I'm just saying, take away "Helter Skelter" from The Beatles, which was only a good song because they were poking fun at The Who or The Clash or something I think, and they are just another generic band who put out Dylan songs a few years after Dylan did. I'm not going to question their influence on music, but I would question how warranted that influence is.
You know Dylan is the second most overrated human being to have ever lived right?
Is the first Dylan Sprouse or Cole Sprouse?
That makes very little sense. I don't think The Beatles were anywhere near Dylan and they weren't trying to be. There is almost no overlap between the two (except that both were popular and influential).
I would disagree. Aside from the two both transitioning from more traditional musical forms, general harmonious pop rock for The Beatles and pseudo-folk for Dylan, to the new electric rock and roll scene around the same time, The Beatles never reinvented their music until Dylan had done so already, and usually they would just follow Dylan's lead. With Rubber Soul and Revolver the band washed back and forth between the electric style and the folk sounds that Dylan was not only perfecting with his big three, but was had already mixed together on a single record a year earlier with his release of Another Side. Then we go to what, from what I gather, is considered to be The Beatles crowning achievement, the Sgt. Pepper's record, where their lyrics take full front as they finally blend their pop rock sound with the electric sounds that had recently gained popularity. However, by this time Dylan had moved on to the minimalist record John Wesley Harding, one of his most poetic works and one where the electric sound was put on hold for the traditional folk sound. The Beatles returned to a more traditional sound years later with The White Album and Abbey Road, but by that time Dylan had already reinvented his sound once again, building on the folk traditions and mixing them with the country sounds. I think there is a good deal of overlap, much of it happened around the same time, but Dylan clearly worked with the sounds that The Beatles popularized earlier in his career and they kept playing catch up.