Can’t really comment, see my post upthread, I have never really listened to the Beatles. 
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Oh come on. There’s a bit of a mood with a heart beat or two, some other sound effects. Waters moaning about what it’s like to be a wealthy rock star. A bit of Screeeeeeee from Gilmour. The most boring drummer in the world, ever. Rinse and repeat. I can’t really do it anymore…
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Refreshingly accurate
I genuinely wish there was more honesty in music (and hifi) reviews these days - I 've taken great pleasure in reading old mag reviews from 66-76 where revierwers dismantle LP’s / singles thoroughly and with sound, often vicious, arguement.
I’m keen on cunty but this isn’t really why I find them useful - I like them because they were contemporary honest impressions not marred in: hype / rose tinted rememberings or marketing driven skew. - This helps to shed a more truthful light on music and that’s no bad thing.
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By the way. Maybe I’m Amazed has been my ear worm today. 
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I’m conflicted. Do you think Filo Beddoe would go for a mullet? ‘Maybe I’m amazed’ needs mullet antena for complete assimilation.
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I have never really listened to any Beatles stuff but certain things I really like.
I will have to investigate more.
With Wings, it is only Band On The Run that sounds good to me. Macca had something with Denny Laine I think, but didn’t realise it?
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Yes, it is all a bit the same.
Funny thing is, I prefer Waters after Floyd, especially Amused to Death.
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LOL, no. He got coked out and lazy, but listen to him around Meddle era. Watch Live At Pompeii
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Favourite John vocal - Norwegian Wood
Favourite Paul vocal - Lady Madonna
Favourite George vocal - Savoy Truffle
Favourite Ringo vocal - LOL 
OK - Don’t Pass Me By
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Yes, I think that it’s easy to think you know them because they were kinda omnipresent. Well worth actually listening to their records though, to hear the extraordinary breadth of their output, even on the same album.
I don’t really rate Wings that much. There are great tracks but they sure aint The Beatles.
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I like the Meddle era.
It’s more after that he gets boring. A massive kit, the outer reaches of which are way beyond anyone’s arm length, and he’s barely visible in the middle of it going plunk -plunk tink, plunk-plunk tink…
I’m not sure I have favourites, and I think they’d change even if I did. For instance, at the moment, I’m listening to The White Album a lot, so anything I can recall is off that. Are you only a couple of steps from ‘favourite Beatle’ territory here? Not sure I have ever understood that tbh. They are definitely greater than the sum of their parts.
It’s funny but Please Please me (63) sounds very much of it’s time. There is little obvious connection between that sound and contemporary music - Where as Revolver (66) doesn’t strike me to suffer this limitation.
I think you can dive in anywhere. Their occasional miss-steps prove the rule of their general brilliance for me. Using their relative failures as a stick to beat them with, is odd and maybe a bit defensive. You aren’t going to like it all.
- Because you are Eeyore.
- Because it’s not all incredible, that wouldn’t be possible. They set a very high bar though.
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I think that says more about the giant leaps they made and how later, albums became a thing. I expect that PPM sounded amazingly modern in 1963.
Yeah, it’s just looking at ‘that leap’ from a different angle. Another way to cement 63-66 importance is to consider the last x3 years - has there been a quantum, unique and culturally significant leap in music? No. No there hasn’t on anything like the scale they achieved.
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Also how they took influence from Dylan and Motown etc, and incorporated that. They weren’t on their own but maybe had the talent/nerve to turn those influences into something else. Quickly.
I like to think, somewhere in the sprawling dystopian wastelands of The Internet, people are discussing One Direction vs. Boyzone vs. The Jonas Brothers with equal passion and reverence 
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This is true sadly. Pre packaged plastic pop is the chicken nugget of art.
(Which is probably the same argument against the Beatles from kids classical loving war era parents)