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Originally Posted by Severian
So, y'know, I wasn't really implying that the Beatles were the alpha/omega, but the general consensus in pop culture is that they were and are.
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That's why you gotta love something like this:
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The Beatles were four yobs, or rather three yobs and a librarian named Paul. Watch A Hard Day's Night on TV now and it's obvious how worthless that whole business was when removed from its immediate context of hysteria. Fuck the Beatles, fuck the songs, fuck the cute direction and Marx Brothers comparisons: it's BLATANTLY OBVIOUS that the most rock 'n' roll being in the whole movie is the fucking grandfather! That wily old slime of Paul's! He had more energy than the four moptops put together! Plus the spirit! He was a true anarchist!
The Beatles were nothing. The Stones were something, still are I think, Dylan, well, but rock in the sixties in general was just plain overrated. In fact, the sixties were overrated. The Sex Pistols were a hundred times more of a kick in the ass of a sagging culture than the Beatles.
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—Lester Bangs, from Notes for Review of Peter Guralnick's
Lost Highway, 1980. Just a wee bit out of context, since the text is about Elvis... but still.
