Do you like the beatles?

[zexen_lowe]

MontanaHatchet said:

zexen_lowe said:

highwaystar101 said:

The Beatles are great. However, I would call anything pre-Rubber soul mediocre. It's just balanced out later by what I would consider as some of the greatest albums ever.

Yeah, I said that too, and they wanted to remove my Beatles fan card...influential, for sure, but save for a a dozen or so songs, it was forgettable

A dozen songs is quite a few. And they definitely weren't mediocre before Rubber Soul. I'm willing to argue this quite a bit.

But had Rubber Soul and what came after never happened, if they hadn't had that radical change and had kept the same pre-Rubber Soul style, they'd be only a minor fraction of what they are now...people would remember them as a very popular band with lots of hits, some good/great songs...and that's it. Fact is, post-Rubber Soul comes pretty much 90% of what The Beatles did to influence music. Maybe mediocre is too harsh, but it's not hard to see the pre-Rubber Soul era as average, or somewhat forgettable