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Originally Posted by boo boo
I certainly disagree with that.
I wouldn't confuse highly rated with overrated, and I think The Beatles are appropriately rated.
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My main argument rests on the point that people rate them for things they didn't actually do, like inventing everything in rock music or for being the one cutting edge act which set all the trends. Reality says that most of the styles they emulated in the late 60s had already become standard in some faction of the rock music community as much as 2 years earlier to when they did it, and that they themselves were trying to live up to the cutting-edgeness of The Fugs, Cream, The Yardbirds, The Doors etc.