controversial opinion: anyone think that the beatles

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Uhhhh... no.  What the hell is wrong with you? 

^^^^^
My esteemed colleague Mr. Hockeydude hits the nail on the head once again.

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Isn't it fairly universally agreed that The Beatles only became a great band with Rubber Soul?

No.

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Mods, please ban.

Yeah, you all know how I generally feel about banning people but...

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I applaud BRTD for his attack on the cult of the Beatles.

Ringo Starr > Grimes

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It's worth noting that The Beatles song that BRTD posted is a cover.

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Again,

I applaud BRTD for his attack on the cult of the Beatles.

It's like the Scientologists. One word of minor criticism of The Beatles and you must be purged.

It's a HUGE jump between criticizing some albums or songs (I'll readily admit that Yellow Submarine has a good title track, inspired a decent for the times animated film, and is otherwise a waste of vinyl), to claiming they only "wrote a couple good songs on their later albums". The latter is about as close to factually incorrect as any music opinion can get. The Beatles aren't even necessarily one of my favorite bands, but one would have to be blind deaf and dumb to music history to miss their artistic impact.

Yellow Submarine wasn't a proper album release anyway. It was a soundtrack for the film cobbled together mostly from songs that were already on other older albums (the title track first appeared on the far superior Revolver for instance). There were a couple of a new songs on it though.

I really like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Oes9_poAIg

And this one (which actually didn't even end up being used in the original version of the film):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsH4MGtJIVA