This is a band that survived people literally burning piles of their albums during their heyday and who quit touring at the height of their fame. I think they will survive a few online hipsters who think it’s cool to shit on great music.

“As long as it’s new to you, old music is new music too.” Great quote, simple but poignant. EDIT: I’m glad many people agree 🙂

Listening to The Beatles as a songwriter is like listening to Coltrane as a saxophonist. Absolute masters of the craft.

There’s one group of people I’ve found who consistently at least appreciate if not love the Beatles: musicians.

Whether you hate em or not, you gotta agree their magnum opus “bohemian rhapsody” is a song.

The Beatles are the equivalent of The Jonas Brother transforming into Radiohead in a span of 7 years. If that is not impressive, I don’t know what is.

I had a class years ago in college in electronic music. The teacher was going over sampling, and was playing some different stuff throughout history like John Cage etc that interesting but wasn't really catching everyone's attention. Then he played Tomorrow Never Knows. A lot of people had never heard the song before, the class was also held in a large auditorium room so hearing the song over the sound system was absolutely divine. Literally like half the class was mind blown. I think the impression left was how modern it sounded compared to the long-winded experimental stuff we were going through before - and it really does. The mood and sound of that track is very alien to the love songs that made the Beatles famous. It's raw and visceral. It has an edge to it that wouldn't be really popular until metal and punk music found an audience. It has a structure that wouldn't really be popular until 80's and 90's electronic music made its foundation. I found the Beatles on my own in high school, but seeing people impacted by their music like that was very telling to me. They were truly not just ahead of the time, they forged the future of music nearly single handedly. Dozens and dozens and dozens of incredible artists were moved and impressed by Tomorrow Never Knows. It was a blueprint for decades of music ahead of it...

All Things Must Pass = Pure joy. Most of the songs from that album were played at our wedding

I know hating the Beatles probably seems like a recent phenomenon or a symptom of being perpetually online, but the sentiment was definitely around when I was a kid growing up in late 80s/early 90s. When I was 10 I repeated some joke I'd heard on the playground about Ringo Starr being the worst drummer of all time and my dad sat me down and did a full boomer crash course and made me listen to Strawberry Fields Forever and Come Together and he pointed out some of the drumming decisions and how it impacted the song vs. the earlier four on the floor Beatles stuff. It might sound like a nightmare having someone sit there for a half hour admonishing you for not having the correct musical opinion but it was actually a really eye-opening experience as a kid

Listen Beatles haters, I know "It's OK to Leave Your Dog in a Hot Car" is pretty problematic by today's standards, but you have to understand that it was a different time and John and Paul were going through a lot when they wrote it

I first became obsessed with The Beatles in 7th grade, so I'm sure that's in large part why I still love their work. But in general, what makes it so fun to be into them is that they're likely the most well-documented band in history. There's like seven decades of material to enjoy, whether its solo albums, books just about one of their tours, remasters to argue about, their movies, hundreds of thousands of song covers...it's a deep well that most other artists will never compete with if you develop an interest in them.

Saying that the Beatles are so overrated is so overrated

I will admit, I didn't like them for over a decade. Just didn't see the fuss. But when it clicked, it clicked, and I understood the acclaim. I do feel that unless you were around in the 60s you can't fully appreciate them 100% because everything they did has been done a billion times since by everyone and their mum, but I can only imagine what it must have been like to have heard Tomorrow Never Knows in 1966. It must have blown people's fucking minds. Everything they pioneered, or helped to pioneer, we just take as a given now. Bands writing all their own songs and playing all their own instruments without just using session musicians. Using the studio to its full capabilities. Tape loops, pitched vocals, backmasking, incorporating influences from classical and Middle Eastern / Asian genres of music. Using things other than the standard guitar, bass, drums formula. Focusing on entire albums of quality songs as opposed to making an album with one hit song and 10 other songs designed to sound just like that one hit song. It's easy to forget that before them, the music industry was very different. Songs were written FOR singers by paid writers, barely any singers were allowed to write their own songs. They were given songs, paid to sing them, and musicians were paid to be the band for them. The Beatles helped to change that. I do think some songs are overrated (never liked Yesterday), and I'm not fussed on their solo stuff (I hate Imagine, sue me), but the four of them together were something truly important. It's also important to remember, they weren't around for very long. 7 years releasing albums, and they released 2 albums a year for a lot of it. They went from A Hard Day's Night to Tomorrow Never Knows in under 2 years. No one did that. It showed people such as Bowie that you could reinvent yourself year after year. Also, no band or artist will ever, EVER be as famous as they were when Beatlemania was at its peak.

