Boilermaker Rick wrote:
The Beatles are only considered great because they were in the right place at the right time in terms of the evolution of music. They would have been the Backstreet Boys or One Direction if born at a different time.
The first band I ever heard were probably the Beatles in the late 70s. I had friends across the street in Wood Dale that had the greatest hits (the red covered album covering '62 - '66) that would play the album over and over again, and I remember being very fond of it. I will always like them, because they were superb composers and musicians with a producer who had a gift for instrumentation in George Martin, but as I have listened to more music over the years, I realized that the Stones were better. They out did the Beatles being like the Beatles with tunes like As Tears Gone By (superior string accompaniment) and She's a Rainbow. Listen to the Brian Jones' keyboard work on She's a Rainbow. It's magnificent and better than anything McCartney ever did, like Hey Jude. On certain songs, like they're acoustic stuff, Zeppelin was also better. But Zeppelin's later albums, including Physical Graffiti were not good. The Stones themselves were done creatively around '72. Are there great Beatles songs? Sure, but not anything off Sgt. Pepper, which somehow is at the top of the lists of the greatest albums of all time. The Beatles peaked with Magical Mystery Tour. The only Beatles song I would put in my top-ten now is Yesterday.
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