[MikeNoun]

I understand what you're saying, and I agree, there are a few of their songs that are trite. But no worse than "Hound Dog", or "Be-Bop-A-Lu-La", "Splish Splash", "Peggy Sue", or countless other songs that made it to the top. The difference was that Lennon and McCartney wrote their own stuff, and that was absolutely ground breaking at the time. There was no other rock group that wrote their own material, with the exception being Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys, and Buddy Holly.

Their early songs did have Lennon and McCartney teething a bit, but then they found their groove quickly with "Please Please Me" and "I Saw Her Standing There". They were more interested in song publishing at that time, thinking they would be the next Goffin-King or Rogers-Hammerstein. But things changed rapidly after 1963.