No one would talk about this 60-year-old band if their music wasn’t absolutely phenomenal

The fact that they had all their accomplishments and completely shifting the music scene like no one had ever seen, with their techniques, and styles, all in a 7 year span is crazy

Over time I just had to come to terms with the fact that a lot of people (probably the majority of people) simply do not care about music as much as we do. Sure, almost everyone listens to music, but most would be content in just moving along with whatever happens to be popular at the moment without thinking about it too hard.

If you appreciate creative songwriting you can not deny the Beatles... You don't have to love every track, but you can't devalue the integrity of the body of work.

I'm fine with people not liking the Beatles. I get more frustrated when they think they're overrated. Like...their innovation to pop and rock music cannot be overstated. If you don't like their songs that's fine but there's a reason like 80% of popular artists since the Beatles cite the Beatles as a direct influence.

Honestly I gave them a listen when I was the most stoned I've ever been and suddenly it all clicked. I was able to hear all the influences they had on music I love and it was like this beautiful tapestry of creativity was laid out before me whereas before I had been trying to examine every individual thread.

At this point, I've seen so many "Beatles overrated" takes that it almost seems like a hot take to say the Beatles WERE really the greatest and most influential rock band in history. They combined toe-tapping rock beats with infectious pop earworms to break into the mainstream, and throughout their career mixed in so many other influences they had, and inspired many other bands to search for new sounds and seek out different genres. They pioneered recording techniques and solidified the idea of a recorded piece of music as its codified canonical version (as opposed to, say, sheet music) by doing things that could only be replicated through the studio process. Sure, they showed up later in Rock & Roll history than names like Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly and Little Richard, and they weren't quite as virtuosic as Hendrix or as experimental as Zappa, but The Beatles struck the perfect middle ground of novelty and familiarity and stretched out in both directions. In the future, when Rock music is taught the way Baroque, Classical and Romantic music are, there'll be four names of artists to listen to for an introduction to each genre. Bach Beethoven Brahms Beatles.

Everyone gangsta until I put on Wild Honey Pie as a way to scaring the guests away.

I gave a copy of Abbey Road to my roommate who was this macho, tough-guy drug dealer who exclusively listened to Young Jeezy, 50 Cent, and Gucci Mane. He had never heard the Beatles before. Came home from work the next day to hear him blasting Here Comes the Sun so I knocked on his door. He was in there bawling, literally reduced to tears because he was so moved by the music. It made me feel all the feelings I felt when I first fell in love with the music all over again

My Dad was born in the early 1920s and had children late in life. He listened exclusively to Classical music and Jazz (mostly Bebop and Modal with some Big Band stuff like Ellington). He hated, HATED popular music. He saw it as simplistic, repetitive and dumb. The only pop records which he actually owned were the Red and Blue albums by the Beatles. He loved the Beatles. They seem to transcend generations in terms of their appeal. You can dislike their music but it's hard, objectively, to dis them as musicians unless you have a non-musical agenda.

I'm a 23-year old musician, went to a presigious university for Classical and Jazz. The more I learn about music, the more I grow to appreciate The Beatles.

Call me crazy, but their songs “I’m So Tired” and “Everybody‘s Got Something to Hide” sounds incredibly modern. Could fit on any alt-rock album today. Also I could see a ton of gen Z Olivia Rodrigo stans enjoying The White Album

I remember reading a story about someone watching a Shakespeare play and complaining that it was filled with cliches, without realizing that he'd invented, or at least popularized, all those cliches. Same goes with The Beatles. They didn't just impact Western pop music but music as an artform.

