Surprised to see a thread dedicated to the Beatles, to be honest. I can remember Bishop Williamson railing against them ages ago.
Their earlier music I don't like as well as their later music. In fact, I don't like much of their earlier stuff at all. I'm not even sure if any of it is all that great, except that hearing alot of their songs so vividly takes me back to my childhood, to a small cottage on a beach in Canada, next to an amusement park with a celebrated roller coaster, where we spent our Summers.
Whenever I hear "Woman" or "Hello, Goodbye" or "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" I go right back there. I can smell the lighter fluid for the grill, I can hear the screams on the roller coaster, I can hear the high-pitched whistle of the park train, I can smell the fishy smell of Lake Erie, I can smell the "new car smell" of my grandfather's Lincoln Continental Town Coupes (he traded them in for a new one every two years). Wings songs like "Band on the Run" and "Mull of Kintyre" do the same thing.
Funny.