Originally Posted by: Drew77 The Beatles pulled off a few ambiguous songs because they were light and fluffy and lots of fun regardless of whether they actually mean anything. But the Beatles were also pretty pimp song writers and had done tons of straight forward pop songs long before their psychedelic days where actually their popularity started to wain and people got pissed at them. They where still a huge band but people (particularly in America) got pissed when they started introducing deeper meaning and such into their songs.

I feel the Beatle's psychedelic days popularity was due to them already having a following. Like you said the their popularity began to wain. Do you think it was because it wasn't the sound their audience wanted or do you think they just wasn't producing as good of music as in their earlier days? I contribute their longevity because they were constantly changing their style and because unlike a lot in that time period were not really good musicians. The Beatle's lyrics may have been wierd and probable meaningless, but I think their music was always great. What say you?