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I think my favorite Beatles fact is they were being taxed at like a 90+% rate and didn't even know for a couple years.
When they found out and took it to court the judge basically said "you were making so much money you didn't even realize you were being taxed at all. Sucks to suck we're gonna keep taxing you at the same rate"
- Based Judge is based
- 1,2,3,4,1,2,cough,3,4

I used to work with a lot of young people and some of them told me they hated the Beatles. So I would randomly play Beatles songs and occasionally ask them what they thought. Turns out they never even listened to the Beatles except for maybe a couple of pop/radio songs. It was just a fad to hate on them
- That is not surprising to me in the slightest. Honestly I just posted this because I knew it would lead to a discussion I'd love to read. People have such strong feelings on music.
- It's like them wearing bands t-shirts without hearing any of their songs.
- As one of the "young" people at least when it comes to the Beatles, I don't hate the Beatles but I absolutely don't get the hype living decades after their big run. A few songs are annoying because of overplaying. That colors the band to a lot of people my age. I find them mostly boring and seeing the hype at the time is wild, but so will the people 20 years from now for my music. When people feel like it's over hyped then they "hate" it. I find most of the Beatles music as inoffensive and a little boring. Don't hate it but don't care for it. I think most haters probably feel similar but being controversial makes the conversation more interesting.

middle aged? lmao the average baked in Beatles fan is Ike 80 now.
- GenX here that would fit “middle aged” and I don’t care about the Beatles. Yeah, they’ve got some good songs, but as a group or needing to have all their songs? Nah. Whatever.
- The original ones. They are still popular among Gen X and Millenials. Personally, I never like the Beatles. I don't hate them, but I find their music slightly annoying.
  
  I'll always associate Beatles music with corporate sound tracks. That's where I first heard most of them, some ad or another.
  
  I'm no Beatles fan, but Eleanor Rigby goes hard
  
  White Middle aged Gen X'er here... Can't stand the Beetles...

Trivia (from Wikipedia): "Taxman" from their 1966 album Revolver was the group's first topical song and the first political statement they had made in their music.
"Taxman" was influential in the development of British psychedelia and mod-style pop, and has been recognised as a precursor to punk rock. When performing "Taxman" on tour in the early 1990s, Harrison adapted the lyrics to reference contemporaneous leaders, citing its enduring quality beyond the 1960s. The song's impact has extended to the tax industry and into political discourse on taxation.
Unlike their other political songs, which are fairly vague peace&love jobs, this one tackles a concrete issue: It protests the 95% top marginal tax rate.
You've heard how "the boomers" screwed up everything for later generations. Here's exhibit A from pop culture. Don't just think about evil, old men in smoky backrooms.
- The Kinks were punker than The Beatles ever were. This is some bullshit.
- Well now I actively hate them instead of just not caring for their music, which i find to be ok

Hating any music is weird, as hate takes vastly more effort than indifference.
Hating specifically anything of comparable acclaim as the Beatles is, frankly, just contrarianism for the sake of contrarianism.
If you didn't like them you just wouldn't like them, but what you actually like is not liking them as a factor of your personality.
- It's possible to hate something without being active about it. Saying "I hate lima beans" doesn't necessarily mean you're going on a hate campaign against lima beans, it just means you have a strong distaste for them. It's a valid feeling regardless of how many others love lima beans. In fact, lots of other people loving something and talking about it nonstop and calling it the best thing ever will obviously mean someone who hates that thing will get annoyed hearing about something they hate, so it's fine to express that distaste.
  
  My guy, are we just going to entirely ignore the context of this literally being a comment in a "look at me I'm so different for not liking the Beatles" post? Yeah, what you're saying may be true, but we're talking about somebody who literally is making a campaign out of their disdain. Context and nuance people, Jesus Christ.
- The Beatles are so ubiquitous and generally acclaimed though, you don't really have to go out of your way to encounter their music or artifice of their cultural legacy. If people always want to argue with you about it, or are obstinate when you would like to listen to something else? Then I can see pretty easily how someone's distaste for them could grow over time until they would describe it as hate.
- Did you just suggest that anyone who claims to dislike the Beatles is lying just to be difficult? Believe it or not it is actually possible to dislike things, even critically acclaimed popular things, beyond the point of indifference. Honestly your statement is what sounds like pure contrarianism meant to stir up drama lol
  
