That looks great! Bonus points for putting the toppings on the bottom, which is the appropriate location for them.

Freak Out by the Mothers of Invention.

Bummer, she was a huge talent.

Zappa is a great person to add to this conversation but I doubt Beatles maniacs will acknowledge his genius.

It's a good history of popular music and how it has changed over the years. It's not contrarian for the sake of being contrarian, but it helps to go into it with an open mind.

Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry were very popular and wrote their own material. So did the Beach Boys, although they are chronologically contemporary.

John Lennon beat his wife.

There's a difference between covering the music of black artists and pushing black artists out of the way. There is a solid argument that the rise of the British Invasion pushed black music out of the mainstream. It's a fact that Billboard resurrected the R&B chart a year after the Beatles' US debut.

I agree that a lot of white kids discovered the blues through UK rock bands, but it's not like John Lee Hooker was selling records anywhere near the levels of the Beatles, Stones, or Animals.

Have you read "How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll by Elijah Wald? He explains it pretty well.

There is a compelling argument that the British Invasion bands, led by the Beatles, further segregated rock and roll, leading to separate top 40 lists for non-white artists.

That's a good analogy.

What a surprise, a thread asking for people to explain their criticism of the Beatles dominated by Beatles lovers arguing their virtues. Boring.

I am someone who thinks the Beatles are overrated so I'll actually answer OP's question.

The Beatles are often credited with things they didn't do. For example, The Mothers of Invention and the Beach Boys both released rock concept albums before the Beatles did.

Charlie Christian used feedback long before Harrison and Lennon did, although I've actually heard people say that the Beatles invented using feedback as a way to add sonic color to music.

The Beatles were a decent bar band that evolved into a somewhat interesting original rock band. They were lucky enough to have great management and PR and arrive at a time when the rock world was exploding. They were able to build on Elvis and Pat Boone, and take the challenging African-American rock and roll and sell it to white, suburban kids. They took the "threat" out of rock and roll for millions of scared, white parents. Unfortunately, in the process, they helped to further racially polarize rock and roll. Something that is still felt to this day.

That is not something to be proud of.

Now I don't blame the Beatles for this, they're a victim of circumstance. But it's something to consider.

Another thing to consider is that its simply boring to slather over the Beatles when there are far more interesting, challenging, talented, creative, and entertaining bands than the ones your boomer parents listened to the first time they smoked a joint in their dorm at Michigan.

Paris.

Cool, one of those bands is on my list too.

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.

donkey

Check out Whitey Morgan and the 78's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8FAMapQZzo

Racist.