I was raised on The Beatles. My mom was a Beatlemaniac when she was a teen and also went to Woodstock. She had amazing taste in music and raised me around some good shit. It's not all Boomers! Plenty of us kids from Boomers were brought up to appreciate the complexity and beauty of The Beatles' music.

I used to get into pointless arguments over musical taste and generalizing about how certain artists categorically suck.....then I graduated from middle school. A good rule of thumb for the internet: it's OK for people to like things. It's OK for people not to like things.

I feel bad for anyone who hates the beatles, not because of the music, but because they are missing out on the batshit insane fandom which is the modern beatles fandom.

All Things Must Pass has been my obsession this year The Beatles, and their solo stuff, have always been a wellspring of creativity and ideas that inspire me in my own music.

i used to be a pretty big hater of the Beatles if I'm being honest, for a pretty long while, say about a year or so. And in the span of a few days, I became absolutely obsessed with them. It was the first time I sat down and listened to their music from their various different eras, each incredible in their own way. Back then, I never understood the crazy hype, I only knew of their older stuff and the two George Harrison tracks off Abbey Road, and Come Together, of course. I thought they were fine, and defiantly didn't deserve the praise they were receiving, but then, I finally listened to them and their stuff as a whole about a month or 2 ago, and I REALLY understood why everyone loved them. Their music is so captivating, and once you understand their utter impact on music as a whole, it really gets you to appreciate their music. They were so talented at such a young age, and their whole psychedelic era was so experimental and interesting, and of course, absolutely amazing. Sgt. Peppers is my favorite album of theirs!! I get that most people are saying this to be different, but to the ones who genuinely think they're overrated, just look at their history and their impact on the music industry as a whole, and their later albums beyond the love songs they're so well known as. The Beatles are absolutely amazing in their song writing, and they are not overrated whatsoever. I LOVE THEM!!

I fucking love the beatles. Really started listening to them 2 years ago and it changed my life honestly. Started playing guitar and writing music again. I'm 23 btw, and I can say you can learn a lot from them, but most importantly their music can make you feel happy and content.

honestly it’s a good thing because it’s such a self report if people think it’s interesting to hate on the beatles that you just keep your distance from anyone like that.

people need to talk more about Paul and Linda McCartney's RAM. That album is just full of the cute easy to listen to melodies that i would always look for in beatles albums

I get the impression a lot of people who hate on The Beatles are either cringey 'look at me, validate my hot take' kind of people, or those who only heard the singles and never deep-dived into the albums. From a musicians point of view too, I've never met a decent musician who doesn't like the Beatles. To me they're just the apex of what a recording artist should be, and whilst others have aged better in some respects (The Velvet Underground) the Beatles will be the eternal blueprint for anyone starting out in music.

"Everybody says the Beatles is the best and most influential band of all time. So if I hate them, that'll make me special and different."

beach boys and Beatles always get so misinterpreted, when you really listen to what they were saying and pay attention to how incredible the production is for the time, its f***ing mind blowing

The fact that this video had to be made, almost 60 years after Beatlemania, just proves that they are way more important, talented and iconic than you can even fathom. There's maybe 2 or 3 artists from the new millennium that would even sniff that kind of legend in 2050-2060.

My mom was born in 1950, she was a first generation Beatle fan, saw them on Ed Sullivan and had most of their early records. I listened to a lot of the pre-Revolver stuff as a kid, that was her favorite era and it wasn't until high school that I checked out Sgt. Pepper / Revolver / The White Album which blew my mind. There was a saturation point for me, I don't listen to their music nearly as much as I did years ago (part of that has to do with my mom passing 10 years ago and their music makes me think of her) and there are times when I want to hear Revolver again or maybe a song on the radio but I'm not actively listening to their music the same way I was. I think people have a perception they were some serious band, when in reality they were a bunch of kids that liked joking around, having fun and trying out new ways of doing the same old thing.

