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I don't think the Beatles are particularly overrated as they were not merely experimenting with music - they were experimenting with pop stardom as well. That's something that the Velvets, Fugs, Red Crayola, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, and even Syd's Pink Floyd really couldn't do. The Beatles went from being a crazy phenomena of middle of the road r&b covers by good looking white kids striking a chord that made teenage girls scream much harder than during an orgasm or bad trip, to be 2.5 serious revolutionary artists with the world willing to look at whatever the fuck they did and even actually listen to it. What they did actually stands up pretty well considering.
You want overrated rock bands? How about the fucking Doors? Not a bad jazz rock group with a cool organ sound, but just because the singer wore tight leather pants and seemed to attract heterosexual males even more than females, they are the stuff of legend. Oh yeah, don't forget that Morrison is a "poet". Can anyone think of worse acid casualty poetry than on American Prayer? And that's the album Doors fanatics always point to and nod knowingly about how "deep" he was.
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