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There's a reason the Beatles occupy so many spots in those "best albums of all time" list, however pointless those lists may be. They couldn't write a bad song. The weakest tracks on albums like Sgt Pepper would be standouts on most of the albums that were created since. It's cliche but it's not an exaggeration if you ask me. There's no other artist, ever, that has created as many timeless classics as the Beatles. Songs that can be enjoyed by people from so many different backgrounds and levels of music elitism!
Rolling Stones "won" because of record sales and the fact that they still exist, huh? Polyphonic Spree marginalized? Well that's not surprising considering how quickly some dismiss the contributions of the Beatles!
Sure the production might sound tame by todays standards, but the Beatles were a revolution in songwriting more than anything. They wove together brilliant idea after brilliant idea, and unlike a lot of modern music, you don't wade through a pointless verse to get to the payoff chorus that becomes a $4 ringtone.
If it keeps going this way iTunes will start selling us the chorus of the one song on the latest hit album thats any good for 45 cents. Can't wait.
