@Background Pony #AFC1  
LOL literally everything in that post was completely incorrect, I’m disappointed that I already burned a Twilight Skywalker in this thread.

@TexasUberAlles  
The thing is, they weren’t “Trying” to sound like anybody. In the early 60’s their record deal was bilt on the fact that they had to make music and tour as their job, meaning they needed to make music that would sell and that they can perform live.
 
What you probably don’t know is that The Beatles hated sounding like other artists because it limited their range of creativity. As a result, they stopped touring. After that, their creativity exploded on Revolver which is one of the most important albums for popular music of all time. It was the first that experimented with the studio and different sounds and instruments. And yes, The Beatles did invent Prog. The Sgt. Peppers album and Abbey Road are proof of that and they predate King Crimson.
 
They invented buroque pop and psychedelic on Rubber Soul and heavy metal on Helter Skelter. No one else was doing any of this stuff until The Beatles invented it.
 
Also, they were hardly even sounding like other groups. Other groups were sounding like them. Rock N Roll bands at the time began to heavily decline until The Beatles came along and saved the genre from drying. Elvis had been drafted, Chuck Berry was arrested, and there went the 2 biggest Rock N Roll musicians at the time. If it weren’t for The Beatles, we wouldn’t have any of the bands and artists we have today.

@TexasUberAlles  
Okay Mr. Stubborn, whatever you say…
 
If you would’ve said that before, then that wouldn’t have been a problem. Also, what other pop rock bands? As far as I knew, the music scene at the time was soul, surf rock, show tunes, folk, and the last shred of rockabilly and 50’s crooner pop. The Beatles sounded like they were doing their own thing before they switched styles.

 
I think you’re maybe having a different conversation? I do not believe I have made my position in any way unclear; I prefer The Beatles’ earlier music, back when they were trying to sound like all the other pop rock bands that were popular at the time.

@TexasUberAlles  
How is their sound derivative? What are they supposed to be copying? The Four Seasons? Most of the 50’s crooners? Elvis? Look, I don’t like The Beatles early work either, but it’s unfair to say that their influence didn’t change the landscape of music. I agree that their later work like Revolver, White Album, Sgt. Pepper’s, and Abbey Road are their best work like what BG Pony said.
 
Also, trying to sound like most of the British pop rock scene? Most of those bands popped up after the Beatles made it big. The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks, The Dave Clark Five, and those are just the ones that had pretty big success on the American pop charts. That’s not even counting the smaller ones or the American pop rock bands tying to sound like them. So no, they weren’t copying anyone or was derivative of anyone else.
 
You could’ve just said “I don’t like The Beatles” and that would’ve been the end of it.

@Background Pony #AFC1  
Yes, I’ve heard them all and don’t like them as much as their earlier work, this is my entire point.
 
Also lol, The Beatles no more “invented Prog” than McCartney invented playing a bass guitar left-handed.

@TexasUberAlles  
Guessing you haven’t listened to Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, Magical Mystery Tour, The White Album, or (One of the most perfect albums of all time) Abbey Road. This was the era where they invented Progressive Rock, something that combined Classical music structures with Rock. After Help!, their music became much different from anything else at the time anywhere in tbe world. Yesterday and Today isn’t really a studio album, but an edited compilation released in N. America. It hardly counts as an album for them. But they did break free from all that Popular music they were tired of after they stopped touring.

@ILoveMyoozik  
Up until Help!, their sound was deliberately derivative– they were actively trying to sound like everyone else in the British pop rock scene– and nothing they were doing was in any way unique until at least Rubber Soul, when they started trying to sound like American folk rock. They were back to mainstreaming it for Yesterday and Today, and then Revolver was their last really good album as far as I’m concerned.

@TexasUberAlles  
That awkward moment when you realize that they were the ones responsible for the British Invasion and starting it.

They were a lot better before people started telling them they were famous, all their best work was when they were still trying to sound like every other British Invasion pop rock outfit.

Once the baby boomers totally die off, they’ll revert to just another band from the 1960s.

They are the greatest

/r/beatlescirclejerk

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