You could release 'tomorrow never knows' right now, and no one would think it sounds old.

(Just because you asked) - All Things Must Pass turned me into a through and through George stan. I've been a beatles "super fan" most my life (at 29 now), but really dove deep into that album last winter and WOW - it's incredible.

People who hate on The Beatles probably only listened to Yellow Submarine and maybe 2 other songs and decide the most basic "controversial opinion" to date.

Most people dont like them because theyve heard the same 4 poppy songs, nobody ive heard say they dont like the beatles knew about I Am The Walrus, Helter Skelter, Dear Prudence, cuz i feel like those arent as popular but theyve heard Let it Be, Yesterday, Blackbird, or Here Comes The Sun and dont like those songs because it sounds old.

Whether you like the Beatles or not, ypu cannot deny that Dark Side of The Moon is a jam

I've been a Beatles fan since I was a kid because of my mom. I'm 24 and people give me SO MUCH shit for liking them. I can't get most of my friends to listen to them because they "heard they're overrated". I dont understand how a band can be both overrated and also so universally hated that so many people literally refuse to listen to them at all. They're my favorite band and It's such a lonely existence TBH.

I was very Beatles-neutral for a while, but then I heard Happiness is A Warm Gun on the radio and it completely turned me around. I've been a big (late era) Beatles fan ever since.

As a former Beatles hater, in the past I've tried to explore what was the main reason why I didn't like them when everyone else around me did. Dated sound? I mean... so is any band from the 60s, and I still liked the Stones, Hendrix and early Pink Floyd. Band members that weren't very talented at their own instruments? Neither were the members of Queen or Radiohead and they still created a ton of masterpieces. Albums that have more songs than they should? So did Toxicity by System of a Down, Physical Graffiti by Led Zeppelin and Stadium Arcadium by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, all records I loved to death despite having some filler tracks. And then it hit me. It wasn't the Beatles. It wasn't John, Paul, George or Ringo, or anything they did while they were together. It was their fanbase. All my life I've heard "The Beatles are the best band ever", "No band is as great as The Beatles", "The Beatles were the perfect band". And so, when I finally heard all of their albums in the first few days of 2021, I just... couldn't get what was so good that everyone put them on a freaking pedestal for? Sure I liked Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's, Abbey Road, and even some of their early releases, but... just what was all the fuss about? Nothing really wowed me or came remotely close to some of my favourite albums. Okay, fair, there's always going to be someone who's not going to enjoy them that much. No big deal right? Or so I thought. After that, no matter where I went online (or real life for that matter) and mentioned I didn't get what was so great about the Beatles, it was like being thrown in a dictatorship regime, where if you don't agree with what everyone thinks, you are so fucked. You say something that remotely suggests you don't believe The Beatles are the best band ever, it's like you summoned Satan and started the apocalypse. This doesn't happen with any other band (minus Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd but that's another story). I've seen people say other classic bands were overrated, like the Stones, Queen, AC/DC, Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Cream, The Doors, and many more, and all of those combined couldn't even make 1% of the outrage people would have if it were the Beatles. If you say The Beatles are overrated you're pretty much persona non grata. To this day, even after becoming a fan and someone who thinks Abbey Road is one of the best albums ever made, and possibly even Revolver, I still find this to be a problem. Beatles worshipping really needs to be toned down, I can't think of a single band who has a diehard fanbase this toxic and insane, not even Radiohead's fanbase is this bad. Personally I much prefer some of their British Invasion contemporaries, like The Rolling Stones and especially The Who, my favourite band of all time, and if I were to make a list of my top 30 favourite bans, I don't think I'd even put The Beatles on it, and there's nothing wrong with that, unlike what many people believe. I like them now, and I'm glad I do, because there's a good handful of their songs that I listen on repeat that are just too good not to be heard (examples: Let it Be, Tomorrow Never Knows, Savoy Truffle, In My Life, Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End).

I think a lot of the “hate” comes from the contrast of the band not really being your thing clashing with the rapturous praise the band gets from fans and critics alike. Having something you don’t personally care for shoved down your throat can trigger a more personal disdain.

