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So I'm really tired and am about to go to sleep, but I wanted to briefly post about something in hopes it will help me remember later and give me the desire to elaborate on it. I honestly feel that the Beatles are seriously overrated. I know I cannot possibly be completely objective in this given my previous opinions of the band (especially when I throw in Bob Dylan references later, which doubly confounds my objectivity!) but last night I listened to the 1967-1970 greatest hits collection (the blue, double album) and I played it with a deep desire to want to like it, and I just couldn't. The band honestly feel like nothing but impostors to me, and the only songs that have any originality are the ones by George Harrison.
I had a very strong feeling that from Sgt. Pepper's onward, they were trying to channel, recycle and recapture the magic Dylan conjured in Bringing it All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde and funnel it through a pop band filter, all the while managing to utterly fail to reproduce the core essence of the music which made it all too obvious to me that I was hearing a soulless clone of the original.
It seemed to me that on each song they only really came up with a brief idea for a song and then struggled to pad them out to 3 minutes length with endlessly repeating choruses, extended snipits of their hired studio musicians and random sound effects that really ad nothing to the song except to trick the listener into believing more is going on than there really is. The core songs themselves were basically 45 second to a minute long in most cases, and I quickly became bored listening to this pattern repeat itself in song after song after song.
I had a very strong feeling that from Sgt. Pepper's onward, they were trying to channel, recycle and recapture the magic Dylan conjured in Bringing it All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde and funnel it through a pop band filter, all the while managing to utterly fail to reproduce the core essence of the music which made it all too obvious to me that I was hearing a soulless clone of the original.
It seemed to me that on each song they only really came up with a brief idea for a song and then struggled to pad them out to 3 minutes length with endlessly repeating choruses, extended snipits of their hired studio musicians and random sound effects that really ad nothing to the song except to trick the listener into believing more is going on than there really is. The core songs themselves were basically 45 second to a minute long in most cases, and I quickly became bored listening to this pattern repeat itself in song after song after song.