The bollix it is.
There's a difference between overrated and insignificant. Overrated means they are rated too highly. I think they are overrated.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:51, 3 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

if your under 40 they're overrated
if your over 40 they pretty much changed your life

or 50? maybe 50
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:53, Reply)

Actually 'underrated' and 'overrated' are utterly meaningless critical terms used by people who just mean "I like" or "I don't like" this as much as I seem to think other people do.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:53, Reply)

Paul McCartney. A man who believes his own hype.
I don't like him AND he's overrated.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:55, Reply)

this i'll agree with

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:55, Reply)

I don't like him either.
Which is kind of my point, you can only say he is overrated if you start from the assumption that everybody else thinks he is a genius, which is quite palbably not the case.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:56, Reply)

Why is he so rich, then?

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:56, Reply)

he sold heather mills other leg

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:57, Reply)

That doesn't even make sense as an argument.
So I have no idea how to respond.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:58, Reply)

Of course he's a terrible cunt.
But to be fair to him, if you were Paul McCartney you would think you were fucking ace too.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:56, Reply)

If I were Paul McCartney I would cut my face off with a hacksaw
and then shove a 'pyahno keyboard' up my arse. Then set fire to it.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 12:01, Reply)

And if he won't do it, then
oh lord, why don't we?
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 12:02, Reply)

Very good.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 12:10, Reply)

and then delete your account and kill yourself.
*thumbs up*
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 12:03, Reply)

OOooooooo!
*waggles head*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 12:14, Reply)

^ My point ^

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:55, Reply)

You are talking absolute tosh here.
It is specifically concerning critical/popular acclaim (or not) for something and is wholly unrelated to personal taste. Don't you understand English? You should listen to Ian Brown and the Rolling Stones, delete your account and then kill yourself.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:55, Reply)

I am in a dilemna as to how to respond.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:56, Reply)

Hahahaha 11/10

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:58, Reply)

In all seriousness, you are of course technically correct,
but I stand by the fact that is not how people use the terms. They just use them as a lazy shorthand for personal taste.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 12:02, Reply)

Monty and I have just used them in the technically correct manner. ARE WE NOT PEOPLE TOO?

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 12:04, Reply)

No, you are B3tans, silly.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 12:04, Reply)

In all seriousness, you are a bent spastic.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 12:04, Reply)

I thought that has already been very well established anyway?

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 12:05, Reply)

I understand that you think they are overrated.
My point is: you are incorrect - they are rated highly for good reason.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:54, Reply)

It hardly matters since musical tastes are subjective.
It also hardly matters that they changed music in some way. They didn't change the type of music I listen to.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:56, Reply)

but your ma and da would have loved listenin to em while they were picken dem portaytos

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 11:57, Reply)

Nah, they were too busy singing tuneless songs about how bad life was back in the good old days.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 12:00, Reply)

i like how the man on celebrity jouice says ^PORTAYTO!
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 12:01, Reply)

Of course taste is subjective
That was why I said it is perfectly reasonable to not like them. But any rational stylistic analysis of much of their output would show there was good reason for them to be rated highly. And that is without taking into account their subsequent influence.
As for the music you listen to, unless you only listen to music that pre-dates the Beatles, it exists in a post-Beatles world and will more than likely have an influence traceable back to them.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 12:02, Reply)

This is the kind of thing I listen to:
youtu.be/8IRWVKhDzxA
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 12:05, Reply)

"unless you only listen to music that pre-dates the Beatles"

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 12:09, Reply)

Yep, I was indicating that I do.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 12:10, Reply)

Fair enough, as long as we understand one another.
*feels silly*
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 12:12, Reply)