Why does Bill even have guests?

If the Beatles' lyrics were so terrible, then why do you remember all of them?

is he serious? A Day in the Life? eleanor rigby? She’s Leaving Home? In My Life? The End? granted they had simpler lyrics in the beginning but we all know the beatles evolved like no other band in history

Criticize all you want. They changed popular music and made more of an impact on American lives than any of their critics.

A soap impression of his wife, which he ate and donated to the national trust- England's national trust bureau was an organization that would buy, or simply confiscate property such as land, estates, and art using the taxpayers money, similar to the National Historical Society in the U.S. It was accused, and largely proven that they would buy almost anything, especially art at insanely high prices, being that its value is simply the amount one is willing to spend, and they had endless tax revenues, they would do this to enrich themselves and their cohorts through pre-arranged kick-backs. Lennon was saying, any idiot could crap out(he ate and donated) anything, and the "artist' usually commissioned by the trust itself, would be paid exorbitant amounts of money, with thier kickbacks in place. You have to remember, the Beatles from day one were never shy about calling out the corruption of England's income, and tax policies.

“I remember I was talking to a young girlfriend…” Bill Maher. Narcissist. Gotta get in there that he’s a chick-magnet stud.

Everybody in pop music had terrible lyrics before Dylan. Basically the only things you could sing about pre-Dylan were girls & cars & surfing. It was Dylan, after he went electric, who opened up the subject matter in pop/rock music.

Bill, once again, showing the limitations of his knowledge.

“Blackbird singing in the dead of night. Take these broken wings and learn to fly. All your life, You were only waiting for this moment to arise. Blackbird fly Into the light of the dark black night“ I’d say those Beatles lyrics are pretty good. It just depends on what song your referring to.

The Beatles' style of music and songwriting in the early 1960s was basically an extension of the kind of "Doo-wop" rock and roll that was popular in the 1950s. By their own admission, their biggest influences were artists like Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly. When the Beatles first came out as part of the "British Invasion" of the early 1960s, that style of music had faded in the USA, as Motown groups like The Four Tops and The Temptations, and California surf bands like The Beach Boys and Jan and Dean were dominating the charts. As the 1960s wore on, you saw the Beatles' musical and songwriting style evolve into true works of art, starting with Rubber Soul and Revolver, and ending with Abbey Road and Let It Be.

This confirms that Bill's got no taste in music. I suspect that, like Snoop, he's got no taste in weed either!😂 ✌️💚🌲🌎☮️🕊

I thought this was gonna be Brad saying The Beatles had bad lyrics and Maher would be jumping down his throat.

The Beatles were basically making R&B and pop music in the beginning. Their evolution as lyricists came with the success and power that it afforded them.

yeah early on their lyrics werent the greatest but along came Bob Dylan who influenced everyone in the 60s as far as lyrics went...

Give me a break. Beatles had some amazing lyrics. This is totally unfair.

I’m only 36, but I have always loved the Beatles, and Bob Dylan. My kids have names inspired by Beatles songs. (14)Desmond, ob la di ob la da, (9)my daughters middle name is sunshine, good day sunshine, and the baby’s (1 1/2) name is Rocky, Rocky raccoon.

I agree- But The Beatles did grow as musicians and catered to as much as they could.

I think a lot of Red Hot Chili Peppers music would fall into that category of terrible lyrics but great music

Everything after 1964 was pretty damn good lyrically.

Did Bill really just use Love Me Do lyrics to dump on the Beatles? Wasn’t that the very first song they recorded after signing with Capitol/EMI? There’s even a version without Ringo. That’s the problem with Bill’s logic: he always uses the lamest examples to defend his arguments. He did the same thing in Religulous when he picked on the guys in the trucker chapel. Literally the dumbest Christians on earth and super easy targets.

I wish the musician could give his opinion on the Beatles.

Paisley talking about lyrics? from the guy who sings about ticks. 😅

Bill is just ignorant about music. Never thought much of his knowledge on the subject.

T Rex had some of the stupidest lyrics but I still love it. So, what. Bill is a dumbass sometimes.

Crimson is the color of her hair and clover is the color of her eyes. It's called poetry. It's called painting a picture with your mind. It's called art?

