The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success. The Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worthy of being saved. In a sense, the Beatles are emblematic of the status of rock criticism as a whole: too much attention paid to commercial phenomena (be it grunge or U2) and too little to the merits of real musicians. If somebody composes the most divine music but no major label picks him up and sells him around the world, a lot of rock critics will ignore him. If a major label picks up a musician who is as stereotyped as can be but launches her or him worldwide, your average critic will waste rivers of ink on her or him. This is the sad status of rock criticism: rock critics are basically publicists working for major labels, distributors and record stores. They simply highlight what product the music business wants to make money from.
Liam Taylor
your opinion - meh
Joseph Lewis
tldr
Tyler Collins
bAsed
Leo Robinson
George was the worst beatle btw
Matthew Reyes
>Glass Onion not great
Grayson Thompson
Savoy truffle is great you fag
Angel Evans
>Revolution 9 - great I can't tell if cringe or based
Oliver Adams
ussr- good but overrated prudence- good onion- great obladi- meh, and overrated wild- at least it's only 53 seconds i guess bungalow- alright guitar- great gun- great martha- good tired- perfect blackbird- good, overrated piggies- good rocky- good don't pass- great, overrated do it- great i will- great julia- good birthday- great, overrated blues- perfect nature- good monkey- great sadie- good skelter- best long- boring rev1- good (single version is great) honey pie- great savoy- god tier, underrated cry- good rev9- ok, has grown on me good night- great overall, this is in my top 3 of all time subjectively, a 10, it's one of those albums that just kinda worked after a few listens objectively, like a 9
Gavin Sanders
Back in the USSR is one of the best Beatles songs. I have never listened to this album because Glass Onion is such cringe-tier garbage that I have to stop every time I hear it.
Owen Gonzalez
Terrible taste
Ian Turner
Birthday is great. Bungalow Bill is shit
Thomas Fisher
>Back in the U.S.S.R. - great >Dear Prudence - meh >Glass Onion - good >Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da - good >Wild Honey Pie - meh >The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill - good >While My Guitar Gently Weeps - great >Happiness is a Warm Gun - great >Martha My Dear - great >I’m so tired - good >Blackbird - good >Piggies - good >Rocky Raccoon - great >Don’t Pass Me By - good >Why don’t we do it in the road? - shit >I Will - great >Julia - meh >Birthday - shit >Yer Blues - good >Mother Nature’s Son - Meh >Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey - okay >Sexy Sadie - shit >Helter Skelter - great >Long, Long, Long - shit >Revolution I - meh >Honey Pie - great >Savoy Truffle - good, but the production is absolute trash >Cry Baby Cry - meh >Revolution 9 - great >Good Night - shit
