People who insist that they hate the Beatles - C or D?

I actually said, "`The Rain Song' is better than `Stairway'!" and while that's probably true, it reminded me of those lit guys who say Marlowe's Edward II is better than Macbeth.

The Rain Song is WAY better than Stairway

its okay Alfred cuz you were right

being familiar with www.ilxor.com means you know where all the Beatles haters are.

even so, I can go years and not hear a Beatles song and not feel incomplete or anything. Or I could, if such a thing were possible.

that's true...than I hear an obscurity like "All I Wanna Do" or "And Your Bird Can Sing" and remember.

Lennon apparently grew to hate hearing Beatles songs as they had bad associations for him (though he was proud of them).

I like the story of a flunky being despatched to find out who it was repeatedly playing Beatles records in the Dakota appartment block that was driving him mad.

I don't like "Stairway," but it ain't no thang, y'know

But, really, the question comes down to: if you're a professional music critic how much older favorites do you have to time to hear? I'm always hearing laments on how that Sharrock, Miles, Aretha, or Eno album never gets the attention it deserves because there's simply too much new shit to assess. I've heard enough Beatles in my lifetime to never hear another note, yet will sing or marvel anew when a song plays on a jukebox or friend's car.

Yeah, there again: love me some Led Zep, can't stand "Stairway". Blame classic rock radio. And the 15-year-olds.

Alfred OTM for like 10 posts in a row.

Anthony Burgess, in an essay on Marshall McLuhan:

"His adoration of the Beatles (always, to me, an index of intellectual unsoundness) is based presumably on their having become priests of electronics."

Typical jealous Manc.

let us all stand in awe of the intellectual giant who wrote the screenplay for jesus of nazareth

I like his work but yeah he does have the classic autodidact attitude problem. Looking forward to reading the Roger Lewis bio.

Brb petitioning to change my job title to Priest of Electronics

Burgess was a devotee of symphonic and chamber music and he wrote many pieces which were never popular, even among classical musicians and audiences, but thank god at least they were intellectually sound. This was one of his more twatish pronouncements and being a twat was one of Burgess's great talents.

Technically correct: the best kind of correct.