Yuratuhl wrote:
I'm capable of recognizing influence. The Beatles, no matter what we think, are more popular than Jesus and wrote music that had notes and involved no autotuners. I don't care if they weren't that remarkable in any technical sense, it's the gates they opened that matter.
The Beatles were pretty remarkable technically for a rock band, and highly remarkable for their range. The only type of music they were never any good at was blues (but even that, their early pop-rock music is heavily blues influenced).
George was a great guitarist, Ringo was a human metronome (he would always keep the exact same tempo and beat between takes without any help), and John and Paul were amazing songwriters.
Basically, I think Cziki is taking for granted the musical world created by the Beatles in judging them. The things they did were simply not done before them.
It's like people who don't get why Jimi Hendrix was a great guitarist without realizing that he was literally part of a musical movement that was not just exploring new musical directions with the guitar, but pushing the very technology of electric guitars to be improved and innovated.

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