History YMMV / TheBeatles

** Ringo's whispering at the end of "Good Night" can sound really creepy. Almost like he's stalking you from the window.

* If John's abrupt acapella intro to "Mr. Moonlight" isn't {{Narm}}, then it's this.

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: [[https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/beatles-postage-stamp-kyrgyzstan-circa-portraying-image-circa-85366437.jpg One particular Beatles postage stamp]] features Ringo doing an EyeTake that comes across as rather unsettling.

** During their psychedelic period, Music/TheBeachBoys. Go find any ''Music/PetSounds'' song on Website/YouTube and read all of the comments arguing over who is better/was the most influential. It gets ugly real fast. It's also pretty ironic because the two groups are massive fans of each other's work, with Music/BrianWilson acknowledging ''Music/RubberSoul''[='=]s influence on ''Pet Sounds'' and Music/PaulMcCartney in turn acknowledging ''Pet Sounds''[='=] influence on ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand''.

** They averted this trope outside the studio, taking plenty of drugs in their spare time (especially Lennon), but inside the studio they mostly played this straight. Their work ethic and sense of craftsmanship meant that they had to stay sober. Most of the Beatles' recording sessions were fuelled by tea and cigarettes. In fact, a ''Sgt. Pepper'' session had to be halted early because John had accidentally taken LSD before he left home and was unable to concentrate.

'''Note''': If you came here from [[WesternAnimation/TheBeatles the page for the cartoon]], try YMMV.BeatlesCartoon.

[[ADateWithRosiePalms Everybody had a wet dream]]''

** "They weren't just musical geniuses, they were troping geniuses."[[note]]A RunningGag on the comment section for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45cYwDMibGo the video for Come Together]] is to use this snowclone meme, preceded by a relevant lyric.

** ''The Beatles'': "Ob-la-di Ob-la-da", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Blackbird", with "Back in the USSR" not far behind.

** The Beatles have suffered from his partly because they've been ''so'' famous for ''so'' long among ''such'' a wide variety of people that some of the claims made about them by their less sane or informed fans are frankly ridiculous, e.g. that they "invented heavy metal"[[note]]They certainly did help popularize the genre with "Helter Skelter", but The Fab Four were not ones who started the genre as other bands like Music/BlueCheer, and Music/{{Cream}}, and Music/TheJimiHendrixExperience were already making music as heavy as that song beforehand[[/note]] or that (as Timothy Leary said) they were brought to Earth to raise humanity to a new level of evolution. Stuff like this obscures the real nature of the Beatles' talent (which was, basically, that they had loads and loads of good songs) and ends up praising the band for things they didn't do, and didn't try to do. '''Any''' band that had got as much praise as they've got would have ended up getting absurd amounts of hype. That's how hype works.

** The Beatles have suffered from his partly because they've been ''so'' famous for ''so'' long among ''such'' a wide variety of people that some of the claims made about them by their less sane or informed fans are frankly ridiculous, e.g. that they "invented heavy metal", or that (as Timothy Leary said) they were brought to Earth to raise humanity to a new level of evolution. Stuff like this obscures the real nature of the Beatles' talent (which was, basically, that they had loads and loads of good songs) and ends up praising the band for things they didn't do, and didn't try to do. '''Any''' band that had got as much praise as they've got would have ended up getting absurd amounts of hype. That's how hype works.

* GrowingTheBeard:
** Before [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration William Riker]], there was Music/GeorgeHarrison, and to a lesser extent, the whole gang. The video for "Strawberry Fields Forever" stunned their fans with their sudden facial hair, and their music started to get more artistically ambitious.
** The pictures on the Red Album and Blue Album are the same Beatles in the same place and same pose, seven years apart. They changed a lot in that time...
** They also provide a subversion, however; the one time [=McCartney=] grew a beard was during the sessions to record what would ultimately become ''Music/LetItBe''; [[BeardOfSorrow the sessions were long rumoured to be unhappy and bitter]], although the release of ''Series/TheBeatlesGetBack'' reveals that these rumours were grossly overstated; regardless, they signaled the band's ultimate collapse and resulted in one of their more polarizing albums.

** The Beatles could be one for popular music as a whole. Similar to Music/LudwigVanBeethoven's towering role over classical music, many popular music artists feel that the group's work is so good that they couldn't possibly surpass it, nor should they even attempt to. Consider how the backlash that Terence Trent D'Arby received for comparing his debut to ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' and how his career never recovered from that.

