I dont understand why the beatles were so famous

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I cant figure out why everyone loves (loved) the Beatles so much. Dont get me wrong, they were not talentless. They made decent music and could play instruments well.

But why were they SO huge and adored worldwide. I see videos from the 60s of crowds of girls jumping and screaming and unable to contain themselves. And there were plenty of other great, much better musicians around that time as well

Is it normal i do not understand why they were so popular ?

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  • jethro
    8 years ago | pl

    I take it you are not from that time period. The Beatles were like nothing else back then. They set the youth free. I guess you just had to be there to understand. This is one of those times when it really is true when I say, if I have to explain it to you, you will never understand it.

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  • bucho's_butt
    8 years ago

    Yeah I'm with you. I'm an Elvis man myself. But I'll be fucked if My Sweet Lord wasn't a god damn good fucking song. Intoxicating really.

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  • nematoadblue24
    8 years ago

    They were really the first group of kids that did that whole vibe of being real and down to Earth with lyrics and performances... I think that's why.

    Everything's normal to the next guy

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  • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
    8 years ago

    bob dylan has 100 times more talent

    he were performin before the beatles and hes still out there doin his thang today

    hell the monkees were bettern the beatles

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    • snarkygirl
      8 years ago

      But his voice is sucky

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    • jethro
      8 years ago

      The Monkees sold more records than the Beatles and Elvis combined.

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      • thegypsysailor
        8 years ago

        Talent and creativity aren't gauged by record sales. There are more super talented musicians out there than you could imagine, who you will never hear of.

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      • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
        8 years ago

        accordin to that commercial in the 80s so did slim whitman and roger whittaker but who the fuck knows who they was

        and no i aint got their albums

        the beatles music wasnt featured durin no meth cookin scenes neither

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  • thegypsysailor
    8 years ago

    Creativity and innovation is what set the Beatles apart from 95% of the bands, then through now. The Beatles brought something new to the world at the right moment in time.
    If you really want to understand the Beatles phenomena, you really need to start with the very first Beatles Vee-Jay single "Please Please Me". Then listen to every song on every album in order, remembering that these were four completely uneducated musicians. Listen to how their music grows and branches off with complete symphonic back up or just a Liverpool kid playing a Sitar he picked up in India.
    How different is "Norwegian Wood" from "Yellow Submarine"? "I Want To Hold Your Hand" from "Tomorrow Never Knows"? How many bands do you know with that sort of range? Few if any, I'd venture to guess.

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    • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
      8 years ago

      the greatful dead covered a much better range of genres (they even covered merle haggard!!!) they didnt suck balls live like the beatles did and one tour lasted longern the entire beatles run

      and where was the beatles durin woodstock anyhow?

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      • thegypsysailor
        8 years ago

        I'm sorry, the Dead were often terrible live. I toured with them and some nights it was downright embarrassing.
        The Dead were mostly players, not innovators. Don't get me wrong I loved them as friends and musicians, but they were nowhere near as creative and prolific as the Beatles.
        By the by, almost all the SF rock bands of the mid 60's played country music for fun when off stage. We'd have great jams whenever two or more bands got together at a band house. The gear was always set up in a room, so anybody could go in and play, anytime.

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        • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
          8 years ago

          how many double & triple live albums did the beatles produce?

          they made a buncha weird noises and wrote nonsensical lyrics and the world kissed their asses

          syd barret floyd was ten times better durin the same era...and then they got good in the 70s

          and again where were the beatles durin woodstock?

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          • thegypsysailor
            8 years ago

            I was with a band that had a gig that weekend. What's that mean, we were nobodies? Come on.
            I am not saying there were not more prolific bands or many musicians with equal talent, but there have been very few that came close to Lennon/McCartney for durable song writing skills.
            What do double and triple albums have to do with quality? I never said they made the most money (I believe that was Creedence) or did the most tours or even wrote the most songs, just that they were one of the most original and creative bands in history. Not too many other pop/rock bands have their music played regularly by the great symphony orchestras of the world.
            Are there bands I like better? Yes, but that doesn't take anything away from the Fab Four.

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            • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
              8 years ago

              just because edison patented and took credit for the lightbulb first dont mean that wed be livin in the dark today if he hadnt

              so was yall country joe or a fish?

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  • snarkygirl
    8 years ago

    Justin Beiber .why the fuzznut is he famous?!

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  • KingTermite
    8 years ago

    It's the same way people see movies like The Matrix now and think the "bullet time" effect is dumb. It was innovative at the time and much copied so now it seems mundane.

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  • NakedStevesJigglyBits
    8 years ago

    They were pioneers, inovators, trailblazers, revolutionaries, and groundbreakers with plenty of imitators.

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  • mystery7
    8 years ago

    The only thing that I'd add to what the sailor said is the historical context.

    To understand that you have to understand what the world was like in the late 50's and the 60's (there's plenty online about it). At that point in history the Beatles were breaking completely new ground.

    I think it's safe to say that no one had done anything remotely like what the Beatles did. And they were really just a bunch of musically uneducated kids fresh out of school who took the world by storm with their music and their talent.

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  • CountessDouche
    8 years ago

    Their music was revolutionary at the time, but there are always a million bands testing the waters. It's something more than that- it has to do with speaking to the sentiments of an entire generation of youth. There have been other bands like that, nirvana for example, that have grown as a pop culture myth, not only due to circumstance and controversy, but due to their ability to encompass an entire generation of cultural trends...whether either band coined said culture is debatable...

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    • Holzman_67
      8 years ago

      Yeah I think the beat writers really paved the way to 60s liberation

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