Music is highly subjective and critics are really just providing entertainment value in their columns, not some peculiarly valuable insight. Someone once expre

Music is highly subjective and critics are really just providing entertainment value in their columns, not some peculiarly valuable insight. Someone once expressed their real value/function in this subjective context: "I try to find critics who share my tastes, and then I listen to what they say". Personally the only Beatles album I think has any truly great lasting value is Revolver, that's the only one I'll listen to occasionally, and after that it was mostly downhill - but that's just another subjective opinion, and of course many will disagree. Which is fine, if you like the same thing recycled over and over but just not as good as the high point. Maybe the critics were right? Maybe all that success went to their head and they got lazy and lost their way? The end of their live shows was the end of it? The White Album is just boring noodling-about-at-the-ashram, not inspired at all? I think that's how critics make their living, tossing out opinions that'll get people all riled up one way or the other.