ABBEY ROAD

Many times I have tried to get into the music from The Beatles but apart from a bunch of good songs, I cannot listen to an album for the whole running time, The Beatles simply fail to get me as a listener involved. This highly acclaimed album features many good songs but to me these compositions sound as a progressive blend of pop and rock. I dare not to ignore their huge influence in the history of pop and rock music but I often have the idea that the music by The Beatles has an enormous emotional importance to many people who grew up with that wonderful time in The Sixties when Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones became 'biggies' who turned simply 3 minute pop songs into more adventurous, rock-oriented music. The Beatles are for them the link between musical excitement and emotion. Well, it sounds a bit cynical but for me (I am from 1960) Status Quo, Uriah Heep, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple were the bands that let me escape from the irritating, empty pop chart songs. If I compare the songs from this famous and pivotal The Beatles album to the aforementioned bands, I prefer these bands above The Beatles. In my opinion The Beatles are a very overrated band and for sure no more progressive than The Doors, a very underrated band on this site, in terms of progressive rock elements!