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In reply to the discussion: Am I the only one who thinks The Beatles are overrated hacks? [View all]DFW
(54,349 posts)I am a part of a group that takes well-known songs and puts new texts to them for a year-end revue every year. Songs of most well-known groups are often used, but the ones that turn out to be the most complicated to do (and this is a fairly sophisticated crowd musically) are always Beatles songs. There are always little twists and turns in the chord structure or the scanning or the rhythm that confound people trying to sing their tunes. This is why so many people that like to sing along with their records always fell flat when trying to reproduce the songs on their own. SO much of the Beatles' material contained much more than a once-off casual listen revealed, I think that is why their music endures. If everyone could do it, it WOULD boring. But to a musician it is anything but boring.