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But I say, just look into their eyes in the cover portrayed above to understand that they were fantastic...

know-it-all, let's lower the average (:

ABSOLUTE ZERO IN NAME AND IN FACT.....

Guys, even the puppet songs like the Backstreet Boys (how much I hate them, and how much I hate when they're called "the prototype of a POP band started by the Beatles"...), but the difference is that the songs of the Backstreet Boys (by the way, not even written by them, while the Fab wrote their own pieces...) are all the same, senseless and meticulously crafted, like "hey Nick (Carter), our manager (bloodsucker) proposed this song, which might appeal to the girls with more acne, remember... what was it called... ah! 'Backstreet’s Back' was just for the acne-prone and not for those who wanted to dance with no strings attached like we did..." While the Beatles: "Hey! John, I just came up with a piece" and John... "yeah, tell me Paul.." "It’s a song that expresses a concept... let’s say a band of lonely hearts, the 'SGT Pepper's...' is playing in some sort of auditorium, and..." John: "Okay, Paul, let’s work on it.." What I mean to say is that the work of the Fab was mainly (in the beginning) a team effort, to the point that I think I read on a website that, to work in harmony, employees in an office take inspiration from the collaboration between the four from Liverpool.... I mean, I don’t know if I’m making myself clear, the Beatles were not just music.

It's a pity that these jobs are hard to find.... a 3 for the recovery, being a big fan of Prog, I don't know this work.... if it weren't for that, the rec would be a 2, too short for an album that no one knows....

Great Puny....!!!!

PIXELID: Michelle, In My Life, Yesterday, Come Together, Let it Be, Hey Jude, The Long and Winding Road, Something, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Within You Without You, She's Leaving Home, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Penny Lane, We Can Work It Out, Blackbird, I Will and... of course they are masterpieces, just like Lucky Man and Karn Evil 9 by ELP, Selling England by the Pound and The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway by Genesis, Aqualung by Jethro Tull, Tommy and Quadrophenia by The Who, Led Zeppelin I-II-III-IV and...

PIXELID Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen is a masterpiece, Stairway To Heaven by Led Zeppelin is a masterpiece, but let me remind you that those "rare" times when the Stones wrote a ballad (Ruby Tuesday, it's beautiful...) they always drew inspiration from Lennon/McCartney. I think that anyone who claims the Fab Four weren’t great composers ("Hey Jude," remember it?) has talked to someone who was in their twenties in the '60s and didn't like the Beatles (I've spoken to many who think this way, yet they still tell me that "Abbey Road" and "Sgt. Pepper's" are masterpieces...). So I recommend you listen to any POP song by any group and then listen to any POP song (preferably from the period 1963-1965) by the Beatles... and hear the difference... OK?

"It happens, time passes, you hear many new things, not only do tastes change but the ear becomes more refined, distinguishing better between what is standard and what is a level above." On/Off I totally agree.... and as Lewis said, you can't shoot at the Beatles point-blank, I mean we're not talking about Take That, you know? I also say that the early period of the Fab Four with "She Loves You," "Love Me Do," and "Please Please Me" is superficial in terms of lyrics especially (the usual adolescent loves...) and that a song like "Yellow Submarine" is silly, but even if it was just two chords with the words "I Love You..." it was and is music that had never been heard before, brilliant... Then later they tackled deeper themes like childhood (Strawberry Fields Forever), death (A Day In The Life), and situations that were current at the time but still resonate today! (Taxman and Revolution). But just look that they still sell (a notch below Elvis Presley...) and their explosion of creativity (Revolution 9), while, for example, the Stones (in a good way, don't get me wrong.... (: ) have remained attached to the Blues.... you understand? Anyway, sorry if I misinterpreted you and thanks for the clarification...
Oh! I forgot, yes I am a Fab fan, but if an album deserves a 3 or a 4 I don't think twice about giving it a score below 5... and "Rubber Soul" is one of those...
Lewis, I'm looking forward to your other recs... see you soon!

Listening to the Beatles doesn't mean you don't know other music or don't understand music... let me explain: if in high school you listened ONLY to the Fab Four, I was in middle school listening to commercial dance music (the kind that idiots go out to dance to in clubs...) which is certainly not music, despite my past as a fan of Le Orme (now I'm even more of one). Back then, I repudiated the Beatles in the truest sense of the word; I knew songs like "All You Need Is Love," "Let It Be," "Yesterday," and "Yellow Submarine" (you know, the "basic" tracks....) It was my bully phase and I was into dance (later I followed the Red Hot Chili Peppers... who I've since abandoned after their nonsense like "Stadium Arcadium..."). My passion has always been the '60s and '70s (well, at just 5 years old I was already listening to Le Orme, so I was pretty much "branded".... (: ), in terms of music, culture, and ideologies. Since I started to delve into what little I knew about the Beatles, I had an epiphany; I didn't know they were so extraordinary! Then from the Beatles, I began listening to the Who, the Stones, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, and Prog Rock bands like ELP, Genesis (also influenced by the Fab.... if you don't believe me, check out their interviews), Yes, Led Zeppelin, and many others.... So as you can see, even if I listen to the Beatles, I know and admire other artists, roughly from the same era but completely different from each other.