Early Beatles stuff is just beat music, not rock. They sang about wanting to hold someone's hand and a lot of stuff as lame as this, a lot. This was accompanied by very average music. They were just a family aimed boy pop group and were really nothing special.
At the same time there were other bands singing about sex, drugs, depression; and some bands playing some sublime music, masters of their instruments.
They did improve. Well, that's an understatement. They became a completely different band. By the time they brought out Revolver they were producing some excellent music with much better lyrics. They then made the most overrated album of all time. Sgt Pepper has embarrassing songs on it...it's shit! They then got back to Revolver quality with some of their later albums.
I like Blur a little bit, they made some good songs; The Beatles made some absolutely brilliant songs and even though they made just as many absolutely shit songs, they are true legends.
The Beatles!
