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In reply to the discussion: Am I the only one who thinks The Beatles are overrated hacks? [View all]Aristus
(66,293 posts)I told him the reason they don't sound like such a big deal nowadays is because the innovations that originated with them are now used by everybody. So when you go back to the source, it doesn't shake you up the way it would have with someone from those times listening to the music for the first time ever.
For example, when you listen to "I Want To Hold You Hand" these days, the sudden break in tempo in the middle of the song, which leads to "...And when I touch you, I feel happy inside..." doesn't sound like a big deal. But when the song was released it was unheard of to break tempo in the middle of a short single. Unheard of. That must have amazed a lot of people back then.
Also, Holly and The Beatles wrote their own songs, which was very rare back in the day, when record labels would hire a group to record songs written by a stable of acknowledged song-writers.