** The Beatles could be one for popular music as a whole. Similar to Music/LudwigVanBeethoven's towering role in classical music, many popular music artists feel that the group's work is so good that they couldn't possibly surpass it, or even attempt to. Consider how the backlash that Terence Trent D'Arby received for comparing his debut to ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' and how his career never recovered from that.

* MemeticLoser: Ringo's gotten his fair share of mockery over the years mostly due to being overshadowed by his bandmates. With that said, it's a loving kind of teasing, with even the man himself joining in. If someone has legitimately critical words for the man, you better believe fans will speak up about how Ringo is actually awesome.

** Creator/DeccaRecords executive Dick Rowe has [[NeverLiveItDown gone down in history as]] "the man who turned down the Beatles." In the wake of their phenomenal popular and artistic success, Rowe's decision not to sign the band seems shocking and ludicrous. But the audition tape, which has long [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes circulated among fans]], and parts of which were released on the ''Anthology 1'' album, honestly isn't very good. The band, not too familiar with the recording process, plays stiffly, with Pete Best's limitations as a drummer very apparent. The song selection is odd and disjointed, blending three Lennon[=/=][=McCartney=] originals with a whole bunch of [[CoverVersion Cover Versions]] of early RockAndRoll numbers, then peppered with cabaret-style selections like "The Sheik of Araby" and "Bésame Mucho". The three originals ("Hello Little Girl", "Love of the Loved", "Like Dreamers Do") are only SoOkayItsAverage. John and Paul seem nervous, and only George really rises to the occasion. When George Martin finally signed them at Parlophone, he demanded that they find another drummer, and he also wasn't too sold on John and Paul's songwriting, trying to get them to release Mitch Murray's "How Do You Do It?" as their first single before going with "Love Me Do". Notably, they never attempted any of the three Decca originals at Parlophone.

* NeverLiveItDown:
** John Lennon's infamous comment about being "bigger than Jesus". This out-of-context quote came back to bite him when a Christian man would eventually have him killed outright for saying this. Heck, there's even a trope on ''Website/ThisVeryWiki'' that's [[BiggerThanJesus named after it.]]
** Ringo Starr's large nose. A subject of many jokes in the fandom.
*** Fans also seem to have a field day with Ringo's seemingly OutOfFocus role in the band. Such as being in the background for many music videos, being the only one who doesn't play guitar, and not having tons of people who name him as their favorite Beatle. At least not on the levels of Paul or John.
** Their endeavor into drugs and LSD in the late 60s. It was only for a few albums when they delved into psychidelic territory, but you'd think it was their entire career based on how much it's talked about.
*** In fact, they only recorded two full length albums in which psychedelic music was the primary focus, those being Revolver and Sgt. Pepper. Magical Mystery Tour was not intended to be a full length album, and the White Album, while containing some psych, is too scattershot to be called a truly psychedelic themed album. By comparison, they actually wrote more folk / country oriented albums (Beatles For Sale, Help!, and Rubber Soul), yet this aspect of their songwriting is rarely brought up compared to the psychedelic era.

** Ringo Starr wasn't happy with [[TooDumbToLive his portrayal]] in the cartoon and complained to Lance Percival. Lance kindly explained that he just did the voices and pointed Ringo in the direction of the writers.

* NewerThanTheyThink: Some popular cliches about Beatle music actually derive from the members' post-breakup solo careers. These include John as a ProtestSong writer ("Revolution" is the only straight Beatle example) and George's slide guitar (which he picked up from [[Music/{{Traffic}} Dave Mason]] when they toured together in the backing band of Delaney & Bonnie at the end of 1969).

** An {{urban legend|s}} sprang up that the Beatles arranged for ''Yesterday... and Today'' to have the infamous "Butcher Cover" as a protest over Creator/CapitolRecords mangling their UK albums, as noted in CutAndPasteTranslation on the [[Music/TheBeatles band page]]. Go to [[http://snopes.com/music/hidden/butcher.asp the entry]] at Website/{{Snopes}} for in-depth info.

* FanficFuel:

** With Music/TheRollingStones, ever since the sixties. Although quite an overlap has built (it helps that the musicians were friends in real life).