All Things Must Pass is my favorite post-Beatles album of all time

Definitely need a video about the unnecessary hate Yoko Ono gets

As a smart person once said, "Not liking The Beatles is as perverse as not liking the sun."

When people say they hate the Beatles, what they really mean is that they hate "Beatlemania"....which is entirely nauseating.

Anthony, you can’t just shout “Kill John Lennon! Kill John Lennon!” for 10 minutes and call it a video.

I used to say that I hated the beatles before I even listened to any of their songs. I started listening to their albums and now I’m obsessed with them and their solo careers, especially John and Paul!

It's literally just people being contrarian. It's been happening even since they were a massive band. They were so big and so ubiquits that some people were driven to completely go the other direction because it's human nature when something is that popular, it makes people start to question if it's actually any good, or try to find the things they can dislike about it because they don't feel comfortable with how many people like it. I know I found myself softening my opinions on music I used to turn my nose up to, especially stuff that I liked as a teenager that I "grew" out of. I find myself growing back into because it still speaks to me on some level.

I'm 21 and I feel ashamed to hear people my age call the Beatles average or overrated. They obviously have not explored enough of their discography to be saying such things... Helter Skelter, Across The Universe, and A Day In The Life are some of my favourite songs ever...

A reason why I love the Beatles is because the 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine is about them (saving a faraway land using the power of music). It's one of my 2 favourite films of all time, in part because of its striking art direction, creative use of different animation techniques, Odyssey-inspired story, and use of Beatles' music. It was also directed by George Dunning, who was a Canadian animator who lead a very interesting career (he helped find work for Richard Williams, who would go on to write The Animator's Survival Kit for budding animators and direct Who Framed Rodger Rabbit). The Beatles makes me feel cosy and nostalgic because of this.

My Grandma is a die hard Beatles fan and their music will always remind me of her so can't help but be a fan.

I really think that the current generation taking a shot at previous ones’ acclaimed pieces of media is inevitable, and that the “Beatles hate” is 1) mostly a meme from what I’ve seen and 2) part of a cycle that’s going to happen whether we like it or not

When people say they “hate the Beatles” I just hear “I heard two songs that weren’t for me and decided to write off the rest”. Same for any band that has a very different sound across their catalog and doesn’t stick to one genre. My favorite band is King Crimson, especially the song Starless, but when I first heard it I thought it kinda shitty. There’s a difference between hearing a song and genuinely listening to it. Some folks have no clue how to listen to anything.

Ringo may not be the best drummer in terms of technical ability or have the most outstanding solo career, but I think he still does deserve the title of being considered one of rock's greatest drummers because the dude came up with perfect and iconic drum parts for over 200 songs in the span of 7 years and across a vast range of styles and that's just an astonishing feat for any player to be able to accomplish, like it's just fascinating to watch the "Get Back" doc and that while everyone else is still workshopping their guitar lines and lyrics, he has his part down pat in like two or three takes. He may not have had the chops of insane players like Billy Cobham, Dave Weckl or Vinnie Colaiuta, but goddamn was he phenomenal from a composition and songwriting angle.

I'm 20 years old, and I started listening to The Beatles just a year ago. I became obsessed and spent six months immersing myself in their entire discography while learning about their history. Thanks to them, my musical taste has broadened significantly.

Late stage beatles sounds contemporary to this day

I looooovvvve All Things Must Pass - it might be my favourite solo Beatle album ever. Playing George on shuffle is always so funny because ATMP has some of the most gorgeous songs ever written (Isn’t It A Pity, Hear Me Lord, etc), and then the next song is “I GOT MY MIND SETTT ONNN YOU”

