Quoted from Out Of Me Head

I always get that feeling among the slightly more cool-obsessed, dare I say middle classed parts of Beatle fandom, that they only want to acknowledge The Beatles post-Revolver? With a suggestion that the Beatlemania stuff was of a lesser standard because its all I love you/you love me lightness.

I think that's a ridiculous position, and much as I love I Am The Walrus, I think in its own way, She Loves you is as great a piece of music as it.  In fact I think there's a case to be put that the early period Beatles was infinitely more revolutionary than the later stuff. I Wanna Hold Your Hand sent a shockwave around the world in a way that leaves even Sgt Pepper trailing.  Even the look, which often gets dismissed as tailored and bland, was geniunely shocking in its time. It may be only hair slightly above the earlobes to me and you, but it was the end of civilization as we know it to others.

So is their a snobbery towards the earlier stuff, or am I just imagining it?