I have a love for The Beatles while agreeing they are overrated. Revolver feels dated and more comparative to their earlier works than the groundbreaking album it is claimed to be alongside Pet Sounds. And in comparing Revolver to their earlier works, it lacks the energy. Sgt Peppers is an experimental album, but mostly off balanced the entire way through and never fully experimenting with the ideas to make full fledged music out of it. They're structure and basis on that album was still very premature and just the new sounds of what they were doing where overshadowing everything else.
That said, I consider Abbey Road one of the very best rock albums ever. The album is so adventurous in trying to capture 4 personalities and eccentities, but makes up for everything premature in Sgt Peppers with musical confidence to link all the different sounds into an album that really feels complete and whole. I still get a thrill from hearing that album and the talent the beatles had in bringing everything together the way they did. I also am a major fan of their early work because of early fun rock, I love their work the best. No other band seemed to capture the heart, energy and innocence of the time period as the beatles do. as simple to category the music in general pop, something has to be said of that. Funny, the film critic Stanley Kauffmann best summed up the beatles by not calling them just by their band name, but as "Lovely Beatles".
~rougerum
