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  1. Are you kidding? They were a good band until 1966, but some of their early songs were a bit childish for my taste. Then,from Revolver onwards, their music became extraordinary, and extremely sophisticated : if SGT Pepper, the White Album, Magical Mystery Tour, Hey Jude/Revolution, Abbey Road and Let it Be are crap music, then the rest of pop and rock music is rubbish. Between 1967 and 1970, they produced masterpieces and Abbey Road is IMO the best album of all time, it's not overproduced at all, the level of songwriting is absolutely incredible, and on this album they have reached what you can call maturity. The balance between pop and rock is close to perfection and the final medley is one of the best moments in the history of music. Come together, somehting, Here comes the sun, Because, are what some call "weak material".In fact the production was very good and so was the material, it may be disturbing to some, but yes, this balance was reached with Abbey Road. You just have to listen to the Blue Album to realize that they achieved muh more within 4 years that any other band, most artists would have to live three or four times to achieve what the Beatles did within four years. The truth is that from 1966 onwards their music became too sophisticated for those who enjoy long country-rock songs with no melody at all, those who would tell you that Exile on Main Street is a masterpiece and who consider that a very melodic and well-produced pop song is inferior to a normal rock song with three chords in it. Some also blame them for being to good, indeed they were both musically and commercially very successful, which never happened again afterwards (or not to this extent).
  2. George Harrison- Who can see it (unknown masterpiece from his 1973 album "Living in the material world") If you add Band On The Run by Mc Cartney and Mind Games by Lennon to this album,both released the same year, you get what could have been a Beatles 1973 album, in other words, what would have been one of the best albums of the decade...
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