34. "Their strength was their weakness IMO" In response to In response to 31 Sat Dec-12-20 01:29 AM by Anonymous
They all needed each other and were a GREAT band with two of the GREATEST songwriters leading them.
But that caused their albums to always be uneven and to me seemed to lack focus:
Paul always had the song were he got a bit too corny.
John sometimes got too “I don’t give a fuck”
George had to sit in the background for too long.
They always gave Ringo some weird shit.
Their albums are praised for the impact and the technical advances and yes they had GREAT songs but the albums always lacked cohesion and direction for me.
You can clearly tell who wrote which song and it always came off like John and Paul wrote independent from one another conceptually and lyrically and they produced it as a group which is why you have shit like Maxwell’s Silver Hammer and I Want You on the same album.
But I’m sure that’s what a lot of people like about their albums too *shrugs*
But they never put out an albums as focused as something like, What’s Goin On because of how they operated.