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Originally Posted by AcGold
I hate the frikin Beatles. Yes they had good melodies and harmonies but I despise hippies or anything related to the love is all you need, hold my hand, peace sign crap. I can appreciate their talent objectively but enjoyment wise I'd rather listen to 80s new wave over the Beatles.
There are a million other bands out there, the Beatles were only one of them.
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Yes but, the general idea is that you wouldn't have any of the music you like if it wasn't for them. I'm not a huge Beatles fan by any means, but it's their influence on music thereafter (basically all of it) that gives them the distinction they have.
But at the same time, rock and roll (including the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Elvis, etc..), R&B (including modern rap), and pretty much any modern music can be traced back to the Delta Blues (Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Robert Johnson), and I think any musician outside of Kanye would agree, as he created music, a virgin birth from his penis (direct quote from his future memoir).
Blues is literally in everything from Kanye to Metallica to Pet Shop Boys.