Most overrated band would have to any band which comes at the end of this sentence...
"The Beatles are crap. There are way better bands today, like ......... "
Which brings me to another point. Beatles bashers. You think they were boring and uninnovative, but you know that they did invent/perfect modern music as we know it? List of things they did...
- Arrangement (2 guitars + bass + drums (+ maybe keyboard)), taken for granted today...
- Wrote their own songs. Beforehand there were professional song writers. The Beatles made writing your own songs expected from bands...
- Made the album a piece in itself. The Beatles arranged songs on an album so that they worked together. Not a compilation as there was before.
- Which brings me to Sergeant Pepper. Every song was different to anything that had gone before, and yet it still worked.
- Variety of styles. Bubblegum pop, proto-Rock, Ballad, experimental songs (see Yellow Submarine, Strawberry Fields, I am the Walrus e.t.c.), Rock, proto-Heavy Metal . They tried everything. And it all worked...
- And most of all...it was good! Hence why girls screamed and such at the time, and their music collection is the most valuable today...
- Michael