Of all creative bands in the history of rock music, the Beatles may have been the most creative. Their first album contains only masterpieces and remains virtually unmatched. John Lennon may well be the single most important rock songwriter. He is the one who defined the rock musician as a writer of songs, not just their performer. Paul McCartney's style at the bass guitar was at the vanguard of the fusion of Merseybeat, skiffle, R&B and rock music. The virulence of some of their riffs bridged the British Invasion era and the progressive rock era. Whether it was him, Ringo Starr or George Harrison or all of them, their songs have a unique quality that has never been repeated. They are metaphysical while being psychological and while being physical (eroticand violent). They are the closest thing rock music has produced to William Shakespeare
the beatles sounds indie folk adjacent or like looney tunes music in the modern day
>Trout Mask Replica is another nonsense of pretentious yet terrible music, a naive avant-garde façade barely covering simple pop tunes stolen from Tin Pan Alley's musicians.The songs of Captain Beefheart's truly belonged to another century
