The Beatles: The GREATEST band in history

"No, I don't have a "hard-on" for The Beatles"
PSH, yes the fuck you do but the problem is you can't see yourself acting dramatic and butt hurt over these pop songs. You just sound like a crying baby calling me names ten times while providing little in a way of rebuttal for your claim that the Beatles are objectively the "greatest band ever", as if something like that can even exist. "Look at your life"...haha, loser.

WAAH all the "musicologists" (it's hard to imagine a more useless profession) said so!!! When you say "greatest band" does that mean ALL bands or is it stuck in your little narrow-minded taste of rock and roll knowledge? Does it include jazz, classical, other forms of world music and do you have intensive knowledge of those genres as a "music historian" (okay, I was wrong, THIS is more useless). I'm sensing you are trapped in a bubble with fake legitimacy.

The sad thing is when I Google "greatest band of all time" it is overwhelmingly pop music, mostly rock, and mostly white artists. Now I'm FAR from an SJW, but it is common knowledge that black artists were highly influential but were held back due to the racial prejudice of that time. That's just one more reason why I know that popularity is a shitty reason to hold these artists with such high regard. I recognize the contributions of musicians I have never heard of and those behind the scenes "helping" these pop stars get up on these lists with your precious Beatles. These lists, of which all of the "artists" I have heard of, is a huge ass red flag. This is the same culture that deems these dudes the greatest of all time.

YES THEY ARE POP STARS. Their popularity is undeniably the reason idiots like your put them on a pedestal of importance. You're too dumb to see that this is your entire argument.

"It's the substance of the music; the songwriting" They just got lucky and no one would give a flying shit about their music if it came out at the wrong time and wasn't promoted by the right people.

I understand that maybe Beatles were some of the best of the extremely POPULAR. They were privileged to last long enough to develop new directions in their music which is not an opportunity granted to the vast majority of pop stars because pop is inherently commercial. Classical and jazz musicians can NEVER achieve what the Beatles, or anyone else on these "greatest bands of all time" ass-kissing lists did.

Are you trying to tell me rock and roll is superior to these entire genres Mr. music historian?

That because no jazz or classical song will ever come close to being as influential to modern music since instrumental music is inherently less popular among the brainless masses, that rock and roll is SUPERIOR? Does music need VOCALISTS to be the best?

I don't know a shit ton about music history, but I understand humans. I understand the fake bubbles they create, and I know their hierarchies make them "feel good". I know placing these Beatles as "the best" fits into their narrative that there is always some royalty or "president" at the top that we all know is "the best", when the truth is pop music is always inferior, and built from vastly more talented precursors, that may seem less "relevant", but are not objectively "less good". You think they're great because of their influence, but it is inherently unfair to judge all musicians based on this standard of using the ATTENTION they grab. People having not heard of a musician is a shit criticism of their art.

Any professional ballet dancer does more work then the damn Beatles and none of them are famous. Fuck you and your obsession with famous people.