One thing to say you like one band more than another. But, it is an entirely different thing for you to say one band is better than another, or that a band’s music hasn’t aged well. You are in over your head here.

Carl and Dennis Wilson had begun writing interesting stuff but died young, and Brian went off the deep end and lost it for decades. Lennon and McCartney were great together, but after the split not so much. The Stones have had some fallow periods and Mick on his own hasn’t shaken the world, but as a band they’ve got a great catalog. I just bought Keith Richards’ bio, so maybe I’ll gain an even greater appreciation.

My girlfriend and I were in bed this afternoon enjoying each other and I had my iPod shuffling through 1300 tunes of sixties and early seventies music. There’s a lot of good music there. Kinks, Four Seasons, heck, Skeeter Davis, Dion. I like Leslie Gore. Buffalo Springfield. The Dave Clark Five had some great tunes. The Hollies. The Animals. The Zombies. The Stooges, the MC5.

By the way, music didn’t start and end in the sixties in my head. I enjoy Sinatra and show tunes and I was in a punk band back around 1980. Elvis Costello, Sham 69, The Stranglers, The Vibrators, The Replacements, X-Ray Spex, the music goes on and on.

And I’m glad the Niners resigned Carlos Rogers.

but the Beatles are kings of all time! How dare you suggest otherwise.