Whenever I tried listening to The Beatles, it would feel like listening to 60s novelty humor music or something. I was listening to Velvet Underground in highschool and thought they sounded much more modern compared to The Beatles. I got into The Beatles this year through Yellow Magic Orchestra of all things. They covered Day Tripper and I would read them be compared as "the Japanese Beatles." Because of their influence on YMO I tried giving them an honest attempt, starting with Abbey Road (thanks to Fantano's 60s 10/10 albums list). Come Together I must have heard dozens of times growing up so I felt "meh" about it and obviously Maxwell's Silver Hammer has a reputation. I knew I loved Something but then Oh! Darling became my "clicking" moment. It was an earworm and a track of theirs I had never heard before, I put it on repeat until I just had to finish the album. It immediately became a favorite. I dove into their discography using a Beatles podcast as a reference point. I was put under their spell so fast. In a way I'm really glad I didn't become a fan until recently as an adult, like I wasn't simply "born" into loving them because of my parents for example, or that I felt like I HAD TO like them because of their reputation. I had more musical/historical knowledge at that point and got into them from a natural and honest place. Side note: I think the Get Back documentary changing the conversations surrounding them might've also helped. I didn't want it to be work to listen to these colossal figures with mythology behind them, it proved they were just dudes in their 20s.

I know for a fact the people that say the beatles suck have never listened to a Beatles album before

I used to think they were overated, but I did like a song here and there, but recently I went through their discography and I liked it a lot. Ironically I like their earlier stuff more than their post revolver stuff. while there isn't a Beatles album I personally consider 10/10, there are always some songs I don't like or get, I do get the hype now. While I have been going through their history I have been consuming so much Beatles lore that whenever I come across an old event, I think to myself is this pre-Beatles, or post-beatles lol

28. Massive beatles fan. To me their music is timeless and endlessly charming, dripping in nostalgia. Hater gonna hate. They will never stop em from being great

Beatles tier list when?! The streets have been begging for it.

I remember seeing Ad-rock talking about this on Sway. He said he refused to listen to the Beatles when he was a teen because he was into punk and you weren't "allowed" to like the Beatles. But as you get older, you care less about those rules.

I echo the words of Paul Gambaccini - The Beatles were the most underrated group of all time, because even though they are known as the greatest, they're greater than that.

I think it's the snideness which hardcore beatles fans have that makes the band so easy to hate on.

I love them since I was a teen. It helps that my parents don't care about them so I never felt like somebody was forcing me to listen to the songs

When Ringo said "I'd like to be under the sea in an octopuses garden in the shade." I felt that

Im kind of amazed how many people have mentioned All Things Must Pass here. It is also my favourite post-beatles album, just edging ahead of Plastic Ono and Ram. I always thought people generally went with one of Lennon's first two!

Whether you like the beatles or not, all modern music has been influenced by them, from a recording point of view, they were the first to use the studio as an instrument, recording techniques, experimentation. Even one of the first to use samples. When Derek Ali produced To Pimp a Butterfly he listened to Abbey Road to help mix the live instruments. They are pioneers, and every musician since threads a path they help forge.

How can you hate The Beatles when they wrote one of the world's greatest songs, "Stairway To Heaven?"

1:28 I agree. All Things Must Pass is arguably the best solo Beatle record and George Harrison has arguably had the best solo career out of all of the four.

If you love music, there is so much to learn and love about the Beatles. Absolutely incredible band. And their production quality is so great it almost sounds contemporary 70 Years later. Solo albums are cool, too. You have to give them a chance, and every album is different. Give The Magical Mystery Tour a chance and watch the movie!!

I’m neutral on the Beatles mostly but by god, all things must pass made me love George. What an album

''Old music is new music too'' 3:59. So true.

As a 20 something I can proudly say the beatles are my favorite band. I still remember picking up yellow submarine as a 5 year old off a shelf and begging my parents to buy it for me. Feels weird to be nostalgic for a sound that is mostly dead by today's music standards, but despite that, I can still hear the influences echo throughout our mainstream contemporary music. I'm a Beatles fan and I'm proud

I remember being like this towards Led Zeppelin growing up, I thought it was cool to hate them just because they were popular, and one day I made a new friend and during our first sleepover when we were like 13 he put on the dvd "Song Remains the Same" and I immediately realized that I was an idiot up until that point

Every music head’s opinion on the Beatles over time: I hate the Beatles! I like the Beatles! The Beatles are the greatest band of all time! I hate the Beatles! I love the Beatles!