Funny how the Beatles became worldwide super stars writing such terrible lyrics!

They built the house. All of us are trying to build a house. 100%

Take a drink every Bill interrupts .... Wait no don't!!! Alcohol poisoning!!!

Beatles are overrated

I like how when bill picks clips of the show to post, its always him talking for 6 minute straight.

Sometimes bill maher reveals exactly how closed minded he is. Most bands when they first start off have crappy lyrics.

He must have been stoned this episode

Another topic that Maher is fairly sure he's an expert in lol - something he's missing is that different genres prioritize different things. Lyrics and a story are much more important in Country than Rock, for example. Rock, the melody/riff is more important.

The only thing that both of them got right was the fact that crimson and clover is a song about sex!!!

Yea i wouldnt say all their earlier stuff had bad lyrics, but some of it, especially Love Me Do. So cant disagree. And like Maher, i do tend to favor a good melody over lyrics. If a song doesnt do anything for me musically its hard to enjoy the lyrics.

Agreed. Lyrics don’t matter in songs 90% of the time.

Oh Bill, give it up already.

I don’t think bill Maher knows how podcasts work lol

Wrong. Love me do has great lyrics in the sense that people love singing those words. Personally I like the early Beatles catalog more than the last one because a lot of the melodies were simply catchier than some of the filler stuff on the white album, f.ex.

I never go to Bill Maher for his musical taste.

I watch a lot of these videos because I just love Bill Maher, but I have to say: It's always, always, always Bill speaking almost all the time. Never the guest...

Love me do lyrics perfectly fits the melody.

I guess the writer’s strike has taken effect. Bill speaking off the cuff and over his guests is of little value.

Yeh...beatles don't compare to paisley...good grief

Julia, Blackbird, While my guitar gently weeps, A day in the life and SO SO SO SO SO many more.

I had to think about that comment,Bill! I wouldn't say the Beetles came up with bad lyrics, they came up with catchy, very different lyrics that I found myself singing

"You really got me, you really got me, you really got me" - the Kinks - "Whole lotta love, whole lotta love, whole lotta love" - Zeppelin - why are these lyrics any better?

This been on last few months stop post it

Coming from a pop country singer. Include Ford ,John deere , girlfriend, dogs and whisky 🎶... and its a hit !

This from Bill, the guy that told Ice Cube he should use push the plate away in a song. LMFAO.

Bill Maher seems like an only child.

We all live in a yellow submarine. A yellow submarine. A yellow submarine.

Bill going for the shock value rather than say something of substance. Cheap and pathetic.

Hats off to you Mr. Bill Maher! Didn’t know you were such a stand-up straight forward honest Man. Definitely have a new fan tuning in!

The Beatles white album is filled with songs infused with great,even haunting lyrics.

I don't disagree on the Beatles lyrics. I get the point he's trying to make. Sure, I Am The Walrus had some terrible nonsensical lyrics, but that was also the point. I think if the point is to have nonsensical lyrics that just sound cool together, then it's totally fine. I only don't like it when artists TRY to write good lyrics but they turn out terrible. When you start to take yourself too seriously but have no talent is when it becomes an issue.

Come together has some really shitty lyrics, just proves people are trapped in the beat. A lot of songs are like that. People like melodic music😂

I believe they were underrated and overrated. Ying to yang. I think that's fair.

I have sort of agree with both of them. If I am listening to music in English I like to listen to the lyrics of a song, and try to find out what they mean if it isn't obvious. Sometimes there isn't much meaning, but the words sounds good together like 'Black Hole Sun' by Soundgarden. However if the song's lyrics are not in English, It isn't really possible for me to listen to the singer for meaning, and so I instead just judge if I like their voice. Of course the instrumentation matters tremendously in both, and as Brad said, I think it is best to write the lyrics and melody's separate from each other, and work on them until they are 'married'.

Tnis is why rap music sucks. Terrible music AND lyrics.

Name what was better before them.

think "love me do" is a shitty lyric. _try putting anything else in place of it._

0:02 ‘Clive’ lyrics? What’s that?

Try this: don't parse the lyrics, pretend they are a musical instrument, not a language. This is automatically the case with a song whose lyrics are in a language you don't understand. Mr. Maher's first remark almost captures this: "the lyrics don't matter". But then the conversation takes a different turn.

