Beatles Vs. Everyone

In my humble opinion The Beatles were completely overrated. Last night a war nearly erupted between The Date and I over The Beatles being on iTunes and Elvis/Aerosmith.

Was Aerosmith a better band that The Beatles? Yes, absolutely! They have longevity, they the pedigree, they have been around for forty years, and they have gone through the tough times of "The Toxic Twins" and survived!

What have The Beatles done? Um...Yellow Submarine? Dream On vs. Yellow Submarine? Seriously? It's not even a contest!

Ok, look on You Tube and find Come Together from The Schmeatles and from Aerosmith! It's not even close! Aerosmith dominates! Yeah so what if The Schmeatles wrote it, Aerosmith showed the world how it was supposed to be done!

And don't even get me started on Elvis vs. The Beatles...I'm all Elvis. Of course if you had been reading my blog for any length of time you would have known that. Graceland vs. Liverpool? Really? Liverpool? Good grief...

Elvis by miles and miles wins that. It's not even up for debate! Elvis had a successful movie career, singing career, and what did the schmeatles offer the world? Yoko Ono? Wow...Linda McCartney...getting there.

Nah. Elvis was The King and it's not even disputable. If there was no Elvis there would be no Beatles. That's fact. If Elvis had never been born Rock would never have been born. The Beatles would be a footnote in music history at best.

Their music isn't timeless, it isn't relative to today, and it is easily forgettable. How many people born since 1970 listen to The Beatles every day now? One, maybe three?

I'd say Guns N' Roses' Appetite was far better than the best Beatles album! They were a bright shining shooting star that lasted four or five years and burned up! That's rock!

The Beatles? Meh, "it's timeless, it's meaningful", it's BORING and DATED!
No one does acid anymore. Hippies are extinct if not close to it. The Beatles are over and no one informed the twenty fans that still debate whether Paul was killed in a car accident or not. No one cares if Paul wasn't wearing shoes during Abbey Road...

Axl Rose caused a ton of riots if he didn't perform! He would (and still) get angry on stage and cancel shows while they were in the process of happening! THAT'S ROCK!

The Beatles? "I want to hold your haaanndd" blech...

In high school we had the paper route. On the weekends KATT would have this show on about The Beatles and talk about them and what time period in their music they were visiting that morning. It was a syndicated show and the guy narrating would talk about what John was doing and why he wrote what he did and what influenced his songs. Then there would be an audio clip of one of them to drive the point home followed by the song.

My point is that it isn't that I haven't listened to them, haven't heard what they sung about, or what they meant to the world. Just that I don't care and see them as overrated now. Simply put Led Zeppelin, Metallica, and Guns are more relevant to me than The Beatles will ever be. Long Live Elvis.