They're the best. Especially their later stuff. It's unfortunate they had to go down the way they did.

The beatles were actually nazi and communist supporters. When the Vietnma war was beginning to lose support from the U.S. citizens, the government was forced to intervene and killed John Lennon. The U.S. had to. We were trying to win a war and the beatles were singing a bunch of peace songs. stupid hippies. If the beatles were still around we would all be speaking Russian. Long Live GWAR

haha i was just about to say that paul, ehem i mean pnbllwzrd

The Beatles are great. They wrote wonderful music.

Overrated is when you're ridiculously popular, but you "can't meet the hype", rather, riding the back of a one-hit wonder. While the Beatles most certainly fit criteria one, they had the talent and ability to put out incredible, enduring works. I think they earned their world fame, as I know no other band still loved by even today's youth and who not to mention consistently produced incredible songs.

they got the credit they deserve!

they were not gods or geniuses. they had a knack for penning the odd tuneful ditty and clearly have been a major influence on pop acts that came after them. let's not get carried away and proclaim them anything more than being a decent pop group

A band whose popularity has survived perhaps longer then it should have. They are not bad but they also are not the sole creators of music as we know it, all too often people refuse to accept that someone else had the same ideas as them, they just had the chance to do it first.

She loves me yeh yeh yeh - I could write that

Overrated or underrated I don’t know but this all happened before 1960/61 Les Paul has always been considered an innovator in recording history. His use of multi-tracking, overdubbing, looping and other techniques have been well documented throughout the years, starting in the 40‘s.. I believe his early work was done without the benefit of magnetic tape and was direct to disc. His guitar playing and contribution to the guitar itself has had long lasting effect on music. The Columbia Records Echo was interesting, recording a vocal and playing it at the bottom of a stairwell with a microphone a few floors above the speaker to record the stairwell echo. Then taking that recording back to the studio and adding that to a live vocal track. I think it was Mitch Miller that wanted a nice sound so he place a microphone in a toilet bowl and recorded that echo. Norm Petty’s work with the Crickets/picks produced some fine records. Buddy Holly’s musical progression in a short time was very good. The Del-Vikings had guys sing in closets to get a certain sound. The early Del-Vikings history is strange tall too. Plus the Luniverse record label which was known for Buchanan & Goodman’s cut-in sampling novelty records spawned some crazy offshoots. One was Spencer & Spencer, the song Russian Bandstand contained backwards tape playing. Their song Stagger Lawrence was a trip, merging a Lawrence Welk imitator and Lloyd Price records. Lloyd Price released some good Rock and Roll, with the mighty Earl Palmer on drums for some of the songs. Palmer’s work with Little Richard was some cool drumming put to wax. Other musicians on some of the Price songs were Fats Domino, Dave Bartholomew and Huey “piano” Smith. The back of Preston Epp’s 1960 Bongo Bongo Bongo album says “Bongo Bongo Bongo took over a year to plan and produce, but we think you’ll agree it was worth the wait for. This album employs the work of over forty musicians, arrangers, singers, engineers and producers (Not including the animals).” The song -Bongo Rock- it just what it is and the almost 13 minute side b song -Call of the wild- Somewhat primitive was Link Wray poking holes in the his amp speaker to get nice distorted sound. I read he once shoved the microphone through the speaker for a raw sound. The man had some good feedback too. Jackie Brenston - Rocket 88 has some cool distortion Who knows what Pasquale & The Lunar-Tiks were thinking with the song -Moon Madness-, but it was some strange noise for the late 50’s I’m not one to say who invented what, but music has been around for a very long time and I’m sure there are more to add to the list I’m listening to a song from one man band Joe Hill Lewis circa 1950. It’s as primitive as can be but when he says “go” at the beginning of -Gotta Let You Go- its just slays.

The Beatles were born to be the greatest band in the history of music! they influenced more than jesus and everything else put together!!! The Beatles are bigger phenomenal than ufo! for some reason they are definitely underrated! they had many many fantastic songs! the rolling stones are the most overrated band in the history of all time!!! yeah yeah yeah!!!