He says it and then puts the guest in the thumbnail as if it were his/her opinion. This is all about Bill. 😂

Crimson and Clover is also used in the love scene in the film "Monster" between Charlese Theron and Christina Ricci. So ridiculously hot, that one is.

well they were all so different y'know ...like you could like Ringo or Paul and hate John or vice versa. I never found them interesting as a group, but as an icon historically important. The only song I like from their group is Nowhere Man (which most people know).

The Kinks: Ray Davies was the true poet of the British Invasion.

Lyricist Tim Rice himself said no one pays attention much to lyrics, but more to the music. It dosen't always have to be a great lyric, sometimes it's the music that matters. However, I have a list of personal favs where the lyrics very much matter.

Some of it is just fluff: You say goodbye and I say hello. Hello goodbye hello goodbye. Don't know why you say goodbye I say hello. Hello hello. Don't know why you say goodbye I say hello. But if you like music, it's easy to like at least some Beatles music. Hello, Goodbye is still an earworm.

they start talking about the beatles and end up talking about miley cyrus............. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

I rarely notice lyrics myself. I always thought that was a deficiency in me. Some exceptions include my two favourite James Bond songs: You Know My Name and The Spy Who Loved Me. It really captured aspects of the Bond Myth. Lennon’s Imagine is another one.

Love the lyrics of YES. Completely random, insane, no one knows what the meanings were, but they sounded great.

Amazing! Bill Maher sounds like a metalhead. He is cool. I am the same way.

Ya if u base it on their 1st song

Well Bill I’m surprised you don’t like the song flowers since you keep going on and on about how you aren’t marriage material , that long term relationships are all lies and everybody in them is miserable 😂

The only time stoned people are interesting to listen to is when you’re stoned too. This conversation really devolves into a conversation about Miley Cyrus lyrics.

"corny" is what bill shoulda said.. nothing wrong with a little bit of corny.

Great lyrics he’s high

The Beatles really evolved with their music, with a lot of help from George Martin. The Stones, not so much. But the Stones evolved as performers to this day, still, and the Beatles just gave up on performing.

Bill's wasted here lol Sober up Bill!

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Simple equals bad to some people. Those people are not artists

Bill tries too hard to be fake like and falsely combat everything anyone says about anything just say the opposite. He does this with everyone and everything and thinks it makes him cool or right but it's forced and abrasive and annoying and he has no point or idea what he's talking about

Across the Universe?

Well, for the most part, except for about 8 songs, the lyrics didn't start to become top notch till 66' IMO.

Stick to what you know about,Bill and don't get so stoned until the video is over.

Beatles are highly overrated. The Clash was 100x the band. Also Townes. Van Zandt on a 2 week heroine bender could write circles around them…..

It's so funny when those people that can't do something criticize those who actually can do perfectly something as they no so much about it 😅 but they don't

Nothing he’s saying is actually offensive to the Beatles. I get the point being made, it’s always beat and melody over lyrics for the Fab 4. It’s all about the groove man ✌️

James Taylor said once. “I regret ever giving John Lennon heroin”. By 1974 Lennon was in rehab. Many of our legendary rockers from the 60s and 70s were hooked on heroin. But no one knew they were on it.

Stones>Beatles

You need to cue up a few songs 🎵 🙄 from YES, Kansas, Rush, Pink FLoyd, Led ZeppeLin, The Doors,etc.-->back in the days... How many years have they been playing a certain kind of music 🎶 🎵 on aLL of Our TV commerciaLs? 😊 Anybody?????

Gotcha headline

Agree with you bill

Yes,some songs were cheesy most were good. But that could be said about most musicians now,which are mostly 💩

Ohhh how wonderful 2 Left Wing Nuts. Not

Elvis Presleys twin brother Jessie Presley the first born male child is not buried at Graceland with the Presley family the reason being they cannot find his body or grave, will Jessie Presley be one of the Great Signs from heaven?

Bad musiic? Try to top louie louie! Or the bird is the word.

No offense(s) at aLL given towards any kind and aLL genres' of music whiLst we are here to Listen to on this pLanet Earth! ---> and then there is JAZZ 😁