@coriander the beatles were “good” primarily because they were popular enough to be allowed to do the weird artsy stuff in the studio that everybody else wished they could do

which is not their fault, but reinforces my indie belief that recorded music writ-large didn’t really get good until the invention of the cassette tape when people stopped needing to give labels the time of day

live music is a completely different matter ofc but who would ever go see the beatles live