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Originally Posted by the_dp
so you are not familiar with his post beatles work then? and if you say he wrote five good songs then you probably don't know much about the beatles.
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He wrote about 5 songs that were of Lennon/McCartney quality. His own view of his pre-1968 material was that it was mediocre by comparison to John and Paul's, and it is widely known that he only really comes into his own as a seriously strong and competetive songwriter by The White Album. At any rate, you were not talking about his post-Beatles work. You claimed that he created the Beatles' best products, which is straight-up nonsense. For one, he wrote no more than about 10% of the band's whole discography, of which about a third (at the most) were particularly good. Hell, he hardly ever even felt truly confident enough to write his own material until very late on. He felt he had to get help from John and Paul on songs like Taxman for example, which John reluctantly acquiesced and helped him out with.
You ought to stop saying to people "you probably don't know much about such and such" - it's becoming a broken record, and it has been proven repeatedly that others here not only seem to know better than you do, but express it a lot better too. Seriously dude, just stick to the points and stop feeling you have to call people "ignorant" or whatever. If they are, then prove it with your evidence and your argument.