The Beatles - Yay or Nae?

[flobadob]

I really like The Beatles, I like almost every song and album they ever made and I think they were ahead of their time and likewise are as relevant today as they were in their heyday. What is your opinion of them?

[Mosaic]

yes - always trailblazers. Never bettered.

[factor-fiction]

Yay, without doubt

[starone]

Better than the Rolling Stones.

[chrissa1]

A resounding yes from me. Being a "baby boomer" meant we were lucky enough to have been there. I saw them Live but honestly all you could hear were screams.

[factor-fiction]

Why were The Beatles screaming at you, chrissa?

[Tilly2]

The Beatles were a huge part of my formative teenage years. I loved, and still love, listening to them.
Paul was my favourite and George was next.

[chrissa1]

Ha, ha factor.

[Psybbo]

Nay

[Mick-Talbot]

Yay

[Prudie]

I really only came to them once they'd gone a bit weird in the 70s. I never appreciated the double white album like my peers did. Revolver turned out to be my favourite but I don't listen to them by choice anymore.

[Haggisdj]

The whole world knows, "All My Loving", yet it was never a single...

[naomi24]

I like their music - and I liked George Harrison .....

[thenry]

If you can do 'Eleanor Rigby' and 'Yellow Submarine' as a double A side single (1966) then you know you've got something special !

[Duncer]

A "nae" for me. Of their time yes, and responsible for some great albums, but only some. Macca is doing his best to erase any vestige of respect I had for them.

[tonyav]

Don't think that The Long And Winding Road was either not this side of the Atlantic anyway, Haggisdj.

[4candles]

For a band who were so prolific in a relatively short time, it's remarkable that they only made a handful of duff tracks.

They ended the US domination of the UK music scene in '62/'63, and paved the way for artists writing their own material.

As Mosaic says, they were trailblazers, and their songs still sound good today.

[carolegif]

I was always a fan of the Beatles, but the Rolling Stones and the Who were better bands live on stage. Perhaps that was because with all the screaming you couldn't hear the Beatles!!

[Duncer]

Beep, beep, beep, beep NO!

[thenry]

Every generation rediscovers the Beatles - and that has been going on for several generations ! BUT - there comes a time when the winner of the X factor or Stars in Their Eyes or Britain's Got Talent is more important. That is the time to shuffle off the mortal coil !

[Duncer]

I disagree. When did the dance, rave or electronic generation rediscover them? When did the nineties generation rediscover them?

I know Oasis plagiarised them, as well as the Stones and other sixties acts, and many acts were influenced by them, but they are "Yesterday's" news.