I don't think it's a controversial statement at all
I think many would agree nowadays
A mate of mine once asked asked me how good the Beatles were. I shrugged and he said 'Because they could afford to chuck away 'Old Brown Shoe' as a B-side
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Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration,
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