Haters gonna hate, but I’d happily skip about a third of their output, maybe more! For every Tomorrow Never Knows, I Am The Walrus, Strawberry Fields, Glass Onion or whatever there are at least three lightweight saccharine music-hall influenced pop songs or children’s sing-alongs. They were the generation before me so never spoke to me directly, really my knowledge was from absorbing the god awful Liverpool tourist tat long after the fact (I lived and worked in the city for decades). You just needed to open a window and the bloody Beatles wafted in! That or Ferry Across the f-ing Mersey! I just got sick to death of it in a way I’m sure I wouldn’t at all with jazz in New Orleans.
That said I do like and respect a lot of it, Abbey Rd probably being my favourite album (though, like all of them, it is not without filler). I have the Beatles In Mono CD box (I made a lot of money buying and selling Beatles vinyl, but never kept a set of originals myself, a shame in many ways as they are a great investment). Anyway, I went through the whole of the Mono box whilst reading Ian MacDonald’s Revolution In The Head. I suspect that’s me done, I can’t imagine ever playing any if it again, but I may be wrong!