First of all, I suppose we're registering our displeasure with the Beatles by having this thread below the line.   It clearly appears to be about music.

Secondly, Mousethief may have been a bit vehement, but he makes some good points.

What exactly have Mudcatters learned from folk music (that they did not know before, of course)?

Seems to me that if you learn anything from a folk song, it's virtually always a very slanted bit of information (usually left of center, with some exceptions-- e.g. : where on the political spectrum do you put Sam Hall?)

Slanted, just as when people think they can learn about history from a movie (e.g. Oliver Stone movies).

It pays to be skeptical of anything you "learn" from a song--or a movie--unless it's confirmed elsewhere.

Which is of course in large part true about any single source.



The Beatles were great fun and made good pop music.   Until people--and maybe the Beatles-- felt the songs had to have a deeper significance.   Just why was it ever a burning issue who was the Walrus, by the way?   Or who Lucy was? Etc.   And why did they have to try to twist every dial in the studio?

That was when the music lost a lot of its charm.

But the early stuff--before they retired from touring-- is still great--on its own, undemanding, terms.

Boiled down, I suppose this means I agree with the earlier poster who said they were a lot better before Paul died.