I think my favorite Beatles fact is they were being taxed at like a 90+% rate and didn’t even know for a couple years.
When they found out and took it to court the judge basically said “you were making so much money you didn’t even realize you were being taxed at all. Sucks to suck we’re gonna keep taxing you at the same rate”
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I don’t hate them. I just don’t listen to their music. It’s not my taste. I do appreciate their significance and popularity, though. I just don’t really enjoy their music.
Same judging jug faces, in my experience. Not liking the Beatles is unfathomable to a lot of people.
It should be fathomable to those people. We are human and have different interests.
I am a middle aged white guy and I honestly don’t give a shit about the Beatles lol
They have maybe 4 or 5 songs I actually like and I’ve always said they were overrated
That’s because the Beatles broke up in 1970, so anyone who remembers them from their active years is well over 60, which would be really stretching the definition of middle-aged
It definitely is. I think the person who made this meme might be middle-aged by now.
I’m 42 and I grew up surrounded by people my own age who were Beatles fanatics lol people actually kept listening to them long after they broke up
38 here. I absolutely love the Beatles. I didn’t like their earlier stuff when I was younger but I’ve worked my way backwards from Help as I’ve got older.
I love all of it.
How about beetles? Wanna discuss beetles?
Yeah, I’m still pissed they made bumblebee a Camaro.
Me too!
Why hate them? What did they do to you?
Beetles are a shitpost
Change my mind
Fucked their mom
Calm down Julian.
Could’ve taken five seconds to alter the image so that it actually said “beetle” instead of responding to every comment trying to explain your joke.
Truly a failure of a shitpost.
The Beatles were popular 50-60 years ago.
Even if they listened to it when they were 10, they are about to retire in a couple of years.
Nothing middle aged about it.
What age do you consider middle aged?
40s if you’re in the US, that is quite literally the midpoint of the average human lifespan here
But that’s far from retirement…?
Right. Middle aged ≠ retirement age
Yes, I agree. I was referring to @[email protected]’s statement that the middle aged people were about to retire in a couple of years.
Mid 40’s guy here - the last Beatles album was released 9 years before I was born and their last concert was 10 years before I was born. I agree that popular bands don’t stop having fans the moment they break up but there’s 20 years between when they broke up and when my peers started to have their own mususical preferences.
The Beatles have been one of the most popular bands in the world consistently every year from the 60s right up until today lol how do so many people think everyone immediately stops listening to any band the second they break up lol
Middle-age would be in your 40s-50s. Not to diss my dead relatives too hard, but you’re thinking of old fucks that would have any solid opinion on that. In a handful of years, the music middle aged men will be up in arms about is *NSYNC.
I actually wasn’t thinking about it at all. I was thinking about bugs!
OPs got the wrong generation. I’m middle aged I fucking hate Beatles. It was my parents music. Boomer music.
I would like to present a counter argument: maybe the middle aged white men represented by multiethnic cans in this meme are coming out to agree!
I don’t hate the Beatles, but I do think they’re extremely overrated. There’s about three Beatles songs I’d choose to listen to.
Sargent pepper’s lonely hearts club band is the second worst song to ever get significant airplay, behind I shot the sheriff, and ahead of You’re Beautiful by James Blunt. That one I stand firm on.
Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club band is an intro to an album. It isn’t meant to be played as a standalone song. I have never once listened to the intro track and thought, “Ooh, this is fantastic. One of the greats from the Beatles.” It set the stage for the band to throw away the image the world expected of them as the so called “fab 4” and explore sound while pretending to be people they weren’t.
What you have said here is like watching the opening theme to a television show and then throwing your hands up and saying, “that’s it guys! Second worst tv show ever! Just behind this tv show I actually watched, and just ahead another I actually watched.”
If you’d actually like a chance to be critical of an actual piece of music meant to be consumed on its own from Sgt Pepper, check out A Day in the Life and get back with me.
You should write to the many radio stations that play it as a standalone song, in that case.
Dont worry, youll be one of those guys soon enough
I will? Cool!
Nah. I’m 46 and have never liked them.
You can appreciate and respect that somebody did something innovative while still not liking that innovative thing.
Maybe not the beetles, but some other band from your youth that the current generation will call overrated.
I grok what you are saying. I just don’t feel that way. To me, music is too subjective to expect anyone to like anything, even if I think it is the bee’s knees.
Maybe it helps that I have always had fairly ‘out there’ musical tastes so I am never shocked when someone doesn’t like something that I do.
I appreciate how o no banana committed to saving the beetles.
100%
Am I the only on here that actually likes the Beatles? They’re catchy and familiar, not to mention have some weird and whacky unusual stuff like Revolution 9. Also found the conspiracy theory fun to dive into.
Obviously music is extremely subjective but you can’t tell me that their music was not objectively a massive deal, at least historically.
I also love that their music was essentially mostly all written, composed, produced, and edited by the 4 of them. Nowadays I’m told about how _____ is such a great musician, then I look at the album credits and there’s like 20 song writers, 50 producers, 100+ sound mixers, crew, editors, etc. So like are those people that good if they need 200+ people behind them making it listenable?
I guess what I’m saying is that new music is over produced, and I appreciate the simplicity of older music like the Beatles
I don’t mind them. I think if you listen to them through the lens of being one of the first bands of their kind, their appeal makes far more sense.
As a story, the way they honed their craft is very interesting. While I doubt it’s all “hard work”, they’re a good example of how practice makes perfect.
I like them, they were a pretty important foundation for my taste in music. I didn’t really get the hatred of them that seems popular of late, I can’t help but feel like at least some of that is just people following the trend, but it doesn’t change my enjoyment of it.
Their influence was so far reaching. Even if you aren’t a Beatles fan, odds are that someone you listen to is one and hugely influenced by them. Kind of like that saying I’ve heard about Neil peart. “If your favorite drummer is someone other than peart, their favorite drummer is probably peart”
I love the Beatles. I guess I am a middle aged white guy now, but they’ve been my favorite band since I was a kid.
Psych rock existed outside the Beatles. They’re a pop band. Meh.
Does them being popular somehow make them worse? I don’t understand this take… What’s wrong with liking what you like, without regard to what others like, either way?
There’s nothing wrong with their music. It’s not what I listen to, but I don’t dislike them.
Hate is a strong word. I just prefer to listen to other stuff. I understand how they were culturally significant half a century ago, but that’s half a century ago.
Totally understand that perspective!
I would say they they are still culturally significant. Just not quite to the extent they once were.
Especially considering how much of today’s culture can draw a direct line to their influence even now
I haven’t really listened to their music, but I recognise its significance to recent history.
Trivia (from Wikipedia): “Taxman” from their 1966 album Revolver was the group’s first topical song and the first political statement they had made in their music.
“Taxman” was influential in the development of British psychedelia and mod-style pop, and has been recognised as a precursor to punk rock. When performing “Taxman” on tour in the early 1990s, Harrison adapted the lyrics to reference contemporaneous leaders, citing its enduring quality beyond the 1960s. The song’s impact has extended to the tax industry and into political discourse on taxation.
Unlike their other political songs, which are fairly vague peace&love jobs, this one tackles a concrete issue: It protests the 95% top marginal tax rate.
You’ve heard how “the boomers” screwed up everything for later generations. Here’s exhibit A from pop culture. Don’t just think about evil, old men in smoky backrooms.
The Kinks were punker than The Beatles ever were. This is some bullshit.
Well now I actively hate them instead of just not caring for their music, which i find to be ok