  No, I'm claiming hating the Beatles is a choice. Hate is active. People who dislike things don't waste their time thinking about how much they dislike them and telling people proudly how much they dislike them, they just move on.
  In fact, I'm pretty luke-warm on the Beatles as a whole (though I can certainly appreciate their songwriting and understand their massive popularity). The point is hatred is its own kind of fandom, as both camps center around the thing. I don't bring up the Beatles because I don't have many opinions on them; that's vastly more passive than this person proudly declaring their dislike for Popular Thing™
- Hating any music is weird, as hate takes vastly more effort than indifference.
  As someone who lived with asshole neighbors who loved to make parties with loud music that would go from 4pm to 3am, sometimes during the fucking week, sometimes putting the extra loud music for no other reason than because they want to, other times just to go over the other's music, hating certain types of music isn't weird and doesn't require effort. In no time, those music types become deeply associated with the worst type of annoying assholes
- I dunno, if every time I hear a band it feels like nails on a chalkboard to my very soul, I think saying I hate them is perfectly valid without requiring any actual effort beyond trying to get that music to stop while I can hear them and wanting to discontinue conversation about them
  Hate doesn't have to be any more active than avoidance
  Indifference, on the other hand, implies not caring that the music is playing

I am a middle aged white guy and I honestly don't give a shit about the Beatles lol
They have maybe 4 or 5 songs I actually like and I've always said they were overrated
- That's because the Beatles broke up in 1970, so anyone who remembers them from their active years is well over 60, which would be really stretching the definition of middle-aged
  
  I'm 42 and I grew up surrounded by people my own age who were Beatles fanatics lol people actually kept listening to them long after they broke up
  
  It definitely is. I think the person who made this meme might be middle-aged by now.
- How about beetles? Wanna discuss beetles?
  
  Yeah, I'm still pissed they made bumblebee a Camaro.

Am I the only on here that actually likes the Beatles? They're catchy and familiar, not to mention have some weird and whacky unusual stuff like Revolution 9. Also found the conspiracy theory fun to dive into.
Obviously music is extremely subjective but you can't tell me that their music was not objectively a massive deal, at least historically.
- I also love that their music was essentially mostly all written, composed, produced, and edited by the 4 of them. Nowadays I'm told about how _____ is such a great musician, then I look at the album credits and there's like 20 song writers, 50 producers, 100+ sound mixers, crew, editors, etc. So like are those people that good if they need 200+ people behind them making it listenable?
  I guess what I'm saying is that new music is over produced, and I appreciate the simplicity of older music like the Beatles
- I don't mind them. I think if you listen to them through the lens of being one of the first bands of their kind, their appeal makes far more sense.
  As a story, the way they honed their craft is very interesting. While I doubt it's all "hard work", they're a good example of how practice makes perfect.
- I love the Beatles. I guess I am a middle aged white guy now, but they’ve been my favorite band since I was a kid.
- I like them, they were a pretty important foundation for my taste in music. I didn't really get the hatred of them that seems popular of late, I can't help but feel like at least some of that is just people following the trend, but it doesn't change my enjoyment of it.
  
  Their influence was so far reaching. Even if you aren't a Beatles fan, odds are that someone you listen to is one and hugely influenced by them. Kind of like that saying I've heard about Neil peart. "If your favorite drummer is someone other than peart, their favorite drummer is probably peart"
- There's nothing wrong with their music. It's not what I listen to, but I don't dislike them.
- Psych rock existed outside the Beatles. They're a pop band. Meh.
  
  Does them being popular somehow make them worse? I don't understand this take... What's wrong with liking what you like, without regard to what others like, either way?

I like The Beatles, I do not like John Lennon
- John Lennon was always my favorite
  The more I learn about him... The less I like him...
  
  Pretty much, when I first heard the song Imagine, it sounded so.... "Phoney" to me...
  And the more I learned about him, the more justified I feel
  
  Oddly enough to more I hear about Yoko Ono the more I like her. Especially how she loved The Rutles.

If you really want to scandalize them, say this: The Kinks are better than The Beatles

The same boomers when you say bands playing at 400bpm are expressing emotions and working harder than the guy bending to the blues note slowly for the millionth time.
It's got no soul! How can you refine yourself through hours of practice and technique and dedication and also express yourself at the same time???
- Also let's not even talk about those hippity hoppers
- I wouldn't say one is necessarily working harder than the other. They're just doing different things.
  
  really now. why don't you try to play AUM by Archspire and compare how much dedication and effort that takes compared to playing Detroit Rock City
  I'm sure the bendy boomer zillionaires were just as dedicated as the impoverished canadians that risk bankrupcy whenever they tour.
  get back to me when you realise that it's going to take you about 15 mins to play detroit rock city, but probably a year to learn how to play AUM.

I don't hate them. I just don't listen to their music. It's not my taste. I do appreciate their significance and popularity, though. I just don't really enjoy their music.
- Same judging jug faces, in my experience. Not liking the Beatles is unfathomable to a lot of people.
  
  It should be fathomable to those people. We are human and have different interests.

I haven't really listened to their music, but I recognise its significance to recent history.

