Anywho, if you actually like non-metal/obscure music at all, chances are you're going to grow out of hating the Beatles if you listen to them with an open mind. I used to dislike them, then my tastes went from shit to decent.
Unless you don't enjoy their approach to songwriting. I'll take Floyd, Tull, or Genesis over The Beatles any day.
Edit/Rant: UM's general attitude towards anything mainstream in general just pisses me off tbh. It just seems like a big majority of people here have no concept of respect for musical contribution, and are willing to bash any band as long as they have over a million plays on last.fm. But once they have about 3 people listening to them worldwide, then they're amazingly good pioneers, until they become too trendy that is. I was just thinking about this, I think the only somewhat-mainstream band I haven't seen bashed like crazy on this board is '83-'86 Slayer, and even then you get elitest faggots that insist on reminding everyone that they're fucking retarded if they enjoy Reign In Blood when its so much more trendy to like Hell Awaits more. God dammit fuck you all.
Edit/Rant: UM's general attitude towards anything mainstream in general just pisses me off tbh. It just seems like a big majority of people here have no concept of respect for musical contribution, and are willing to bash any band as long as they have over a million plays on last.fm. But once they have about 3 people listening to them worldwide, then they're amazingly good pioneers, until they become too trendy that is. I was just thinking about this, I think the only somewhat-mainstream band I haven't seen bashed like crazy on this board is '83-'86 Slayer, and even then you get elitest faggots that insist on reminding everyone that they're fucking retarded if they enjoy Reign In Blood when its so much more trendy to like Hell Awaits more. God dammit fuck you all.
Yea admittedly I don't know so much how it is down here as it is up in GMD, but yea, the most popular stuff like Metallica or Iron Maiden to anything that seems to get a bit too much attention at any time like Opeth or Cynic, it's only a matter of time before you get a solid group of posters discussing how incredibly bad those bands are and how they'd be less shitty if they were more like *insert some slam death or orthodox bm band here that no one's ever heard of*. I may have exaggerated a bit, vihris, but I would definitely call most of it bashing as opposed to apathy (people like Cookie or Obscure will go out of their way to bring up a previously irrelevant Opeth or Metallica just so they can immediately bash them). And on the rest...I agree.