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Originally posted by Feb, 1964
The Beatles are not merely awful; I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are god awful. They are so unbelievably horribly, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music.
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Musically, they are a near disaster, guitars and drums slapping out a merciless beat that does away with secondary rhythms, harmony and melody. Their lyrics are a catastrophe, a preposterous farrago of Valentine-card romantic sentiments.
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Stiff lip, old chap, even the Beatles will pass! The question is, what next?
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Don't let the Beatles bother you. If you don't think about them, they will go away, and in a few more years they will probably be bald...
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Will the Beatles last? The odds are that, in the words of another era, they're too hot not to cool down, and a cooled-down Beatle is hard to picture. It is hard to imagine any other field in which they could apply their talents, and so the odds are that they will fade away, as intelligent adults confidently predict.
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The Beatles follow a glamorous line of figures who aroused passionate cries and deep swoons. But their glory passed when they got too old to be teenagers' idols or when teenagers go too old to need them. The same will happen to the Beatles. In the meantime, there are two ways to handle the situation: either grin and bear it or relax and enjoy it. Because the Beatles are inevitable
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