Hate is a strong word. I just prefer to listen to other stuff. I understand how they were culturally significant half a century ago, but that’s half a century ago.
- I would say they they are still culturally significant. Just not quite to the extent they once were.
  
  Especially considering how much of today's culture can draw a direct line to their influence even now

Those cans aren't all white and neither are we - get your ears checked weirdo.

Jahn beet the wif

Hate the Beatles all you want. You just can’t hate the Stones.
- The stones still do shows. The Beatles do not.
  
  One beatle at least still does shows... At least, last I heard Paul was still touring, maybe he's retired by now though
  
  Shots fired.

Why do you think someone would go to the trouble of drilling 2 extra holes in each of these containers?
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- That's a good question! I am also interested.
  
  My first thought was that it might aid in draining them as an air hole, to stop it from going glub blub, especially if they contained something really viscous like honey or oil, but then why not just one air hole, and why not higher up?
  My second thought was that maybe someone just intended to make them look like faces for some reason.
- in/out hydroponic pipe feeds and the original hole to top it up? But there's a lot of them.

Middle-age would be in your 40s-50s. Not to diss my dead relatives too hard, but you're thinking of old fucks that would have any solid opinion on that. In a handful of years, the music middle aged men will be up in arms about is NSYNC.
- I actually wasn't thinking about it at all. I was thinking about bugs!

I appreciate how o no banana committed to saving the beetles.

I hate The Doors.
- Next thing you'll say you hate The Windows as well. I use Arch BTW

They're severely overrated, but also quite culturally/historically relevant. So... what can ya do?
- They are extremely relevant, culturally and historically. They broke new grounds for music, and a lot of today's music would simply not exist without the Beatles, or some of their contemporaries. That alone means they're not overrated.
  However that doesn't mean everyone has to love them. It's possible to recognise their relevance without worshipping them.
- I think this is a case of the Seinfeld effect where people take them for granted due to them being so influential that part of their sound has become imbued into every single pop band that came after them.
  
  Yeah, there are any number of "But so-and-so did it so much better than the Beatles!" instances, but the thing is that so-and-so wouldn't have even tried if the Beatles hadn't done it first.
  Take or leave their music, there's no denying the massive influence they had.
- I'm not proposing we do anything. I think they deserve their fame.
  
  We could send Japanese women to individually destroy their careers.
- the word overrated means nothing and is used by cowards to try to discourage enthusiasm for things they can never comprehend.. it needs to be burnt on a word pyre.. it's impossible to overrate The Beatles, only a figment of the Matrix would think that..
  
  I'll rephrase:
  I think the Beatles are not nearly as good or enjoyable as many people suggest, and I'm not afraid to say it.
  
  You sound like you're highly overrated by yourself.
  
  You sound like a very articulate 13 year old lol

Why hate them? What did they do to you?
- Fucked their mom
  
  Calm down Julian.
- Beetles are a shitpost
  Change my mind

The Beatles were popular 50-60 years ago.
Even if they listened to it when they were 10, they are about to retire in a couple of years.
Nothing middle aged about it.
- The Beatles have been one of the most popular bands in the world consistently every year from the 60s right up until today lol how do so many people think everyone immediately stops listening to any band the second they break up lol
- What age do you consider middle aged?
  
  40s if you're in the US, that is quite literally the midpoint of the average human lifespan here

Could’ve taken five seconds to alter the image so that it actually said “beetle” instead of responding to every comment trying to explain your joke.
Truly a failure of a shitpost.
- No that's the point though. And yes, this explanation is also the point. Glad you liked it!

Dont worry, youll be one of those guys soon enough
- Nah. I'm 46 and have never liked them.
  You can appreciate and respect that somebody did something innovative while still not liking that innovative thing.
  
  Maybe not the beatles, but some other band from your youth that the current generation will call overrated.
- I will? Cool!

I don't hate the Beatles, but I do think they're extremely overrated. There's about three Beatles songs I'd choose to listen to.
Sargent pepper's lonely hearts club band is the second worst song to ever get significant airplay, behind I shot the sheriff, and ahead of You're Beautiful by James Blunt. That one I stand firm on.
- Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club band is an intro to an album. It isn’t meant to be played as a standalone song. I have never once listened to the intro track and thought, “Ooh, this is fantastic. One of the greats from the Beatles.” It set the stage for the band to throw away the image the world expected of them as the so called “fab 4” and explore sound while pretending to be people they weren’t.
  What you have said here is like watching the opening theme to a television show and then throwing your hands up and saying, “that’s it guys! Second worst tv show ever! Just behind this tv show I actually watched, and just ahead another I actually watched.”
  If you’d actually like a chance to be critical of an actual piece of music meant to be consumed on its own from Sgt Pepper, check out A Day in the Life and get back with me.
  
  You should write to the many radio stations that play it as a standalone song, in that case.