Who would be in your greatest? Not disagreeing with you, just wondering.
Well it doesn't matter what I think. I believe U2 is one of the greatest bands of all time.
But the comment I was responding to said that U2 would eventually be seen as
the greatest band of all time, as if eventually there would be some kind of critical/pop culture consensus on this issue, and I don't believe that will ever be the case. I do think that U2 is regarded as
one of the greatest, and will be in the future (though that could go up or down as times and tastes change, artists legacies are always being re-evaluated).
In fact, it's very likely that no other band will supplant The Beatles in this regard. If nothing else, The Beatles had the good fortune of being first (or among the first) to do what they do. No other band, including the Stones and other Beatles contemporaries, has come close to the pop culture blueprint The Beatles have.
This is not a statement on my opinion on how much I like The Beatles (I'm not a big fan, though I respect them) or U2 but rather simply an acknowledgement of reality.
And frankly, anyone who dismisses The Beatles, whether it's musically, culturally, etc, or implies that they don't deserve the place in history they've been given frankly doesn't know WTF they're talking about. That doesn't mean you have to like them, but dismissing them is silly.