The Beatles — Their New Sounds
Currently, I’m supposed to be writing a series of critical articles on The Beatles and determining their actual level of greatness. One of the worst problems of my life is my habit of assuming vast and all-consuming projects guaranteed to destroy sanity and consume all waking moments — with the added problem that the internet likes text to be consumable in less than 10 minute increments.
Now of course the reason I am taking this task is I do think the Beatles are pretty great and I would like to see if I can add anything meaningful to the discussions of their greatness, to get some perspective on that greatness, and to consider arguments against the same greatness — because I’m a glutton for critical punishment.
Anything popular enough for long enough will develop those who dislike it, in a recent post on Hacker News several people commented that they essentially did not find the Beatles that impressive.
The Beatles are still catchy more than half a century later but, yeah, even if it’s an unpopular opinion it’s just, to me, mass produced pop that’s not particularly deep.
