Again, why would I have started a thread where people made a list regardless of their personal preference? If I wanted a list of the Top 5 Best-Selling Classic Rock Bands, or the ones with the greatest impact, or whatever, I wouldn't even start a thread. I could put something together in my head in about thirty seconds.
I don't deny the Beatles' impact, though I maintain the discussion of it more often than not descends into completely empty and/or absurd claims. For example, some of the things I said in parody before aren't even things I made up. I have literally seen Beatles fans suggest English is the world's lingua franca because of them. There is being aware of a band's impact, and then there is nonsense. It would be interesting how quickly discussion approaches such crap, like in this thread ("the Beethoven of the 20th Century"), if it wasn't so predictable.
I also don't deny the impact of countless other bands. Think of the vast spiels you could trot out for almost every other artist mentioned in this thread. But no-one did, or ever does. Yet every topic that possibly can be is quickly reduced to "but how about those Beatles?", and the same pointless circlejerk we've all heard a thousand times starts up and kills the topic. Hell, if it's a topic where "The Beatles Shat Gold" types can possibly find an entrance, it's practically dead before it even starts.
Here's a comparison I assume some people can appreciate. I enjoy Monty Python. Not my favourite comedy ever, but their stuff was pretty good, and I can see the influence they had on later comedy. That doesn't mean that when I was at uni, I appreciated how many times I'd show up at a party, or be doing a group assignment, or meet new people, or whatever, and the topic of comedy comes up, and I'd find myself backed into a corner by some dead-eyed lunatics who just can't help reciting endless Monty Python jokes line for line. In the same way, I can like the Beatles, and see their impact, and still not appreciate every topic where the Beatles lunatics can find an opening becoming a reverberation chamber of "the Bethoven of the 20th Century" and "legend in almost every way".