Letters to the Editor
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Just read this "discussion"
Or tried to. Big yawn. Very poorly done. Several non points were made to prove one predetermined conclusion: Only really really clever people such as we can understand the many reasons why everyone else is entirely wrong. History is wrong, the hype machine is wrong, and Sgt. Peppers is really not a bit more relevant to the history of music than that really loud belch I emitted the other day.
Perhaps the most interesting quote was where they are so eager to make their case that they essentially call Kurt Cobain a liar. "Kurt Cobain claimed the Beatles were his touchstone, but you don't hear it in his music." Meaning, I guess, that Cobain doesn't even have a clue to his own influences, because it sure as hell couldn't have been the band he claimed was a touchstone. That's like me saying that I first fell in love with writing as a kid by reading the short stories of Ray Bradbury, and these two saying "Oh no, silly Tideswimmer. Ray Bradbury wrote sentimental tripe about rocketships landing and taking off in small-town America. Such nonsense!"
Bottom line: this sort of automatic negation is not criticism; it is boring and easy. Please do better next time.