

Oh come on, I dont like the Beatles, but this is an Imagine Dragons level countermeasure

Nuh-uh, the countermeasure for imagine dragons involves powertools
- "I'm gonna follow you and play BEP on loOpOoOpp!"

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!

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.

I like the stones more dark and serious songs, but their pop stuff like "start me up" is like nails on a chalkboard to me. That's prevented me from ever getting into them. You'd think I'm crazy but I went to a music festival and the stones were the main event and I left when they started.
- I'm not saying they're amazing but they are certainly better
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.

I like ‘I wanna hold your hand’ though

the worst one
- Fight me (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

heh, gottem

You are special and unique, not like everyone else

I don't see how that's controversial. I often do this when I see bands I like play live, to protect my ears.

That's definitely a good idea, hearing protection is important at loud events.

Most overrated band ever.

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

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.
- And what is that reason?
"You and I have memories, longer than the road that stretches out ahead" is such a simple yet powerful lyric that captures how I feel about my relationship with my wife. Knowing we have more time in the past then what is left for us in the future is both amazing and daunting. Realizing how many great memories we made through those years. All of that captured in one line of one of their lesser songs. But, if they aren't your cup of tea, that's cool too.

This is my ABBA rule.

I don't know I think some of their songs are cool. Some of them aren't that good but that's the case with all artists. They all have duds at some point.

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.

How dare you, at their peak they were unstoppable!!! https://youtu.be/i4hY8huGMLU?si=TLMtlnTVQWnLTSok

Beatless

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