All Things Must Pass is just a breathtaking record that has definitely shaped me a lot as i have gotten older.

There's no better feeling in this world, except for maybe sexual gratification, than listening to an older band/track and hearing the direct influence it had on your favorite music. It's like discovering God.

As a former Beatles anti-fan, the issue isn't the Beatles. It's Beatles fans. Sometimes it feels like Beatles fans will basically act like the Beatles were the bottleneck through which all musical innovation happened in the 1960s, and will give them way too much credit for stuff like "creating genres" when the ideas they were building on when creating those genres were already being experimented with around the same time (ex. people who will act like "Helter Skelter" basically created heavy metal -- ignoring the influence of garage rock bands, The Who, Jimi Hendrix; or will do similar with saying "Revolver", "Sgt. Pepper's", and "Magical Mystery Tour" basically defined psych rock -- forgetting Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, also Jimi Hendrix, etc.). Don't know how many other people also get this vibe sometimes, but this is what always made me feel like the Beatles were extraordinarily overhyped (to be clear, they're only a little overhyped in my eyes now -- they have incredible albums, but sometimes you still gotta be ready to roast a person who believes dumb shit like what I listed).

Everyone comes to appreciate The Beatles sometime in their life.

Any musician I’ve ever met who was worth their salt respects them for what they did, regardless of whether they personally like them or still consume their music. That in of itself is an accomplishment

The Beatles are the Super Mario 64 of music. Praised as the second coming of Christ at the time and for many years to come. Changed what music and video games would become from that point onward. So popular that "overrated and bad" hot takes about them are a big thing in 2023.

What’s impressive about the Beatles for me is the coupling of an almost pure pop cultural impact with what is a genuinely impressive artistic output. I think they will represent the culture of their time forever, in a way very very very few artists do

I was a dishwasher with one of my good friends in high school back in the early 2000s and I was one of those people that said the Beatles were overrated. My friend would constantly play The Beatles as our work songs and I ended up loving the band. He also explained to me after I told him that I thought they were overrated that they have 30 years of good music which is literally still unparalleled both as individuals and as a group. Thank you Alex for teaching me the ways of The Beatles!

A few months ago I listened to All Things Must Pass by George Harrison and I loved it. I didn't even know people made triple albums.

The Beatles and the Beach Boys have tied as my favorite bands for the past almost-decade. Their music has quite literally changed the way I perceive and listen to music, as well as how I write my own music. They are thoroughly my biggest inspirations, musically. The thought process of refusing to listen to an artist for the sole reason of hearing from someone else that they're overrated, without listening to enough of them to form your own opinion, is wild to me.

Part of it is genuinely not liking or caring about the Beatles but constantly having them shoved down your throat as the greatest band ever. People get more outraged by me not wanting to hear a Beatles song than I do having to listen to the Beatles at every karaoke night or in every grocery store

i used to be an “i hate the beatles” person and then on a whim i listened to the white album in full, front to back, driving home alone at night, and something just totally clicked with me and it was like i finally got it

it's kinda weird because as someone that was in high school in the late 2000s early 2010s, I actually feel like the Beatles were one of the few old artists that were incredibly hip and cool. If you were a teenager listening to the beatles when I was in high school you usually came off as a cool and cultured teen.

Ngl, as a teenager, I'm sort of seeing a revival of the Beatles. I'm seeing more Beatles fans emerge, and I think the stigma of the Beatles being "old person music" is sorta disappearing.

I've always thought when people say "The Beatles are overrated" is like if they were saying "the caveman who discovered fire is overrated", people can dislike their music but they were essential to have what we know today as the music industry. You don't listen to the Beatles comparing it to modern music, you study The Beatles in their context.

I recently checked the profile of a redditor who said The Beatles were 'mid' for an insight into the mind of someone like that. Turns out the last thing he posted was a picture of his ingrown toenail and now it all makes sense.