Popular bands or artists most people love...but you can't stand

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115. interesting that the main objection seems to be the fans rather than the music or the artists.

i can certainly see thinking that the beatles are overrated or overplayed or given too much credit for the music that followed.

i like the beatles, but agree that it's ridiculous to think that subsequent rock wouldn't exist were it not for them. mostly they were just the most popular version of what a number of groups were doing at the time.

sgt. pepper's is often cited as the first album that really showed how studio technology could be used to help craft rock music, but it's not as if no one else would have figured that out were it not for the beatles. had it not been the beatles, it would have been someone else.


i do like how some songs actually stand up even 50 years later. much of the early beatles does seem dated, but songs like helter skelter or hey bulldog? if you heard them for the first time today, you'd never guess they were from the 60s.