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Originally Posted by LeCounts1099
1) Beatles. Someone earlier mentioned that obviously the Stones were making better/ balls-ier/ less commercial music around the same time. So were Cream, the Kinks, Blind Faith, the Who, & soon after Floyd, Led Zep, Tull, Traffic, & Yes & others. There's a very good reason the teenybopper girls chased & screamed for the Beatles... & not the Kinks nor Floyd! (Who would want to kiss David Gilmour back then?)
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Gotta question you on that one.....you may not like their music, but pretty much every band you mention there needs to remember that it was The Beatles that either paved the way or inspired them to be the successes that they were.
Before the Beatles the Rock music in america was that 50's pop and do-wop style of music. The Beatles were the 1st british band to come over and they started the British Invasion that went on for a couple of years after that. Bands like Herman's Hermits, The Kinks, The Animals, The Zombies, The Yardbirds, and Even the Stones came over to america after The Beatles got the masses going on the New British Sound.
Granted the 1st couple of Beatles Albums were very Pop sounding in nature by today's standards, but remember at the time of there Release no one had ever heard of that style of Rock before so it was a totally new sound.
They Released 17 Albums in the US in the 7 years they were together, thats right they formed in 1963 and called it quits in 1970, all that music in a little over 7+ years.....and they didn't even hit America until 1964.
and you may not like their teeny-bopper image of the early years but their later albums were well composed and extremely well written and were years ahead of everything else that was coming out. Albums like Abby Road, Revolver, Rubber Soul, Sgt. Peppers, Magical Mystery Tour, The White Album, and Abbey Road.
You may not like their music but you can't say they are Over-Rated. They have literally influenced 100's of the bands that you grew up on and even new bands that are still coming out
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